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Virtual desktops with security built-in are coming soon to enterprises and IT service providers, according to Symantec and VMware. Symantec and VMware expanded their strategic partnership to offer desktop-as-a-service applications with integrated security and management, Symantec said Aug. 31. The combined offering will combine Symantec Endpoint Protection and the Altiris Client Management Suite with VMware’s […]

LAS VEGAS — VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. ” The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told […]

Ahead of September s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show […]

Sony says it will ship two Android Honeycomb tablets in the coming weeks: the Sony Tablet S with an innovative fold-over look in September, and the Tablet P with a dual-screen clamshell design by the end of 2011. The 9.4-inch, 1,280×768-pixel touch-screen of the Tablet S (code-named S1) resembles a pad of paper with sheets […]

Hewlett-Packard’ s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. ” Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’ s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with […]

Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats, according to a recent report from Symantec. Their jobs are made more challenging by industry trends such as mobile computing, social media and the consumerization of IT, the survey found. Nearly 50 percent of IT security professionals surveyed said external threats pose […]

Lenovo has introduced three new “luxury” laptops, taking a swing at Apple’s MacBook Air. Lenovo’s IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook and Lenovo’s U300 and U400 laptops combine performance with good looks, according to Lenovo. "People will be wowed with the new U Series systems from Lenovo that combine incredible performance in beautiful and stylish designs," said Mooly […]

VMware has announced vFabric Data Director, a new platform to deliver a Database as a Service solution for the enterprise. Announced at the company s VMworld 2011 conference, vFabric Data Director presents a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a Database as a Service (DaaS) model for the enterprise. VMware s vFabric […]

With its design-it-yourself PCs in the 1980s and ’90s, Dell liberated personal computing in its own image. Later, it developed its own servers, resold and serviced storage hardware from EMC, and made it all economically attractive for its marketing sweet spots midrange and small businesses to purchase and deploy. Now, in 2011, the company Michael […]

The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Aug. 31 that seeks to prevent the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, a division of Deutsche Telekom. The proposed $39 billion merger would reduce competition for mobile wireless communications services across the United States, according to a statement provided by the Justice Department. The […]

Microsoft is continuing its public deep-geek dive into the particulars of Windows 8, with a new corporate blog entry focusing on the upcoming operating system s easy interoperability with two popular file-storage formats. “The trend of incredibly large- and small-form-factor hard discs means we can store ever increasing amounts of data without worrying about running […]

Salesforce.com is introducing a new round of features to its Chatter social-networking platform, in effect increasing its bet that businesses will want to give their workers a Facebook- and Twitter-style experience. Chatter allows employees to post comments and share files in a Facebook-style environment. These additions will include Chatter Now, an instant messaging tool that […]