TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
It's been almost a year since Google introduced the beta of its Google App Engine, and eWEEK Labs wants to see what applications have been built on the technology. While none have yet reached the size and power of Facebook or Twitter, ...
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, on open source and interoperability, software modeling and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.
Some enterprise VoIP systems are all but unusable from the time they are implemented because nobody took the time to properly profile the existing network. Before implementing a VoIP system, take into account these five critical steps ...
Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes set off a storm of IT industry chatter around the viability of SOA when she pronounced that service-oriented architecture is dead and the recession killed it. However, all SOA-related technologies ...
Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analy ...
Reading eBooks from eBook readers similar to the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will eventually be the preferred reading method for millions worldwide, predicts Knowledge Centre analyst J. Gerry Purdy.
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.
Server virtualization has become a popular trend in enterprise IT. When migrating from a physical to a virtual environment, IT professionals need to ensure that their company's data is protected, current and readily available.
Data centre managers could save millions of kilowatt hours annually by implementing 11 best practices, says analyst company Gartner. Most of these projects can be completed with little or no budget or effort. Here's the list of 11 powe ...
Social networking tools such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others offer SMBs new ways to build communities and your brand. Here are the best ways to build both at the same time.
While some reports suggest small businesses won't be slashing through IT budgets in 2009, is the average midmarket company willing to invest in virtualization technology? DataCore, among other vendors, says yes.
Database and application vendors may want to take a look at expanding their data masking capabilities as its relevance grows. While the market is currently small, Forrester Research expects it to grow in the years ahead.
VKernel's Capacity Analyzer 2.0 can use VMware VirtualCentre statistics to offer clarity in virtualization deployments. However, the virtualization tool is not a cross-platform product; it doesn't address Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualiza ...
Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on.
The successful creation of a rogue certificate authority by security researchers using a colliding certificates attack demonstrates that if you're not moving forward with your security-related standards then you're moving backward. Eve ...
Despite talk about iSCSI, Fibre Channel and 4/10GB Ethernet connectivity, analystss estimate that DAS still comprises about 70 percent of the entire data storage market
Deciding to build a green, energy-efficient IT infrastructure is easier than choosing which servers, data storage and virtualization products will actually use less heat, cut your energy bill and reduce your enterprise's carbon footpri ...
Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits.
While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies are preparing to clash when it comes to how the world's cloud computing infrastructure deve ...
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence from his post until the end of June because his health problems turned out to be "more complex than originally thought".
Security vendors such as Imperva and Guardium are increasingly tying security information management to database activity monitoring. The latest example of this trend is NitroSecurity, which has integrated its NitroView DBM and NitroVi ...
Salesforce.com's latest foray into cloud computing comes in the form of the Service Cloud. This is an effort to combine Google search, Facebook connections, online communities and discussion forums in a SAAS environment to improve cust ...
Danny Coward, chief architect of the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems, on Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and the future of the Java Platform.
Ruby on Rails and rival Merb teams have finally decide to get along. Built on the same foundation, Rails and Merb differ just enough to attract avid developer communities that often clashed. However, the desire to build a better soluti ...
Dell confirms that it has developed an ultrathin, luxury laptop code-named Adamo, in an effort to counter what Apple achieved with the MacBook Air.
Microsoft delivers Kodu, a new programming environment that enables users to design video games with no programming skills required. The company will release Kodu to the Xbox Live community in the Spring.
The company believes SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009. Fast new SanDisk G3 drives will become available in midyear in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB.
Finally, Microsoft does something right in mobile. But success will take lots of marketing and customer engagement - and that might not even be enough.
Yahoo, Mozilla and several startups have created browser plugins or widgets to help define the contextual Web, where users can derive greater intelligence and value from their Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome Web browsers.
Microsoft has repeated its warning to users to apply a vulnerability patch in their Windows Server service. A new variant of the Conficker worm that targets this flaw is to blame.