Channel Insider Staff

The 25 most popular passwords in 2011 include such gems as "password" and "123456," according to an analysis of various lists and databases dumped online by hackers this year. Internet users were selecting common names, numeric sequences and keyboard layouts as their passwords online, according to the 2011 Worst Passwords of the Year list released […]

When I visited the data center for 1&1 Internet, a huge hosting and cloud services provider located in Lenexa, Kan., I was struck by the size of the emergency generating system. The Caterpillar diesels that power the generators are the size of locomotive engines. The four generator sets power the 40,000 servers in an N+1 […]

As Android market share continues to grow, malware developers are increasingly targeting the platform, according to security researchers. While the total volume of mobile malware and malware specifically targeting Android remains very small in comparison to malware targeting the Windows platform, recent reports found the numbers are growing, and will likely continue in 2012. Malware targeting Android […]

Whether Amazon’ s Kindle Fire proves to be the iPad challenger expected by pundits and analysts, the next version of the tablet may already be in development: According to the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes, the online retailer is working on 8.9- and 10.1-inch models. Amazon is developing 8.9- and 10.1-inch next-generation Kindle Fire models, and has […]

Citrix announced findings from a recent global survey that examined how consumer-focused communications devices are being increasingly adopted in the workplace, revealing small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are coming under growing pressure to enable their employees to use their personal smartphones, tablets and other devices for business use. Some 25 percent of companies are already […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chromebooks, the notebooks running the lightweight Chrome Operating System designed for powering Web applications through the Chrome browser, are getting discounted to $299. Google introduced the Chrome notebooks from Samsung and Acer at the Google I/O developer conference last May as speedy machines that boot up in less than eight seconds and power […]

Social media, privacy and security, and health insurance exchanges (HIXs) will be among the top issues in health care in 2012, according to a report by consulting firm PwC’s Health Research Institute. In the report, "Top Health Industry Issues of 2012: Connecting in Uncertainty," PwC suggests that more people are using social media tools such […]

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman–as well as the company’s embattled board of directors, 324,000 employees and shareholders–breathed easier Nov. 21 after the company turned in a fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report that outperformed Wall Street analysts’ projections. The news bolstered the company’s stock price early in the day by 4 to 6 percent, but ultimately the […]

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), a specialist in Application Delivery Networking, announced improved live virtual machine migration capabilities for customers leveraging NetApp unified storage and VMware virtualization solutions. The solution combines the companies technologies to help customers migrate live virtual machines between data centers without any perceivable disruption to users or applications. F5 has continued […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, VMware’s Cloud Foundry was seen as the best Platform as a Service (PAAS) cloud development platform by developers polled. In the survey, only those developers who use a particular platform were asked to rank the attributes of the platform. Cloud Foundry achieved the highest overall score, while IBM’s […]

Aruba Networks will buy privately held Avenda Systems to bolster its network security portfolio to help organizations protect personal devices being used in the enterprise. Aruba Networks will offer enterprises a single management console that can secure all devices being used within the enterprise and apply consistent security policies, Hitesh Sheth, chief operating officer at […]

Cisco Systems is looking to grow the capabilities of its collaboration offerings–including WebEx and Jabber to address the mobile trends of what company executives agree is the post-PC era. At the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2011 event in Miami Nov. 16, company officials announced enhancements to WebEx and Jabber to enable users to leverage the new […]