Richard Adhikari

As corporations brace for a year of living dangerously thanks to the present recession, they will need to leverage technology wisely in order to survive. That’s the lesson that Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) Business unit is urging U.S. enterprises to follow. In particular, the telecom carrier identified several trends it sees with the potential to help […]

Although Microsoft’s server and tools division has chalked up more than 18 percent in year-over-year growth, has a revenue of $13.2 billion and would be the fifth largest software company on the planet if it were an independent firm, Microsoft thinks the division has tremendous room for growth. The division offers database, security, identity, IT […]

Fifteen companies, including some leading high-tech vendors, have launched the Web Services Test Forum (WSTF) to speed up Web services interoperability testing among their products. They include IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), TIBCO (NASDAQ: TIBX), and automaker Ford Motor (NYSE: F). ” We view this as a […]

In a move that will open up new vistas for application developers, Salesforce.com, which now styles itself the enterprise cloud computing company, today expanded its global strategic alliance with Google. The on-demand CRM firm has announced the availability of its Force.com platform as a service (PaaS) for the Google App Engine application development platform, which […]

Hammered by the global recession, players in the IT industry will have to undergo radical changes to simply survive, according to research firm IDC. But that’s not bad news for everyone. Enterprises and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) may be poised reap the benefits of a transforming IT industry — in the form of new […]

As companies begin moving to the cloud to hold down costs in this recession, they are grappling with the question of whether to opt for internal or external clouds. Often, enterprise users plunk down a credit card and use an external cloud service like Amazon’s S2 because that circumvents the need to wait for IT […]

Only six weeks after a mixed offering ofon-premises and cloud computing applications to partners and affiliated independent software vendors (ISVs), IBM is aiming to move even more of its business into the cloud. Big Blue today said it would will begin extending its highly lucrative consulting and technology services to the cloud, building on work […]

Despite the worldwide economic malaise, which has resulted in major vendors being unwilling to issue guidance during their recent earnings calls, Salesforce.com is confident about the future. It should be. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader reported net income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, for the quarter ended Oct. 31, up from $6.5 million, […]

At a time when mainframe sales are going strong, CA has announced Mainframe 2.0, an initiative to simplify its tools for managing IBM’s mainframe z/OS operating system. Mainframe 2.0 combines enhancements to CA’s (NASDAQ: CA) mainframe management solutions with new turnkey management services. “A lot of sites have doubled and quadrupled mainframe workloads, but staffing […]

Researchers with the British Computer Society (BCS) claim to have cracked the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) wireless security standard and will reveal their findings at the PacSec conference to be held in Tokyo next week. Researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck say they broke the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that provides WPA (define) security, […]