Monthly Archives: February 2010
CA Buys 3Tera, Builds on Its Cloud Capabilities
CA is continuing to build up its cloud computing capabilities with the Feb. 24 acquisition of 3Tera.CA officials are looking to roll 3Tera's capabilities...
IBM Takes Deduplication to System z Mainframes
One doesn't often hear the IT terms "mainframe" and "deduplication" used in the same context, or even the same sentence. But IBM is now...
New Dot Hill Arrays Combine iSCSI, 8Gb Fibre Channel
Dot Hill, which has weaned itself completely off its biggest longtime OEM deal with the former Sun Microsystems -- that still sounds sort of...
Star Tribune Hit With Malicious Online Ad
Minnesota's Star Tribune newspaper can add its name to the list of organizations to be hit by a malicious Web advertisement.The ad, which came...
Google, Bing Battle for Better Disambiguation, AI
Two fine articles on search engine technology landed in our laps to noodle over this week. One piece focuses on Google and the other...
UN Highlights Need to Address Mounting E-Waste
As electronics sales in China, India and large portions of Africa and Latin America are expected to rise dramatically over the next 10 years,...
Juniper Creates $50M Networking Venture Fund
Juniper Networks is establishing a $50 million venture capital initiative to further the company's efforts to create an ecosystem around its Junos networking software...
REVIEW: MonoDevelop 2.2 Looks Good on Windows
When I first reviewed MonoDevelop in June of 2009, I focused on the IDE running under Ubuntu Linux. At the time, some developers had...
Apple, Android Added to Strong Mobile Phone Finish in 2009
The worldwide mobile phone market finished 2009 strong, with sales to end users exceeding 340 million units in the fourth quarter, for a growth...
FTC Warns of Data Breaches from P2P File Sharing
"The Federal Trade Commission has notified almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, has been shared" from their...