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Apple CEO Steve Jobs will unveil the Mac OS X "Lion," build, iOS 5 and its highly anticipated iCloud Web-based services offering during a keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference June 6, the company confirmed. The news, revealed via a brief press release May 31, is a rare preannouncement by a company whose […]

Storage network systems maker NetApp and storage software provider CommVault, whom some might think ought to be competitors because they sell into many of the same markets, announced May 31 that they have signed a new global OEM agreement under which they will cross-pollinate some key products. In fact, California-based NetApp and New Jersey-based CommVault […]

Storage specialist BridgeStor announced it has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec to provide small and medium-size businesses with an Application Optimized Storage appliance equipped with Symantec’s Backup Exec 2010 deduplication suite. Designed to bring data reduction technology to the SMB arena, the BridgeStor AOS appliance combines the functionality of a backup server with a […]

Security specialist McAfee announced the results of a commissioned study conducted by Network World on behalf of McAfee and Brocade. The study, which surveyed 100 IT professionals and security decision makers in North American companies with 500 or more employees, found that IT departments are now turning to virtualization, with half of the respondents having […]

Lockheed Martin has been battling a “major disruption” to its computer systems after its IT security team detected a network intrusion earlier this week, Reuters reported. The disruption began May 22 when the company detected an intrusion to the network, according to the May 26 Reuters story, which cited technology blogger Robert Cringley. Cringley claimed […]

At this year’s Computex IT conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled the Padfone, along with a slew of other new Asus products. Also debuting at the show was Asus’ new UX Series notebooks; its redesigned N Series notebooks with SonicMaster audio technology; its versatile Eee Pad MeMO 3D, ultra-thin Eee PC X101 […]

Apple is getting ready to offer customers the latest major update to its operating system, Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion," as a download through the App Store, Mac blog Apple Insider reported. On Friday, the company issued its third build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developers, though it is not yet known if it […]

Thin-client giant Wyse Technology has teamed up with recent Citrix acquisition, Kaviza to offer a $99 per seat VDI implementation. The offering enables small and midsized businesses to repurpose existing PCs with Wyse PC Extender software and Kaviza VDI-in-a-box enabling the ultra-low price point for cloud/thin client computing. For SMB-level companies wanting improved performance with […]

A new category of thin and light mobile computers in the sub $1,000 price range called Ultrabooks will grab 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012, according to Intel Corp’s Sean Maloney, executive vice president. Maloney was speaking at the Computex Taipei 2011 event in Taiwan, calling these new Ultrabooks […]

A new survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist […]

Attachmate closed the $2.2 billion Novell acquisition four weeks ago and split up the various Novell products across multiple business units: Novell, SUSE, NetIQ and Attachmate. Each division will be independent with its own go-to-market strategy and will have its own organization structures, Attachmate announced on May 18. Novell’s SUSE Linux will be its own […]

When Apple launched the iPad in 2010, it sparked off an industry-wide game of follow the leader. Companies ranging from Samsung to Research In Motion all leapt into the fray with tablet plans of their very own. Many of those tablets ran some version of Google Android; other manufacturers, notably RIM and Hewlett-Packard, decided to […]