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HP on Tuesday introduced a new line of imaging and printer services designed for the needs of the enterprise market. A major component of the company's new offerings is a business partner accreditation, certification and test program. Its latest products help enterprises manage, secure and simplify ...

Google unveiled a preview version of its new hosted Web application platform, Google App Engine, late Monday. The new service is more than a simple database-style platform; rather, it provides developers of Web apps with a hosted solution upon which they can write their applications. Google App Engi...

Whether your company calls them "technical support technicians," "help desk representatives" or "strategic support analysts," in-house help desk professionals are an integral part of any business. Increasing productivity and satisfaction ratings while reducing costs and resources are the hallmarks o...

A little over a year following the initial release of its Clearspace collaboration platform in February 2007, Jive Software announced the availability of the Clearspace 2.0 Monday. The newest iteration of Clearspace enables users to share information and connect with coworkers and business partners ...

Yahoo has launched its next-generation mobile search service and also appears determined to get a jump on competitors by making it readily available to third-party developers. Yahoo's oneSearch 2.0, the new iteration of the company's year-old mobile search service, will deliver a number of improveme...

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Simplifying Data Storage With iSCSI

Companies evaluating iSCSI are driven primarily by the need to lower the cost of their storage infrastructure. However, adoption of iSCSI storage solutions by large enterprises has been slow. A recent study by Aberdeen, surveying more than 140 organizations, provides evidence that iSCSI is now repla...

Early adopters are typically characterized as progressive risk-takers who have little to lose and much to gain. Following this logic, it makes perfect sense that within this crowd we find bot herders -- hackers who control a large number of compromised PCs for malicious purposes. Yet it's unsettling...

The business use of e-mail worldwide has become so critical that the ever-increasing number of spam attacks containing malware are placing corporate and customer information at the highest levels of risk yet, according to an industry-wide survey Internet security firm Webroot conducted last month. W...

Computer technology in the workplace is all about hardware speed and connection bandwidth. To help IT managers augment their systems in both regards, vendors have been developing tweaking strategies to boost application speed beyond design limits. This process is called "application acceleration." H...

Microsoft has opened up its Contacts application programming interface for the Windows Live platform, which will allow third-party developers to build applications that transfer and share contact information across various social networks. The move -- part of a larger strategy to adopt an open API s...

Google, Yahoo and MySpace are forming the nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation to support Google's OpenSocial platform, which allows developers to build software that can run on different social networks. The companies want to "ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-gover...

As corporations increasingly virtualize their environmenst, they are finding that traditional physical security and network applications are not adequate for their needs. "Most network security solutions are based on custom-made ASICs running customized software, and don't provide adequate security ...

Technological advances have prompted changes to corporate communication needs. Employees working in hotel rooms, field offices or even abroad often require access to network and system resources. Also, admission to company networks is no longer limited to individuals on your payroll. Increasingly, s...

The potential to increase server utilization is the primary reason virtualization has been gaining traction in the enterprise. Cost reductions -- through greater data center efficiency, flexibility, lower energy usage and space needs -- are others. Though it does not directly impact the functional ...

Have you seen that movie "Groundhog Day?" You probably have, but on the off chance that you missed it, it's the movie where Bill Murray's character -- who's kind of a jerk -- wakes up every morning to find that it's the same day over and over again. He's forced to relive the same day repeatedly, an...

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