CIO Insight Staff

Lockheed Martin has been battling a “major disruption” to its computer systems after its IT security team detected a network intrusion earlier this week, Reuters reported. The disruption began May 22 when the company detected an intrusion to the network, according to the May 26 Reuters story, which cited technology blogger Robert Cringley. Cringley claimed […]

A survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist Drobo’s […]

The health care industry overall has been slow to adopt a comprehensive cloud computing strategy, according to the new Cloud Computing Tracking Poll by IT services provider CDW. However, some health care organizations have taken small steps toward using cloud-based applications. For this survey, CDW interviewed 1,200 IT professionals in the health care, government and […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years […]

Network storage provider NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) exemplified the ever-increasing commercial interest in cloud computing data storage May 25 by reporting better-than-expected quarterly results. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $1.428 billion, up 22 percent and surpassing the $1.387 billion expected, according to a group of Thomson Reuters analysts. Net profit for the […]

Twitter May 25 confirmed it has acquired TweetDeck, which corrals the numerous, real-time Twitter feeds on the Web. The reported-but-unconfirmed purchase price was $40 million, which would make TweetDeck the company’s largest purchase to date. Twitter is a fine source for real-time information, but the amount of information generated by millions of tweets can be […]

Will Microsoft’s upcoming software update for its Windows Phones, code-named “Mango,” affect the company’s smartphone prospects? Certainly Mango represents a substantial revamp of Microsoft’s mobile platform, which is struggling for adoption in the face of competition from Google Android and Apple’s iPhone. In contrast to those platforms, which offer gridlike screens of individual apps, Windows […]

Technology giant Intel has launched the AppUp Small Business Service, an offering running on the company’s Hybrid Cloud platform that is designed to enable server manufacturers, software vendors and service providers to offer small businesses the advantages of cloud computing with applications and data running on their own premises. Intel’s AppUp Small Business Service represents […]

Hewlett-Packard and IBM remained No. 1 and 2 in server revenue during the first quarter, with revenue gains fueled in part by growing demand for high-end non-x86 systems, according to market research firm IDC. In figures released May 24, IDC analysts noted that while the x86 server market continued its steady revenue growth, non-industry-standard systems–including […]

A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their […]

For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing an aggressive “all in” cloud strategy. The reason behind it is simple: Although desktop-bound software such as Windows and Office continues to dump tons of cash at the company’s front door, a paradigm shift is underway–one that threatens to leave Microsoft behind as consumers and businesses […]

Amazon.com is aiming to release at least one tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system in time for the holiday 2011 season, said an industry analyst May 23. Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin, who spoke to sources in Tapiei where many computers are manufactured, said in a PC Magazine piece that the bookseller-turned-mobile-device maker […]