One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the capacity of the previous model.

We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry groups. Insider, registration required.

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CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.

Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.

The global supply of hard disk drives may be slow to rebound, with a ripple effect that's threatening small businesses and PC makers. The shortage may also drive demand for SSDs.

The shipping of Oracle's Big Data Appliance earlier this month could pressure major rivals like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SAP to come up with Hadoop offerings that tightly bundle hardware and software products, analysts say.

A ballot scanning device slated for use in the upcoming presidential elections misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found.

There were weak spots in the last quarter of 2011 for sector bellwethers Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, but corporate demand for technology appeared to remain resilient going into what is expected to be a year of slower growth for global IT spending.

SSD-maker Micron Technology announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Virtensys, a maker of PCIe virtualization appliance.

Oracle is asking a judge to throw out some of the claims made in a lawsuit filed against the vendor by Montclair State University over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software project, according to a filing made this week in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

It is estimated that unstructured data -- everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media -- accounts for at least 90% of an organization's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT organizations will grow by as much as 800% in the next five years.

To keep pace with a fast-changing business environment, these companies are ditching inflexible legacy systems in favor of software as a service and cloud computing. Are they getting the speed, flexibility and cost savings they thought they would? Insider, registration required.

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IT leaders need to step up and provide the company with the sophisticated tools needed to make smarter pricing decisions, which lead to greater profits.

Book retailer Barnes & Nobles adds a massive database and improved business intelligence in hopes a smarter sales team will drive Nook past the Kindle

Beverage distributor Major Brands is suing Epicor, alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor failed to deliver a satisfactory system after years of effort and significant cost overruns, and then offered a solution that would force the company to install a new version that hadn't yet been completed, pushing back the original "go-live" date by four years.

Apple was the only top-five computer maker to post shipment gains in the U.S. during the final quarter of 2011, a pair of research firms said this week.