As your company grows and technologies proliferate, keeping track of it all becomes a significant challenge. Ultimately, you're responsible for maintaining every end-user, network, and data center device, plus the software that keeps the business up and running every day. Learn about the best ways to trim IT overhead and maximize resources, automate routine tasks, solve problems proactively, and better align your business strategy with IT by reading and commenting on the stories here.

Posted on 07-02-10
Hard drive and storage device maker Seagate Technology announced this week that has made available the industry's first 3TB desktop storage device, a new version of its popular FreeAgent GoFlex.

Posted on 07-02-10
Dell, competing nose-to-nose in IT infrastructure with Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, will integrate Scalent's V/OE, or Virtual Operating Environment, into its Advanced Infrastructure Manager control software.

Posted on 07-01-10
NEC Corp. of America is offering native VMware vSphere support on its fault-tolerant servers. This will give uptime assurance to virtualized environments running on the high-availability systems.

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 06-30-10
Cisco is fleshing out its Data Center 3.0 strategy, which includes advances in energy management, data center virtualization, cloud computing, and collaboration.

Posted on 06-30-10
At the Hadoop Summit, Yahoo announces two key enhancements to the beta-level cloud computing platform: Hadoop with Security, and Oozie, a new workflow engine.

Posted on 06-29-10
Symform, a company specializing in the backup and disaster recovery segment for small to medium-size businesses, announced the availability of version 2.0 of the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud. The new version introduces laptop backup support and expanded functions.

Posted on 06-29-10
Oracle this week revealed an upgraded version of its Sun Fire x86 systems data center stack that includes a series of new Intel-powered blade servers, five new rack mount servers, and a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet cluster networking module.

Posted on 06-28-10
The New York Times reports on government efforts to expand the availability of broadband services. The efforts could result in improved (and higher performance) connectivity for telecommuters and workers in remote offices.

Posted on 06-28-10
Talk about going mainstream. Intel is taking its solid-state drives (SSDs) to retail chain Best Buy and BestBuy.com. The drives are being touted for their performance improving capabilities and are being marketed to those buying new PCs as well as those looking to upgrade their existing computers.

Posted on 06-28-10
Data loss prevention technologies can be costly and challenging to deploy--especially without proper planning upfront. Here are some things to think about before you spend money.

Posted on 06-25-10
An Accenture survey on open-source software in the enterprise finds that use of the software is at an inflection point. More than two-thirds of organizations anticipate increasing their investment in it this year, and almost 40 percent said that they expect to migrate mission-critical software to open source within the next 12 months.

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
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 06-25-10
Paragon Software's latest virtualization software solution gives cost-conscious businesses the ability to continue using an old PC's applications on a new computer within a virtual environment.

Posted on 06-25-10
Tripp Lite's five hot-swap power distribution units (PDU) allow businesses to remove standard plug-in UPS systems for maintenance or replacement without interrupting power to the connected load.

Posted on 06-24-10
In Firefox 3.6.4, Mozilla has included protections to keep crashes caused by third-party plug-ins from disrupting the user's browsing experience.

Posted on 06-24-10
Microsoft has delivered a new preview version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9), the next major release of the company's dominant Web browser featuring support for the HTML Canvas tag and more.

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.