CIO Insight Staff

Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis, […]

Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years–which will be spread out around the […]

The LinkedIn for Android 1.0 mobile application is finished, allowing users to search and connect with more than 100 million members while on the go, the professional social-networking site said April 7. LinkedIn launched the beta for its Android application in December, culling plenty of feedback and bug reports for the highly anticipated application. Just […]

Software giant CA Technologies has acquired government IT consulting firm Base Technologies in a move to add consulting expertise to its virtualization, mainframe and cloud-computing offerings for government agencies and health care providers. A major player in virtualization and IT management, CA announced the agreement on April 6. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android, the first solution for developing Microsoft .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set. With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to […]

Of all the tablets challenging iPad for market share, the Motorola Xoom was supposed to be the Ali to Cupertino’s Frazier, striking a blow against Apple’s dominance with a powerful combination of high-end hardware and the tablet-optimized Google Android 3.0 (“Honeycomb”). But fresh analyst reports hint that the Xoom, hit with early criticism over its […]

IBM has jumped head first into the public cloud space with its new IBM SmartCloud enterprise-class, secure cloud offering that has been specifically created to meet the demands of businesses. IBM introduced its new SmartCloud offering at an April 7 event in San Francisco. In an interview with eWEEK, Ric Telford, IBM’s vice president of […]

Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers remains confident in the company’s strategy of expanding the role of the network in the modern technology environment. What’s ailing the $40 billion company is its execution, according to Chambers, and that is going to change. In a lengthy internal memo to employees that has since been posted […]

As email-marketing company Epsilon continues to deal with the fallout related to the revelation that some of its clients’ customer data has been exposed to a third-party, it becomes clear that this incident affects all service providers as organizations renew their focus on data security. In addition, this latest data breach calls into question how […]

It’s time for businesses to start using tablets, like the Apple iPad, according to Gartner analysts. Complementing laptops and smartphones more than replacing them, tablets offer opportunities for exploration, solutions for tricky deployments and a way of getting ahead of competitors, Gartner said in the April 5 report, which echoes the findings of a March […]

Intel is continuing its assault on Unix servers and mainframes with the release of its latest high-end Xeon processors, including chips that offer up to 10 cores. The latest missive came April 5, when Intel officials unveiled the Xeon E7 "Westmere EX" portfolio of chips, which they said offer 40 percent more performance than the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — To the surprise of virtually no one who works in or follows the enterprise IT world, a new survey reported that cloud-computing services and system building continue to become more prominent in both augmenting and replacing older data center equipment. In addition, the research indicated that the Storage Networking Industry Association’s […]