Dan Muse

EMC acquired Greenplum last year – and it hasn’t wasted any time in shaking up several markets with its strategies in this area – specifically, big data, open source, analytics and unstructured data. Greenplum founder Scott Yarra, who is now running a new EMC Data Computing Products Division, has been working with EMC to build […]

Intuit, the king of small business accounting, continues to add online features to its core product with today’s release of QuickBooks Accounting 2009. While Intuit still treats QuickBooks Online (its pure online application) and QuickBook 2009 as two separate product lines, the power of online software is evident in the newest version of its PC-based […]

If you run a small or mid-sized business, you’re probably on the go and always looking for the chance to squeeze in a few more hours of work. That means, you’re a perfect candidate for a notebook computer. In a move designed to zero in on the SMB-notebook love connection, Lenovo last week introduced the […]

Small business owners are constantly on the go and always looking for the chance to squeeze in a few more hours of work. That makes them perfect candidates for a notebook computer. In a move designed to zero in on the SMB-notebook love connection, Lenovo today introduced the SL ThinkPad line, which the company says […]

To paraphrase the immortal words of Ferris Bueller, the World Wide Web moves moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. If you haven’t been looking around lately, you might just miss the next evolutionary stage of the Web — the Semantic Web or Linked Data […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave the market a boost with Thursday’s hints at a possible interest rate cut. But the enthusiasm didn’t last as today’s big mid-day gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average were more modest by close. Bernanke’s comments couldn’t help the mood in the tech sector as the Nasdaq ended the […]

Wall Street’s two-day run following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut ended across the market. Helping offset the high from earlier this week were a pessimistic report for retailers, a sinking dollar and rising oil prices. While the market was down across the board, the losses were relatively small and Wall Street didn’t give back […]

Symantec used Storage Networking World as the backdrop to announce a major upgrade of its system backup suite. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 is designed to speed the recovery process, add integration with virtualization technology and expand Microsoft Exchange and data recovery capabilities. The new release also adds support for Microsoft Vista, AMD and […]

A group of networking and storage vendors led by Emulex Corp., EMC, Brocade and others has proposed a new standard for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet. The new technology specification is called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and was presented to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More EnterpriseStorageForum […]

Just as the soft drink world has Coke and Pepsi and fast food is synonymous with both McDonald’s and Burger King, the processor industry is now a two-horse race with AMD and Intel competing on both the desktop and in the server room. The rise of AMD servers is hardly news as Sun, HP, IBM […]

Small business networks aren’t as simple as they used to be. You probably have a mixture of wired and wireless devices, and maybe you’re contemplating a move to VoIP (if you haven’t already). Managing it all doesn’t have to be complicated, according to 3Com Corp. Offering what it claims is a first for small and […]

Stocks were up for the fifth consecutive day, but it didn’t come easy as the market had to overcome both disappointing news from Dell and a drop in consumer sentiment. The Nasdaq gained 6.34 points or 0.3 percent to end a strong week of trading (up about 5 percent for the five-day period). The Dow […]