Data Center

Data Center | News, how-tos, features, reviews, and videos

Desktop Virtualization: Comparing Options Frustrates IT

Desktop virtualization has a comparison problem. Faced with too many product choices, and little concrete data comparing costs and benefits, many IT departments are delaying decisions -- or simply going with products from vendors they already use.

3 May 2010 4 mins

Desktop Virtualization Virtualization

Advice for Evaluating CRM Cloud Platforms

Given this week's news about VMware and Saleforce.com's VMForce offering, headlines about cloud platforms and virtualization are everywhere. What's the best way to understand these platforms in the context of CRM applications?

30 Apr 2010

CRM Systems Data Center Virtualization

Google to Live or Die in LA?

The City of Los Angeles chose Google over Microsoft for e-mail, but an internal letter reveals regrets about "Going Google".

30 Apr 2010

Data Center

VMForce, Explained: A Faster Path to Apps in the Cloud

What does VMForce, unveiled this week by VMware and Salesforce, mean to your IT department? Think quick app development.

28 Apr 2010

Data Center

RIM Exec on Mobile Malware and The Future of BlackBerry Security

New models present a compelling alternative for business continuity

30 Jun 2015

Disaster Recovery

RIM Exec on Mobile Malware and The Future of BlackBerry Security

At RIM's WES 2010 show, BlackBerry Security VP Scott Totzke talks mobile malware, why the BlackBerry platform is best suited to combat it and the smartphone security threat that keeps him up at night.

27 Apr 2010 6 mins

Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones

In Pictures: Pro Sports Teeming with Tech Partnerships

From football stadiums to tennis tournaments to promoting the Bing logo on basketball jerseys and the SAP logo on golfer Ernie Els' hat, tech companies are willing to spend big bucks to be part of professional sports. Here's a look at some

27 Apr 2010

Data Center

RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS) 5 Gets New VoWi-Fi Features

The upcoming version of RIM's BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS), which merges traditional corporate desktop-phone-systems with BlackBerry smartphones for a unified calling experience, adds new VoWi-Fi functionality and support for additional

26 Apr 2010 4 mins

Carriers Small and Medium Business Smartphones