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White House Hands Tech Entrepreneur Cybersecurity Reins

"I've taken a look at his book; he's an interesting guy," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "He's been around the industry for a long time. He's on the Environmental Defense Fund board and also involved in some micro-lending stuff." It would be i...

Asus Eee PC to Get a Little Less Linuxy

"I think familiarity is a very powerful issue in a brand that's as well known and as established as Microsoft Windows," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider "Frankly, Ubuntu has made some really great strides in creating a Linux-based operating enviro...

EU OKs Google’s Supersize DoubleClick Deal

Of course, Google's acquisition of DoubleClick will narrow the industry -- that is the point of the transaction. "The tendency of every industry is for companies to accumulate as much market influence and competitive capabilities as they possibly can," Charles King, principal of Pund-IT told the E-Commerce Times...

The Never-Ending Struggle for Malware Containment

Nevertheless, there are more system-devouring beasts trying to get out of that closet all the time, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The threats are still out there and are going through quiet periods followed by threats in areas where people haven't expected them. To date, the big companies are doing a credible job, but at one level they're forced to constantly fight a rear-guard battle. They're very good at continuing to update and improve the response to previous problems they know about."

Intel Christens Atom Line of Mobile Processors

"The two areas that Intel is aiming at is the small mobile device, and that's an intriguing market. It's not one that has taken off to the degree that anyone has hoped, but there are some signs that it's picking up a bit," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. The smartphone market, he noted, has been expanding at a good rate...

SyncWizard Offers Free Cloud Space for Personal Data

"Security is a primary concern for any service that offers online file back-up, but it's hard to parse out whether SynchWizard uses any security measures or solutions beyond password protection," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Established onli...

IBM Promises Blazing Fast, Efficient Optical Net

The new technology does make a "quantum leap" over what's been possible before, asserted Charles King, a principal analyst with Pund-IT "There are twin benefits here," King told TechNewsWorld....

Finjan Unearths Hackers’ Stash of Pilfered Server Access Codes

"It sounds better organized than in the past," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The concept of hackers having access to essentially a treasure trove of server access data is pretty scary." It's likely too organized to be an individual hacker. "Th...

HP Grabbed Bigger Slice of the Server Pie in 2007

"It's interesting that HP and Dell both saw significant gains last year. Those two companies are largely dominant in the x86 Intel Xeon- and AMD-based server market. The x86 server market continues to really be a driving force in the server business overall. It continues to be the most rapidly growing part of the server market, especially from a unit-based standpoint," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...

EMC Expands Computing Cloud With Pi Buy

The deal is intriguing for at least two reasons. "EMC has been actively changing the discussion in the storage world away from data to a broader concept of information storage, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "They want to get away from talking about storage from the standpoint of bits and bytes that are tucked away into a broader discussion about how important information is for both individuals and businesses."

A Home Server of Our Own

"I think part of the problem with the market for home servers is, there's been a great deal of confusion at the vendor level about defining what a home server is going to be," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "There has been a lot of visionary pr...

Key Yahoo Shareholder Presses Microsoft to Up the Ante

Yahoo needs to decide what it really wants, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "What's particularly fascinating to me is that there seem to be two scenarios running side by side," King noted. "One is we've got Yang saying that 'little Yahoo' ...

Sun Gets Desktop Virtualization Chops With Innotek Buy

"The company's strategy to expand its own homegrown virtualization technologies is part of this larger plan to provide a sort of end-to-end computing product," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "The company is vocal in promoting the Solaris x86 as an alternative operating system, and Sun has been very active in promoting x86 on Innotek."

Dell Acquisition Keeps E-Mail Services Provider in Family

The acquisition represents a key move into IT services for Dell, said Charles King, a principal of Pund-IT "Now, Dell has fully mature offerings to online backup for e-mail, which I think is a service that will be particularly attractive to its enterprise customers," King tol...

Dell Takes Swipe at Energy Costs With New Blades

Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, echoed Haff's praise of the "snap-in" design, noting that it would be particularly useful for customers with rapidly changing and growing IT infrastructures "I find Dell's focus on simplicity to be particularly notable. Simplifying ...

White House Admits Recycling Tapes, Hedges on Missing E-Mail

"The only circumstance I can imagine where a tech pro might overwrite or recycle a back-up tape would be after the information had been certified as being archived permanently offsite by an organization like Iron Mountain," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

Intel Feels Fury of OLPC Scorned

Much of the current OLPC-related confusion and controversy is due to the quickly changing conditions in developing countries, said Charles King, senior analyst at Pund-IT "When One Laptop Per Child's efforts began several years ago, the sense at that time was they were aiming ...

IBM Snags a Storage Guru With XIV Acquisition

Yanai certainly is a star to those in the know, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "In the storage world, he's as good as it gets," Hill told TechNewsWorld. "He is largely responsible for what has been one of the most enduring enterprise-class storage systems on t...

2007: Making a Mark in Hot CRM Niches

Web-based collaboration is another area that up-and-coming in the CRM space, according to Charles King, principal with Pund-IT Google and Microsoft, of course, are leading the way. However, King told CRM Buyer that there are a handful of smaller firms that are offering similar...

Hyper-V Landing Shakes VMware Turf

"It's definitely a step up from the Microsoft Virtual Server product they've been shipping, which has been more of an introductory-type product. Hyper-V is designed to compete against VMware's ESX Server and some of the Xen-based products including Virtual Iron and XenSource," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld, noting that Microsoft will likely price the Hyper-V features well below any competing commercial products...

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