The next version of Oracle’s database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during …
Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding Arabic support
Salesforce.com’s Desk.com service is adding multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said. Beginning on June 6, Desk.com …
Microsoft adds photo sharing to SkyDrive
Mirosoft has made several tweaks to its online cloud storage service, SkyDrive, one of which now allows users to access …
Judge clears Google of Java copyright infringement
A district court judge has ruled that the Java APIs in Android are not eligible for protection under U.S. copyright …
Age of the data scientist
“Data science and big data – they are so much more interesting than the subject of storage. You have to …
HP appoints new head of software
Following through on promises to shuffle the ranks of upper management, Hewlett-Packard has hired George Kadifa to head up the …
IT services and system integration are losing strategic importance, study reveals
The effects of increasing digitisation are leading to dramatic shifts in business models globally and in the ICT industry’s provider …
Aim for transformation
Pat Gelsinger, the driven President and COO of global IT solutions provider EMC, talks about the next steps for the …
Eliminating inefficiencies
Today’s data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) tools can improve planning and reduce operational costs, writes Soeren Brogaard Jensen, VP-Enterprise Software, …
Former IBM director joins Blue Coat as senior VP of R&D
Blue Coat Systems has announced that IBM veteran Venkat Raghavan has joined as senior VP of research and development. The …
Intertec to bring industry majors together to host virtualisation event for end users
Intertec Systems in collaboration with its partners HP, Trend Micro and VMware is organising an event on ‘Planning Your virtualisation’ …
Intertec, HP, Trend Micro, VMware to collaborate on Dubai event
Intertec Systems – in collaboration with its partners HP, Trend Micro and VMware – will host an event called ‘Planning …
Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++
The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of …
VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova
VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralise and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, …
Johnson Controls unveils Panoptix solution for green buildings
Johnson Controls, which provides solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings, has launched a new innovation, the Panoptix solution, which …
10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core
Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial …
SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion
SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced yesterday. Ariba’s platform focuses on business-to-business commerce …
EMC acquires Syncplicity
At EMC World 2012, EMC announced yesterday that it has acquired privately held Syncplicity, a leader in cloud-based file management …
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing …
Desktop-as-a-Service
Desktop-as-a-Service is an interesting way for IT execs to provide cloud-based Windows desktop sessions, as well as shared resources such as storage.