CIO Insight Staff

Verizon enhanced its cloud-based identity-management service with new ways for enterprises to authenticate users and manage user access. Verizon added support for more types of tokens and digital signing capabilities to its cloud-based Enterprise Identity Services to help businesses more securely authenticate corporate users, the company announced July 14. Verizon also expanded mobile support for […]

A foreign government was behind a March cyber-attack against military computers that led to 24,000 files being stolen from a defense contractor, the Department of Defense said. The intruders were after files related to missile tracking systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and the Joint Strike Fighter. The revelation came in a July 14 speech at the […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per […]

IT management software and solutions specialist CA Technologies announced the results of an independently conducted research survey on the state of IT automation. The survey of 460 IT decision-makers from medium and large enterprises found that more than 60 percent are disappointed in virtualization’s cost savings. Moreover, respondents said they believe that automation plays a […]

Spammers don’t need botnets to send masses of spam anymore, as they switch to using legitimate Web email accounts, according to the latest quarterly report on Internet threats. Spammers are increasingly relying on compromised Web mail accounts to push out their email messages, researchers found in Commtouch’s quarterly Internet Threat Trend Report released July 12. […]

Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 85.2 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 2.3 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by IT analytics firm Gartner, Inc. These results were below Gartner’s earlier projection for 6.7 percent growth. A similar report from IDC found worldwide PC shipments increased 2.6 […]

A year after rolling out its breakthrough zEnterprise mainframe system, IBM has announced a new “entry-level” mainframe server to extend mainframe qualities and capabilities to more organizations, especially companies and governments in emerging markets in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. In addition to the new mainframe, IBM also announced support for System x blades within the […]

Microsoft is using its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles to push the cloud as an ideal solution for businesses looking to boost their productivity and customer-relationship management. Announcements during the company s July 12 keynotes included the upcoming release of a System Center 2012 beta, which lets IT administrators manage machines and applications across […]

Research In Motion executives faced tough questions from investors during a July 12 annual meeting, with co-CEO Mike Lazaridis insisting that a new slate of BlackBerry devices would ultimately help the company triumph in a harsh competitive environment. "We’re going to come out ahead," he told the audience, according to Reuters. RIM is apparently readying […]

While Cisco Systems continues to innovate, it has become too complex and needs to become more streamlined and easier to work with, CEO John Chambers said in his opening keynote at the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas. As a result, Chambers acknowledged the company will undergo a restructuring, although he didn t disclose any […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened this year s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles with a rundown of his company s various operations, including its forays into cloud computing and mobility. Although offering a broad-based summation of current and future projects such as Kinect and Windows 8, he seemed reluctant to share many new details […]

More than 30 percent of enterprises worldwide are deploying at least one cloud solution, according to a new survey by Visiongain. The IT analytics and media specialist’s latest report, titled "Cloud: Moving into the Realm of an Essential IT Strategy," examines the fast-growing cloud services market and looks at the state of enterprise cloud market […]