Users of Google Android smartphones chomp more data than Apple’s iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 users, Arieso said in a new report. And it’s for applications, not voice calls. – Google Android smartphone users consume more data than users of Apple’s
iPhone 3G and iPhone 4, according to network management specialist Arieso.
Using the iPhone 3G as a benchmark, the company found
that Android handset owners notched higher data call volumes, time connected to
the network, an…
Prism Lite provides the ability to determine the health of the overall data protection environment. – Bocada, the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model,
announced the launch of Prism Lite, which provides the ability to determine the
overall health of data protection environments at organizations with less than
500 data protection clients in-house.
Prism Lite is availabl…
Open-source software is growing in popularity as government IT managers are selecting open-source stacks as part of their data center consolidation strategy. – As federal agencies consolidate data centers,
both government IT managers and service providers are increasingly
looking at open source software stacks to ease the transition,
according to the IDC Government Insights report released on Dec.
6.
Data Center consolidation also involves
quot;mi…
With 2010 drawing to a close, it’s time to take a look at the best printer options for small to medium-size businesses. Thanks to increased competition and a wider range of standard options on multifunction inkjet and laser printers, such as wireless connectivity, larger touch screens and green features designed to save businesses money on power and paper costs, midmarket companies have more choice than ever to find the printer best suited to their needs. In addition, many printers come equipped with advanced security features, including hard disk encryption; image overwrite to electronically "shred" data; fax isolation to prevent unauthorized access to data; and network authentication to restrict access to scan, e-mail and fax features. According to a recent IDC report, the third quarter of 2010 saw higher year-over-year growth for monochrome laser multifunction printers (MFPs) than color laser MFPs: 38 percent versus 21 percent, respectively. A growing market means growing selection for small and midsize businesses, so with that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the best printer deals on the market as the ink dries on 2010. – …
SGI is rolling out its Ice Cube Air modular data center, a solution designed to give enterprises a cost-efficient and eco-friendly way to exapnd the capacity of their facilities. – SGI is unveiling a modular data center offering that lets enterprises build capacity as needed and cool the IT environment using outside air or water from a hose rather than air conditioning units or chilled water.
SGI is showing off the Ice Cube Air on the floor of the Gartner Data Center Conferen…
Version 6.0 of the company’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform incorporates nlyte Analytics, a new set of integrated business intelligence capabilities. – nlyte Software — that’s correct,
no letters are capitalized in the first name — Dec. 6 announced that
it is including more extensive analytics in the newest version of its
data center performance monitoring and management package.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based nlyte launched v6.0 of its Data Cent…
The abbreviation of online analytical processing is a genre of software tools that provide analysis of a database for all the data that are stored in it.
A new case that is full of holes has surfaced for the iPhone 4 called the Vent Shell. All the holes let you see through the polycarbonate case and it looks like it could hold your earrings too. According to the latest survey from Nielsen that looked at the smartphone market, the iPhone and Android [...]
Android OS based devices are ruling the electronic world today. Android Smartphones are the only ones that can be said to have affected the growth of the mighty iPhone.
Required for compliance and defense, assembling a formal
data-retention plan is a key step in balancing legal, business, and cost considerations around data storage. The resulting document — and process for managing it — will act as a critical reference for managers and employees, and a dynamic guide in turning policy into efficient practice,
enterprise-wide.
– Video Content.
Data centers usually are sterile, windowless rooms with good air conditioning, false floors, limited foot traffic and lots of electrical outlets being used on a 24/7 basis. That description would suffice for most of the data centers in operation today. However, with vast improvements in bandwidth, storage capacity, networking hardware and software, server utilization and numerous other factors, the nature of these data centers is changing. Virtualization has been a major factor, as has storage deduplication, better processors and faster pipes. But how do you know if your own data center is getting antiquated, right under your nose? Well, we’ll tell you. Our source for this slideshow was Jeff Nessen, director of platform virtualization for Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services. Logicalis, based in the UK, has more than 6,500 customers and maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. – …
IT managers of 1,700 large enterprises also indicated that 56 percent of data on virtual systems is not even regularly backed up at least once per month. – Virtualizing servers and storage arrays is certainly among the biggest trends right now in the IT world. However, properly protecting all those virtual machines and the data they handle apparently is not among those trends.
Data storage and protection provider Symantec revealed Nov. 22 in its ann…
Purchasing software is a major issue as it is not only the cost of the purchase, but all considerations required making a good decision, theres the learning curve, the conversion process, and other costs that are hidden. Many of us have a tendency to compare what we think are apples and apples, when in reality they are not.
Share point server is one of the most important services which allow your employees to work together while engage in web application development and web site development. These services help your employee can also share relevant information and business data as well.
Of the 49 percent of businesses that systematically deploy some sort of policied data erasure, 75 percent do not delete data securely, Kroll Ontrack said. – When eWEEK comes out with its end-of-the-year data center/storage trends
story next month, one of those trends will be something called quot;data
retirement. quot;
Not data deletion or data reduction, data erasure, data destroying or anything
similar. Data and files can somehow reappear from …
Verizon will grant 2.3 million medical professionals free identity credentials for its health information exchange. – Verizon
Business has announced that it will issue medical identity credentials to 2.3
million U.S.
physicians, medical assistants and nurse practitioners for free beginning in
January to access the company’s health information exchange.
Under
the 2009 HITECH (Health Information Technology fo…
Thanks to virtualization options and improving application and middleware software, storage capacity, processor performance and cooling apparatuses, new data centers are inherently more efficient. – IT researcher Gartner reported Nov. 18 that most new data centers now being
planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300
percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do
it.
According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and anal…
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the Web 2.0 Summit here Nov. 17 that he would like to work with Facebook on additional data exchange. Facebook is frosty to the idea. – News Analysis: Twitter would still like to work with
Facebook despite the companies’ failure to agree to an equal exchange of data,
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 17.
The Web services share a lot of the same users, so
connecting them makes sense. At least, it makes sen…
New VRX-8 v4.0 said to bring "20 times more throughput [up to 1Gb/per second end-to-end]" than the best WAN appliance now available. – Silver Peak Systems, fast becoming a global player in the burgeoning
data center-class wide area network (WAN) optimization world, Nov. 16
announced a new, souped-up version of its VRX-8 virtual appliance for
data centers.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which went into the financial
…
