Richard Adhikari

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 […]

Photo credit: Reuters As the nation prepares for today’s historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, antivirus vendors are gearing up for a flood of spam and malware-laden Web sites that aim to capitalize on the event. Malware authors have long been eager to leverage interest in current events, most recently the fighting in Gaza. Last […]

Enterprises virtualizing their infrastructure to help cut costs could be in for a shock — system performance may be degraded and they may not save as much money as they had hoped, unless they manage the performance of their business-critical applications. But that management is difficult because of a lack of tools that enable companies […]

For the second time in four months, a State Department employee has pleaded guilty to accessing the personal information of citizens in the department’s passport records without proper authorization. According to the Department of Justice, Dwayne F. Cross, 41, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pleaded guilty before Judge John M. Facciola in U.S. District Court for […]

Building on technologies it announced in November, Salesforce.com Wednesday released Service Cloud, its next-generation customer service solution. The Service Cloud, built on Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) Force.com application platform, benefits from the SaaS provider’s partnerships with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). It will let Salesforce customers leverage all capabilities of the partnerships, Alex […]

Customer relationship management (CRM) projects in 2009 will be all about business value, and that includes adding social networks to the mix, according to a report from analyst firm Forrester Research. An increased emphasis on business value will see enterprises focusing on customer retention and creating dynamic solutions to support customer facing processes. “During this […]

As enterprises implement collaboration applications to increase staff productivity and cut costs, they are increasing the risk of security breaches, according to a survey conducted for Rohati Systems that was released today. The 117 respondents, all high-level IT executives from enterprises of various sizes, have deployed applications such as Web-based Intranet portals, Web 2.0 applications, […]

Web 2.0. Mashups. Cloud computing. User-generated content. Those buzzwords represent some of the hottest technology trends today on the Web. But just as experts see enterprises and consumers making more use of those tools in 2009, they’re also warning that spammers and malware distributors will be doing the same. Worse, those technologies may give spammers […]

The recession and companies’ consequent belt-tightening will see worldwide demand for enterprise software grow more slowly than expected, by 6.6 percent next year to total $244.3 billion, research firm Gartner said. That is nearly one-third less than Gartner’s previous 2009 projection of $253.1 billion, or 9.5 percent growth from 2008’s expected figure of $229.2 billion. […]