In today's tough economic times, there is increased pressure to keep a step ahead of the competition. The key differentiator is often which company has the best business intelligence that allows smart decisions to be made in a timely manner. What's needed to support such a decision making process is improved collaboration and communications and a way to make better use of the business data available to an organization. To do this requires a wide range of solutions that enable managers and employees to share their work and more easily access and use information from a variety of data sources.

Posted on 07-01-10
Cisco Systems aims to prepare potential customers before they commit to building a cloud computing system. Cisco is providing a menu of cloud system components, including products of its own and from partners such as EMC, NetApp, VMware, Microsoft and BMC.

Posted on 07-01-10
Companies are overwhelmingly concerned about economic conditions in 2010. They're worried about acquisition, product launches, and employee retention.

Posted on 07-01-10
A QuickStart wizard and xTuple Desktop, a loadable package that is customizable and allows users to create their own favorite places in the application, are among the expanded features the company announced.

Posted on 07-01-10
National job vacancies for May and June have flip-flopped into flatness. May saw a decline, but June saw a slight increase. New York metro is the big gainer, but California is the biggest loser.

Posted on 06-30-10
Cisco Systems is looking to use its Cius tablet to give businesses a mobile platform for collaboration. Cisco showed off the Cius, with its 7-inch screen, at the Cisco Live event. The device won't be ready for general availability until the first quarter of 2011.

Posted on 06-30-10
Microsoft is already discussing Windows 8 internally, according to an alleged internal slide deck leaked online, with ideas bandied about that include a "Microsoft Store" for downloading apps, ultra-fast booting, a display that automatically adjusts to ambient light, and fuller cloud integration.

Posted on 06-30-10
HP and Avaya have announced a three-year partnership that will have HP selling and servicing Avaya UC solutions, including Avaya’s Aura platform.

Posted on 06-30-10
The powerful new cluster-type systems feature gateway deduplication, DTrace analytics, inline data compression, 4Gbit/sec and 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel protocol support, multiple storage pools, and new 1TB and 2TB SAS disk drives.

Posted on 06-30-10
Midmarket companies have their eyes fixed abroad as growth opportunities outside the U.S. offer a way out of the sluggish economic recovery, one survey finds.

Posted on 06-29-10
With the acquisition of SafeData, Data Storage augments its products and services to include data backup and recovery, digital archiving, virtual hosting and standby data recovery, e-discovery, e-mail archiving, and hosted Exchange for the IBM iSeries market.

Posted on 06-28-10
Analysis: Microsoft's top PR official, Frank Shaw, goes after the software giant's chief rivals in his blog.It's about time.

Posted on 06-25-10
Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, along with the recent release of Office 2010, is helping drive a tech refresh in the enterprise, says CEO Michael Dell.

Posted on 06-25-10
Marc Benioff, CEO of super cloud service provider Salesforce.com, put forth the idea that a Cloud 2 era is about to dawn -- never mind that Cloud 1 is still in the process of discovery by a fair number of old-school enterprise IT folks.

Posted on 06-25-10
At a meeting of financial analysts, CEO Michael Dell and other company executives reported that spending on commercial IT hardware, especially clients, is beginning to pick up, following the recession in 2009. In the coming year, Dell plans to focus more on its core commercial business, while expanding its IT services portfolio to compete with the likes of IBM and HP.

Posted on 06-25-10
Q&A: eWEEK attempts to dig into the negative outlook on IT staffing, operational budgets and capital spending for 2010 with research company Computer Economics. A new report shows a murky IT spending climate.

Posted on 06-24-10
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, introduced as "Mr. Cloud," was the most influential luminary on the Day 1 agenda of the GigaOm Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco.

Posted on 06-24-10
AMD is targeting its latest Opteron family of chips at cloud and hyperscale computing environments, where great demand is placed on performance, energy efficiency and low cost. AMD officials also said that the Opteron 4000 processors also meet similar demands they are hearing from SMBs.

Posted on 06-24-10
Budgets are not as robust as many analysts were expecting earlier in 2010, and technology workers are facing further job reductions and caution about IT spending.

Posted on 06-24-10
Salesforce.com wants to put Chatter, its new social collaboration platform, into the hands of every corporate user who needs to communicate and interact with customers, colleagues, and partners.