CIO Insight Staff

The volume of malware continued to increase in April as online scammers and malware distributors took advantage of major events according to security experts. Fake antivirus software and poisoned image search links were particularly prevalent in April. There were over 73,000 new variants of malware released daily in April, a 26 percent increase over April […]

Operating-system issues have apparently affected a tiny subset of Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablets, according to online reports. “Approximately 900 units of the BlackBerry PlayBook have been determined to be faulty,” reads an internal memo circulating among Staples stores, posted May 14 by Engadget. “The vendor has provided the serial numbers so that we can […]

Data center managers and CTOs already know that system downtime can be very expensive for an enterprise, but it’s possible they may not know the real extent of that expense when servers, networking and storage suffer a major outage. New industry research from Emerson Network Power released this week at the Uptime Institute Symposium in […]

IBM has launched yet another effort to get its competitors’ customers to move over to IBM’s software and systems. In particular, IBM is targeting Oracle with new migration resources to help Oracle software customers switch to IBM software. The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proof of concepts to […]

Facebook rolled out three new security measures to try to prove that it cares about user privacy. The social networking site now features two-factor authentication to secure the login process, a secondary step to thwart clickjacking scams and a new surfing tool to rate the safety of links, Clement Genzmer, a Facebook security engineer, wrote […]

At a time when most tech companies are hiring workers, Cisco Systems is about to pare its workforce. And according to some analysts, those layoffs could be significant. During a May 11 conference call to discuss quarterly financial numbers, both Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and COO Gary Moore said job cuts were on […]

Facebook may have unintentionally leaked users’ personal information to third parties, a security firm discovered. The leak may be one of the most significant privacy missteps by the social-networking giant. Certain Facebook applications are leaking “access tokens” to third parties, such as advertisers, giving them access to personal-profile data such as chat logs and photographs, […]

Perhaps it was coincidence and perhaps not, but IBM just happened to come out this week with a major new Big Data storage product launch at exactly the same time as competing storage giant EMC is holding its big annual conference in Las Vegas, which is titled "Cloud Meets Big Data." Big Blue on May […]

Does Google’s Chromebook threaten Windows’ lock on enterprise computing? As revealed at Google I/O in San Francisco this week, Samsung and Acer will produce cloud-centric notebooks running the lightweight, Web-based Chrome OS. The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook will retail for $429 for the WiFi-only model, and $499 for a version with a 3G radio. Acer’s […]

The day after Microsoft announced it would acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, bloggers and pundits continued to dissect the deal’s ramifications for both the companies involved and the tech industry as a whole. Once the deal is closed, Skype will become a Microsoft division headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates, its services will be meshed […]

Cisco Systems officials over the past few months have built out the capabilities of their Borderless Networks initiative in such areas as mobility, security and management. Now the networking giant is looking to extend the reach of the strategy into branch offices. At Interop 2011 this week in Las Vegas, Cisco officials are showing off […]

Riverbed Technology’s expertise is in accelerating application performance within the enterprise. Akamai Technologies is known for its ability to optimize network performance across public clouds. Now the two companies are joining forces to optimize WAN traffic in hybrid cloud environments. Riverbed and Akamai officials announced May 10 their plans to create a joint application acceleration […]