CIO Insight Staff

Hewlett-Packard on May 10 took the next step in its quest to become a public cloud services platform provider by moving to beta with its first group of services. HP’s first publicly available beta services–HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network–are now being offered through a standard pay-by-the-drink model. […]

The FBI issued an advisory this week alerting international travelers about attempts to infect their computers with malware when they log on to hotel networks. In an intelligence note from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the agency warned that attackers have been targeting travelers abroad when they use the Internet connection in their […]

EMC, in a not-very-well-kept "secret" for the last few weeks, announced May 10 that it is acquiring startup XtremIO, a flash-based storage maker that hasn’t even issued its products for general availability yet. As is customary for its smaller acquisitions, EMC did not reveal the transaction terms. However, industry analysts contacted by eWEEK–who have predicted […]

NEW ORLEANS — Though a relatively nascent market at two years old, tablets already are having a significant impact in the wireless space, from the amount of traffic their driving across carrier networks to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend that is putting pressure of corporate IT staffs. No tablets have been more dominant than Apple’s wildly […]

Virtualization desktop software and hardware maker NComputing, which established its reputation in the overseas education sector, is making a play for enterprise business, thanks to a new partnership with more well-known VDI specialist Citrix. NComputing announced May 9 that its portfolio of high-performance thin clients built for Citrix now can provide high-definition corporate desktops for […]

Hewlett-Packard has said for months that it’ll be a staunch supporter of Ultrabooks. And the company delivered the proof on May 9 when it unveiled a wave of new enterprise-focused Ultrabooks. Led by the EliteBook Folio 9470m, HP’s new line of business Ultrabooks could very well play an integral role in the success or failure […]

T-Mobile and MetroPCS, the nation’s fourth- and fifth-largest carriers, respectively, are discussing a merger, Bloomberg reported May 10, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could entail an outright sale of T-Mobile or a stock swap that would give T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom control over the combined carriers. The news follows T-Mobile’s May […]

It’s always helpful to get along with your boss, particularly in the world of IT departments, but many of those relationships need work, a survey by Web-based IT employment specialist Dice indicates. The company found when it comes to developing talent, IT managers are falling short of the mark, however: The survey found a majority […]

Terminator fans rejoice: The machines are winning, and Judgment Day draws nigh. Maybe not quite yet, but Nevada took the nation one step closer to a future without the need of direct human control by approving Google’s license to test a driverless Toyota Prius on its roads. It is the first such license issued in […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to make the network faster, more flexible. At the Interop 2012 show in Las Vegas, HP officials unveiled solutions designed to significantly speed up the time it takes to deploy cloud applications across both wired and wireless networks, a move that is particularly important in an era when employees are using their […]

Not a fan of Big Government? Well this will shock you: Government agencies will add a petabyte–that’s equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1,024 terabytes over the next two years, according to a MeriTalk survey of 151 Federal government CIOs and IT managers. To put that in perspective, one petabyte of data is equal to […]

Although studies show health care technology does help patient care, when tech tools lead doctors astray, patients can suffer. For a March 6 report called "Healthcare IT Tipping Point Report," CDW Healthcare found that 84 percent of caregivers believe health care IT improves patient care. Doctors assume that if they’re using electronic health records (EHRs), […]