Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — Salesforce has helped revolutionize software-as-a-service (SaaS), then helped push platforms-as-a-service as more customers integrated their Salesforce.com on-demand applications with other platforms from Google and Amazon.com. So it would stand to reason that integration would be the next big phase from the SaaS (define) leader as customers take their platform-integrated applications and then […]

What does a dominant storage provider do when it already enjoys major adoption with its bread and butter storage products? If it’s a storage giant such as EMC (NYSE: EMC), it moves into a new direction with server management software and analytics offerings. That’s what observers see with EMC’s release of two new products, Server […]

Hewlett-Packard is getting into the browser wars with the launch of a virtual browser in conjunction with The Mozilla Foundation, HP executives told InternetNews.com.. But there’s a catch: You only get the browser as one of a bevy of new security and green tech features offered with HP’s Monday launch of its new Compaq dc7900 […]

NEW YORK — We have seen the rise of Web 2.0 and social networks. But where does it all go? For starters, collaboration — which is really at the core of Web 2.0 technologies. For Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Quote), and John Chambers, CEO of Cisco (Quote), this next wave of innovation via Web […]

Call it the wireless industry’s scramble “up the stack,” to borrow an analogy from operating systems. A new research report is calling for double-digit growth in managed services in the mobile communications sector, as more carrier companies outsource the basics of their network operations to third-party providers. ABI Research says managed services are a major […]

SAN FRANCISCO — John Chambers is a globe-trotting CEO with a relentless schedule. Good thing the Cisco head honcho can tele-presence his way into some of those meetings crowding his schedule, using “quad play” messaging with unified voice, video on demand, collaboration and mobility. Plus, it’s good business to actually live out the mantra he […]

With a “pre-texting” scandal swirling around it, HP’s board of directors met in an emergency session Sunday, but only said it would reconvene late this afternoon with no word yet on the fate of the chairwoman of the board. Patricia Dunn, the chairwoman of the board who ordered the probe, has said that she was […]

IBM (Quote, Chart) is bulking up security consulting services with its acquisition of Internet Security Services (Quote, Chart) in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal that values the Atlanta-based ISS at $28 per share. IBM said the deal would reinforce its position in the rapidly growing area of Managed Security Services and is an important addition to IBM’s […]

NEW YORK — Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have been the holy grail in computing for at least 20 years. After all, the idea behind Web services, such as reusing code so applications don’t have to repeat basic tasks when they speak to each other, is re-making the Web as a more dynamic global […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Microsoft showed some ankle and then some with advanced tools, database and server features in the latest builds of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. Microsoft said all three flagship products are slated to be formally launched the week of Nov. 7. During the keynote address at the […]