David Needle

Virtualization leader VMware is building out its IT management portfolio with today’s release of vCenter Operations. VMware said the new management system extends beyond virtualized machines (VMs) to collect data from traditional IT infrastructure including servers, storage and networking components. Tightly integrated with VMware’s vSphere virtualization management software, vCenter Operations “understands” other management tools in […]

It was bound to happen: as popular as Android phones have become, it’s no surprise that hackers are attacking. David Needle reports. The growing popularity of app stores for mobile applications has attracted the attention of malicious hackers hoping to spread malware that could potentially compromise a user’s security and expose personal information. The latest […]

How does your organization decide where to invest and prioritize projects? With competing interests, budget and staffing and a host of other factors, projects can easily go off course and end up over-budget or fail altogether. To paraphrase a popular saying, stuff happens. There’s no way to ensure every project will come in on time […]

Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, SugarCRM and on it goes. The growth of cloud services has spread an increasing amount of user’s content across the Web. And while it’s easy to get at the content in each of these services, searching and managing all that information in a comprehensive way is at best elusive and time-consuming. […]

Intel took the wraps off its Thunderbolt high-speed data transfer product today that promises to greatly improve data transfer rates and more easily manage demanding applications like video editing. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) gets bragging rights as the first computer company to include Thunderbolt technology, which is included in new MacBook Pro laptopsthe company released today. […]

Remember data centers? All the cloud computing hype may make it seem like IT expansion and growth is all headed to the cloud, but that’s far from the truth as there is still plenty of demand for new data center infrastructure. And while HP (NYSE: HPQ) is at the forefront of companies with significant cloud […]

With today’s release of a help desk application running on Apple’s iPad, Zendesk is helping to shake up the classic image of help desk support as someone crouched over a monitor with a headset. The company said that in addition to moving its help desk app to another mobile platform, Zendesk for iPad also has […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is edging closer to a final RTW (Release to Web) of its Internet Explorer 9 browser, showcasing features in the new Release Candidate of IE9 at a media event here today. The IE RC is available for free download. While it’s still accepting feedback from developers and users, the RC is […]

The new Oracle Cloud File System released this week gives IT the ability to readily access a pool of storage resources in the “elastic cloud” system. Essentially, the new Cloud File System is designed to help enterprises deploy their applications, databases and storage in the cloud. Bob Thome, director of product management at Oracle, said […]

VMware advanced its cloud computing strategy this week with the release of VMware vCloud Datacenter services from partners and a free plug-in called vCloud Connector that gives customers the valued “single pane of glass” management view of public and private cloud services. Like other big enterprise players, including HP, IBM and Oracle, VMware (NYSE: VMW) […]