An explosion in digital content is driving the boom in online storage. Microsoft, the latest entrant in this space, has confirmed details of its forthcoming Live Drive service that will offer free online storage that can be accessed directly from PCs running the Vista operating system ...

The factory revenue in the worldwide server market in the second quarter has shown a slight improvement with 0.6 percent year over year to USD 12.3 billion with IBM maintaining its number 1 position. Sun Microsystems emerged as a significant gainer in the quarter replacing Dell from the third position...

The market for consumer digital media backup today is mostly dominated by low-cost solutions such as USB hard drives and CD, DVD writeable drives. But IT firm ABI Research sees a shift in the market towards the adoption of network...

A new digital market has emerged that both expands upon and threatens traditional market, finds a new study by information technology firm IDC. The study reveals that this marketplace, composed of gateways, nodes, and hubs, is growing rapidly due to a confluence of demand, technologies, customers, and changes in how people live their...

As organizations continue to digitize content in the current business environment, there is substantial need to emphasize the rights on its usage and establish control to avoid any loss of...

Competitors in the carrier-grade, blade-based server market for the telecom industry are gearing up for a major battle, according to IT research firm In-Stat. The contestants are industry leaders including Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Radisys, and...

As enterprises today have more access to information, the need for proper storage management is the prime concern for the enterprises. It is important that the large number of data stored in the server for a longer...

Virtualisation, which had its inception in the late 90’s, has proved itself in pilots and test, and is now readily adopted by IT professional. They are embracing server virtualisation as an effective business enabler. With its introduction the complex data center...

Sun Microsystems has introduced three computer servers -- the Sun Fire X4600 and Sun Fire X4500 servers and Sun Blade 8000, each powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron processors with Direct...

Targeting the small and mid-size (SMB) data storage market and in particular the Asia Pacific, EMC Corp., has introduced EMC Insignia line of hardware and software products for SMBs to store, manage, protect, and share business information. According to EMC, the products are designed to meet SMBs critical information...

Microsoft has finally given in to the pressure of government to allow interoperability between its MS Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). The company has announced an open source project dubbed Open XML Translator project that will create tools to build a technical bridge between the MS Office and OpenDocument...

Oracle has announced the integration of its Siebel Insurance application with Oracle Content Database, which the company claims would enable insurance company to streamline core insurance processes such as policy issuance. Oracle said the integration will bring about an automated content...

The electronic computer since its first invention in the 1940s has made significant advancement. Computer has made possible many things which were just imaginations half a century back. Computer makers worldwide strive to bring the best in terms of speed and compatibility. The Top500 Supercomputer project started in 1993...

IT virtualization continues to grow at significant growth rate and spending on it is expected to reach USD 15 billion by 2009 (according to IDC). To take advantage of this growth of virtualization and the high rate deployment of Oracle databases on its integrity servers Hewlett-Packard has announced an extension of its Virtual Server...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) no longer have to deal with paper contracts and now execute and manage contracts entirely online. This new application named Contracts OnLine is a web-hosted application developed by IBM Research and is designed to reduce the time it takes...

Microsoft Hardware and the Windows Live team have joined forces to introduce a line of LifeCams starting with the LifeCam VX-6000 and LifeCam VX-3000. Optimized for use with Windows Live Messenger, the first two available webcams, the Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 and Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000...

"After finally experiencing the law of diminishing returns on efficiency improvements, many companies are now placing innovation as a top priority. Innovation requires a different environment and a different culture; most companies will require an extreme makeover in order to be successful," asserts the Cutter Business Technology Council...

IBM has announced enhancements to its storage virtualisation engine software Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (SVC), designed to help organizations virtualize their infrastructures more efficiently and at lower costs over longer distances IBM SVC version 4.1 features Global Mirror functionality designed to provide...

VMware Infrastructure 3, the new version of VMware's infrastructure virtualization software suite is expected to enable systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware...