CIO Insight Staff

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued some guidelines suggesting that companies should report cyber-incidents that may affect the bottom line. The SEC’s Corporate Finance Division issued the guidance on Oct. 12, explaining how organizations should report any cyber-incidents that could have an adverse effect on their finances or operations. Under current SEC guidelines, companies have […]

Research In Motion has decided that a few free apps will ease customer pain over widespread BlackBerry outages last week. RIM claimed in an Oct. 17 statement that the apps would be available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World. The 12 apps listed so far include games such as Sims 3 and N.O.V.A., […]

IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government. At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to […]

Who says the future of IT is all in software? All software has to run on some sort of processor, physical or virtual, and all those have to run on something you can see and touch. And with the continuing deluge of data pouring into servers and storage arrays, there is no shortage of processors […]

Lenovo has already overtaken Dell as the world s second-largest PC vendor. Now the China-based company is taking aim at the top spot occupied by Hewlett-Packard. Gartner analysts said Oct. 12 that Lenovo in the third quarter grabbed 13.5 percent of PC shipments worldwide, leap-frogging over Dell to become No. 2 behind HP in the […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 13 soundly beat third-quarter earnings expectations, announcing $9.72 billion in sales, excluding traffic acquisition costs paid to ad partners of $2.21 billion. The earnings marked a 33 percent boost from Q3 2010. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had Google to report net revenue rising 32 percent to $7.21 billion from Q3 2010 […]

IBM, looking for just the right partner to supply its enterprise cloud storage service for the next few years, completed its legendarily exhaustive vetting process and announced Oct. 12 that it has selected Nirvanix for the job. Under the terms of the five-year OEM deal between IBM and San Diego-based Nirvanix, IBM will incorporate cloud […]

IBM announced a host of new cloud offerings as part of its IBM SmartCloud initiative, including a new Java platform as a service. Big Blue announced new cloud services and software to provide choice, security and portability for enterprises as they shift workloads to the cloud and use it as a platform for business. IBM […]

For the first time, computer maker Lenovo has surpassed technology giant Dell in worldwide PC shipments, leaping into the No. 2 spot behind Hewlett-Packard, according to the latest data from IT analytics firm Gartner. Total worldwide PC shipments rose to 91.8 million units in the third quarter, a 3.2 percent increase from the third quarter of […]

Networker Cisco Systems and virtualization provider Citrix on Oct. 12 co-launched a new enterprise virtual desktop system optimized for high-scale use of video and audio — two rich media functions that often have fouled up VDI test deployments with unacceptable latency in the past. This is the first VDI partnership between the two well-established IT […]

Research In Motion executives claim that BlackBerry services are fully restored after a global outage. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told media and analysts during an Oct. 13 conference call that the services had been restored early this morning, some four days after the first interruptions hit customers in Europe and various countries around the globe. […]

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