There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
The downfall of Sun Microsystems
Oracle's surprising $7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the …
SaaS it up
The present prevalent economic downturn has slowly started impacting telco’s cost and ability to serve customers. This growing problem may …
Sun moves on cloud despite uncertainty
Sun Microsystems, soon to be part of Oracle is a planned merger goes through, is proceeding with plans to ramp …
IT Pros describe the ideal mobile device
Netbook sales will likely grow by 50% in the next two years, according to research firm IDC, but the gadgets …
Windows 7 gets virtual ‘XP mode’
Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a …
Android to go beyond phones to a range of personal devices
Android, the Linux-based operating system used in the G1 smartphone and others to come, is destined to be part of …
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4
VMware and RSA announced a strategic plan to embed RSA’s data-loss prevention (DLP) and encryption technologies into VMware’s new vSphere …
Wireless sensor system measures, analyzes energy use
Arch Rock has created a special version of its wireless sensor networking product line to monitor enterprise energy use and …
VMware vows to overhaul data center with “cloud operating system”
VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual …
Sun adding open source app server to Amazon cloud
Sun Microsystems will make its open-source GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform on Wednesday. Sun …
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 …
Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Corp. patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta …
Users: Oracle has lots of questions to answer about Sun deal
Oracle Corp.'s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. is raising questions among users on, well, just about every aspect of …
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 …
IBM establishes first cloud computing lab in Hong Kong
IBM announced Thursday it is establishing its first cloud computing lab in Hong Kong. The new facility, located in Hong …
Oracle likely to leave mobile Java alone
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems probably won't immediately affect the world of mobile Java, some industry observers said, though …
Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management
Oracle will have to make some significant product decisions and integration plans to address the overlap it has with Sun …
Rising data-loading speeds may be leaving most BI users behind
One of the more prosaic parts of data warehousing is getting information into a warehouse in the first place. Vendors …
Android faces fight for smartphone users, despite Google’s update plan
An Android update that Google Inc. plans to release soon will include new features sought by users and developers since …