CIO Insight Staff

With operations disrupted at more than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories, damage to the HDD industry is significant, due to widespread flooding across Thailand. According to a report from IT analytics firm IDC, this will have a direct impact on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012. The report said the […]

NEW YORK — Dell has announced it will donate its cloud-computing architecture to speed up the search for successful pediatric cancer treatments, the company announced at a press conference here on Nov. 10. The project is part of Dell’s “Powering the Possible” initiative, which commits millions of dollars over many years to supporting pediatric treatment […]

NEW YORK– Organizations planning to use Hadoop to aggregate and analyze data from multiple sources need to consider potential security issues beforehand, according to IT professionals at the Hadoop World conference here. Hadoop makes it easier for organizations to get a handle on the large volumes of data being generated each day, but can also […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nov. 9 said it is giving up the ghost on its Gmail App for Blackberry to focus on improving Gmail in the mobile Web browser. Google launched Gmail for Blackberry as a native application users install on their Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) Blackberry smartphones. As of November 22, the company will cease supporting […]

Cisco Systems has spent much of the past year undergoing a gut-wrenching reorganization that has included shedding business units and more than 8,000 jobs in an effort to streamline the company after several quarters of difficult financial results. In announcing the networking giant’s fiscal year 2012 first-quarter financial numbers Nov. 9, Cisco CEO John Chambers […]

NEW YORK–Big Data is getting paid. That is a key message coming out of the Hadoop World conference here. On Nov. 7 Cloudera announced the receipt of a $40 million round of venture capital funding, and the very next day at Hadoop World, Accel Partners announced a $100 million fund to invest in Big Data […]

Adobe Systems announced a company restructuring that will result in the loss of about 750 jobs, primarily in North America and Europe. On Nov. 8, the San Jose, Calif., maker of content authoring solutions that enable customers to create, distribute and monetize digital content provided a business update for its fourth-quarter fiscal year 2011, ending […]

Computer maker Asus is rolling out a tablet powered by Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip. Asus’ 10.1-inch Eee Pad Transformer Prime, announced Nov. 9, is an ultra-thin device, coming in at 0.33 inches thick, and lightweight, at 1.29 pounds. It features a metallic swirl design with enhancements including the company s SonicMaster audio technology, an HD 8 mega-pixel rear auto-focus camera […]

Rackspace launched a kit that will make it possible for organizations to launch private clouds based on OpenStack and still receive support from the company. The Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a package that businesses can use to set up an OpenStack-based private cloud outside of the Rackspace environment, the hosting provider said Nov. 7. […]

Amid fears of a double-dip recession, rising unemployment, and continued economic turbulence, a survey of IT professionals conducted by Modis, a provider of IT staffing solutions, paints a brighter picture of the current career outlook for the field. According to the survey, 89 percent of IT professionals are happy at their current jobs and 64 […]

Fujitsu, leveraging the supercomputing expertise it s developed through building systems like the powerful K Computer, is now looking to sell such massive computing systems commercially. Fujitsu officials on Nov. 7 unveiled the PrimeHPC FX10 supercomputer, which they said is capable of scaling up to 23.3 petaflops (or quadrillion floating point operations per second) and […]

Attackers are increasingly hitting networks and applications while organizations are struggling to mitigate the effects of the attack using traditional defenses, according to the latest survey from F5 Networks. About a third of the respondents of the survey of senior IT managers in 1,000 organizations around the world said that traditional defenses were not able […]