World's biggest laptop maker sets shipment record in June
Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop computer maker, set record highs for shipments and revenue in the month of June, a sign demand for technology products hasn't stumbled despite fears of debt problems in some parts of Europe.
The Taiwanese company, which counts Sony, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard among its customers, attributed the records to a few factors, including the easing of some component shortages and because some customers placed orders early in June that might normally have been placed in July.
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CollabNet unites scrum project management with agile ALM
Linking agile application lifecycle and project management disciplines, CollabNet is releasing on Thursday ScrumWorks Pro 4.4, a project and program management product that is integrated with the company's TeamForge ALM platform.
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Five trends driving data center decisions
In the past, companies built data centers like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them.
However, companies that designed spacious data centers ended up wasting a lot of money, powering unnecessary infrastructure. Today's data center design decisions all pivot around maximizing efficiency, while giving companies a path for future growth, says Steve Sams, VP of global site and facilities services for IBM.
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GAO slams White House for failing to lead on cyber security
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has so far failed to live up to its responsibility to coordinate a national cyber security R&D agenda, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released this week.
As a result, the U.S risks falling behind other countries on cyber security matters, and being unable to adequately protect its interests in cyberspace, the 36-page report (PDF document) warned.
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Greenplum buy puts EMC further into cloud, BI
EMC's agreement to buy Greenplum adds a key component to the storage vendor's strategy to boost its business intelligence and data analytics business.
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Websense offers free enterprise DLP suite
Websense Thursday is announcing that it's making its data-loss prevention (DLP) suite free for 30 days under a "DLP for Download" program.
The roughly 600MB download available at the Websense.com site is the full enterprise Websense Data Security Suite. The download can be installed in a VMware-based environment and is intended to provide a quick way to evaluate the effectiveness of the software for stopping unauthorized transmission of data.
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The dark side of server virtualization
Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical servers, requiring less cooling and less power while increasing flexibility. This is all good for the business and the server group, but what effect does it have on the management of the network? The truth is that it complicates network management.
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Synchronoss to buy FusionOne
Synchronoss plans to buy FusionOne in a deal that could allow phone users to sign up for a new phone and transfer data from their old phones at the same time.
Synchronoss will pay $40 million up front for FusionOne and will pay an additional $35 million if FusionOne achieves certain performance targets through 2011, Synchronoss said. It did not say what those targets are.
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Oracle's Exadata database delivers on hype
Oracle's claims about its Exadata database machine's performance capabilities are merited, but in order to get the benefits, customers have to do more than flip a switch, according to a customer and consultant who are working with the platform.
Pythian Group, a remote database administration firm in Ottawa, Ontario, is implementing Exadata at LinkShare, an affiliate marketing and lead-generation provider for e-commerce businesses.
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Security software market dominated by free apps
High brand visibility from large security vendors doesn't necessarily mean that their products dominate the market, according to a new study of security software.
The study was released Wednesday by Opswat, whose primary product, Oesis, is a development toolkit used to manage third-party security applications.
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BlackBerry copies iOS 4 feature in server upgrade
Research in Motion released BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) 5.02 today, an update that, in an unusual turnabout, copies a mobile management capability from the iPhone's iOS: the ability to manage corporate data separately from personal data. That allows, for example, IT to block access to corporate email and contacts from a device if a user leaves the company or loses the BlackBerry, while leaving the user's personal data intact.
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