Alex Goldman

NEW YORK — IBM today released a report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses. The report, “Breaking away with business analytics and optimization,” said that all businesses can differentiate their performance by analyzing data better and by delivering insight to decision makers at all levels of an organization. Those with a […]

Oracle today took the wraps off release 2 of its 11g database, an update that aims to capitalize on enterprises’ focus on cost-cutting. In contrast, the initial 11g database release in 2007 concentrated on innovation. The change is in tune with the times, according to Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and industry researcher IDC. “As organizations face […]

Today is the start of VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) VMworld conference, celebrating all things related to virtualization. A raft of companies in the virtualization market are scheduled to make announcements of new products and services ready or near-ready to launch. The flood of announcements began last week with news from IBM, Tranxition, and many other virtualization providers. […]

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is aiming to cash in on businesses’ growing interest in private cloud computing by building an offshoot of its existing public cloud offerings. The idea behind the new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is that businesses can connect via Virtual Private Network (VPN) to compute resources located within Amazon’s cloud. Those resources are […]

Tales from the frontline of companies deploying virtualization were among the highlights of a webinar this week sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. Constraints on physical space and power in the datacenter were among the key reasons companies participating in a panel discussion gave for moving to virtualization technology. “We adopted virtualization initially to handle backup and fault […]

Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) proved that some companies can keep growing even in these tough times. For its quarter ending July 31, the company posted record revenue of $316.1 million, up 20 percent from a year ago. Income totaled $21.2 million, or $0.17 per share, beating Wall Street estimates by two cents, according to Thomson Financial. […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) showed staying power during its third fiscal quarter, narrowly beating Wall Street estimates and reporting profit down only slightly from the same quarter last year, despite the harsher business climate. The company reported non-GAAP earnings of $2.2 billion or $0.91 per share, beating estimates by a penny, according to Thomson Financial. Revenue […]

Software companies need to have a global presence to be where the action is — and can’t shy away from making “bold” moves even in the recession — Accenture said in two reports released today. “As Western markets slow and their workforces age, software manufacturing — and hence capital — are migrating toward Asia and […]

A majority of IT practitioners feel their company lacks adequate policies, procedures, and security techniques in managing threats to data in development environments. That’s according to a study of IT pros conducted and released today by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Micro Focus. The results of the survey are no surprise, Larry Ponemon, chairman […]

The owners of at least one botnet are now using Twitter to control it, according to a report from traffic management specialist Arbor Networks. Because the control messages come from a trusted site, this sort of traffic could pierce the enterprise security firewall, the firm warned. “This appears as legitimate traffic to a legitimate Web […]