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 The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday morning that the company was expected to inform what the paper could only call “a large number” of American workers that their jobs were either being eliminated or sent to India. IBM@Alliance suggests the layoffs will be on Thursday. IBM’s earning...Mar. 25, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,533 |
 Michael Dell claimed Tuesday that simply the talk of a Sun-IBM tie-up is an "enormous opportunity" for Dell servers since it creates an air of uncertainty around the future of Sun's Solaris-based boxes and accelerates the move to x86 Linux machines. According to reports Dell's CEO said...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,401 |
 There was a flurry of activity in Red Hat stock Monday - up 17% at one point - on what were called "widely published" rumors Oracle might buy it. Remember how Oracle copped Red Hat's Linux for its own six years ago and how it was going to eat Red's lunch? There's been Oracle-Red Hat sp...Mar. 24, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
 AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise. User environment management enables the configuration and personalization of virtual, standard desktops by treating user specific data as a separate layer of the desktop. This user layer is ap...Mar. 17, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,423 |
 Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, C...Mar. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,815 |
 Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, C...Mar. 17, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,912 |
 Last week's Wall Street scuttlebutt that Oracle might make a so-called "strategic" move and acquire Virtual Iron has now blossomed into a couple of unconfirmed press reports that the pair has progressed to a signed letter of intent. Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert, who put the rumor...Mar. 11, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,034 |
 Atlassian, the Australian ISV that makes the JIRA issue tracker and the Confluence enterprise wiki, has pushed out the 2.2 release of Bamboo, its continuous integration server. The widgetry's dubbed Elastic Bamboo because of a sexy new feature that offers the Bamboo user added capacity...Mar. 9, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,474 |
 A majority 51% of the big survival-threatened Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, whose disgraced founder and former CEO confessed in January to loading its books with a billion dollars in "fictitious" assets and "non-existent" cash, was put up for auction Monday. Those coo...Mar. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,776 |
 According to the Wall Street blog, The Motley Fool, both IBM and Oracle have been among the flock of 50-odd companies that have responded to the possible sale of Indian consulting/outsourcing biggie Satyam Computer Services, whose founder and subsequently ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju, now in ...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,693 |
 Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide ra...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,882 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 2,381 |
 The Justice Department is investigating storage biggie EMC, the parent company of virtualization leader VMware, for kickbacks and overcharging on government contracts. According to the Wall Street Journal, NetApp, an EMC rival, is expected to pay $128 million for overbilling the govern...Mar. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,255 |
 Oracle announced new management capabilities for Oracle VM through the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 (10gR5). With the new Oracle VM Management Pack, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 provides a comprehensive management solution that spans the lifecycle of applicatio...Mar. 4, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,615 |
 The new Oracle User Productivity Kit v3.5 and Oracle User Productivity Kit Professional v6.1 are now available to help organizations retain corporate knowledge and increase end user productivity of all enterprise applications, including non-Oracle applications. Companies rely on the pr...Feb. 20, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 808 |
 Oracle announced the release of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.9.5.1 (Oracle BI Applications), introducing new capabilities that allow public sector agencies with fact-based and timely insight into their operational budgets and funds management. These new capabilities have...Feb. 16, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 950 |
 One has to take comfort where one can these days. NetSuite, the Larry Ellison SaaS company competing with Salesforce.com, managed to eke out its first profitable quarter ever, up a penny a share in Q4 if you ignore the write-offs. This development is apparently due to demand from multi...Feb. 11, 2009 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,333 |
 IDC says there was a "precipitous" drop in the number of PC processors shipped worldwide between the third quarter and the fourth quarter last year - the worst, in fact, since it started tracking such things in 1996 - and it holds out scant hope for this half, which is why even the mig...Feb. 11, 2009 10:37 PM EST Reads: 2,051 |
 Jitterbit announced advanced features to enhance the compatibility of its open source integration software with Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16. To natively support Oracle's On Demand security model, Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise now includes support for the Oracle-specific JSessionID authe...Jan. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 2,033 |
 Oracle Financial Services Software has announced the availability of a new version of Oracle Reveleus Market Risk. Oracle Reveleus Market Risk provides new and expanded modeling, analysis and reporting capabilities that help financial institutions effectively view and manage the balanc...Jan. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 950 |
 Relational Database Consultants has released version 8.1 of the Standby Wizard for Oracle, now compatible with Oracle 11g databases. The Standby Wizard is a GUI-based intelligent disaster-recovery tool that automates the creation, maintenance and fail-over functions of Oracle's standby...Jan. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,123 |
 To assist organizations seeking to further mitigate security risks, satisfy compliance regulations, and protect their enterprise databases, Oracle Audit Vault has introduced support for collecting audit data from IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise da...Jan. 30, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,042 |
 Oracle Rich Enterprise Applications (REA) are a standards–based development platform for AJAX/JSF, Adaptive Rendering, and Web 2.0 style-services built on ADF Faces Rich Client and Oracle WebCenter Services. In this session at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West, Pieter Humphrey disc...Jan. 27, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 5,639 |
 Quest Software has announced the launch of their backup and recovery technology for the Oracle platform, LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle. Oracle database administrators (DBAs) charged with handling secure backup and recovery strategies on a lean budget can reportedly realize 70 to 90 perce...Jan. 21, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,468 |
Coverity has announced a partnership with Cigital that will aim to help software development teams improve the quality and security of their applications. The goal of the alliance is to help enterprises deliver complex software by finding and fixing critical software defects and securi... Jan. 14, 2009 03:09 PM EST Reads: 1,918 |
Finding the right technology solution for human capital management (HCM) is a daunting – and frustrating – task for most companies, according to a recent i4cp study conducted as part of i4cp’s Technology Commons research. The study found that over a third of responding companies are ei... Dec. 31, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,581 |
 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become mainstream technology for integrating disparate systems and applications. For building composite applications, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as the standard for business process flow orchestration and application i...Dec. 23, 2008 06:45 AM EST Reads: 8,610 |
 The strengthening dollar played havoc with Oracle’s fiscal second quarter, which spanned the ugly months of September through November when the recession took hold. Oracle said that if the dollar hadn’t strengthened GAPP earnings would have been up 11%, software revenues would have bee...Dec. 19, 2008 07:25 AM EST Reads: 1,916 |
 Most of the discussion surrounding Web 2.0 applications revolves around the way it revolutionized end users' interaction with applications and with other users. An area that is sometimes left out of the discussion is the impact Web 2.0 had on the developers who are actually building th...Dec. 16, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,682 |
 Oracle threw some data integrity protection code over the wall and it's been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. It reportedly lets the Linux kernel utilize key data protection information for the first time in its life. It's also the first implementation of the T10 Protection Infor...Dec. 5, 2008 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,629 |
AppSense, the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, will be a featured speaker at the 2008 SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) being held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Va... Nov. 19, 2008 11:30 PM EST Reads: 2,145 |
DataGuise has announced their first masking in place solution for multi-database environments such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and others. The dgSolution Suite provides secure masking of database content and is designed for the highest level of flexibility and functionality across... Nov. 19, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,074 |
 HP says it can cut the pricey-but-neglected costs of networking virtualized environments by 55%. Your average VMware ESX server busily hosting virtual machines requires six network connections, which means network expansion cards, switches and cables - all of which add up.Nov. 18, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,159 |
 Working across all of Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed today to lead the Company's cloud computing efforts. Simultaneously, in a package of "decisive actions to align Sun's business with global economic realities," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a restr...Nov. 17, 2008 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,533 |
 Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsourci...Nov. 13, 2008 08:15 PM EST Reads: 3,147 |
 John Wookey, who until a non-compete-suggestive 13 months ago ran Oracle’s applications development – you know, its crucial next-generation “stitch-$20-billion-together” Fusion program – has gone to work for Oracle’s hereditary enemy SAP. He has been named EVP of large enterprise on-de...Nov. 13, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,160 |
Customers of all sizes are looking to information infrastructure to help them cost effectively and efficiently store, manage, and protect data across their Oracle application, middleware and databases environments. EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutio... Nov. 12, 2008 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,576 |
 Cisco has got a new “close to the user” edge router that can push 250,000 songs or 200 feature films a second. (Figure 6.4 terabytes a second.) The widget, which starts at $80,000 and reportedly took $200 million to develop, is called the Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series a...Nov. 12, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,672 |
 HP has said it doesn’t want to be in the cloud business itself – merely sell gear to cloud makers – but it’s lined up with little Salesforce.com rival NetSuite – owned mostly by Larry Ellison – to offer NetSuite’s SaaS CRM and ERP applications to SMBs through its 15,000 US resellers. H...Nov. 12, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,583 Replies: 1 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in... Nov. 12, 2008 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,895 |
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