Micro Focus has hatched a platform enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to move Cobol-based business applications off of IBM mainframes …
Carrier Ethernet on the rise
Carrier capital spending (capex) may be down during the current economic downturn but Carrier Ethernet is bucking that trend. Service …
Microsoft details Windows Azure pricing, availability
Microsoft revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for …
Microsoft girds Office 2010 with free Web versions
Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft …
Microsoft girds Office 2010 with free Web versions
Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft …
Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A web apps showdown
The future may be the cloud, but it also may be Microsoft that ushers us into that realm of possibility …
Microsoft officially names Geneva project
Microsoft unveiled the names of the pieces that will make up its single sign-on platform that was formerly named Geneva. …
Calculating hidden storage costs
Cloud storage is priced like a utility. Over and over again, virtually all vendors repeat the same mantra: “Customers pay …
Services firms boost Microsoft’s SaaS
Microsoft Corp.'s late move into the hosted software business gained some headway this month when two outsourcers — Computer Sciences …
Android, Chrome OS differ over voice communications
As soon as Google Inc. announced it was working on the new Chrome operating system, questions arose over how the …
VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users
VMware is trying to exploit uncertainty among customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization vendor recently acquired by Oracle Corp., with …
Symantec desktop security software boasts reputation analysis
Symantec is readying the 2010 editions of Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus, adding to its flagship consumer software a …
F5, Blue Coat unveil WAN optimization upgrades
The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of product announcements from WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Here …
Five slick search engines you should know about
With Microsoft's recent addition of Bing to the search landscape, the spotlight is again shining on who has the best …
HP unveils Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio
HP Technology Solutions Group (TSG) today launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio which it claims is designed to deliver …
Airlines IT spend to decline globally
Airline investment in IT is set to reach a new low this year as aircraft operators cope with unprecedented financial …
Java development critical to Oracle Fusion strategy
For developers, Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g rollout on Wednesday emphasizes Java technologies, particularly the company's JDeveloper IDE, along with concepts …
Update: Oracle launches Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle Corp. unveiled a major chunk of Fusion Middleware 11g, the foundation for its next-generation Fusion Applications, during an event …
Google’s next target: Unified communications
Unified communications has been a technology specialty of networking vendors for years, but Google Inc.'s recent forays into voice communications …
Cisco plans to offer virtual voice service
Cisco Systems Inc. will be making aspects of its IP voice technology available virtually and selling them as a service …