Pedro Hernandez

Is your iPhone or iPad helping your employer stalk you? That’s the question many employees are asking as the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend takes hold in a growing number of workplaces, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by Fiberlink, a mobile device management (MDM) firm. Among the 2,243 enterprise […]

Hot on the heels of Amazon’s refreshed Kindle Fire line comes Barnes & Noble’s latest stab at the media tablet market. The bookseller today unveiled a 7-inch Nook HD tablet and the new 9-inch Nook HD+ model. Underscoring the must-have nature of HD visuals on modern mobile devices, Barnes & Noble boasts that at a […]

Today, the Apple’s iPhone 5 officially goes on sale. And while IT administrators brace for a crush of new iPhones in the workplace on Monday, mobile device management (MDM) specialists are shrugging off the BYOD challenges posed by Apple’s newest handset. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Amtel announced that its MDM platform is ready to secure corporate […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage in San Francisco to unveil the iPhone 5 and the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system, iOS 6. Yet despite the event’s goal — to amaze the public with a first look at Apple’s market-leading handset — gadget enthusiasts were instead met with familiar design […]

Prepare for explosive growth in the public cloud services market. According to market research firm IDC, the worldwide public cloud services market is poised to reach a lofty $100 billion in 2016. For comparison’s sake, this year the group forecasts that spending will total $40 billion. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data […]

What makes a business app a good candidate for the cloud? Cloud migration specialist Adaptivity is offering its newly-launched Blueprint4Cloud SaaS offering to help organizations that are considering cloudifying their business apps. And according to the company, Blueprint4Cloud was built to save companies that most precious of resources: time. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting […]

Piston, a San Francisco-based cloud computing startup, is making it easier for organizations to jump on the OpenStack bandwagon with a free distribution of the fast-growing open source cloud platform called Airframe. Intended as a stepping stone to the company’s paid Piston Enterprise OpenStack product, Airframe is targeted at organizations that are thinking of adopting […]

While it won’t officially go on sale until October 26th, PC users that are comfortable with installing new operating systems can take a final build of Windows 8 for a spin today. Windows 8 is Microsoft’s big bet on the future of end-user computing, which is being reshaped by the “bring your own device” (BYOD) […]

Microsoft made waves in June — and apparently some ‘frenemies’ — when the software titan announced Surface, a sleek Windows 8 tablet that will bear the company’s logo when it goes on sale this fall. Now, it’s Lenovo’s turn to show off its technical and industrial design chops. Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet 2 sticks close to […]

Nimbula, a maker of cloud platform software, has teamed up with MapR Technologies to allow organizations to quickly get Hadoop up and running on private cloud infrastructures. Nimbula, founded by original Amazon EC team members, bills itself as a “cloud operating system company.” The startup’s Nimbula Director software provides private cloud management, multi-tenancy and self-service […]