According to a Quest Software survey, improving business agility, delivering cost savings, meeting increasingly demanding user expectations and managing the growing mobile workforce will be the top drivers of IT spending on virtualization initiatives in 2012. More than half of the respondents surveyed revealed that at least 25 percent of their 2012 IT budgets will […] More

Zorlu Group has recently extended its contract with IBM to manage its IT infrastructure. The seven-year agreement, which follows a previous five-year contract between the two firms, calls on IBM to manage Zorlu’s server infrastructure, networks and manufacturing software. The agreement will also enable IBM to manage Zorlu’s IT services for its 50 companies across 50 […] More

Lockheed Martin has been working closely with member companies of their Cybersecurity Alliance, Federal News Radio reported in an interview with Curt Aubley, vice president and chief technology officer for Lockheed. The alliance, led by Lockheed, was formed in 2009 as a way to develop and introduce new technology to combat electronic hacking attempts. The […] More

No doubt, this week is turning out to be a week of cloud. SAPPHIRE NOW, a SAP sponsored conference taking place this week in Madrid, has housed multiple announcements, mostly about SAP and its multiplicity of partners and solutions.  Among the announcements was that of SAP and its company Sybase, Inc. bringing out their next […] More

Quest Software, Inc‘s VMware backup, replication and recovery software, vRanger, has been certified on HP StoreOnce Backup Systems to deliver back up and recovery solutions in VMware environments.  “The combination of vRanger and HP StoreOnce Backup Systems gives customers the tools they need to implement an end-to-end data protection strategy that ensures full protection of their growing VMware […] More

IBM’s  Manger of Cloud Computing Partners, Amy Anderson has been added to the list of Cloud Channel Summit’s keynote speakers. Anderson is to present on the opportunities for channel vendors to build their own cloud solutions. The summit will feature executives from Google Enterprise, Dell Boomi and Salesforce.com. The conference, taking place on Nov. 7 at the Computer […] More

At VMworld 2011 Europe, Symantec Corp. announced enhancements to Symantec FileStore N8300, the latest version of its clustered, network attached storage appliance. The solution is designed to help customers build virtual environments and cloud storage, manage large volumes of data and control the costs of associated storage. FileStore N8300 enables organizations to fully benefit from […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a five-year IT operations outsourcing agreement with Telenor Sweden, a major Sweden mobile operator. This follows a previous agreement from 2010 in which CSC assumed management of Telenor’s rating, billing, mediation and customer relationship management systems.  Per the new agreement, CSC will implement its on-premise private cloud solution, BizCloud, in order […] More

Enterprises are in need of simpler networking infrastructure to keep pace with the ever-changing industry and business environment, said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, Networking, HP. HP announced an offering of such solutions based on its HP FlexNetwork architecture offerings that bring simplified migration to new Internet Protocols, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking standard […] More

Kris Fitzgerald is the chief technology officer at Dell. In this role, Fitzgerald and his team developed Dell's cloud services strategy. This includes MSFT Azure, VMware vCloud and OpenSource/OpenStack cloud solutions for Dell's customers. Additionally, Fitzgerald developed Dell's cybersecurity services strategy. Prior to becoming the CTO, Fitzgerald led Dell’s public market consulting business. Fitzgerald previously […] More

FedTalks 2011 will bring all the great minds in government and business technology together for one day discussing how innovations can change the way government works. The event will take place on Oct. 11, 2011 at the Warner Theatre. Some of the speakers include:   Diane Bryant, VP, CIO, Intel, Ben Fried, CIO, Google, Sandy […] More

Emailvision Holdings, Ltd. has appointed Andre Boisvert and Michael T. Everett to its Board of Directors. Boisvert began his career with IBM in 1976 and held senior management positions in sales, marketing and research & development over the next 13 years. After leaving IBM, Boisvert took leadership positions at software companies including Cognos, Oracle, and […] More