Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to “make it easier” for customers to do business with the company. The pledge …
VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Microsoft to retire Windows Live brand ahead of Windows 8 launch
Microsoft will retire the Windows Live brand as it gets ready to release what it describes as a more connected …
Salesforce.com acquires collaboration tool company Stypi
Salesforce.com has acquired real-time online collaboration platform company Stypi, it announced yesterday. The financial terms of the deal were not …
Botnet shutdowns cause big 2011 spam drop, Symantec finds
Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago …
Cisco creates 115 new IT jobs
Cisco has announced plans to create 115 new jobs in its research and development (R&D) facility in Galway, Ireland. The …
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analysing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period …
HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centres
Western Digital company HGST yesterday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive …
Small businesses are the vast majority of Google Apps early adopters
While Google is pitching Google Apps as an ideal productivity solution for enterprises, a large majority of its early adopters …
Gain with intelligence
Storing data is one thing, but how does a company actively gain intelligence from analysing the data and then pump …
IDC: Data centres increasingly overwhelmed by business demand
Businesses are struggling to ensure their data centres cope with demand, according to analyst house IDC. Chris Ingle, an associate …
IBM goes after enterprise mobility projects with Mobile Foundation portfolio
IBM took steps yesterday to help enterprises go mobile, introducing a set of software and services called Mobile Foundation. The …
Fortinet launches product family to combat DDoS attacks
Network security firm Fortinet today introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, web hosting and cloud service providers. The new …
Bulwark Technologies to participate in COMEX 2012
Bulwark Technologies, a leading value added distributor of IT security solutions in the Middle East has today announced its participation …
Software AG acquires my-Channels for universal messaging technology
Software AG has announced the recent acquisition of London based my-Channels, a move that complements and extends Software AG’s current …
TradeTech: Banks spending heavily on surveillance IT to keep ahead of regulation
A sea change is taking place in stock trading, whereby many banks and brokerage firms are spending huge amounts of …
BT selects Equinix data centres to roll out proximity hosting service for traders
Communications provider BT has revealed that it will use Equinix’s data centres for the rollout of its cloud-based Radianz Venue …
Cheap tech allows start-up traders to enter financial market
Reductions in the cost of technology have lowered the barrier to entry for start-ups who previously could not afford to …
How to virtualise mission-critical applications
Enterprises are virtualising more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of …