With the release of the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010611-ces-4g-wireless.html">Motorola ATRIX 4G</a>, the line between <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> and personal computers will become a little blurrier.
Tablets like Apple's iPad and the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook will change and improve the way corporate employees work and make decisions, contend IT executives at Chevron and TD Bank. Both companies are evaluating and running trials on such devices.
The shift to cloud computing offers an opportunity to better secure the national digital infrastructure by concentrating the burden of cyber security among a relatively small number of service providers rather than thousands of individual businesses, according to a report by a foreign policy think tank.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020910-websense-triton.html">Websense</a> today unveiled three new gateway <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> products for e-mail, Web and data-loss prevention that combines an on-premises appliance with secure content filtering in the cloud.
Facing consumers with an appetite for cloud storage that has increased 50 per cent over the past year, the world's largest consumer online storage provider said on Monday that it will no longer offer unlimited storage and will increase fees for the limited online storage it's now selling.
Cambridge Technology Partners rode high on the client-server wave in the 1990s, and now its founders are planning to bring their magic to cloud computing with a new firm called Cloud Technology Partners.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2007/0709netop1.html">Virtela</a> has upgraded its WAN acceleration service to support customer data centers located in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-private-public-cloud">public clouds</a>, so businesses that outsource their resources to service providers can outsource their WAN acceleration, too.
This week has seen a flurry of research released on the mobile world. Among the key findings: the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/70979">mobile app market is set to explode</a>, Android is narrowing the gap with <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> for developer <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/14-year-olds-bubble-ball-1-itunes-app-shoots-">interest</a> and tablets are driving increases in computer shipments.
Security start-up CloudPassage is offering two free services to protect cloud-based virtual servers by maintaining firewall policies and also checking for software vulnerabilities.
A large flat layer 2 network is the key to a new unified fabric data center. The idea is that everything in the data center - servers, appliances and storage - should be part of one big flat layer 2 structure.
Juniper posted fourth-quarter revenue well beyond Wall Street expectations.
Amazon's cloud is adding a service for sending bulk e-mail, saying it will eliminate the burden of "building large-scale e-mail solutions to send marketing and transactional messages."
Hitachi GST today announced the first 3TB enterprise-class hard disk drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000, a 7,200rpm array that comes with either 6Gbit/sec. serial SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) interfaces.
Hewlett-Packard has officially consigned its Neoview to history, less than four years after introducing it to the market as the company's core offering in the business intelligence (BI) space.
HONOLULU -- Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd <a href="http://www.ptc.org/ptc/">Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)</a> conference held last week in Hawaii.