Pedro Hernandez

The cloud is doing more than redefining the concept of computing services and reshaping IT infrastructures. It’s putting pressure on colocation services to deliver more cloud-like capabilities. In a survey of 100 IT professionals, Internap, an IT Infrastructure services company, discovered that the cloud is casting a big shadow on traditional colocation companies. Cloud Storage […]

How employees use cloud services and mobile devices on their personal time is having a major impact on their companies’ decisions to adopt cloud computing in the U.S., according to CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report. In a survey of 1,242 of IT professionals, 73 percent of respondents said that personal cloud and mobile […]

Tablets aren’t only selling big, they’re also changing the online consumption behavior of consumers. As devices for online content consumption, PCs are giving ground to tablets like the iPad, according to a new study from market research firm NPD Group. Thirty-seven percent of consumers that once accessed online content on their PCs have switched to […]

Add bigger cell phone bills to the list of challenges brought on by the white-hot bring your own device (BYOD) trend. Rising data costs are becoming a cause of concern for IT managers around the world according to the results of a survey from iPass and MobileIron. Fifty-seven percent of the 477 IT executives polled […]

Where tablets go, reams of printer paper will follow. Today, a new research from IDC dashed the hopes of technologists that were banking on tablets and smartphones to cut paper and ink consumption. “The share of users printing from their smartphones and tablets will increase dramatically if users have their way, and the need to […]

PC security software makers are adapting to blistering tablet adoption rates and the growing bring your own device (BYOD) acceptance among businesses by expanding into mobile device management (MDM). Kaspersky Lab is the latest to target smartphones and tablets with the launch of a new endpoint security product meant not only to protect desktop PCs […]

Tablet makers shipped a record 52.5 million slates last quarter (4Q12), a 75.3 percent increase over the 29.9 million units that hit the market in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to market research firm IDC. Compared to the previous quarter (3Q12), tablet shipments shot up 74.5 percent. An uptick in holiday spending helped the […]

Erasing any doubt that Apple wants an iPad — preferably several — in every enterprise, the company today announced a version of its fourth generation iPad with 128 GB of onboard storage, double the capacity of the former, 64 GB top-of-the-line iPad. Sporting the company’s high resolution Retina display technology, the 128 GB iPad goes […]

Smartphone shipments surged last year, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In 2012, smartphone shipments totaled 545.2 million units, a 10.1 percent gain over the previous year’s figures. The holidays made for a particularly robust fourth quarter. Smartphone makers shipped 219.4 million units in 4Q12, a 36.4 percent year-over-year gain. The smartphone category […]

Cisco and NetApp, encouraged by brisk demand for FlexPod, announced today that they are expanding their partnership to bring the converged infrastructure platform to cloud providers and branch offices. FlexPods are validated, tightly integrated (server, network and storage) converged systems aimed at simplifying IT infrastructure procurement, configuration and deployment for data center operators. The companies […]