Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, …
Microsoft aligning management, clouds
Microsoft this week shared the latest on its ambitious cloud computing management, though customers and analysts say they still have …
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
IE 8: Its Security Is Worth the Download
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 in March, and whether to install it is likely your biggest update decision right now. …
VMware looks to bring data centers under the cloud
VMware Inc. last week launched the long-awaited upgrade of its core virtualization software, which it calls a cloud operating system. …
Oracle’s Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM
Oracle Corp. may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. because it was worth far more to the database market …
Oracle, entering hardware arena, agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B
Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun for $7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market …
Oracle may merge pieces of OpenSolaris with Linux, analysts say
Oracle Corp. may end up merging the best features of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems …
Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
Dell challenges HP, IBM with new offerings
Trying to shed its reputation as an inexpensive hardware vendor, Dell is taking steps to sharpen its enterprise offerings so …
Intel raises the bar in server chips with Nehalem
Intel's upcoming Xeon server chips incorporate significant advancements that could form the basis for future chips that could handle high-performance …
Adobe details secret PDF patches
Adobe Systems Inc. revealed today that it patched five critical vulnerabilities behind the scenes when it updated its Reader and …
IBM said to be poring over Sun’s contracts
Lawyers for IBM are examining Sun Microsystems' contracts and other documents in a due diligence process that could precede an …
Could IBM be Sun’s savior?
The high-tech rumor mill churned at high speed Wednesday as industry watchers debated the good, the bad and the ugly …
CA unwraps storage software for cutting IT costs, complexity
In keeping with the ongoing trend of IT cost-cutting, CA Inc. on Monday unveiled new storage software that it claims …
Network skills in demand, pay well in down economy
CIOs continue to seek network, desktop and Windows skills and some might pay top dollar for specific high-tech talents, despite …
Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says
Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover …
HP to distribute, support Sun’s Solaris
HP and Sun Microsystems — fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales — unveiled an expanded partnership that will …
Cisco ASR 1000 router
In an exclusive test, the ASR not only moved traffic at 20Gbps but also did so while running QoS, security …