Larry Barrett

SAP on Thursday unveiled what it believes is the software industry’s most comprehensive and useful green application to date with the launch of SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Management. The application, which was developed with the help of some of SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) largest and most environmentally conscience customers including Lexmark and Nestle, will give enterprise customers […]

IBM this week rolled out a new cloud-based datacenter management suite that it says will give IT administrators a central point of control to monitor network activity and help prevent outages that can bring enterprise datacenters to a screeching halt. Tivoli Live Monitoring Services is now available in a subscription model from IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) […]

Oracle today debuted its newly integrated governance, risk and compliance management suite, giving IT administrators and C-level executives an opportunity to automate and monitor multiple security projects from one application platform. Monday’s release of Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager and the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Controls will give […]

Verizon on Tuesday said it will now begin offering consulting services for enterprise customers looking for help managing, monitoring and maintaining their cloud-based applications. Company officials said the Verizon Cloud Computing Program will offer a flexible, vendor-neutral approach for managing homegrown applications, apps hosted by a third party or those running from an existing Verizon […]

After a year of unprecedented proliferation of spyware, malware and cyber attacks of all types, security software vendor Symantec warns there’s plenty more where that came from in its just-released 2010 Security Trends to Watch report. Kevin Haley, Symantec Security Response group product manager, this week posted an ironic blog entry titled “Don’t Read This […]

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that SAP will be the “preferred partner” for customers buying its budgeting, planning and forecasting applications, a move that’s clearly intended to send a message to Oracle. The deal represents an extension of the two software giants’ existing and largely amicable relationship as well as their shared disdain for Oracle. While […]

CA on Thursday unveiled PC Tune-Up and PC Tune-Up Plus, a pair of cloud-based computer optimization applications that promise to clean up hard drives, identify and repair performance problems and incorporate antivirus and antispyware protection. Company officials said PC Tune-Up lets users performance scans for up to three PCs from a single location. The integrated […]

A new Trojan called “W32.Silon” is the latest headache for online banks and their customers, packing a one-two punch that helps it evade security tokens and steal customer log-in information at the same time. The two-headed Trojan, according to online security software vendor Trusteer, uses a “two-pronged payload” to steal log-in information and commit financial […]

Amazon Web Services has unveiled the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a Web-based service that helps customers set up, operate and augment relational databases in the cloud. As corporate customers are increasingly turning to cloud-based applications for storage, security and a variety of business applications, this aggregated content requires a degree of database sophistication that’s […]

Only 16 percent of enterprise workloads are running on virtual machines today, according to Gartner analyst Tom Bittman, but that’s about to change in a big way, with small- and mid-sized businesses leading the charge. Bittman debunked some of the biggest virtualization myths during his presentation Tuesday at Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Fla. At […]