Recent Articles
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Finding Funding in a Tight Credit Market
Just about everybody has a different opinion concerning how steep the current economic downturn might actually be. But one thing everybody can agree on is that credit has tightened to the point where it’s affecting the willingness of customers to fund new IT projects. With limited access to credit, customers have been husbanding that resource…
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Free Embotics V-Scout Tool Helps Consultants Tame VMware Environments
Take a step back and think about how most administrators are “managing” their VMware virtual environments, and you will find that the word “management” does not really apply. When it comes to virtual systems, most administrators are focused on the reactive and not the proactive form of management. What’s more, most of those same administrators…
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Google Set to Introduce its Own Web Browser
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich applications, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics. Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer its own Web browsing software, entitled Google Chrome,…
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Google Offers Video-Sharing for Businesses
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is adding YouTube-like video communications features to its business application suite, looking to make video-sharing among office workers as easy as trading e-mails or instant messages. Unlike YouTube, which is aimed at consumers, Google Video for business is designed to be shared among designated users…
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CDW Online Backup Competes with VARs, Solution Providers
Looking to gain more traction in an increasingly competitive managed services and software-as-a-service market, CDW is poised to launch a new online backup offering, dubbed the CDW Remote Backup Service, as part of its hosting and managed services offerings. The company is betting that the move will allow it to compete successfully in a competitive…
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Dell Profits Disappoint as Tech Spending Weakens
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc posted a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings on Thursday and said companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling 10 percent and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector. The world’s second-largest computer maker, which had cautioned…