Channel Insider Staff

A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according the latest report on downsizing activity released this week by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Similarly depressing figures regarding the U.S. job market have made headlines for the past few […]

Dell’s acquisition of networking vendor Force 10 Networks will be a boon for all parts of the company s efforts to build out its data center solution offerings, according to Dell’s top server executive. In an interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said Force 10 will […]

As hype around cloud computing is starting to settle into reality, now is the time to start putting together your strategy for how your business will sell and implement cloud services for your clients.   The following is an excerpt from a Cloud Practice Guide that was commissioned by The ASCII Group and developed by […]

Amazon Web Services has extended the reach of its Amazon Virtual Private Cloud solution and has launched new dedicated networking and identity-management solutions for its enterprise customers. Adam Selipsky, vice president at AWS (Amazon Web Services), told eWEEK Amazon is announcing new capabilities for customers designed to support the security, network-management, dedicated-connectivity, and identity-management requirements […]

Cyberattacks increasingly plague businesses and government organizations, resulting in significant financial impact, despite widespread awareness, according to a report released by Hewlett-Packard. The study found that recovery and detection are the most costly internal activities, suggesting a significant cost-reduction opportunity for organizations that are able to automate detection and recovery through enabling security technologies. Conducted […]

Developers behind LibreOffice have declared the latest version of the open-source productivity software suite to be enterprise-ready. The latest release of LibreOffice, version 3.4.2, was announced by the Document Foundation on Aug. 1. The previous versions were aimed primarily at early adopters and power users and were not recommended for production environments. "LibreOffice 3.4.2 fixes […]

Research In Motion has a plan for reversing its sagging fortunes in the smartphone space. Starting sometime in 2012, the Canadian company plans on producing a set of superphones with advanced hardware and a QNX-based operating system, more than capable of battling Apple’s iPhone and the growing family of Google Android smartphones on their own […]

Financial services company American Express and network operator Verizon Wireless announced they will integrate Serve, a next-generation digital payment and commerce platform, on many Verizon mobile phones and tablets. Over the coming months, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to establish Serve accounts that will enable them to make payments and redeem offers for goods […]

Malware is increasingly being used as advanced persistent threats against enterprises, according to the latest quarterly report from Cisco. There were 287,298 "unique malware encounters" in June 2011, double what was found in March, according to a Global Threat Report from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations released Aug. 1. Since the beginning of 2011, unique malware […]

IDC analysts are reducing their projections for processor growth this year, due in large part to slowing consumer demand for PCs fueled by problematic economic issues in mature markets like the United States and Europe. In a report Aug. 2, IDC analysts said they now expect shipments of PC microprocessors — which include chips for […]

Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard are teaming with the state of New York and Clarkson University on a research project to figure how best to use renewable energy to power containerized data centers. Specifically, the researchers want to determine not only whether the data centers such as HP’s PODS (Performance-Optimized Data Centers) can be run […]

Polycom, a provider of UC (unified communications) technology, has closed the deal for Hewlett-Packard’s visual collaboration business. The deal not only gives Polycom the HP visual collaboration business, but it also makes Polycom the exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain video UC solutions, including both resale and internal HP deployments. The two companies also agreed to […]