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Intel Bolsters Budget SSD Trend With 40 GB Drive March 16, 2010 
Intel is stirring up the marketplace for digital storage with the introduction of a lower-cost, solid-state drive aimed at the value segment of netbooks and laptops. The Intel X25 Value SATA SSD has 40 GB of storage and is priced at $125, adding to the giant chip maker's storage line of 80 GB and 160 GB SSDs.
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Encryption: Why Stop With Laptops? March 16, 2010 
Over the past few years, it seems like there's one technology that almost everyone is deploying: laptop encryption. All over the industry, in nearly every vertical, it seems like everybody has either just deployed, is deploying, or is about to deploy some type of encryption technology to protect laptop data. When you think about it, it really isn't all that much of a surprise.
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Small Business CRM, Part 5: How to Save a Troubled Implementation March 16, 2010 
A successful CRM implementation starts with good preparation. It is a good idea to document the goals and objectives of the small business first and test the system with the users, Sheryl Kingstone, director of the enterprise research group at Yankee Group, told CRM Buyer. "Be proactive," she advised.
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Why Keeping the Bar Low May Be Good for Google March 15, 2010 
The Google model survived the dot-com mess but its success seems based largely on the belief that advertising can fund everything. If the users are unhappy, well it doesn't really matter. In fact, Google's customers (the folks paying them money) and the folks they actually serve are quiet different, causing me to question the viability of many of their non-search efforts.
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Cloudgazing: What Does the Rebound Have in Store for IT? March 14, 2010 
Let's hone in on some predictions for IT industry growth and impact, now that the recession appears to have bottomed out. We're going to ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond. To help us gaze into the IT trends crystal ball we are joined by our panel.
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Data Storage: It's Time to Grow Up March 13, 2010 
Today's data-storage customer has lost his voice in a sea of vendor jockeying and positioning. This glut of vendors creates a noisy industry and a crowded marketplace, where all vendors sound the same and marketing materials are nearly indistinguishable from vendor to vendor.
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The SaaSification of IT Management March 12, 2010 
IT professionals should embrace SaaS and cloud computing because they deliver tangible, measurable business benefits to organizations of all sizes. IT departments are relieved of many of the hassles associated with implementing and administering traditional, on-premise software and supporting the application end-users.
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Google Cuts Ribbon on Apps Marketplace March 10, 2010 
You've got apps for your phone. You'll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps. Google has launched its new Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps line of cloud-based productivity services. Initial participants include about 50 companies selling applications that hook into various Google services.
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The Shaky Dance of SOA and SaaS March 10, 2010 
We assembled a panel to examine service-oriented architecture and cloud computing -- the relationships, the inter-reliance and the realities. Three years ago, the IT transformation poster child was SOA, and now we're well into the hype curve around cloud computing, but has one actually given way to the other?
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New Cisco Router Boasts Breakneck Speeds March 09, 2010 
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a new Internet networking architecture that is designed with the huge growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services in mind. The Cisco CRS-3 provides more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, according to John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
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iPhone Gets Down to Business With Open Source BI App March 08, 2010 
Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday. Actuate, which founded the BIRT project and coleads it with the Eclipse Foundation, is putting its BIRT Mobile Viewer on the App Store.
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Thin Is In: The Enterprise Virtualization Inflection Point March 07, 2010 
The growing interest and value in PC desktop virtualization strategies and approaches has its roots in both technology and economics. Recently, a lot has happened technically that has matured the performance and economic benefits of desktop virtualization and the use of thin-client devices.
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Microsoft Puts All Its Eggs in Cloud Basket March 05, 2010 
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer extolled the benefits of cloud computing and spoke about the software giant's increasing commitment to it in a speech at the University of Washington on Thursday. Microsoft has clearly been moving toward the cloud over recent years. All of its products, including Windows, Office and Xbox, are in some way connected to it.
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Tricks of Your Trade: Little Things That Can Make CRM Better March 05, 2010 
There's an adage in the CRM industry that every successful CRM implementation is customized in some way. That may not be as much of an absolute as it once was. But, in order to gain a true competitive advantage from CRM, your business needs to find ways to use it differently than your competitors do.
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I See You: Video Collaboration in the Enterprise March 04, 2010 
Videoconferencing systems have existed since the 1960s and since then, these systems have slowly been integrated into the enterprise. The vision of videoconferencing has always been clear in theory, as depictions from "The Jetsons," "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and other science-fiction titles have shown.
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Software AG Brings Social Networking to BPM March 04, 2010 
Software AG has developed a vertical social networking and collaboration platform that for the BPM industry. Now in open beta, ARISalign is built on Amazon's Web Services and equipped with modeling capabilities, as well as virtual versions of tools typically used by process experts, said Matt Durham, VP of market development.
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