CIO Insight Staff

Samsung said it has sold 5 million Galaxy S II handsets in 85 days of availability in South Korea, Japan and some European countries, according to Yonhap News. That speedy clip comes after Samsung sold 3 million of the Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" devices in 55 days and 1 million in less than a month in […]

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) on July 27 refreshed its cloud computing infrastructure catalog with 11 updated products, including its application automation suite and its turnkey-type cloud management platform. "Enterprises now have a lot of choices in IT structures that include traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments," Jay Fry, CA’s vice president of marketing for cloud […]

The ongoing debt ceiling debate in Washington D.C. and the looming threat to the U.S. economy will negatively impact the global IT market at least over the next two years, according to a Forrester Research analyst. In a blog post July 28, Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels said the market research firm on July 26 was […]

Now that Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Mango” update has reached the release-to-manufacturing milestone, the company s hardware partners need to ensure the enhanced software can play nicely with their next-generation devices. The consequences of a bumpy rollout are potentially dire for Windows Phone, which is struggling for market share against determined competitors such as Google Android […]

Dell is releasing a cloud-computing solution that leverages the open-source OpenStack cloud software platform and its own PowerEdge servers. Dell’s new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering — called the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution and announced July 26 — is part of the vendor s effort to push the adoption of open-source technology for cloud […]

While cyber-attacks against U.S. computer networks are becoming more frequent and increasingly more sophisticated, the country is lagging in its efforts to beef up IT security, government officials testified in front of Congress. The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight held hearings on cyber-security and securing the nation’s critical infrastructure on July 26. The hearings […]

The director of the United States Computer Emergency Response Team resigned last week without any official explanation. Randy Vickers resigned July 22, effective immediately, according to an email to employees sent by Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary at Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications. Lee Rock, the deputy director, would step in […]

In this week’s installment of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop, we feature IT project activity at 7-Eleven, InterContinental Hotels Group, New York Life and several state goverments. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg and covers technology deployments, software implementations, and IT department changes across Fortune-ranked and […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are looking to help businesses enhance their unified communications environment, which will play an increasingly important role as more of their employees work mobile and remotely. HP is rolling out a host of new solutions and consulting services designed to give enterprises the tools to enable their workforces to better collaborate and to […]

The average large business sees 27 attacks per minute hitting its Website. Attackers can use automation technologies to generate up to seven attacks per second, or 25,000 attacks per hour. Security firm Imperva uncovered these figures after analyzing more than 10 million Web application attacks that targeted Websites belonging to 30 large businesses and government […]

Beleaguered BlackBerry smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion announced major layoffs as part of the company s cost optimization program. RIM plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce, to bring the company size down to 17,000. The company said the job cuts are part of an effort focused on eliminating redundancies […]

Less than a week after Apple released the new Mac OS X Lion, it released a software update to resolve certain issues introduced by an earlier update as well as three security updates. Mac OS X 10.6.8 resolved some issues that arose after Snow Leopard users applied the earlier update that was supposed to prepare […]