Items tagged with Enterprise
Boy, managing storage just keeps getting easier and easier. Drobo makes super-easy-to-use onsite storage products and solutions, and Carbonite gives uses set-it-and-forget-it online backup and storage. Now, the two companies are partnering on comprehensive small business storage and backup solutions that include both onsite and cloud components. ...
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AMD has just announced availability of the new AMD A6-3500 APU for desktop systems, bolstering its current line-up of Llano-based Accelerated Processing Units with a more affordable model targeted at budget conscious, mainstream system builders. Unlike the first A8 and A6 APUs to hit the scene, which sport four execution cores, the...
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Is 2011 finally the year of the consumer SSD? Perhaps. With prices falling and more and more machines shipping from the factory with an SSD in place of an HDD, it's easier than ever to get a hold of one. That doesn't mean that they're everywhere, and they're far from "affordable" for most folks, but with each and every new SSD introduction,...
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The non-profit group Geeks Without Frontiers today released open source software based on an upcoming WiFi standard. It lets Linux machines be their own WiFi network, no hardware required. The software is based on the not-yet-ratified IEEE 802.11s, an extension to the 802.11 WiFi standard. 11s creates wireless "mesh"...
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As pundits point to Motorola's cache of 17,000 patents, with 7,500 patent applications in progress as the main reason behind Google's purchase of Motorola, does it seem as though a 63 percent premium over Motorola's last closing stock price is a little high for such a purchase? Google may not have had a choice in the matter, as it's been reported...
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Many businesses have discovered the benefits of equipping its staff with smartphones (powerful mobile computing and communication, etc.), and probably just about as many have experienced the downsides, too (lost/broken/stolen phones, management headaches, etc.). Research In Motion released a cloud-based management...
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McAfee is at the top of its game in the secure email gateway market, at least according to research firm Gartner, which placed the company in the “Leaders” quadrant of its Magic Quadrants for Secure Email Gateways. Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways Gartner has so-called “Magic...
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The PCI (payment card industry) Security Standards Council released a supplement to its PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) guidelines with a document on tokenization. (Version 2.0 of the PCI DSS was released in October 2010.) Put simply, tokenization allows merchants to generate non-sensitive values as a stand-in for...
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AMD has six data centers around the world, but the company is trying to consolidate to just three. It’s not hard to imagine why this would be a good strategy--maximizing resources such as CPUs and server space and achieving optimal power efficiency with regard to electricity and cooling saves piles of money...
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Recently, the launch of the Child ID app proved that the U.S. government wasn't scared of tapping into modern-day, consumer-friendly tech to provide a service to the American people. Now, the FCC is pushing for 911 texting. The Federal Communications Commission is envisioning a project called Next Generation...
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Dell introduced the new Vostro V131 laptop which boasts of a battery life that can last for up to 9.5 hours. This thin laptop offers Intel Core i3 and i5 processor options as well as a LTE connectivity option to ensure you're always connected. The Vostro V131 also has Bluetooth 3.0 for connecting your wireless peripherals. A fingerprint reader...
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Good things are happening at this week’s Flash Memory Summit 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, including STEC’s announcement of a new architecture for its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs that it will be demoing. The ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) architecture is designed to both substantially improve performance and...
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Earlier this week, a Sprint executive said the company would offer cloud services for all sizes of businesses. Sprint’s cloud service is expected to be available in the fourth quarter. As part of these cloud offerings, Paget Alves, head of Sprint business markets, said the company will sell its network infrastructure as a service available...
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Nothing like the fresh smell of a new PC to get the morning started right. So thinks Lenovo, as they've just announced the latest in their biz-centric ThinkCentre line. The new M71z is an all-in-one desktop designed for large businesses, schools and governments, but as always, there's nothing stopping the average...
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Just months after Amazon's Cloud Music / Video offerings came online, the Kindle Cloud Reader is following suit. The new service will allow users to read nearly a million Kindle books right on the web browser, with no download or install required. It's entirely built around the HTML5 web standard, and automatically optimizes books for the...
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Speed: can one really ever get enough of it? For those working in the storage industry, the answer is obviously "no way," and Samsung would agree, judging by their newest solid state drive. The new high-performance 512GB PM830 Series SSD was just announced, boasting support for the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 interface with data transmissions...
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Intel Capital, the chip giant’s global venture-capital arm, has just announced the creation of a $300 million dollar fund devised to help accelerate the development of “ultrabooks” and adjacent innovations. Monies from the Ultrabook Fund will be invested into hardware and software firms working on products or technologies...
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SandForce announced that it will be demonstrating its SF-2000 series SSD processors with Toshiba’s 24nm MLC NAND flash at the Flash Memory Summit 2011 in Santa Clara, CA this week. The two companies are working closely to improve the quality and performance of NAND flash as well as drive down costs. The marriage...
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A new lawsuit filed today by the law firm of Hagens, Berman, Sobol, and Shapiro alleges that a group of publishers including the Hatchette Book Group, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster collaborated with Apple over several years to break Amazon's e-book pricing structure. The allegations are...
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Four years ago almost to the day, the National Science Board handed the National science Foundation a mandate to build the most powerful petaflop-class supercomputer in the world. The NSF announced in turn that the system would be based on IBM's Power7 processor technology. One of the features that won IBM the...
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It's got to be hard being a company like Lenovo. Pumping out notebooks, laptops, desktops, and even monitors. Lots to keep track of, and lots of people to impress. Sounds like a modern-day celebrity, but in fact it's a technology company. In a bid to toss a bone in the direction of Lenovo's lucrative business partners, the company has just...
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Whoa, the world's fastest in something? And then, the fastest in SSD? Sign us up! Tons of companies try to claim "fastest this" and "fastest that," but Smart Modular may have a point. The company's newest device is being called the world's fastest multi-level cell and highest capacity SAS SSD, leveraging the company's...
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