Enterprise IT

The ongoing buzz surrounding cloud computing -- particularly public clouds -- is far outpacing actual deployments by mainstream users. To date, only 14 percent of companies have deployed or plan to deploy a private cloud infrastructure within the next two calendar quarters. Instead, as businesses sl...

Intel seems to have delivered the goods with its next-gen Atom processor-based platform. On the technical side, it includes Intel's Atom processor Z6xx Series Family, the Platform Controller Hub MP20 and a dedicated Mixed Signal IC. It adds 3-D graphics, video encode and decode, and memory and displ...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar. Most recently, Citrix...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar. Most recently, Citrix...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar. Most recently, Citrix...

Whenever people debate the enterprise-readiness of cloud computing, the discussion usually centers on reliability, security, compliance and integration questions. However, underlying these important concerns is an even more fundamental issue that keeps most IT and business decision-makers up at nigh...

SAP has inked a deal to acquire mobile and database software maker Sybase for $5.8 billion in cash -- or $65 per share. That translates into a purchase price that is more than 55 percent over Sybase's trading price before rumors of the deal became public, which was $41.57 per share. The deal, which ...

Microsoft launched Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for business customers Wednesday morning in an event held in New York City. Office 2007, the last version of Microsoft's cash cow -- Office represents 25 percent of Microsoft's annual revenue -- came out four years ago. Office 2010 offers a plethora...

Turn on an Android OS phone, and that little yellow robot pops up all over the touchscreen like R2D2 on bionic steroids. A mini-chorus line of them shows up first, then just one robot decides to play hide and seek with you; there he is peeking out from the left side of the screen. Now he's upside do...

Looking to improve its ability to integrate across various cloud ecosystems, IBM on Monday bought integration services provider Cast Iron Systems. The latest addition to IBM's infrastructure portfolio comes amid a rolling thunder of acquisitions in the technology space, a result of confidence that t...

The Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers are gaining market share at the expense of Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer. Statistics from NetApplications.com show that Chrome had 6.73 percent of the browser market in April. Firefox had nearly 25 percent, and Internet Explorer continued t...

Last week, VMware and Salesforce.com announced a new partnership around VMforce, a Platform as a Service offering aimed at enterprise Java developers. The companies' CEOs -- VMware's Paul Maritz and Salesforce's Marc Benioff described VMforce as an enterprise cloud designed to serve the needs of m...

I'm not saying that IT departments have a PR problem, but when was the last time you saw a button saying, "Hug an IT person today"? What I am saying is that IT is largely misunderstood outside the walls of the IT environment. And the crusty silos inside of IT can make their own cultural connections ...

The high-tech industry lost jobs in 2009 for the first time in several years, but the cuts were fewer than those experienced in the private sector as a whole, thanks in part to relative strength in the category of software services. That's according to TechAmerica Foundation's 13th annual edition of...

In the rush to win over office productivity software users, Microsoft's FUSE Labs has lobbed one at Google with the launch of its Docs service. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the beta project during his keynote at Facebook's f8 developers' conference this week, but it has received little fanfare so f...