Alex Goldman

Cloud Computing Firms: Yes to Open Standards

Several companies today announced the release of a new cloud standard, the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Federation specification (CMDBf), created by the non-profit Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) (a PDF...

Lawsuit Seeks to Block IM Spam

Microsoft this week accused mobile ringtone and entertainment firm Funmobile for resorting to spamming Windows Live Messenger users to hawk its wares. In a lawsuit filed in the...

Can Enterprise Software Aid IT Management?

Enterprise software companies understand that IT managers have too much to do and too little to do it with and are eager to sell software to solve...

Citrix Unveils Free Hyper-V Storage Management

Citrix will officially unveil Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, Express Edition on Monday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. The Express Edition is free and incorporates...

Most UK Companies Suffer Cyber Breach

A whopping 70 percent of enterprises in the UK have suffered data breaches in the past year, according to new findings from the Ponemon Institute. In its 2009...

USB Keys: Big Danger for Companies

NEW YORK -- Experts from security firm Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) warned that USB drives are a real security threat to enterprise networks. The comments came in the...

Social Security Numbers Easy to Hack

The security flaws in Social Security numbers have been known for some time, but what was theory has been proven to be fact as researchers at Carnegie...

Enterprise Software Touts User Friendliness

Enterprise software makers are focusing more on ease of use with their recent releases, an element usually associated with video games and mobile devices than in complex...

Oracle Unveils Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle today unveiled the latest version of its Fusion Middleware, version 11g, a major release in Oracle's most profitable software line. "It has significant new capabilities across...

IT Manager’s Job Changed by Cloud Computing

NEW YORK -- If you're an IT manager, cloud computing will fundamentally change your job, said Hal Stern, Sun vice president of engineering, in a...

Social Cloud Battle: Google vs. IBM

As the cloud brings enterprise applications together, it also gives companies new competitors. Today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (among other cloud app providers) faced off...

New Player Hopes to Shake Up Datacenter

Virtualization, cloud computing, and service oriented architectures (SOA) are all driving change in the vital data center management and business intelligence markets. These products, which connect mission...

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