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Mezeo Software, a relative newcomer on the cloud computing scene, April 15 introduced a new version of its private-cloud storage platform for the enterprise. The company made the announcement at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., which ends today. The Houston-based startup originally launched its cloud software in December 2008 specifically for the IT service […]

Advanced Micro Devices saw a boost in server and PC revenue in the first quarter, helping the world’s second largest chip maker generated $257 million in profit on $1.57 billion in revenue. The quarter was the second in a row that AMD saw a profit after 12 consecutive quarters of losses. CEO Dirk Meyer said […]

Intel’s financial numbers soared in a first quarter that saw the chip maker aggressively roll out products and corporate spending begin to pick up. Intel, which owns an 80 percent share of the worldwide microprocessor market, generated $10.3 billion in the first three months of 2010, a 44 percent jump over the same period last […]

Printing and imaging company Lexmark International announced the formation of Lexmark Government Solutions, along with a program aimed at helping federal agencies reduce their environmental footprint. Government Solutions is focused on enhancing the company’s ability to service and support federal government agencies, helping them reduce expenses, enable secure information sharing and reduce environmental impacts. Lexmark […]

Microsoft’s internal IT services have been outsourced to India-based Infosys, which plans on providing the company with help desk, desk-side services, and infrastructure and application support through multiple centers worldwide. “Infosys demonstrated that it understood our transformational goals by introducing a flexible and innovative end-to-end approach to manage our support infrastructure,” Jim BuBois, general manager […]

SpringSource, a division of VMware, has announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, a provider of message queuing technology. SpringSource, a division of VMware, has announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, a provider of message queuing technology. SpringSource will integrate the company’s RabbitMQ technology into its portfolio. The integration of the RabbitMQ […]

New research from Google underscores the breadth of fake antivirus operations on the Web. An analysis of 240 million Web pages collected by Google’s malware detection infrastructure over a 13-month period discovered more than 11,000 domains involved in the distribution of rogue antivirus (AV). While that may be a small overall percentage, Google’s research found […]

Pano Logic is releasing the latest version of its zero-client desktop virtualization offering, offering tighter integration with VMware’s View and support for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. Pano System 3.0, released April 14, also offers other new features as well, including the ability for users to reboot their virtual machines, or to lock their desktop […]

The iPhone operating system is the clear favorite smartphone platform for developers, according to Ovum’s first mobile application developer survey. Although all five major smartphone platforms fared well in the survey, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile lead the opposition to iPhone, rather than Android or Symbian, according to the Ovum findings. Moreover, […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to help businesses redesign their corporate desktop environments with a new services portfolio. The HP Client Infrastructure Services offering, announced April 14, is designed to help IT staffs navigate the changing demands from both businesses and employees, and to help them sort through the host of options opening up to them in […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The latest edition of SugarCRM’s open-source CRM package, released as a public beta June 13, includes a revised UI designed to deliver speedy, simplified navigation along with improved mobile accessibility, company officials said. Sugar 6, which was introduced during the company’s SugarCon user conference here, is scheduled to become available to a […]

Super Micro Computer, a provider of application-optimized server solutions, is demonstrating its new Twin architecture server solutions optimized for cloud computing. Based on the SBI-7226T-T2 blade, the company’s TwinBlade server supports up to 20 dual-socket server blades per 7U enclosure. The hardware is combined with dual 40G bps InfiniBand, FCoE or 10GbE switches and dual […]