Sears, Saks Fifth Avenue, Costco, Dell, Victoria's Secret, Bloomingdale's and Williams-Sonoma all saw their sites malfunction at some point between Friday and Monday, according to companies that monitor Web performance.
Cisco Systems developed its latest enterprise access point with corporate bring-your-own-device policies in mind, aiming to give tablets and smartphones as well as traditional workplace devices strong and consistent performance.
The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone, citing performance issues.
PC makers on Monday launched desktops that incorporate the latest technologies to work alongside Intel's new Core i7 chips, which have received praise for their speedy performance.
Nvidia on Wednesday revised its compensation plan for the current fiscal year, saying it was canceling performance-related compensation for most top executives in an effort to cut costs.
Nokia Siemens Networks is offering carriers new ways to view information about their own performance and translate it into action that may improve subscribers' experiences -- or change their rates.
Experts from IBM, Seagate Inc. and storage interface card vendor LSI Corp. Tuesday said solid state disk (SSD) drive technology will replace high-end Fibre Channel and serial SCSI disk drives for several I/O-intensive applications in the enterprise. However, the industry still needs standards to measure SSD performance and unit price will continue to limit adoption.
A defiant Steve Wozniak Monday night shot back with "I'm still standing" after being blasted by the Dancing With the Stars judges for a performance that one said "really stunk."
Broadcom announced this week a set of 3G smartphone chips that have been designed specifically to exploit Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The new silicon especially focuses on improving Android graphics performance.
Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 1.5 terabyte drive (model ST31500341AS) (US$225) packs a lot of performance into its 8-head, 4-disc drive, proving that you can have size and speed in a single internal hard drive.
Microsoft has sold more than 60 million [m] Windows 8 licenses so far, a number that is "roughly" in line with the performance of Windows 7 at the same stage of its release three years ago, according to Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of the Windows Division.
Country Energy's Broadband over Power Line (BPL) trial is being extended by a month, due to a lack of experienced field technicians and staff. "The pilot timetable has been extended, to allow for the manpower situation, (so it is) likely (to continue now) until the end of December in order to achieve the business-case Key Performance Indicators," said Country Energy Group Commercial Projects Manager Stuart Chapman.
Apple Inc. updated iTunes Wednesday, fixing a pair of security vulnerabilities, adding support for the new line of iPod Shuffles and boosting performance when loading large libraries and browsing the online store.
The 2007 WAN budget for most IT organizations will either be equal to last year or be up by a few percentage points. With all of the additional legitimate business demands being made on the network, the last thing that IT needs to see is the growth of bandwidth-hungry recreational applications. As we have suggested in previous newsletters, IT groups need to control these applications in order to ensure acceptable performance of legitimate business services.
Symantec Tuesday announced Version 7.0 of its Altiris client and server management suite. The upgrade, the first released since Symantec's acquisition of Altiris almost two years ago, includes new features for remotely deploying and managing Mac and Linux desktop PCs and, on the server side, improved performance monitoring of physical and virtual machines.
Apple's controversial decision not to support IPv6 on Version 6.0 of AirPort Utility is the latest example of a broader problem plaguing the next-gen Internet Protocol: Many network vendors are lacking the same level of features and performance in products that support IPv6 as those that support IPv4, the original Internet Protocol.
Red Hat Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering.
Last time we described WAN-vicious applications and today, we’ll discuss some of the techniques that IT organizations can use to better manage the performance of such applications.
Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications.
Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows HPC Server 2008 on Nov. 1 with designs on challenging Linux for supplying high-performance computers and specifically taking aim at ailing Wall Street customers.
Last time, we discussed how application delivery was more complex than just optimizing the performance of the network and the applications that run on it. We quoted a CIO who pointed out the importance of application delivery as well as some of the organizational impediments. He said: “Managing application performance is the thing that I am getting the most flack on. We have to begin to work outside of the silos and get away from the application and networking organizations pointing fingers at each other
Last time, we discussed that fact that roughly two-thirds of IT organizations either already have formalized processes in place to manage applications performance or are currently working to create them. Today, we’ll look at how effective those processes are and describe other impediments to successful application delivery.
Intel will start shipping its high-performance Atom smartphone chip with 3D transistors to device makers later this year, who will then test the chip for use in handsets.