Tibco is set to unveil Silver, a platform aimed at large enterprises that want to develop and deploy applications in …
Open source data center management emerges
The economy isn’t the only reason open source management applications are currently garnering a lot of attention. With vendors building …
Is the cloud reliable enough for your business?
In April of last year, Satoshi Nakajima, founder of Washington-based Big Canvas Inc., was eagerly inviting new customers to subscribe …
Sun rises at Oracle
Oracle’s recent US$7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems could turn Sun’s ailing hardware business into a boon for data-center managers. …
JBoss to offer enterprise business rules management
Extending its open-source middleware platform, JBoss plans to offer JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System), for enablement of business …
Cloud-management wares multiply
When IT services are delivered via the cloud, compute and storage resources may be off-network or shared across multiple components, …
HP’s green IT action plan hits the road
Measuring the degree to which an organization is green will eventually form part of leadership's dashboard of overall performance metrics …
Juniper bolsters branch router, switch lines
Juniper Networks this week will extend its branch office line with routers and switches designed to enable remote workers to …
HP ProCurve gets into security with new server blade
HP ProCurve is adding a security blade to edge and core switches that enables businesses to insert firewalls, VPNs and …
AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker AMD Inc. on Wednesday — the sixth anniversary of the birth of its Opteron processor — …
Rising data-loading speeds may be leaving most BI users behind
One of the more prosaic parts of data warehousing is getting information into a warehouse in the first place. Vendors …
A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising …
Oracle not budging on maintenance fees
It has become a regular ritual during Oracle Corp.'s quarterly earnings conference calls: Company executives point to the vendor's lucrative …
Desktop virtualization and licensing: IT wary of gotchas
CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her …
Sun’s next step unclear after breakdown of talks with IBM
After the apparent collapse of acquisition talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun faces a choice: continue looking for …
Cisco enters server market with Unified Computing System
It's not a blade server – it's an architecture. Cisco stressed the holistic approach of its Unified Computing System during …
IBM adds data-warehousing tools to Informix
IBM is trying to make its Informix OLTP (online transaction processing) server a more potent option for BI (business intelligence) …
The promise of desktop virtualisation
What is desktop virtualisation? The use of software to abstract the operating system, applications and associated data from the user's …
Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex
Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and …
Microsoft readies low-cost Windows Server OS
Microsoft Corp. is readying a new low-cost version of Windows Server to give customers a server operating system similar to …