HP releases tools for mobile app development
HP announced on Tuesday the release of several tools aimed at simplifying the enterprise mobile application development and deployment processes.
Stories by Colin Neagle
tuCloud criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for virtual desktop licensing debacle
Less than a week after Microsoft put its foot down on OnLive's virtual desktop solution for allegedly violating its licensing standards, tuCloud capitalized by releasing its own product, taking a few jabs at both OnLive and Microsoft in the process.
'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers
Just as enterprise network managers brace for the flood of bandwidth-consuming content stemming from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, content delivery providers put in a significant amount of time preparing to meet the meteoric rise in demand.
Microsoft incites madness with March's Patch Tuesday release
In what has been called "a flashback of the bad old Patch Tuesdays," Microsoft Tuesday released its six security bulletins for the month of March.
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to release 6 patches, 1 critical
Microsoft announced today that next week's Patch Tuesday will be the lightest of 2012, with six security bulletins and just one rated critical.
Controlling your March Madness traffic outbreak
As the NCAA men's college basketball tournament begins to unfold, March Madness takes on a more literal meaning for those tasked with controlling activity on the enterprise network.
Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance
Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.
Get ready for Windows 8 support headaches
For all the hype surrounding <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s upcoming <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> 8 operating system, significant adoption isn't expected to come from anyone but consumers.
Better information sharing is the future of security, experts say
After having founded a software <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> company, selling it to HP and then working for them, Roger Thornton gained valuable insight into the evolving IT security threat landscape. So, naturally, he left HP and took on a new role in an entirely different sector, where he is taking part in an initiative that aims to bring the security community to new levels of information sharing.
Silver Peak to offer free, downloadable versions of WAN optimization products
After watching customers continually download and install one of the vendor's free, limited products from the company website, Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley was interested to see how they would respond to the same access to its more advanced products.
Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe send patches for Valentine's Day
The Valentine's Day 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday is upon us, and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-feb">has come forward</a> with details on the nine bulletins it <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79781">previewed last week</a>.
Valentine's-related traffic spikes cause heartache for ill-prepared sites
With the last-minute Valentine's Day shoppers increasingly turning to the Internet to make up for lost time, e-commerce companies are doing everything they can to stand out from the pack. However, some sites inevitably fall victim to the problems that result from this rise in demand.
Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-feb">nine security bulletins</a>, four of which were deemed critical.
Demand growing for application performance management tools, experts say
The growing importance of reliable <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately.
HP moves load testing software to the cloud
With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-hp-to-let-partners-host-255796.html?hpg1=bn">application load testing solution</a>, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial investments to implement.