Tech Watch news from FierceCIO

Network giant Cisco Systems has released a slew of new products, among them the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X network switches. Both switches come in either 24 or 48 ports configuration, with selected... Read more...

Google has apparently decided that the time to hold its punches has past, as it unveils its Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool. As its name implies, the server-based tool will help... Read more...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced yesterday that it has reached a settlement with several companies concerning the sale of printer ink cartridges HP alleges infringe on its patents. HP says that... Read more...

Microsoft has announced that it is updating the XP Mode in Windows 7 to no longer require the use of CPU support for virtualization--such as Intel's VT or AMD's AMD-V. XP Mode is a feature found in... Read more...

Microsoft has announced the availability of SP1 for Windows 7, though I won't set my hopes too high. Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc wrote in a blog entry, "For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor... Read more...

At the Mix conference, held in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off a pre-alpha build of IE9 and offered the world a glimpse of the new browser. Calling the software it demonstrated the... Read more...

Before you put down your hard-earned cash for an Apple iPad, perhaps you might want to consider alternative tablet devices that are due out later this year. Jared Newman from PC World has a few... Read more...

Cisco has its sights set on easing the transition to Unified Communications, with the launch of its new Intercompany Media Engine (IME) server set to debut later this month. The idea is simple, an... Read more...

George Crump at InformationWeek wrote an interesting article exploring the question of whether laptops will benefit from the use of solid state disks (SSDs). Crump explored the issue from a few... Read more...

Citing new research, Gartner announced that 60 percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical ones that they replace. The situation is expected to remain constant through 2012 before... Read more...