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SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability. SGI’s Altix ICE 8400, announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, can scale as high as 65,536 nodes, and can be powered […]

A new report has found that nearly 70 percent of U.S. SMBs use social media, including Facebook, MySpace, blogs, YouTube and Twitter. Research firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners published the report on how U.S. small to medium-size businesses are using social media and what their usage tells us about how IT marketers should use […]

Former Symantec CEO and current board Chairman John W. Thompson, widely considered by industry watchers as one of the true “class acts” in Silicon Valley, May 6 was named CEO of Virtual Instruments. Thompson replaces Mark Urdahl, who was VI’s founding CEO in 2008. Urdahl, a major stockholder, is staying on as a member of […]

Security challenges for organizations are tougher than ever. Old scourges such as malware are taking on new potency as penetration tools and exploit kits are becoming more of a commercial affair, as attack sophistication is increasing through years of the ever-escalating battle of security researcher versus cyber-criminal and as more employees and customers are interacting […]

IT management software and solutions company CA announced releases of ARCserve Backup, ARCserve Replication, ARCserve High Availability (formerly XOsoft Replication and High Availability), and a disk-to-disk backup and restore product, ARCserve D2D. ARCserve r15, also released today, builds on the ARCserve r12.5, which included virtualization enhancements and built-in data deduplication, with new features like infrastructure […]

VMware’s August 2009 acquisition, Java Web development provider SpringSource, is busy making buys of its own. SpringSource, which bought UK-based open messaging software maker Rabbit Technologies only a month ago, has acquired in-memory Java cache maker GemStone. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SpringSource’s Spring Framework provides a lightweight programming platform that makes applications […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM has released results of a survey of senior executives that sheds new light on what organizations need to do to increase their ability to compete in the global marketplace. IBM officials discussed the results of this survey at the IBM Impact 2010 conference here. The event runs May 2-7. According to […]

Former Microsoft executive Bill Veghte has been selected as executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard’s Software and Solutions Business, where he will oversee the development and launch of enterprise software products. The appointment is effective May 17, HP said in a news release May 5. HP’s business offerings include management and business intelligence software, as well […]

Symantec’s revenue jumped three percent to $1.53 billion for the quarter, reaching $6.01 billion for the fiscal year. The strongest growth occurred in the consumer segment, which represented 31 percent of total revenue and grew nine percent year-over-year. The security and compliance segment increased two percent, and Symantec’s storage and server management business declined one […]

Is IT management at the top of the corporate ladder losing its luster? Not completely, but was it ever really there? Call it business alignment or bottom-line buffering, a good lot of CIOs do not have the direct ears of CEOs. A chunk of technology leaders in enterprise companies report to CFOs (42 percent), according […]

Just over a third of nearly 4,000 workers believe the economy is improving and just over 40 percent are confident they can find a new job, according to a study conducted by staffing firm Technisource. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company tracks IT worker confidence and reported last week that it is slightly up at an […]

Skype reportedly will be rolling out a new function that will let up to five people participate in a video call at the same time, a capability that will let it counter the video conferencing capabilities of such vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. In an interview with the Associated Press, Neil Stevens, general manager […]