Enterprise IT

In a three-year deal worth US$4.5 billion, Dell is consolidating its far-flung advertising efforts into an integrated "new marketing model" that involves partnering with one agency: London-based WPP Group. Dell officials said they've been calling the new arrangement "Project DaVinci," a name intende...

The Software as a Service concept is rapidly spreading to touch almost every functional area in the IT stack. The latest example is security vendor Webroot's acquisition of Email Systems, a SaaS security provider. Primarily focused on consumer and SMB markets prior to this merger, Webroot's newly ac...

As enterprises rush to assess how they can benefit from service-oriented architecture, many naturally but mistakenly focus on the technological aspects of the solution. As an architecture, it's unfair to paint SOA as a panacea to independent software vendors' most daunting business problems. In orde...

A range of factors will drive down software licensing costs in coming years, benefiting enterprises but creating a challenge for leading application vendors to keep profits rising, according to a new report. Information technology departments will seek ways to reduce what they spend on software, dup...

Service-oriented architecture is a technology that simplifies integration. SOA has received a lot of attention in technology circles over the last few years with both avid supporters and skeptics illuminating the pros and cons of implementing SOA. In many cases, the skeptics pointed out the lack of ...

Information systems and outsourcing giant EDS will buy a controlling interest in Saber Holdings, a firm that provides software and services to government agencies across the country. The company will pay $420 million in cash for the 93 percent stake in Portland, Ore.-based Saber, with the software f...

Microsoft on Monday announced its intention to buy France-based mobile music services provider Musiwave in a move that could dramatically boost the software giant's presence in the cell phone music space. Redmond reached a deal with Musiwave parent company Openwave Systems that gives it the exclusiv...

In the summer of 1999, I was researching potential software partners for a Web hosting company. I originally thought it would take only a few days to identify the leading vendors in areas ranging from ERP to CRM and e-commerce, but after weeks of research I had barely scratched the surface. While it...

As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small and medium-size businesses jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process them across borders very easily at low cost. For SMBs in the U.S., curren...

IBM unveiled a slew of new security products and services and said it would continue to invest heavily in security innovations to address customer needs for a more comprehensive approach to information technology risk. On the heels of a security-related buying spree, Big Blue will spend at least $1....

In a move that could finally help clear up a cloud that has hung over the company for more than a year, Dell on Tuesday restated earnings for four full fiscal years and part of a fifth, cutting its net income over that time by $92 million in the process. Dell filed with the U.S. Securities and Excha...

Many high-technology manufacturers are knowingly putting their intellectual property at risk by collaborating with partners and suppliers with communication tools that they don't consider secure, according to a survey Microsoft commissioned. Microsoft said its survey of high-tech manufacturers found...

SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday. The actions -- two filed in the United States ...

Microsoft posted strong first-quarter earnings Thursday and issued a buoyant forecast, capping a week of positive news for the software giant and prompting investors to send its shares to new high levels for the year. Microsoft -- which on Wednesday beat out rival Google to take a stake in Facebook ...

Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion, Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users. The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile ph...