David Needle

The coming of Google’s modified privacy policy — a plan that aims to simplify and consolidate the rules under which its various services operate — may have been designed to make it easier for users to understand Google policy. But it’s raised the ire of at least one major privacy advocacy group, EPIC, which claims […]

For many of the legions of Twitter users, their experience with the microblogging service is defined by the bevy of third-party applications that tap into their accounts and enable them to send messages outside of the Twitter site. But in the mobile arena, seemingly a perfect fit for the short-message format, adoption hasn’t been as […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Virtualization has been one of the prevailing buzzwords of the tech industry in recent years, as businesses look to maximize the efficiency of their IT operations through the novel approach to computing. And for vendors, VMware chief among them, it’s become […]

“We’re going to have to deal with these new applications or IT is going to be left holding the bag.” VMware CEO Paul Maritz during his VMworld keynote raised concern that cloud and SaaS-based applications are being adopted by enterprise users without IT’s approval or knowledge. Maritz noted his own company uses 15 different SaaS […]

At VMworld this week, visitors were treated to a number of sessions detailing why virtualization makes sense for enterprises: it can cut down on server sprawl, up utilization, improve flexibility and security, and so on. But few enterprises are able to boast running 100,000 servers in 95 data centers — the infrastructure that Intel, the […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies of all sizes structure their IT departments and prioritize their information. But as Datamation reports, HP and other vendors are still sorting out how this fast-changing paradigm shift in IT management will impact enterprise […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. VMware might be credited with popularizing enterprise virtualization, but to CEO Paul Maritz, that’s in his company’s past. “If you want [a hypervisor] for free, we have one,” he said dismissively today at his company’s VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco. […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. For all the exuberance about the benefits of cloud computing, the logistical transition can be a real headache for businesses, often entailing unforeseen costs and delays. With its new CloudStart product, HP is looking to ease the process, offering businesses a […]

Google’s never been afraid to try something new and the latest enhancement to its ubiquitous Gmail service, Priority Inbox, attempts to make sense of the most-used and, often, least-organized app of all. As Small Business Computing reports, the new Priority Inbox feature on Gmail attempts to incorporate a little intuition and prioritization to the email […]

With rumors swirling that enterprise networking colossus Cisco is looking to buy Skype, the popular VoIP service is busy rolling out its own ways to expand its footprint in the workplace. That now includes Skype Connect, a way to more closely link Skype’s VoIP service with IP-enabled PBXes or Unified Communications systems. With Skype Connect […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Adopting cloud computing technologies is all the buzz these days, but when CIOs are pressed to figure out whether their enterprise should shift wholesale to a public cloud-computing infrastructure, build a private cloud in their own data centers, or devise something […]

As the tablet market takes shape as one of the next major battlegrounds in IT, computing giant HP has offered some insight into its plans. Speaking with financial analysts on the company’s quarterly earnings call, HP executives said that they are planning devices powered both by Windows 7 and webOS, the operating system HP picked […]