Protecting The Enterprise Against The Looming DDoS Threat
RioRey has a clear field in providing a wide array of tools and products to compete against the growing and widening threat of distributed Denial of Service attacks.

Dell Acquires Storage Vendor Exanet
Dell made a rare acquisition by buying clustered NAS vendor Exanet, according to a report in the Israel-based Globes.

Terracotta, Eucalyptus Team For Turnkey Private Clouds
Terracotta and Eucalyptus have teamed up to help partners deliver a turnkey solution enabling customers to move applications into private cloud computing environments.

Nvidia Gets Switchable With Optimus Notebook Graphics
No more flipping a switch or clicking a button -- Optimus automatically saves laptop battery life by switching between integrated and discrete graphics.

Seagate Touts Reliability With 2.5-inch, 10K Drives
Seagate's new Savvio 10K.4 hard drives pack up to 600 Gbytes in a 2.5-inch form factor, and are rated at 2 million hours MTBF.

Better Late Than Never, Intel Delivers New Itanium Chips
The long-awaited Tukwila upgrade to Intel's mission-critical Itanium brand finally arrives, but is it in time to challenge IBM's Power7?

Dimdim Gets Video Conferencing Done
On The Cheap
Dimdim offers great incentives for recommending its Web conferencing product. It allows solution providers to brand the product as their own, while Dimdim provides support and service.

Review: Ubuntu 9.10 Brings Good Karma To Linux

We like the code name "Karmic Koala" but how does Ubuntu 9.10 measure up to Windows 7?

Review: Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ A Star

Company's latest media player is the first we've seen that plays almost every type of format.

Review: Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d

Iomega recently released a new NAS device that is a pleasure to use -- if you can get past a few caveats.

Good Timing: Belkin Puts Energy Savings Into A Powerstrip

Company's new Conserve Surge with Timer, the first in a line that will focus on ways for IT and facility departments to help manage electric usage.

Microsoft Office Web Apps Vs. Google Docs

Micosoft Office Web Apps inevitably will be compared to Google Docs. The CRN Test Center finds some advantages and disadvantages in choosing Office Web Apps over Google Docs.

Review: Lexmark Prestige All-In-One Printer

Lexmark recently reworked its entire inkjet printer line. The CRN Test Center takes a look at the Prestige, one of the new Professional class models.

Dimdim Gets Video Conferencing Done On The Cheap

Dimdim offers great incentives for recommending its Web-conferencing product. It allows solution providers to brand the product as their own, while Dimdim provides support and service.

Roam Data Bringing M-Commerce To Small Businesses

Roam Data provides a way for small businesses that don't operate in a PC environment to conduct their sales using the mobile devices they carry around every day.

Geolocation, And Finding A Better App

The CRN Test Center has looked at some GPS solutions and geolocation apps over the past year and finds their usefulness keeps building.

Sonian Archives E-Mail, Data In The Cloud

Sonian, which offers a unique cloud-based e-mail archiving solution for compliance and eDiscovery, is hoping to round out its channel in 2010.

Aerohive Buzzing About The New World In WLAN

Aerohive sees a golden opportunity for its wireless gear thanks to a perfect storm: the move of WLANs from luxury to necessity, the arrival of infrastructure-savvy solution providers developing true wireless practices, and the promise of cloud computing to make wireless VARs reap big returns on managed services opportunities.

Digging Inside The PC For The Cloud

Nomadesk, which provides technology that lets users build a virtual drive on their PC that can be accessed across the Internet, is just now building an SMB/SOHO channel, giving solution providers an opportunity to get in at the ground floor.

Confidela Broadens Its Channel For Secure Document Management

Confidela's WatchDox Software-as-a-Service application provides a secure way for businesses to manage and share important electronic documents.

The Unix market is slowly declining, and IBM is gradually gaining market share, but solution providers said the decline masks some strengths of the Unix technology.

Google is expected to host a launch event later Tuesday to detail the changes, according to reports.

These 25 visionaries are boldly shaping the future of the IT industry by driving a bevy of new cutting-edge technology developments.

What do the nuts and bolts of a cloud-based solution look like? These 20 cloud infrastructure vendors have the inside scoop.

Cloud computing is poised to make big gains in 2010, Here, we take a look at the 20 coolest cloud platform vendors vying for solution providers' attention.

IT managers generally weren't the early adopters of cloud-computing applications but they're starting to come around to the lower costs and improved flexibility offered by cloud-based productivity applications. Here are 20 of the coolest we've seen so far.

The chip giant adds new remote management, encryption and anti-theft tools baked right into next-gen Intel Core vPro processors for commercial desktops and notebooks.