Pedro Hernandez

Data loss strikes again This time, though, it affects veterans of the United States armed forces and Sacred Heart University students. The Veterans Affairs breach is particularly troubling, potentially opening the door to millions cases of identity theft. The agency revealed last week that a laptop containing data on 26.5 million members of the military […]

No one will argue that good IT staffer are worth every cent. But why are highly paid workers performing menial tasks? When something goes wrong — a workstation spewing worms or otherwise causing trouble, for instance — these same workers are tasked with getting to the root of the problem. It is not uncommon in […]

Many companies aren’t up to the support challenges presented by a workforce equipped with laptops and handheld devices, according to the findings of a Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum study sponsored by Avaya. And if IDC’s projections prove correct, many of them will be in for trying times when the number of global mobile workers […]

LSI Logic Storage Systems this week announced version 8.40 of its SANtricity Storage Manager suite. The Milpitas, CA-based storage systems provider states that existing customers that make the upgrade will benefit from performance boosts of up to 70 percent. Adding to SANtricity Storage Manager’s feature set is a new volume copy feature. As the name […]

Businesses can now tap the computing power traditionally reserved for organizations with hefty infrastructure investments as IBM‘s “Deep Computing On Demand” program opens its virtual doors. Nestled in a secure area within IBM’s Poughkeepsie plant is a cluster of 32-bit xSeries Intel-based Linux systems and 64-bit pSeries AIX servers. The hardware, which is accessible via […]