Channel Insider Staff

Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is […]

Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18 […]

According to a survey by security and storage specialist Symantec, businesses have mixed feelings when it comes to security–with a majority ranking it as both a top concern and top goal of moving to the cloud. Symantec’s 2011 State of Cloud Survey examined how organizations are adopting cloud computing and dealing with the changes it […]

Red Hat, the world’s most financially successful Linux software and services company, made a bold move into the storage software business Oct. 4 with the acquisition of Gluster, whose open-source storage file system for unstructured data runs a growing number of new-generation IT companies. The transaction will cost Red Hat about $136 million in cash. […]

SAN DIEGO — Data analytics infrastructure provider Teradata, which released its first Aster Data-based database and a new MapReduce "big data" implementation two weeks ago, announced Oct. 3 that the fifth generation of its data warehousing appliance using both components will be available in a few months. The company made the announcement at its annual […]

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 4S, a major upgrade over its previous iPhone 4 model that includes the ability to run on both GSM and CDMA networks, a faster, dual-core processor, an 8 megapixel camera and a software program that acts as a virtual assistant. The iPhone 4S also marks the first time Sprint (NYSE:S) […]

Apple co-founder and two-time CEO Steve Jobs, recognized around the world as one of the most successful innovators in the history of American business, died Oct. 5 as the result of an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer.  He was 56. Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1977 and in the course of one […]

LOS ANGELES — Adobe System revealed some of its strategy for taking its flagship Flash Platform forward while also enabling developers to build rich applications using HTML5. Adobe wanted to make one thing clear: The company is not abandoning Flash for HTML5, nor is it putting one ahead of the other. Indeed, during the second […]

At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems announced Adobe Creative Cloud, a major new initiative from the company that radically redefines the content creation process. In the MAX Day One keynote here on Oct. 3, Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch demonstrated the core components of Adobe Creative Cloud. Lynch said Adobe Creative Cloud […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld 2011, like most mega-conferences of its type, is all about potential customers, analysts, integrators, partners and developers asking three main questions: a) What’s next; b) how much; and c) when? In Oracle’s case, the answers this year are: a) Exalytics; b) undisclosed at this time; and c) undisclosed at this […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Emerson Network Power, which is developing a new data center control package called Trellis, revealed Oct. 3 at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 that its base platform will be Oracle Fusion Middleware. Trellis, expected to become available early in 2012, is an open architecture-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) package with real-time event-analysis capabilities across […]

According to respondents of Backup My Info s first IT Consultant survey, which analyzed how IT consultants perceive online data backup and recovery and included IT consultants, VARs, systems integrators and other channel professionals, technical service and support (91 percent) is the most important factor when selecting data backup and recovery vendors. Pricing (73 percent), […]