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Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years—which will be spread out around the […]

Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis, […]

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) – Cisco Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) Chief Executive John Chambers, days after admitting that the company he has led for 16 years had lost its way, warned of competitive pressures, depressed public sector spending and "tough decisions" that lay ahead. Chambers told analysts and investors at a Wells Fargo technology conference […]

Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android, the first solution for developing Microsoft .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set. With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to […]

Small and midsized businesses are more susceptible to online-banking fraud, compared with larger businesses and enterprises, according to a new security report from the Ponemon Institute. What’s worse is that many financial institutions are not doing enough to protect smaller businesses from cyber-crooks. Over half, or 56 percent, of the surveyed companies reported experiencing some […]

Software giant CA Technologies has acquired government IT consulting firm Base Technologies in a move to add consulting expertise to its virtualization, mainframe and cloud-computing offerings for government agencies and health care providers. A major player in virtualization and IT management, CA announced the agreement on April 6. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard updated both its products/service package and its marketing message April 5 in the category of information-management software and services. Actually, there is more news at this time in the way the company is presenting its software and services to potential buyers than the launch of any new products themselves. But […]

IBM has jumped head first into the public cloud space with its new IBM SmartCloud enterprise-class, secure cloud offering that has been specifically created to meet the demands of businesses. IBM introduced its new SmartCloud offering at an April 7 event in San Francisco. In an interview with eWEEK, Ric Telford, IBM’s vice president of […]

(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) on Wednesday sued a former high-ranking executive who had left to join rival Oracle Corp to stop him from sharing hundreds of documents HP claims he stole from the company. HP claims Adrian Jones, its former head of enterprise sales for the Asia region, stole documents and e-mails on a […]

(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) plans to open its first research center in California’s Silicon Valley this year to focus on cloud computing, storage and networking technology, with hopes of hiring directly from the tech-focused region. The world’s No. 2 PC maker said Tuesday that the new site will help it consolidate much of its […]

(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) has named Suresh Vaswani, who was earlier joint chief of the IT business at India’s Wipro Ltd , as the executive vice-president of Dell Services’ applications and business process outsourcing business. Vaswani will also take over as the chairman of its India operations, the world’s No. 2 personal computer maker […]

SugarCRM has announced new integrations with various components of IBM’s software portfolio, including WebSphere, Lotus and Cognos. At the SugarCon 2011 conference in San Francisco, SugarCRM announced new solutions that enhance the ability for enterprises around the world to conduct social business, gain deeper insight into their data and achieve greater information flow inside their […]