CIO Insight Staff

LAS VEGAS — EMC, the storage and data protection company that is quickly morphing into a cloud infrastructure provider, Feb. 14 launched an updated data center control package that enables better overall use of VMware’s popular vCenter server. EMC made the announcement at VMware’s global partner conference, which is being held at the Venetian Hotel […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is nothing if not loyal to its signature Droid smartphone, cranking out two iterations of the Android handset since July 2011. While the Droid 3 boasted a 1GHz dual-core processor and a fifth row of keys dedicated to numbers, Motorola has upped the ante for the new Droid 4, which Verizon Wireless […]

Will 2012 be the year of platform as a service? If you let the vendors tell it, 2011 was to be the year PaaS offerings began to coalesce and take off. And the major market research firms have been watching the space carefully, predicting consolidation and more and more investment in PaaS. While many people […]

Oracle’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) $1.9 billion acquisition bid for Taleo (NASDAQ:TLEO) Feb. 9 was a matter of if and not when and comes in the wake of SAP’s (NYSE:SAP) $3.4 billion for SuccessFactors and Salesforce.com’s (NYSE:CRM) acquisition of Rypple. Taleo offers a "talent management cloud," for human capital management (HCM) software, a jargon-laced way of saying the […]

Reliable user authentication in deployment of a cloud service is of utmost importance. Even though a cloud service to which you subscribe may have two-factor or higher levels of secure authentication, certain protocols must be observed and rules must be followed to enter each session. Frequent changing of passwords is required, and those passwords often […]

IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES will preview the future of silicon technology at the 2012 Common Platform Technology Forum to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on March 14. The companies are the founders of the Common Platform technology collaboration, which is the world’s largest chip-making consortium, IBM officials said. At the […]

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), introduced the vCloud Integration Manager, a platform designed to help service providers automate the delivery and operations of VMware vCloud Director -based clouds. vCloud Integration Manager is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2012 and will be priced on a usage-based subscription model […]

When it comes to distributed denial-of-service attacks, smaller attacks can cause just as much, if not more, damage than enormous ones, according to a recent study. DDoS attackers are focusing less on bandwidth and shifting toward application layer attacks, Radware said in its "2011 Global Application and Network Security Report," released Feb. 6. While some […]

Apple will unveil the iPad 3 at a high-profile March event in San Francisco, reported AllThingsD.  No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that s what it s called), noted the Feb. 9 report, which relied on the ever-popular unnamed sources. Those sources apparently confirmed that the next-generation tablet will […]

According to the latest IT jobs report from online recruiting and job posting service Dice, one aspect of marketing that tech consultants appear to value is certifications. Forty percent of tech consultants said obtaining a certification helped them land a new gig, which is about 10 percentage points higher than their colleagues working in traditional […]

A study by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association for the software and digital content industries found that a gap exists between attitudes towards social media and investment in social media. The report, "Marketing in Today’s Economy , the first SIIA publication to gather business-to-business sales and marketing tactics from industry […]

It might be called a case of extreme bring-your-own-device (BYOD) syndrome. A growing number of federal employees, including many in the defense or national security industries, are using their own smartphones, tablets and laptops for work, according to a new report by CDW Government (CDW-G). The "Federal Mobility Report" examines how government workers use mobile devices and the […]