Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Offloading IT infrastructure to a cloud-computing provider can result in great cost savings and more streamlined, flexible operations. Need more compute power or storage? Cloud systems like Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) readily scale so there’s no need to go through a time-consuming purchasing process or scrambling to find more room for an…
In what might be viewed as a victory for Microsoft and a loss for Google, the Kentucky Department of Education has signed up 700,000 students, faculty, and staff for free e-mail, instant messaging, and online storage running on the software giant’s cloud services. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) officials in a statement called the agreement “the largest…
Enterprise IT decision-makers who have been waiting to deploy Windows 7 until all the bugs are shaken out of the new operating system are already beginning to get off the fence, Tami Reller, CFO of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, told investors Wednesday. Now it’s time for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) sales force to focus…
CUPERTINO, Calif. — As the economy begins to ride out and recover from the recession, computer giant Hewlett-Packard sees that small businesses, particularly in the U.S., are ready to cautiously resume spending on IT. At a media event here, HP (NYSE: HPQ) officials briefly detailed a few new product offerings, but spent the bulk of…
The Federal Communications Commission is continuing its scrutiny of the wireless industry, offering a fresh batch of data points to make the case that carriers need to do more to clarify their billing practices and rein in fees and overage charges. The survey highlighted two issues that have recently found themselves in the crosshairs of…
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project today officially released the Fedora 13 Linux distribution, codenamed “Goddard,” with improvements aimed at both new and experienced Linux users. The new Fedora 13 release comes six months after Fedora 12’s debut and continues to enhance the Linux operating system experience for its users. Fedora 13 includes improved virtualization, along…
Hewlett-Packard on Friday expanded its worldwide recall of notebook batteries for laptops sold between 2007 and 2008 in a variety of notebooks due to the risk of catching fire. The list of affected laptops covers a range of price points and laptops sold under the HP, Pavilion, Compaq and Compaq Presario brand names. This voluntary…
IBM plans to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion in cash — a deal that Big Blue is betting will augment its capabilities in software integration and other key areas. “The addition of Sterling to IBM will substantially advance our ability to help clients to create more agile business networks,” Craig Hayman, general…
Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud. Red Hat’s deltaCloud project http://deltacloud.org/ started last year as a way of enabling and managing a heterogeneous Cloud virtualized infrastructure. Now, deltaCloud is on a path to commercialization as part of a set…
Two House lawmakers are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s accidental collection of sensitive Wi-Fi data, echoing the calls of several European regulators in a mounting controversy for the search giant. Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairs of the House Privacy Caucus, asked FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in a…