Enterprise IT

Dell has added another member to its growing family of acquisitions, although this latest addition already had the Dell pedigree, in a sense. The computer maker agreed to buy e-mail services provider MessageOne for about $155 million in cash. The addition of MessageOne is largely an all-in-the-famil...

In January, network security tools startup Packet Analytics launched Net/FSE, or Network Forensic Search Engine. Net/FSE is the first commercial search engine for enterprise network data to focus on security incident response by harnessing the analysis of NetFlow data. It is designed to exploit the ...

Adding another twist to its efforts to gain business adoption for its Web-based applications, Google has released a Team Edition of Google Apps. Google Apps Team Edition allows users to sign up using their work e-mail addresses to gain access to a suite of Apps -- Google Docs, Calendar, Google Talk,...

Software as a Service, service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 technology are fundamentally changing the way people and organizations work, enabling greater degrees of collaboration and restructuring everything from business and operational processes to the way software is licensed and priced, acc...

Dell announced Wednesday it will shutter its retail kiosks in shopping malls across the U.S. as it continues with its six-month-old retail store and direct-sales strategy. Dell launched the Direct Store kiosks in 2002 as a way to give consumers who may have been unfamiliar with its computers the opp...

The growing popularity of Software as a Service is having a significant impact on data security and regulations compliance. Most companies are concerned -- and rightly so -- about the legal and security issues raised when company data is located outside their firewall. Software as a Service is incre...

Microsoft thought five years of oversight was long enough, and states that had fought the software giant over alleged monopolistic practices thought five more years were in order. Neither side got what it wanted. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a federal district judge in Seattle, ruled on Tuesday to extend...

Microsoft posted an impressive quarter on Thursday, with Vista and Office sales setting the pace. The software giant also issued a strong outlook for the current quarter and all of 2008 -- something many of its fellow tech companies have been unable to do. Microsoft's earnings rose about 79 percent ...

Today's top companies know that the most effective way to grow revenue is by developing and maintaining strong relationships with current and potential clients. A company's own employees are building these relationships every day, and helping each other with introductions whenever possible. Unfortun...

Not to be bested by the likes of Apple and Motorola, Dell and Microsoft are joining forces to create (Product) Red PCs that will help African women and children with HIV/AIDS. The PCs will be crimson versions of Dell's XPS One line running Microsoft Windows Vista, and as much as $80 of the purchase ...

IBM continues to emphasize software as part of its future road map. In laying out a plan to use its Lotus franchise to expand the number of small- and medium-sized businesses using its applications, Big Blue is taking aim at a key part of rival Microsoft's core market. At its annual Lotusphere trade...

IBM's relatively robust outlook and the details of its fourth quarter performance have helped restore some investor optimism toward the tech sector after a wild week that saw recession fears rise on weak results from the likes of Intel. IBM, which earlier in the week preannounced its earnings, said ...

Software maintenance will reach $137 billion by 2010, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 10 percent, according to IDC. Today, many vendors including Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, among others, are stepping up their efforts to identify noncompliance, making an audit a real possibility. Align...

The e-commerce market is entering a new period. After an initial phase during which companies focused largely on making their products and services available to potential customers via the Web, users are now trying to take a more comprehensive look at their deployments. Consequently, a new breed of ...

Just a day after IBM soothed investors with a solid quarter, fellow tech bellwether Intel raised fresh questions about the strength of the sector by missing its fourth quarter targets and issuing a softer-than-expected outlook. The dominant chipmaker managed to post a 51 percent profit increase for ...