CIO Insight Staff

McAfee is launching a new security platform designed to protect content and data traffic as businesses and IT departments move from physical to cloud computing infrastructures. These new security tools also come as the IT industry is digesting how secure the cloud after two notable failures at Sony and Amazon. The McAfee Cloud Security Platform […]

Hewlett-Packard is continuing to press Cisco Systems in the data center networking space, rolling out a new architecture that officials said is designed to enable businesses to leverage the benefits of such technologies as virtualization and cloud computing while avoiding being locked in to a single vendor. HP’s FlexNetwork, announced May 9, is aimed at […]

U.S. employment numbers released last week from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a net gain of 17,800 IT-related jobs in April, representing the 11th consecutive month of positive job growth across four primary IT labor segments in federal employment data. But in a continuing pattern that suggests a significant shift to […]

A bill introduced in the Senate May 9 would give American consumers the right to shop online, voice dissenting opinions and visit racy Websites without leaving a digital trail. In short, they would be able to opt out of having their online activities tracked, both on a PC and a mobile browser. “Recent reports of […]

Should Microsoft make good on its intentions to acquire voice over IP provider Skype for $8.5 billion, it will surely boost the company’s competitive stakes with both Google and Apple. Under the terms of the agreement, Skype will become a business division within Microsoft, headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates. Skype’s services will be meshed […]

Apple and Google officials will be part of the first congressional hearing to result from the news that some Apple iPhone and Google Android-running smartphone are collecting extensive location data. Hosted by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., the hearing will also be the first of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, and will […]

The number of applications for the once-coveted H-1B visa, which allow foreign nationals to work in the United States, has dropped significantly this year as the pace of the country’s economic recovery has stagnated, the Wall Street Journal reported. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told the paper that 8,000 H-1B petitions were received from businesses […]

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a new series of laptops that seem tailor-made for the “post PC” era, with ultra-portable designs and access to a prepaid 3G mobile broadband service. The unveiling dovetails with rumors of HP’s plans to offer a larger set of cloud services, courtesy of a note accidentally posted (and later retracted) on the […]

Dell is rolling out a host of server, networking and storage offerings designed to give businesses more tools as they look to increase their virtualization capabilities. Key among the new products is the PowerEdge M915, which is powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron 6100 Series processors, which offer up to 12 cores. The core count […]

A new study points toward significant growth in the storage industry and outlines the key market factors and main players driving that growth. The study, released by TheInfoPro, a division of analyst and data company The 451 Group, is completed biannually and is based on hourlong interviews with storage professionals and primary decision-makers at large […]

Sony failed to use firewalls to protect its networks and was using obsolete Web applications, which made the company’s sites inviting targets for hackers, a Purdue University professor testified May 4 to a Congressional committee investigating the massive data breach of the Sony game and entertainment networks. Sony disclosed on April 26 that thieves had […]