BOSTON - Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc raised its full-year revenue outlook, fueling hopes that cloud computing companies can avoid getting caught up in a possible slowdown in tech spending. To read the rest of the story, click on Reuters.Com a>>
GRANDVILLE - According to a recent report on Cloud trends, analyst house Gartner recommends that network managers should test or emulate the performance of Cloud -based applications in all geographies where they plan to deploy. There is a need for organisations to adopt a Cloud computing service that addresses specific issues around latency such as
GRANDVILLE - Over the last two years, in my consulting role I have encountered an increasing number of organisations whose staff work from home one or two days a week. This has many benefits for both employer and employee. People still attend the office for a number of reasons, the office culture, communication and collaboration
MIDLAND - Continuing education (CPEs) can be the key to keep you up-to-date on emerging IT security threats. However, if you don't take the time to posture your IT defense and offense (not to mention earn the credits you need), you could expose your company to attack and lose your certification. To read the rest
NOVI - Red Level Networks announced Wednesday that it has been selected for inclusion on the CRN Next-Gen 250 list. This annual listing of innovative businesses and technology integrators, solution providers, and resellers in North America features businesses that offer solutions and services in cloud computing, mobility, unified communications, virtualization and other budding technologies. Businesses
STAMFORD, Conn. - A storm of trouble is forcing research firm Garter to revise its 2011 and 2012 PC shipment forecasts, the company announced Thursday. Previously, Gartner estimated that worldwide PC shipments in 2011 and 2012 would grow 9.3 percent and 12.8 percent, respectively, over year-earlier figures, CNET News.Com reported. However, the research firm has
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, UM Dearborn, and Great Lakes Entrepreneur Quest will debut the Savvy Entrepreneur Series Sept. 13, which includes a five-minute Michigan entrepreneur update from MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan. The series is co-produced with, and hosted by, a number of the region?s leading innovation accelerators
KALAMAZOO - Vestaron Corporation, a venture-backed agricultural biotechnology company, has hired Steven Hartmeier as its new President and CEO. Hartmeier brings 30 years of agricultural experience to Vestaron with large and small companies. ?Steve?s experience with taking start-up companies through the product commercialization process is just what Vestaron needs at this stage of its development?
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. has received specific and credible intelligence showing al Qaeda militants in Pakistan may be preparing to carry out car bombings in Washington, D.C., and New York City, timed to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a U.S. counterterrorism official told the Wall Street Journal Thursday night.
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. ? IT-Harvest.Com Publisher Richard Stiennon has been named to the Most Powerful Voices in Security as both a security analyst and blogger. Stiennon is the technical advisor on a new cyber crime novella, called Cyber Styletto, that predicts a terrorist attack on the nation's traffic and railroad computer controls. Stiennon was ranked