Larry Barrett

Which applications and strategies will lead IT spending into the new decade? Research firm Gartner offered its own take with the unveiling today of its Top 10 list of technologies and trends for 2010 a its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. Gartner defined a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact — […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week announced the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) to help bring clarity and consensus on issues such as terminology, technical specifications and standards for the burgeoning cloud storage industry. The CSI will coordinate educational efforts for the vendor and user communities and perform market outreach promoting […]

SAP and HP on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership agreement to integrate the software vendor’s Business Warehouse and business intelligence tools with HP’s Neoview data warehouse, making it easier for users to mine data housed in non-SAP applications and manage enormous reservoirs of customer data. The joint offering will be available for purchase from both […]

IBM today unveiled the latest component in its aggressive cloud-computing strategy with the launch of what it’s calling the Smart Business Storage Cloud, a private cloud-based storage and archiving application for enterprise customers. Since June, IBM has made several key cloud-based product and strategy announcements designed to differentiate itself from the likes of Amazon, Google, […]

World of Warcraft players desperate for a new mount to traverse the online role-playing game’s fantasy world are getting a reality check from hackers who have devised a clever pop-up phishing scam to spread malware. Security technicians at F-Secure Security Lab on Tuesday posted a blog entry Tuesday detailing the latest scam making its way […]

IBM on Tuesday announced a series of new social networking tools and features for its Lotus Connections 2.5 software, giving users an opportunity to better customize and manage their collaborative enterprise applications. IBM (NYSE: IBM) and all the other top-tier business application providers including Microsoft, Google, SAP and Oracle have made no secret of their […]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) on Wednesday posted first-quarter profit in line with Wall Street expectations — but investors hammered the stock after it missed revenue projections. The database giant posted a first-quarter profit of $1.1 billion, or $0.22 a share. Excluding special charges, it earned $1.5 billion, or $0.30 a share, coming in exactly where analysts […]

Whether you’re the CIO of a Fortune 500 conglomerate or a one-man band running a boutique brokerage firm, the days of simply downloading and installing the latest antivirus software to your PC are over. With the proliferation of mobile devices, social networking sites and the growing dependence on user-generated content for business purposes, analysts say […]

HP on Monday announced a new set of SOA (define) governance software and services to geared to help customers accelerate and simplify their SOA-related projects. The latest release of HP SOA Systinet software includes complete run-time governance of SOA services and service lifecycle management through an enhanced integration with its SOA Manager application. It also allows […]

IBM and SAP on Monday announced plans to release a jointly developed application that allows employees to access SAP’s Business Suite applications through their Lotus Notes desktop client. Code-named Atlantic, the software will let users tap into SAP’s applications for workflows, reporting and analytics through the Notes applications they’re currently using to access e-mail, calendars […]