Larry Barrett

Larry Barrett is a freelance journalist and blogger who has covered the information technology and business sectors for more than 15 years. Most recently, he served as the online news editor for 1105 Media's Office Technology Group and as the online managing editor for SourceMedia's Investment Advisory Group publications Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and Bank Investment Consultant. He was also a senior writer and editor at Ziff Davis Media's Baseline Magazine, winner of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, and ZDNet. In addition, he's served as a senior writer and editor at prominent technology and business websites including CNET, InternetNews.com, Multichannel News, and the San Jose Business Journal.

IT Departments Giving Vista The Cold Shoulder

At the end of an already slow summer buying season, a majority of companies are still not ready to deploy Windows Vista, according to a new survey...

Storage Industry Upbeat – For Now

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Executives from seven of the disk-drive industry's most prominent manufacturers looked into their crystal balls Wednesday at the DISKCON USA conference and offered up a...

Software Tops VC Spending List

Call it the VMware effect. Venture capitalists looking for the next big score invested more than $1.5 billion in fledgling software companies in the second quarter, according...

Intel Targets ‘The Next Mainstream’

Intel CEO Paul Otellini gave investors, developers and its competitors plenty to digest during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday when he laid out...

Salesforce.com Takes Wraps Off Force.com

SAN FRANCISCO—Saleforce.com CEO Marc Benioff kicked off the Dreamforce 2007 conference Monday by unveiling the particulars of Force.com, the on-demand application development platform the company believes will...

May the Force Be With You and You and You

Salesforce.com previewed a major new service initiative it plans to announce at its Dreamforce 2007 conference next week. Force.com is an on-demand application development platform that promises...

Dell Challenges Virtualization ‘Myths’

Dell built its business and, until recently, its reputation by keeping things simple. The strategy worked for years with its direct-to-consumer PC model, and now it wants to...

Palm Abandons Foleo, Will Take $10 Million Charge

And so that's that. Palm on Thursday unceremoniously concluded the brief and uninspiring Foleo era when CEO Ed Colligan announced on the company's blog that it was canceling...

Virtual Iron Gussies Up Virtualization Offering

Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual Iron, admires and respects VMware (Quote). Maybe not so much for the quality of its software -- though he won't...

Oracle Snaps Up Bridgestream

Bridgestream, which develops software used to map business relationships within an organization, on Friday confirmed that it has become the latest in a string of acquisitions by...

IBM Rolls Out Storage Option For The Little Guy

IBM on Tuesday rolled out a series of new storage products, including the DS3300, an array that includes Internet SCSI (iSCSI) (define) connectivity with simple installation features tailored...

eHarmony Weds Oracle 10g

Oracle (Quote) on Monday announced that eHarmony, a leading online dating and match-making service, is now using the Oracle 10g database to play Cupid to more than 17...

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