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Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable

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Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

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Cisco to expand video calling with IME

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June — a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.

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Tighter security coming for .org names

Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage — they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who’ve bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise

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Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs

By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development, and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco’s reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks.

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Chambers: How I’ll make Cisco into IT’s biggest player

Sentilla has released an update to its data center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use

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Sentilla’s energy management tool gets chargeback feature

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. “The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,” Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast Tuesday morning announcing the product

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Cisco unveils next Internet core router

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

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EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VMware on Celerra

Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server ( EBS ) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog .

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Microsoft pulls plug on business server package