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Featuring Advanced Micro Devices E-350 Dual-Core processors, integrated AMD Radeon HD 6310 Discrete-Class Graphics and AMD Vision Technology, the Compaq 100B from Hewlett-Packard is less than half the size of a traditional PC tower, the company said, and offers an array of productivity, security and servicing tools. It can handle up to 4GB of DDR3 […]

Value-added resellers and managed service providers face unique and complex risks. The first line of defense to protect against losses is insurance. If you operate an IT firm and offer technology products and services, you can be sued. What happens if your or your clients’ systems crash? How about if you installed software or hardware […]

Health care IT is No. 1 among the top 10 hot jobs for college graduates, according to a report by the University of California San Diego Extension. The report "2011 Hot Careers for College Graduates" aimed to reveal the top jobs for both recent grads and those in mid-career. Researchers compiled the data based on […]

Cloud Expectations Reality Don’t Match 76 percent of respondents who have implemented server virtualization said concern about performance was a large factor when it came to moving business-critical applications to virtualized servers. No Title Of those who have implemented private or hybrid clouds, 72 percent said performance was a significant or extreme challenge. No Title […]

A global survey of almost 850 IT professionals on service desk trends reveals that 71 percent of small to midsize businesses do not consider the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as a factor during the purchase of their service desk tool, even though half indicated having adopted ITIL in some form. An overwhelming majority, 92 […]

Avaya officials have filed the necessary papers for a $1 billion IPO following two days of speculation. The Wall Street Journal had reported June 7 that Avaya, a networking and communications technology vendor, was preparing to go public again, taking advantage of a newly energized IPO market buoyed by the likes of LinkedIn and Groupon. […]

Vidyo, best known for software that lets users collaborate visually over their desktops, is now taking on the likes of Cisco Systems and Polycom with a telepresence offering that officials say will provide better quality across more screens and at a fraction of the price. With VidyoPanorama, company officials are looking to bridge the gap […]

Despite the latest jobs report that shows employers added fewer jobs in May than expected, a majority of small businesses (57 percent) say they plan to hire this year, according to a survey from Manta, an online community for promoting and connecting small business. Manta’s SMB Nation Survey queried 1,016 small business owners–the majority of […]

NEW YORK — Cyber-criminals are simultaneously taking advantage of the cloud’s benefits to launch attacks as well as targeting organizations’ cloud services, security experts said. As organizations increasingly virtualize their data centers and move their applications to the cloud, attackers are beginning to think, "Let’s attack here," Allen Vance, director of product management of the […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ)  is ramping up its battle to get Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL)  to continue to support Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) Itanium chip and platform, sending “a formal legal demand” to the database and enterprise software giant this week. HP did not release the letter publicly but a spokesman said in a statement “This morning we took a significant […]

IT distribution giant Ingram Micro has appointed a new executive to lead its specialty solutions division which includes Data Capture/POS; consumer electronics subsidiaries IMCE and AVAD; and the Ingram Micro Mobility and Physical Security business units, as well as Securematics. Brian Wiser will now head up this group as senior vice president reporting directly to […]

CEO Steve Jobs showed off the company’s long-anticipated cloud service, an update to its mobile operating system and an update to its PC operating system at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6 in San Francisco. First up Jobs unveiled Mac OS "Lion," which brings an iOS feel to the desktop and notebook computer […]