IT Not Ready to Quit on BlackBerry
February 13, 2013 15:45 PM
IT pros hope BlackBerry can reverse its fading fortunes, but they recognize end user choice is going against the once-dominant mobile vendor. Network Computing readers weigh in on BlackBerry’s fate.
Readers Respond: F5 Firewall Challenges Cisco, Check Point
February 06, 2013 17:38 PM
Network Computing readers weighed in on F5’s entry into the firewall market and how its strategy of integrating firewall software into its load-balancing platform might play out with customers and competitors.
Citrix CTO On Demanding Clarity From Cloud Vendors
May 11, 2011 13:36 PM
Citrix Systems CTO Simon Crosby sat down with Andrew Conry Murray at Interop 2011 for a candid question-and-answer session on a variety of subjects, including emerging cloud power centers--Citrix is a major player in some. The company is also pushing emerging standards on a variety of fronts, including cloud computing and application performance. Crosby talked about the company's goals for these efforts. He also advised IT to demand more vendor clarity about the cloud.
WAN Security Challenges Abound
June 03, 2010 10:38 AM
Protecting information and corporate assets has always been a tricky business, and today's computing environment just adds to the complexity. Remote offices and mobile users need just as much protection, and possibly more, than headquarters employees who sit behind carefully constructed layers of defense. SaaS applications and public cloud deployments mean sensitive data travel outside traditional network boundaries. And the Web presents a never-ending fountain of malware.
EMC's Tucci On Acquisitions, Infrastructure And Clouds
May 11, 2010 09:00 AM
EMC Chairman, President and CEO Joe Tucci took questions from the press Monday morning at EMC World in Boston after his keynote address on "The Journey To The Private Cloud." Here's a quick recap of some of what Mr. Tucci had to say on a variety of subjects, including acquisitions, infrastructure and the cloud.
IronMountain Buys Archive Appliance Maker, But The Future Is Online
February 22, 2010 13:41 PM
IronMountain announced today that it will pay $112 million for Mimosa Systems, which makes archiving appliances for e-mail, SharePoint and files. The purchase gives IM Digital both a premises archiving product as well as a SaaS-based e-mail archiving service. The SaaS archiving offering uses technology from Mimecast, a UK-based company.
The Best Acquisition Of The Decade
January 08, 2010 09:35 AM
Yesterday I saw a Wall Street Journal article that lists the tech companies that acquired the most VC-backed companies since 2000 (Cisco led with 48, and IBM finished second with 35). The story got me wondering about all the tech purchases made over nine years, startups or otherwise, and which one had the greatest impact on the buyer and the tech markets as a whole?
New Credit Card Breach Will Test PCI
March 18, 2008 15:07 PM
The latest exposure of more than 4 million credit and debit card numbers may strain the validity and stability of the credit card industry's controversial security rules....
Virtual Machines, Real Dollars
February 06, 2008 03:54 AM
VMware???s stock price might have tumbled, but that isn???t stopping VC investment in the virtualization space. Two startups raked in millions this week....
Poking Cisco In The Eye
January 29, 2008 17:35 PM
Cisco frowns on resellers of used network hardware because it doesn???t get a cut of aftermarket sales. Network Hardware Resale (NHR), a prominent reseller, is going a step further by offering an alternative to Cisco???s SMARTnet maintenance service -- a...
Privacy Breach Lawsuit Against Sears Is Ridiculous
January 07, 2008 21:51 PM
A $5 million suit recently filed against Sears for exposing customer purchases is more about cashing in than redressing harm.
Data Centers -- Who Needs 'Em Anyway?
September 27, 2007 17:53 PM
Data centers: they're expensive, hard to power and cool, and full of cranky hardware and software that requires ceaseless attention. But what can you do? Make it somebody else's problem.
Breach Notification Service is a Bad Sign
August 16, 2007 20:26 PM
You know data security breaches are way too common when a company builds a business around customer notification of stolen information....
Meat Space Still Matters in a Web 2.0 World
August 08, 2007 16:52 PM
It's important for enterprises to recognize the limitations of Internet-mediated communication and collaboration.
Twitter Turns Drivel to Cash
July 31, 2007 13:31 PM
Web 2.0 venture Twitter has discovered a simple formula for success: encourage users' conceit.
$28 Million for an Old Idea?Part 2
July 27, 2007 20:53 PM
We have to kill the firewall in order to save it. That's the essential message from startup Palo Alto Networks (PAN)....
YouTube's Reign of Terror
July 24, 2007 14:07 PM
The next leader of the free world may have stood on stage at The Citadel last night, but the real power in the room was YouTube....
$28 Million for an Old Idea?Part 1
July 20, 2007 17:04 PM
You have to admire the chutzpah of startup Palo Alto Networks. The company has raised $28 million to sell a "next-generation" firewall based on ideas that are 20 years old....
Users Move Faster Than Policy
June 27, 2007 20:44 PM
I moderated a Webcast recently on messaging-based security threats. An analyst on the panel did what analysts always do???provided some very sound advice that happens to be very difficult to implement....
Major Vendors to Set Standards for IT Energy Efficiency
February 28, 2007 15:39 PM
The Green Grid is a new standards body promoting energy efficiency in the IT industry. Its goals are to reduce energy costs and help enterprises better manage energy usage by developing industry-wide metrics for measuring power usage and efficiency, create...
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