Pedro Hernandez

The Google-Motorola deal is a go, as far as the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division is concerned. The Department gave the go-ahead to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. With European Commission’s approval in the bag, Google can now complete the process of bringing home the storied mobile handset maker that in […]

Developers have been kicking the tires on Windows 8 for months, evaluating its capabilities and preparing their software for the operating system’s release. Later this month, Microsoft plans to let the general public get in on the act. On February 29, Microsoft will host a Windows 8 Customer Preview event during Mobile World Congress in […]

A Citrix rollout is a tempting proposition. When well implemented, IT staffers can sidestep the complex, time consuming and tedious nature of managing and maintaining applications on a desktop-by-desktop basis. Yet, Citrix poses challenges of its own. Eric Spiegel, CEO and founder of Washington, DC area XTS, noticed that the hurdles come early for many […]

Pillar Data Systems is addressing three big challenges faced by storage intensive businesses. To the company, these boil down to complexity, explosive growth, and as one of the founding members of The Green Grid, energy usage. The company’s solution comes in the form of Axiom, an integrated SAN and NAS platform (NAS- and SAN-only deployments […]

Acquiring and managing a physical site, whether a corporate office or a retail location, is an involved affair that can generate reams of paper work, legal documents and accounting data. Buried beneath the exceedingly manual work of managing and tracking it all is the task of making sure the site and facilities fall in line […]

Jeff Zeigler, the founder and CEO of Austin, Texas-based TechTurn (formerly Newmarket IT and ComputerResell.com), finds himself at the helm for what is becoming an interesting time in his company’s history. In IT and beyond, the green movement is picking up steam. No longer is it considered smart for companies, from a public relations perspective, […]

Avaya is getting the word out that as a technology, VoIP has more going for it than just containing costs by getting networks to pull double-duty as telephony platforms. IP telephony has come a long way since the days of the echo-filled, patchwork of sounds that threatened to torpedo the nascent technology. Now, thanks to […]

Financial transactions firm Nexxar was facing integration issues that anyone navigating a recent merger or acquisition knows all too well. And the company has been on a tear, snapping up high-transaction financial services providers, that while not quite the Citibanks and JP Morgans of the world, they are nonetheless proving to be lucrative for the […]

In a move that evoked mixed emotions in industry watchers, Microsoft last month cut a nice big check (one would hope) for Winternals. The little company played a huge part in the lives of many Windows administrators over the years with its free and effective utilities that helped to tune and secure systems. But what […]

Like many small companies experiencing rapid growth, CDW,a provider of technology products and services, was unable to keep up with management of its storage systems, especially as the number of orders the company fulfilled grew. Add the increasing amount of data produced by internal departments, and the signs of strain were starting to show. Compliance […]