http://www.eweek.com Channel - RSS Feeds en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:49:37 -0500 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:49:37 -0500 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:47:22 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Gasp-Microsoft-Takes-Linux-HyperV-Drivers-Open-Source-294615/?kc=rss - Microsoft temporarily suspended its fear and loathing of all things Linux this week. The Windows juggernaut released Linux Hyper-V drivers under the GPL version 2 and submitted them for inclusion in the main Linux kernel source tree. What next? Sharepoint running natively on Linux? Let's not go that...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Gasp-Microsoft-Takes-Linux-HyperV-Drivers-Open-Source-294615/?kc=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:30:12 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Is-Security-Hardware-Plus-Services-Sustainable-628582/?kc=rss - Sales of security hardware and appliances fell more than 16 percent in the first quarter of the year, which is pretty steep but not nearly as bad as the 20-plus percent decline in sales of core networking gear. While market research firm Infonetics believes security appliances firewall/VPN...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Is-Security-Hardware-Plus-Services-Sustainable-628582/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:26:49 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/IronKey-Signs-Distribution-Deal-with-Synnex-438225/?kc=rss - IronKey, a secure flash drive vendor, has signed a distribution agreement with Synnex to expand its reach into the channel. Synnex is the second distributor IronKey has signed with in the North American market -- the first being D amp;H Distributing. According to Stewart Fox, vice president of sal...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/IronKey-Signs-Distribution-Deal-with-Synnex-438225/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:26:32 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/PacketTrap-Intros-Traffic-Analysis-Solution-for-MSPs-208076/?kc=rss - Managed services providers (MSPs) usually thrive in times of economic downturn, as customers look for desktop and server management solutions that can help cut costs, increase efficiency and ease data center management and monitoring burdens. But as these services become more commoditized, theres le...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/PacketTrap-Intros-Traffic-Analysis-Solution-for-MSPs-208076/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:25:47 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Printing-The-Untapped-Services-Opportunity-854585/?kc=rss - Hewlett Packard announced its quarterly earnings this week and quickly analysts asked “what happened to the profit in printing?” The decline in HP printer revenue the former cash cow of the company and the struggles of printer vendors such as Xerox, Ricoh and Lexmark as many financial analysts and...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Printing-The-Untapped-Services-Opportunity-854585/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:23:07 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Desktop-Notebook-Refresh-Cycle-Brewing-740595/?kc=rss - You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you arent reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home. Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refr...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Desktop-Notebook-Refresh-Cycle-Brewing-740595/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:22:46 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Virtualization-Hype-Must-Yield-to-Business-Sense-Expert-Says-709587/?kc=rss - A new state program in Virginia provides $35,000 grants to businesses that allow employees to telecommute. With virtualization, small businesses can extend applications and data to remote workers, providing the same user experience and productivity capabilities as if theyre in the office. But virt...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Virtualization-Hype-Must-Yield-to-Business-Sense-Expert-Says-709587/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:22:31 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Nine-Ball-Worm-Enters-Hype-Cycle-870768/?kc=rss - If someone is talking about Nine Ball to you today, its likely not about a game of billiards. Nine Ball is the latest worm compromising Web sites and infecting unsuspecting PCs with a Trojan. Detected less than a week ago by researchers at Websense, the new worm has already compromised more than 40,...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Nine-Ball-Worm-Enters-Hype-Cycle-870768/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:22:09 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Multifactor-Authentication-Lags-in-Adoption-209283/?kc=rss - This is one of the more amusing stories Ive read in a while. An Ireland utility company says that unencrypted data on four stolen laptops will be difficult to access because the machines require a username and password. “I dont want to minimize the risk but this is not a normal laptop that...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Multifactor-Authentication-Lags-in-Adoption-209283/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:28:36 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Security-Appliance-Sales-Dip-But-Rebound-Expected-372318/?kc=rss - A new report by analyst firm Infonetics says spending on security hardware and appliances -- such as unified threat management (UTM), intrusion detection/prevention systems and SSL VPN devices -- dropped 16 percent in the first quarter of 2009. The reason: businesses cut or delayed spending on IT sy...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Security-Appliance-Sales-Dip-But-Rebound-Expected-372318/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:18:51 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/PC-Sales-Expected-to-Rebound-Prices-Wont-863010/?kc=rss - The PC market is now expected to post positive unit growth in Q4 2009 in a long-awaited turnaround from what have been several quarters of decline. And that will lead to a “healthy market recovery in 2010.” Market research firm Gartner is now forecasting PC unit sales for 2009 to decline by 6 per...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/PC-Sales-Expected-to-Rebound-Prices-Wont-863010/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:16:36 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/CA-Pitches-IAM-Alternatives-to-Sun-Oracle-Customers--494349/?kc=rss - CA has created a program intended to woo customers of Sun Microsystems and Oracle to migrate to CA's Identity and Access Management (IAM) products. quot;CA SPF 100 quot; would allow Sun's and Oracle's customers to trade their product licenses for equivalent licenses of CA Identity Manager, CA Ro...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/CA-Pitches-IAM-Alternatives-to-Sun-Oracle-Customers--494349/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:14:56 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Video-MSP-Provides-Live-Feeds-for-2009-NBA-Draft-119344/?kc=rss - For basketball fans watching tonights 2009 NBA Draft live on television to see which team gets Blake Griffin, theres no tolerance for lost video signals, dropped video or audio or anything else going wrong with the broadcast. For the fifth year in a row, video conferencing managed service provide...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Video-MSP-Provides-Live-Feeds-for-2009-NBA-Draft-119344/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:11:57 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Chinas-Green-Dam-A-Harbinger-of-Security-Challenges-to-Come-648228/?kc=rss - To read the coverage of Chinas “Green Dam” mandate would make it seem that the world was coming to an end and the Internet would be irrevocably changed forever. Mind you, the installation of censorship technology on every computer abhorrent in our society, and I personally disagree with the policies...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Chinas-Green-Dam-A-Harbinger-of-Security-Challenges-to-Come-648228/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:08:54 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Intel-and-Nokias-Secret-Mobile-Device-Plans-700833/?kc=rss - Intel and Nokias announcement this week of a long term technology partnership around mobile devices of the future was long on vision and short on the product details that everyone wanted to hear. Intel and Nokia offered nothing in the form of product direction or timelines beyond a general stat...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Channel/Intel-and-Nokias-Secret-Mobile-Device-Plans-700833/?kc=rss