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Starting 2011: Hot Air and Hotter Storage

Are most of the announcements around hot storage innovations lately anything beyond hot air? Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, finds one bright spot.

Networking Processor Requirements in Cloud Computing Environments

Service provisioning using cloud computing poses challenges for the data center. What’s needed is a multi-core, heterogeneous architecture.

Free 2X Client Makes Android Smart Devices Business-Ready

Transforms any smart devices running on Google’s Android OS into full remote Windows clients.

State Governments' Shrinking IT Workforce: Worst is Ahead

State governments are facing critical IT personnel shortages due to budget constraints and an aging workforce heading for retirement, according to a recent report by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.

Updated Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Supports Collaborative Development

Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Release 3.0 integrates with subversion to enable team development, supports user-defined design rules.

DataCore’s Storage Virtualization Software Reshapes Server and Disk Resources

SANsymphony-V uses adaptive caching and performance-boosting techniques to absorb wildly variable workloads in an open software platform.

FortiWeb Web Application Firewall Family Enhanced to Protect Confidential, Regulated Data

FortiWeb 4.0 MR2 firmware upgrade expands attack protection



Xiotech’s Hybrid ISE Eliminates Storage Capacity/Performance Trade-off

HDD/SSD hybrid, tiering enable continuous adaptive data placement across storage media.

IBM Gets More Social, Unveils LotusLive Symphony

IBM made several announcements at its Lotusphere 2011 event, including some upcoming social networking improvements plus the debut of a new cloud-based productivity suite called LotusLive Symphony.

GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform 8.0 Provides Continuous Scaling

Elastic application platform delivers a robust environment for cloud and data center development

D-Link’s Wi-Fi Cloud Solution Targets SMBs

Powered by CloudCommand, online software platform delivers affordable business-grade Wi-Fi to small- and mid-sized businesses.

HP Steps Up Cloud Lineup

Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.

SmartDeploy Enterprise Improves Windows OS Migration Solution

Enhancements hardware-independent imaging solution adds flexibility, robust customization

Mingle 3.3 Supports Enterprise Agile, Real-Time Release Management

Addresses the hybrid nature of agile implementations; extends governance and real-time visibility into the health of software deployments.

CloudPassage Unveils Security Products Built for Elastic Cloud Environments

Halo SVM and Slo Firewall products help cloud-based enterprises automate vulnerability management and server firewalls in the cloud

Top 5 Application Performance Challenges

Tips to identify and prevent the top headaches Java developers face.

Coradiant TrueSight Enterprise Edition Gives Companies Real-time Insight into Web Application Performance

Scalable enterprise software solution provides greater flexibility, scalability for Web applications delivered by virtualized data center, application delivery network, cloud.

LibreOffice 3.3 Breaks From Oracle with New Release

The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source productivity suite.

Careers: As the World Outsources

India faces pressure from both Eastern European outsourcing destinations and a new crop of scrappy Asia-Pacific upstarts.

Efficient Design Never Goes Out of Style

When it comes to development, smaller truly is faster.