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Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas is expanding to the West Coast, thanks to an acquisition of smaller rival Omnetic. Terms of the deal, announced June 2, were not made public. Cloud Sherpas is the largest reseller of the Google Apps cloud computing collaboration suite in the United States. The Atlanta-based company has migrated more than […]

Cisco Systems is facing increasing pressure from Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks in an Ethernet switching market that saw revenue decline in the first quarter, due to pricing competition, cutbacks in public spending and seasonal softness, according to market research firms Canalys and Dell’Oro Group. In separate reports issued June 1, analysts with the both firms […]

Just as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveils an early look at Windows 8, its next-generation operating system, it faces the prospect of renewed competition from another operating system: Hewlett-Packard’s webOS, which the manufacturer apparently intends to port onto devices other than its own. "I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system," HP CEO […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) and T-Mobile will begin offering the long-awaited, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 June 8 on a limited basis with Google’s Android 3.1 "Honeycomb" operating system. Available in metallica gray or glossy white, Verizon’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is equipped with a 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) broadband radio, and will be available for preorder only […]

By Mike Semel K-12 school district and healthcare assessment projects have turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving for IT solution providers. Not only have the assessment projects themselves been profitable, but they have paid off well with managed services recurring revenue and projects. These are really easy, because we use the […]

A team of university researchers examined more than 100 "popular" Websites and found three-quarters of the sites leaked private information or users’ identifying data to third-party tracking sites. The survey results were released shortly after Facebook came under fire for inadvertently passing user data to other parties. More than half (56 percent) of sites "directly […]

Citrix System has added Project Olympus, a new cloud product, to its open cloud computing portfolio to complement its Citrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Cloud Bridge. Citrix Systems announced Project Olympus, a new cloud infrastructure product based on the open-source cloud operating system OpenStack, at Citrix Synergy Summit on May 25. Project Olympus will […]

Keeping its promise to continually increase its focus on software, HP has introduced a new suite of software to measure and improve IT performance for enterprise customers. “We are repositioning our entire portfolio into the HP Performance Suite. We’re in a position to cover, end to end, the operational and analytical needs of enterprise IT […]

Some observers of the IT world were taken aback by Hewlett-Packard’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which plainly showed that the world’s largest supplier of personal computers had slipped in the consumer laptop/notebook department. People who follow the PC business closely, however, were not surprised. These folks already knew that Apple’s iPad and iPad 2, […]

Another defense contractor appears to have been hit by a cyber-attack, and a leaked memo indicates the executives believe attackers used information stolen from RSA Security earlier this year. If true, RSA’s SecurID technology may be irrevocably compromised. Attackers hit major defense contractor L-3 Communications Holdings by spoofing passcodes from a cloned RSA SecurID token, […]

The open-source office-productivity suite OpenOffice has a surprising new home: Apache. There was some speculation Oracle might donate the project to the The Document Foundation, the group of developers that split from OpenOffice to launch LibreOffice last fall. OpenOffice will join Apache Software Foundation as an “incubator” project, Oracle said June 1. As an incubator […]

Polycom is buying Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business and expanding its partnership with Microsoft as it looks to bolster its competition with Cisco Systems in the fast-growing visual communications market. The moves, announced June 1, came at the same time that Polycom officials said they were partnering with a wide range of service providers—including AT&T, BT […]