Monthly Archives: July 2012
Samsung SAFE Seeks to Jostle RIM From Enterprise Security Throne
Samsung SAFE (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) reverses the consumerization of IT trend by transforming the mobile device maker's smartphone handsets into devices that are...
Google: Patent Value From Motorola Purchase Totals $5.5 Billion
When Google announced in August 2011 that it was buying handset maker Motorola Mobility for more than $12 billion, many financial and IT analysts...
Google’s Partner Program Looks to Get More Businesses Into the Cloud
To help business clients discover all of Google's available cloud services, the search giant this week unveiled its new Google Cloud Platform Partner Program...
HP Security Expert: Exploit Kits More Sophisticated, Harder to Detect
Web exploit kits are getting more complex and harder to detect, and the cyber-criminals developing such toolkits as Blackhole and Phoenix are themselves becoming...
Amazon Web Services Use Yields 626% ROI, More: IDC
Long term, moving workloads to Amazon Web Services pays off big time for someto the tune of an average five-year return on investment of...
Mac OS X Mountain Lion Goes on Sale in Apple App Store
Apple has made the ninth release of its Mac OS X operating system, Mountain Lion, available for download from the Mac App Store as...
Symantec Barely Beats Wall Street Earnings Expectations
In addition to naming its board chairman, Steve Bennett, to replace Enrique Salem as CEO, data protection provider Symantec July 25 announced its fiscal...
Open-Source Startup Meteor Gets $11.2M from Andreessen Horowitz
Meteor Development Group (MDG), the company behind the Meteor open-source project, which produces a platform for building software applications, has announced $11.2 million in...
iPhone, iOS Rule the Enterprise, but Android Is Gaining: Good
Mobile devices based on Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone platforms are increasingly being supported by enterprises, but its Apples products that dominate, according...
What VMware’s Nicira Buy Signals to Enterprise IT
VMware is the server virtualization software king of the world and has been for several years. Could this young company--still a teenager, by the...