CIO Insight Staff

With cloud adoption accelerating rapidly, research performed by MarketBridge, a provider of technology-enabled marketing and sales managed services and solutions, showed that marketing and sales are leading business applications while security is becoming a cloud asset. The company released the preliminary findings of a December survey of 1,000 North American midmarket and small businesses and […]

Dell announced it would consolidate its Public and Large Enterprise business units into a single organization, and Paul Bell will serve as president of the combined Public-Large Enterprise business unit. Dell also announced Steve Schuckenbrock has been named president of Dell Services. Schuckenbrock succeeds Peter Altabef, who is leaving Dell after leading the integration of […]

Following the tablet frenzy of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, it’s fair to ponder the question of how tablets from RIM, HP, Cisco, as well as the slew of Android tablets, will fair among corporate employees. For example, while the RIM PlayBook may boast enhanced security, the Cisco Cius superior unified communications integration and the […]

Oracle has ended MySQL support for a number of operating system versions that have reached end-of-life or were in low demand. In an announcement, Oracle notified users of the end of support for all MySQL binaries for Microsoft Windows 2000 as of Jan. 6. In addition, as of Jan. 1, Oracle has stopped building MySQL […]

SAP announced today it will acquire a chunk of SECUDE’s security business in order to bolster its identity management capabilities. The deal, made for an undisclosed sum, brings the security software, identity and access management softwareand other related assets of SECUDE into the SAP portfolio. In particular, the deal is focused on SECUDE’s Secure Login […]

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless and Apple Jan. 11 said they will launch a CDMA version of Apple’s iPhone 4, confirming what the mobile tech world has been speculating about since AT&T launched the iPhone in 2007. The multiyear deal is non-exclusive. Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead said at a launch event here that existing […]

New research from MarkMonitor revealed just how much traffic Websites selling counterfeit and pirated content can generate. In a study, MarkMonitor searched the Web for sites believed to be offering counterfeit and pirated digital content tied to 22 well-known brands. The results were narrowed down to include 43 unique sites tied to digital piracy and […]

Global IT spending is expected to grow overall in 2011, according to two different analyst reports. However, both Gartner and Forrester analysts said spending in the PC segment will be impacted the increasing popularity of tablets and smartphones. Global IT spending will grow 7.1 percent to $1.7 trillion in 2011, market research firm Forrester Research […]

U.S. employment numbers released Jan. 7 by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Statistics revealed a net gain of 9,600 in IT-related jobs in December, representing the seventh straight month of positive job growth in IT labor segments in federal employment data. Five bellwether IT job segments in the BLS data showed a net gain […]

Research In Motion hopes its upcoming PlayBook tablet can carve a place for itself in the burgeoning tablet market. It certainly faces some tough competition in that quest, from not only the Apple iPad but also from a growing number of Android-based devices. But RIM’s 7-inch tablet possesses some distinct advantages, at least based on […]

Verizon is circulating invitations to a Jan. 11 event in New York City, sparking rampant speculation that the carrier intends to announce that it will carry Apple’s iPhone. According to the bright red invite, the event will take place at 11 a.m. EST at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center, with Verizon President and […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out new members to its Catalyst Ethernet switch family designed for situations where space, wiring or power are concerns. The Catalyst 3560-C and 2960-C Compact Series are intended to bring high-performance networking capabilities out of the wiring closet and closer to where users needs them, including such areas as retail environments […]