Chris Talbot

Dell is expanding its software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio with the acquisition of security service provider SecureWorks. The deal extends an existing partnership between Dell and SecureWorks announced in July 2010. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The SecureWorks acquisition, which is expected to close early this year, will add managed security services, security and risk […]

When future IT historians (or research analysts, as they’re commonly called) look back at 2010, they’re likely to consider it as the year that cloud computing went mainstream. With businesses still looking for ways to cut costs during a horrendous recession, the dramatic increase in the number of vendor supporting cloud computing subscription models has […]

The networking market showed continued signs of recovery early in 2010 with revenue in both the routing and switching markets pushing into double-digits, according to IDC figures. As the market heated up, so too did competition as big vendors acquired smaller vendors to fill technology gaps, giants of the industry threw down the gauntlet against […]

Servers and switches may be the bones and blood of data centers, but the vendors and politics of the vendors who sell data center equipment trumped any news about technology in 2010. Indeed this past year may have seemed as much like a soap opera as a technology business as the big guns in the […]

Dell acquires Boomi With an eye towards building out its infrastructure and cloud offerings, Dell announced its intention to purchase SaaS integration tools provider Boomi in November. At one time known as a personal computing company, this acquisition is an important step for Dell in getting into the cloud services market. Google snaps up DocVerse […]

What’s the state of Windows 7 deployment? More than a year after the release of Microsoft’s most recent Windows operating system, only 31 percent of  businesses have made the transition to Windows 7. But that’s about to change.  Forrester is expecting that figure to shoot up to 83 percent in the next year, pointing to […]

After a difficult 2009, the unified communications market started to grow again in 2010, with many projects that had been put on hold because of restricted budgets finally coming to fruition. New players in the UC space entered the market, and some anticipated product releases were finally launched. Although Gartner analyst Nick Jones recently called […]

Egenera, a provider of converged infrastructure and unified computing solutions, has launched a new partner program designed to be a response to what it sees as issues in the VCE coalition, a data center alliance among vendors VMware, Cisco and EMC to create an end-to-end data center solution. The new program was designed as a […]

Top Channel Friendly Cloud Backup and Recovery Service Providers CloudBerry Lab Built on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) platform, CloudBerry cloud-based backup and recovery services provides features like backup scheduling, data encryption, backup verification and the ability to back up to multiple Amazon S3 accounts. A managed backup service for resellers is in the […]

Mobile Security Solutions Protecting Data on your Smartphone McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management McAfee is one of the biggest players in the security market, and its Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) helps enterprises lock down smartphones and other mobile devices. Its complexity truly makes it an enterprise solution, as it includes several different integrated elements that manage […]

Although new technologies designed to help retailers for their big Black Friday sales are being made available, it’s the tried and true technologies that are going to be used on the unofficial start of the Christmas shopping season. Tablets have become a hot technology topic, and there are several products now available designed for point-of-sale […]

Porting existing applications that reside on a traditional physical infrastructure to a virtualized environment in the cloud sounds like a great idea, but the reality is that shifting apps to the cloud may come with a decrease in application performance. Ensuring quality of service of those applications is important to keep them running at expected […]