CIO Insight Staff

IBM is rolling out a host of preconfigured systems that offer the tech giant s analytics software on mainframe and Power-based servers. The new Smart Analytics System servers are among a wide-ranging release of products–including storage offerings–that are aimed at helping businesses make better use of the massive amounts of data they re collecting, according […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S comes with a digital assistant named Siri, who responds to voice commands and can perform a variety of tasks ranging from scheduling appointments to sending texts. According to one security analyst, however, Siri also comes with a significant–but easy to fix–security loophole. “I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to make the case for Bing and Windows Phone, two company platforms struggling to carve out some market share against Google. In the case of Bing, Ballmer painted the search engine s progress over the past few years in a […]

Virtualization software maker VMware revealed Oct. 19 that it has partnered with telcom Verizon Wireless to develop Android-based, 3G- and 4G-LTE-network smartphones with split personalities: one for business and one for personal use. Mixing business and personal use on any type of IT device has always posed its own set of difficulties, especially when enterprise […]

Motorola Mobility Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha took to a stage in New York City on Oct. 18 to introduce the Droid Razr, arguing that it will serve equally well as a consumer and enterprise device. “We believe enterprise is important because it is becoming consumerized,” he told the audience. “They’re not being driven by […]

According to a research report from analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), more than 30 percent of Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry users in large enterprises (those with more than 10,000 employees) expect to migrate to a different platform within the next year. The report noted this represents a "significant reduction from the platform’s current […]

Symantec researchers have discovered a new worm in the wild that has the potential to attack and cripple industrial control systems, much like Stuxnet did. The new worm, dubbed Duqu, shares a lot of the code with Stuxnet, leading Symantec researchers to believe it was either created by the same team or by another group […]

The “hacktivist” collective Anonymous is capable of crippling critical infrastructure, but the odds of developing a Stuxnet-style attack on industrial Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems were slim, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin. The four-page report from the department’s National Cyber-Security and Communications Integration Center was posted on the Public Intelligence […]

Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research from IT analytics firm Gartner. While enterprise IT spending growth is slowing (from the expected 5.9 percent increase in 2011), analysts said it’s important to note that despite the global […]

IBM saw its third-quarter revenue rise 8 percent to $26.2 billion, largely based on the company’s performance in growth markets, software and services. Moreover, IBM reported that net income in this interval grew 7 percent to $3.8 billion from $3.6 billion. "In the third quarter, we drove revenue growth, margin expansion and increased earnings as […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Silk browser, which provides the window to the Web on the company’s forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet, is facing some Congressional scrutiny regarding the way it collects users’ Web surfing data. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Sept. 28 introduced Silk as one of the empowering features of the 7-inch, Android-based Kindle Fire tablet, which is […]

Apple sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S units during its first weekend in release. That surpasses estimates by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who predicted in an Oct. 14 research note the company would sell between 2 million and 2.5 million units during that same period, including the 1 million preorders. Certainly, lines formed […]