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Virtual server sprawl kills cost savings, experts warn

Virtual server sprawl can eliminate the cost savings so many IT shops covet when they embrace server virtualization.

Microsoft, EMC partner on data-loss prevention

Microsoft Thursday said it plans to integrate RSA data-loss prevention (DLP) technology into its products to enable security managers to monitor sensitive data and block...

Elastic IT resources transform data centers

The enterprise data center of the future will be a highly flexible and adaptable organism, responding quickly to changing needs.

IP contact centers pose significant challenges

IP contact centers are proliferating, but they still pose a set of potential gotchas that businesses need to beware of as they consider upgrading from the TDM world, experts...

Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware

Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users. 3

AT&T hopes for single smartphone OS

AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the next few years, a...

AT&T to cut 12,000 employees through 2009

AT&T will lay off 12,000 workers through 2009 as the company reorganizes and faces a tough economic environment, the company said Thursday. 2

Microsoft taps ex-Yahoo VP to run online services group

Microsoft on Thursday appointed Qi Lu, who was executive vice president in Yahoo's search and advertising technology group, as the president of its Online Services Group.

Microsoft trying to blow the roof off data-center design

Microsoft has seen the future of the data center, and oddly enough it's missing a roof.

Mobile phone market continues to weaken

Weakening economies are slowing sales of low- and high-end mobile phones.

Microsoft slates 8 bug updates for year's final Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products.

Gartner's Top 10 disruptive data-center technologies

A new computing fabric replacing today's blade servers and a "pod" approach to building data centers are two of the most disruptive technologies that will affect the...

New virtual Linux desktop bundle comes 'Microsoft-free'

IBM and Canonical Thursday announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of Ubuntu Linux that they say is far cheaper than... 1

Printing firm dumps MPLS service

Shortcomings of an MPLS service led printing firm Wise Business Forms to dump the network service in favor of an Internet-based VPN that delivers better speed at less cost... 7

'Tis the season for layoffs, firm reports

In the largest monthly layoff toll since January 2002, global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports 181,671 jobs were cut in November, a 61% increase... 1

IP contact centers pose significant challenges

IP contact centers are proliferating, but they still pose a set of potential gotchas that businesses need to beware of as they consider upgrading from the TDM world, experts...

Internet's bandwidth health still in trouble, report says

Nemertes Research continued to throw cold water on the future of the Internet this week, releasing a study projecting that demand for bandwidth on the Web will exceed its... 4

Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP

Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011,...

Citrix buys high-def video conferencing player

Citrix has bought Vapps, a provider of high-definition voice conferencing services geared for businesses and service providers. 2

Magic Johnson discusses video phones, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA

Magic Johnson's businesses rely on Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to communicate, cut costs on plane travel. 1

Microsoft/Nortel committed to marriage but future is cloudy

Nortel's rocking financial situation and announced layoffs this week of 1,300 people likely won't have much short-term impact on the company's four-year unified... 1

Message to VoiceCon: UC can help you through hard times

Users buying into idea that unified communications can cut costs, boost productivity

Microsoft touts economic upside of unified communications

Microsoft is pushing unified communications as a way to save money and increase revenues in hard economic times, according to a keynote at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008. 1

How to Make UC and Collaboration Work for You

Like many technology buzzwords, unified communications (UC) has had many meanings in its short life. It's now an umbrella term that covers an array of technologies—including...

IBM exec says bad economy could be good for unified communications

The economy is driving business changes that unified communications can help address -- which means that end users might finally start using the collaboration tools that have...

Avaya puts voicemail into written words

Avaya will let enterprise workers leave voicemail messages and combine them with e-mail, giving both callers and recipients new options for retrieving and saving their... 1

Cisco promises wireless, video extravaganza at new Yankee Stadium

It looks like baseball fans at Yankee Stadium will get to enjoy some of the high-tech features that Cisco envisions for its proposed Cisco Field baseball stadium in... 5

Unified communications products abound

Network convergence, as in unified communications across applications and between wired and wireless modes, again is a big theme at VoiceCon in San Francisco this week.

Avaya names Kevin Kennedy new CEO

Avaya has named a new president and CEO: Kevin Kennedy, currently the CEO of JDS Uniphase, makers of optical communications hardware.

Avaya CEO Giancarlo weighs in on application server, economic opportunities

Interim Avaya CEO Charles Giancarlo is winding down his tenure at the helm as the company narrows down a permanent replacement for former CEO Lou D'Ambrosio, who stepped down... 4

Start-up aims to reduce troubleshooting time

Former F5 Networks' architects launch start-up ExtraHop Networks and its Application Delivery Assurance Appliance that company founders say will speed mean time to repair and...

'Tis the season for layoffs, firm reports

In the largest monthly layoff toll since January 2002, global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports 181,671 jobs were cut in November, a 61% increase... 1

Wanted: workers seeking relationships with customers

In today's weak economy, companies tend to think of IT mainly as an engine for cost reduction and increased efficiency. But in many industries, including the pharmaceutical...

Recession a time for CIOs to prove management skills

Research carried out by Macehiter Ward-Dutton (MWD) and CIO.co.uk published Tuesday reveals that CIOs are not expecting their budgets to be drastically cut by the current...

Economic downturn will affect IT sourcing options

The economic downturn now affecting the U.K. is unlikely to have a major impact on overall IT spending by enterprises, but CIOs are exploring a broader range of IT sourcing...

Napolitano may find support for raising H-1B cap at hearing

President-elect Barack Obama's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will face a nomination hearing before a Senate committee whose chairman, Sen. Joseph... 1

10 Microsoft research projects

In a recent two-day visit to Microsoft corporate headquarters, writer John Brandon met with several researchers working on new projects. A few of these projects have already...

Experts: Weak economy to grow managed network services

Managed network services are expected to continue to grow at a healthy pace, even as the economy tanks, according to an analyst and industry sources.

Citigroup's 52,000 layoffs will impact IT

Given Citigroup's stated plans, a massive headcount reduction announced today is sure to include a fair share of IT jobs.

Add a staffing firm to your job search arsenal

Today's turbulent economy has made job search efforts more challenging -- and nerve-racking -- for those in IT. 2

5 tech companies that could use a bailout

While tech companies may not have the same level of clout among Washington policy makers as AIG or General Motors, many of the industry's biggest players have hit hard times... 13

NetWitness to offer network-traffic analyzer as freeware

NetWitness Corp. Monday said it's offering its network-traffic analysis tool under a freeware license to end users.

MIT's JoAnne Yates on information overload

MIT Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates is co-author of an upcoming article on information overload called "Ubiquitous E-mail: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of...

You really can do more with less

With the global economy lurching toward recession , everyone is being asked to do more with less, and cutbacks and layoffs are weighing heavily on people's minds. But cutting...

How to Choose the Right IT Outsourcing Provider

So, you have decided to outsource. The journey to that decision was no doubt a difficult one, but now comes the hardest part: the road to selecting an outsourcing partner.... 1

Network Solutions phishing came before Web attack

A late October phishing campaign may have given online criminals the information they needed to seize control of payment processor CheckFree's Internet domain this week.

Adobe admits new PDF password protection is weaker

Adobe made a critical change to the algorithm used to password-protect PDF documents in Acrobat 9, making it much easier to recover a password and raising concern over the...

Microsoft slates 8 bug updates for year's final Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products.

FBI says copper thefts threaten U.S. infrastructure

The theft of copper wire has become so pervasive that it poses a threat to the national infrastructure, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Wednesday.

Criminals take control of CheckFree Web site

Online criminals took control of the Domain Name System (DNS) record for payment processor CheckFree and briefly redirected the site's visitors to a their own server.

Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware

Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users. 3

Intel, Google asked to help revise EU data protection laws

The European Commission has set up an advisory panel including executives from Google and Intel to help it revise European Union laws on data protection.

Microsoft, EMC partner on data-loss prevention

Microsoft Thursday said it plans to integrate RSA data-loss prevention (DLP) technology into its products to enable security managers to monitor sensitive data and block...

Firefox Add-On Alerts Amazon Shoppers to Illegal Content

Nothing says thoughtlessness like the gift of pirated digital material, but more people may be receiving this type of illegal content this holiday season. A new Firefox...

Mass. 201 CMR 17: The Darkness and the Light

Debate is under way in Massachusetts regarding a tough new data protection law designed to prevent security breaches and identity theft. Specifically, discussion is centered...

What's Your Risk Appetite?

The whole concept of risk appetite is an understanding of an organization's desire to take on risk when weighed with potential reward. For most companies, this stays at an...

Mozilla to pull anti-phishing feature from Firefox 2.0