Enterprise threats are on the rise, says McAfee

The security threat landscape has been changing quite drastically in the past few years. In an exclusive interaction Michael Sentonas, VP, Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific, McAfee with Shashwat DC, spells out the challenge before the IT managers and the ways they can cope with it. How has the security landscape panned over the past few years? What have been the defining factors? Specific... By

Apple, Google Lead $3.8B Mobile App Charge: IHS

Sales for mobile application stores operated by Apple, Google, Research In Motion and Nokia will hit $3.8 billion this year, a 77 percent jump from $2.1 billion in 2010, said researcher IHS Screen Digest. Mirroring and leading that revenue growth is Apple's App Store. Thanks to 10.3 billion app downloads on its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, IHS expects Apple to rack up revenue of $2.91... By

Storage spend continues to soar

TheInfoPro, a division of analyst and data company The 451 Group, released its latest storage study, which points toward significant growth in the storage industry and outlines the key market factors and main players driving that growth. The study is completed biannually, and is based on hour-long interviews with storage professionals and primary decision-makers at large and midsize enterprises... By

Red Hat launches CloudForms

Red Hat announced a sweeping cloud-computing initiative that includes a new offering for creating and managing cloud environments, as well as a new platform for developers using open-source technology to create cloud applications. At its Red Hat Summit 2011 in Boston, the company announced the beta of Red Hat CloudForms, a product for creating and managing IAAS (infrastructure as a service)... By

Now, turn your PC into Thin PC

Microsoft has issued a Release Candidate for Windows Thin PC, a platform that allows users to repurpose their PCs into thin clients running a locked-down version of Windows 7. Customers like the reduced footprint of WinTPC. The machines they will likely use it on often have less disk space than brand-new machines, and WinTPC helps to ensure they will have adequate space, Karri Alexion-Tiernan,... By

Spam & malaware declines in April: Symantec

Spam volumes and the number of malicious Websites dropped in April, according to the latest MessageLabs monthly report from Symantec.cloud. Spam dropped 6.4 percent in April, making up 72.9 percent of all email traffic and the number of Websites blocked for carrying malware fell by nearly 20 percent, Symantec.cloud researchers wrote in the April MessageLabs Intelligence report. The spam decline... By

Red Hat, IBM partner to push Open Virtualisation

Red Hat and IBM have announced a new partnership to work together to make products and solutions based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology. Together, the companies are driving adoption of the open source virtualisation technology through joint development projects and enablement of the KVM ecosystem, officials of the two companies said. KVM is the open virtualisation choice for the... By

Amazon mulls iPad rival

E-reader leader Amazon.com is reportedly moving ahead with plans to offer an iPad-battling, Android-running tablet. According to a May 3 report from Taipei-based DigiTimes, Amazon expects sales of the device to reach 700,000 to 800,000 units a month during the "peak season," contributing approximately $3.5 billion to the coffers of notebook manufacturer Quanta. Quanta has received OEM orders... By

Oracle enables iPad access to latest BI apps

Talk about a mass enterprise migration to a single new deviceto the Apple iPad, naturally. If you're a software developer, independent or otherwise, and you're not revamping your application to run on the world's most popular tablet PC, then how out of sync are you with the rest of the IT world? Oracle's certainly not in that category. On May 3, the giant IT software and systems maker announced... By

Ericsson to provide LBS sol to Aircel

New Delhi: Aircel, one of the leading operators in India, has selected Ericsson to provide mobile positioning systems for its 2G and 3G subscribers. The solution will enable Aircel users to get real time tracking, navigation information and information services while on the move. According to the official release, this will also enable enterprises to use effective resource management. Ericsson... By

Vodafone gains maximum from MNP

New Delhi: Vodafone gets the maximum number of users in the post number portability regime. According to the numbers available from TRAI, over nine million subscribers had opted for mobile number portability (MNP) in the first three months of its launch on January 20. The biggest gainers were Vodafone Essar followed by Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular, reports Business Standard. On the other hand... By

Cisco unveils its first containerized data center

Cisco Systems is moving its Unified Computing System, or UCS, into the portable container data center market, similar to what IBM, the former Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle), Hewlett-Packard, Dell-Microsoft and SGI (formerly Rackable) have been doing for the last seven or eight years. In an announcement, the company said it has now made available the Cisco Containerized Data Center as an... By