Enterprise IT

Things are looking bleak for McAfee after the security software company sent a bad virus definition to its users Wednesday. The file was created to combat a new threat, but once it was distributed, it caused thousands of PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 3 worldwide to crash. Many felt McAfee did ...

"Networks without Borders" are rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception. The demand for all-access all the time, along with the rapid rise in remote and transient workers, has rendered network borders obsolete. Today's networks more closely resemble sieves than citadels. Gone are the days...

Once again, Microsoft and Google are locking horns in the office apps space, releasing their latest products within days of each other. Google unveiled a more feature-rich Google Docs on April 12, and Microsoft announced that Office 2010 had been released to manufacturing three days later. Their pro...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

A year ago, I suggested that the Software as a Service and cloud computing industry was entering a new stage in which vendors would begin putting greater emphasis on expanding their sales channels to broaden the addressable market for their solutions. Anyone following the SaaS/cloud computing indu...

Cloud computing and SaaS are on the rise in a big way, but for some companies, there's an issue that is starting to come up in a lot of conversations with their service providers: the geographical location of their data. While it may not seem a big deal to some, conflicts with national privacy laws ...

Companies have often focused on projects that save costs -- both operational and capital -- across a wide range of IT functions. The one area where companies have generally shied away from making any drastic changes has been in the area of data center buildout and operations. This area, in most case...

The discussion so far about the iPad -- a discussion that has officially engulfed the mainstream media and leaped the shark tank to include appearances on David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon's late-night shows -- has focused on the potential for joining media-hungry consumers as a third screen on their...

For many years, a clear line has separated the capabilities of servers based on Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture and "enterprise class" systems leveraging RISC, EPIC and mainframe technologies. People may argue over the length and width of that line, but the traditional reliability, availabil...

For the upcoming March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report, Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach, 163 organizations were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area wireless LANs. Certain vertical sectors had an especially strong representation a...

It's been a couple of years since AMD had to delay shipments of its buggy quad-core Barcelona server chip to manufacturers, costing the company market share, stock value and reputation. Now, the No. 2 chip vendor hopes to come roaring back with the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processors and a h...

One of the biggest questions facing companies today is what to make of cloud computing. Does it signal a major shift in how we approach IT -- and the business -- or is it just another ride on the hype wave that will disappear if we just wait it out? HP tackled this question this month with a series ...

Paying bills with a few computer clicks sounds like a great idea for consumers -- and it is. Online bill paying is increasingly popular with millions of consumers, and the potential for paperless payments is many times greater than it is today. The number of households that used an online payment se...