CIO Insight Staff

Dell — which wants to get improve its ability to serve high-end storage customers — was busy revisiting its options Aug. 30 in its stunning bidding war with Hewlett-Packard over utility storage maker 3PAR. HP on Aug. 27 increased its offer to just under $2 billion, and 3PAR’s board later that evening accepted it. Thus […]

To say that modestly profitable utility storage maker 3PAR is a company in the right place at the right time would be a massive understatement. The Dell versus Hewlett-Packard bidding war for the smallish Fremont, Calif.-based enterprise storage company took two huge steps only minutes apart Aug. 27 when 3PAR, by far the hottest property […]

Security firm Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory PandaLabs has discovered that in 2010, 25 percent of new worms have been specifically designed to spread through USB storage devices connected to computers. These threats can copy themselves to any device capable of storing information such as cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, flash memories and MP3 players. […]

Google unveiled a new VoIP service on Wednesday that integrates directly into Gmail. The feature is quite simple and allows users to place free calls to phones in the United States and Canada. For now, few folks have been able to fully test out the service, so there’s no telling if there are any bugs […]

Microsoft may promote Windows 7 as an essential element of the next-generation office, but a new research note from Gartner suggests that upgrading from Windows XP and Windows 2000 could create a burden on companies’ IT budgets. Gartner estimates the costs of an accelerated migration in an office of 10,000 PCs where all units will […]

Three days after rival Hewlett-Packard tendered a $24-per-share, $1.5 billion offer to acquire the enterprise storage maker 3PAR, Dell on Aug. 26 raised the stakes by about $100 million, upping its offer to $1.6 billion, or $24.30 a share. About five hours later, HP shot back, increasing its bid by nearly $300 million to $1.8 […]

Hewlett-Packard announced Aug. 26 that it has acquired database and data center automation vendor Stratavia. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, HP said the acquisition will strengthen its Software and Solutions portfolio by adding deployment, configuration and management tools for enterprise middleware, databases and packaged applications. In particular, the deal will enhance […]

In an article for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III writes that in 2008, a flash drive believed to have been infected by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded malicious code onto a network run by the military’s Central Command. “That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted […]

HP has signed a $135 million contract to provide technology services to the Alabama Medicaid Agency, which is seeking to cut costs and comply with new federal regulations. The contract allows the state to keep costs low while meeting new HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations, improving health care delivery, and increasing access […]

The Dell Aero is now available on the AT&T network, Dell announced Aug. 24. The smartphone, which Dell calls its first in the United States, runs version 1.6 of Google’s Android mobile operating system, also known as “Donut.” It is priced at $100 with a two-year AT&T contract, or $300, via the Dell Website without […]

According to a new report from the Yankee Group, enterprise adoption of infrastructure as a service is growing rapidly. The Yankee Group report entitled “Is IAAS Moving Beyond Just Cloud Fluff?” shows that 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IAAS, and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IAAS during […]

HP is planning tablet options in 2011 that run on its own Palm WebOS as well as Windows. BlackBerry parent Research in Motion is also rumored to have a tablet on the horizon, while a tablet running the Google Android OS is also in the works. The good news is that there will be a […]