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2008-12-01
The court-rule amendments, known as the FRCP and placed into effect on Dec. 1, 2006, say businesses must be able to quickly find and make available relevant data when required by a court. Often, business information that could also serve as evidence in a criminal or civil lawsuit is required to be made available in as few as 30 days. Many enterprises are still in the dark about this.
2008-11-26
A scarcity of cheap Blu-ray video players and the effects of a recession are expected to delay adoption of the high-definition Blu-ray DVD format in Europe, according to media research company Screen Digest. Screen Digest says supply problems early in 2008 led to a shortage of affordable Blu-ray players, and most of those available were being channeled to the more developed markets of the United States and Japan.
2008-11-26
Keeping the "e" in eWEEK, our beat reporters turned up gadgets, apps, phones, GPS devices and even a portable device with 1 terabyte of storage for less than $200, all with an eye toward informing a shopper whose day job involves terabytes, not megapixels.
2008-11-26
With the 2008 holiday shopping season here, consumers looking for that special gift are likely checking out the new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro that hit the market earlier this year. The two new Apple MacBooks remain high on the list of must-haves this holiday season. For those interested in PCs, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway and Toshiba all have new notebooks ready for the 2008 holiday season as well. While laptops remain popular, there are still bargains out there for a solid home desktop PC.
2008-11-26
For years, the Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group office used to collect paper applications for all the volunteer staff and simply kept all those unwieldy physical files in drawers and boxes. Three years ago, the office moved to a Microsoft Access database system, but it proved difficult for many people to use. So this year the venerable FileMaker Pro 9 came to the rescue.
2008-11-26
PC makers are struggling to boost sales in the face of an increasingly dire economic outlook. Most large business and institutional customers will be eligible for zero percent financing, the Dell said, along with some select smaller business. Dell will also offer deferred payment plans to some businesses.
2008-11-25
New 25GB and 50GB solid-state drives from data storage maker Samsung are designed specifically for high-performance server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and online financial transaction processing.
2008-11-25
Shares of HP (Hewlett-Packard) fell more than 7 percent on Tuesday on concerns about weak sales of printer ink and personal computers, fed in part by pessimistic quarterly earnings from one of the company's distributors. HP, a Dow Jones industrial average .DJI component, was down far more than the index which dropped 0.4 percent. In its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings release on Monday, HP reported a 9 percent increase for printer supplies year-over-year, and an 8 percent drop in printer hardware shipments. HP said its market share would be sustained because slower printer sales have affected the entire industry, and that sales of ink and printer supplies would remain brisk.
2008-11-25
Analysis: Enterprises are using virtualization technology from Microsoft, VMware and Citrix for servers, desktops, applications and storage. While virtualization saves money, it creates management headaches. Vendors ranging from BMC, CA, HP and IBM are building virtualization management tools, but more cross-platform capabilities are needed.
2008-11-25
Intel and Micron are teaming up to take on Samsung and Toshiba in the battle for NAND flash memory, used for multimedia storage on consumer products such as iPods and digital cameras. But when falling consumer confidence is taking its toll on the flash memory market, is this the right time for Intel and Micron to invest?
2008-11-24
What could be more practical for anybody with a personal computer than the gift of personal data storage? Capacities keep going up, as does the number of value-added and optional features. Prices keep coming down, much to the joy of buyers and to the chagrin of storage executives.
2008-11-24
Cyber-crime and the online underground economy are booming as more and more SMBs turn to online stores and services to cut costs. From data encryption to regular password changes, midmarket companies may find it necessary to beef up security standards.
2008-11-24
IBM introduces IBM Resilient Cloud Validation Services, in which its IBM Global Services group helps other companies determine whether their internal cloud computing systems are airtight and fully functional—even though IBM itself has no centralized, clearly marketed cloud computing strategy of its own as a reference.
2008-11-24
Google's annual holiday party has been known as among the most extravagant in Silicon Valley. But Silicon Valley has few reasons to celebrate this year and even Google is putting the wraps on extravagance. Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and Applied Materials, have cut more than 140,000 jobs in the last few months.
2008-11-21
Even before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, House and Senate Democrats are making sweeping changes of their own, deposing old school chairmen on key technology committees. From energy policy to network neutrality, new chairmen Henry Waxman and Jay Rockefeller lean more tech than telecom, more Silicon Valley than Rust Belt. Hold the euphoria, though, as change often brings unexpected results.
2008-11-21
Google's SearchWiki announcement promises to democratize search and affect how SMBs view search engine optimization and social networking.
2008-11-21
Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T. Verizon Wireless, th No. 2 U.S. mobile service, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, heavily promoted four different phones last holiday season, but its focus this year is directed firmly at RIM's (Research In Motion) first touch-screen phone. Storm is Verizon Wireless's game changer and Verizon will do more marketing for it than any other phone in the fourth quarter. Both the Storm and Apple's iPhone cost $200 and includes a built-in camera, and music and video players. But the Storm has a different approach to touch-screen typing that RIM hopes will win over people addicted to the keypads on other BlackBerry e-mail devices.
2008-11-20
With data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner's educated guess), and power costs expected to increase by 15 percent (the power industry's educated guess), how does an IT manager make peace with the very real possibility that he or she won't be able to buy as much power and capacity this next fiscal year?
2008-11-20
Current macroeconomic conditions will impact data center budgets--along with everything else--big time in 2009. It follows that data center and IT managers will need to get more from their facilities with less money available. Here's a primer on where to find the low-hanging fruit of power savings.
2008-11-20
Dell, the world’s second largest desktop and notebook vendor, beat Wall Street estimates after it posted a third-quarter net income of $727 million. While Dell has acknowledged that IT spending is down and its revenues dipped year over year, the company’s efforts at cutting costs and reducing expenses helped the PC vendor turn a profit. While Dell executives did not speculate about the fourth quarter of 2009, they did say that the future is proving to be a challenge. For enterprises, CEO Michael Dell said the company plans to expand its server, data storage and virtualization offerings.
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