Richard Adhikari

Salesforce.com bucked the trend of revenue and income declines that have been seen in the tech sector this earnings season, posting net income that surpassed analyst expectations in this trying quarter. However, the company said the outlook for 2009 is not as rosy as this past year. For the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31, […]

The slugfest in the virtualization market heated up further with Citrix unveiling a set of management tools for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor on Windows Server 2008. Just recently Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) took the wraps off its own set of management tools for virtualization on servers and desktops. Together with that, the unveiling of Citrix (NASDAQ: […]

Adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) might be widely seen as a way for enterprises to cut costs and speed deployment, but things may not always be as they seem, according to industry analyst firm Gartner. Robert DeSisto, an analyst at Gartner, agreed that SaaS applications have a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for their first two […]

One of the many lures of Web 2.0 is that users do the heavy lifting, generating content and uploading it to Web sites. Enterprises are increasingly adopting Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, Wikis and RSS (define). But are they adopting security best practices to keep pace? If not, the Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum is […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Moving to the cloud will not suit every business and for some, the cloud may not be the right answer, so they should look at their business requirements and ask if moving to the cloud the right thing to do. That’s the sentiment of a keynote speech here at a cloud computing […]

Despite a positive third quarter and predictions of a rosy outlook for the fourth quarter as well as 2009, software as a service (SaaS) giant Salesforce.com may be facing trouble, with the departure of three senior executives. Company President and Chief Strategy Officer Steve Cakebread is one of the three, having left February 1, according […]

SAN FRANCISCO – As the recession bites deeper into companies’ earnings, they should leverage social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies to enhance customer relationship management (CRM) systems to make them more effective, said Paul Greenberg, president of research firm 56 Group LLC. “CRM is a strategy, not just a software or technology or processes […]

SAN FRANCISCO – SugarCRM is ramping up plans to be take on rival Salesforce. At the company’s annual SugarCON conference Monday, it made several announcements that at least one analyst thinks puts it solidly in the conversation with other big name customer relationship management (CRM) players. Among the key announcements were cloud connectors for Zoominfo […]

The next time you run a search on Google, pay attention to which results you click on from the paid results area. Security experts say spammers are gaming Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Adwords program again in order to get malicious sites placed at the top of paid search results. Some search results, listed to the right […]

In what experts say could become the largest worm attack in recent memory, millions of computers worldwide are reported to be infected by a worm known variously as Downadup, Conficker and Confick — even though there’s a patch available that could help fix the problem. Downadup has been spreading so rapidly that security experts say […]

Powered by the twin enterprise needs to cut costs during this recession and to improve security in the light of repeated data breaches, Intel and Citrix have teamed up to create a hypervisor that will let IT centrally manage and administer end user devices. Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) will optimize its Xen hypervisor (define) for Intel […]

Companies rushing to virtualize their environments in order to cut costs will find that backup and restore could be a problem due to its extensive use of scripting. Most businesses use VMware products, as the company is the market leader, and its VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) centralized backup facility requires users to write a lot […]