• Dual-Persona Smartphones Not a BYOD Panacea

  By Tom Kaneshige | 17 May, 2013 17:21

  Mobile vendors are pushing technologies that split a smartphone into two separate platforms for business and personal data. Problem solved, right? Not so fast. It's still easy for employees to circumvent the two worlds.

• SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 May, 2013 21:57

  Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

• VMware and Verizon Tackle BYOD with Dual Persona Phones

  By Thor Olavsrud | 15 May, 2013 14:28

  VMware has partnered with Verizon to offer dual persona smartphones for Verizon enterprise customers. It's currently available on two Android-based phones, but more Android devices and iOS support are expected soon.

• VMware launches dual persona feature for Verizon smart phones

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 May, 2013 12:11

  Through a deal with Verizon, VMware is going to offer the ability for employees to download a app that allows their companies to run a standardized corporate version of Android OS on their phones along side their personal version.

• Will Fault Tolerant Servers Improve Your Virtualized Environment?

  By John Moore | 30 April, 2013 12:39

  Companies are turning to fault tolerant servers as a way to improve uptime without experiencing the downtime associated with high availability solutions. But fault tolerant technology may not be right for every enterprise.

• Amazon's biggest competitor in the Cloud: Salesforce.com?

  By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2013 20:11

  Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?

• Does BYOD cost too much?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 20 February, 2013 17:38

  It's a good bet you don't know how much your company is spending on all those bring-your-own-device smartphones and tablets. Even worse, it's probably too much, says a mobility management expert.

• How BYOD saved VMware $US2 million

  By Thor Olavsrud | 01 February, 2013 15:20

  As more companies adopt a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach to mobile, many are getting caught by hidden costs. But virtualization titan VMware has bucked that trend. VMware CIO Mark Egan explains how his company accomplished its feat.

• 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

  By Jim Duffy | 12 December, 2012 17:58

  From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

• Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

  By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

  It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

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