Richard Adhikari

Microsoft has announced new Business Intelligence technologies designed to help knowledge workers use business intelligence software with more smarts and analytical tools. It comes in a bundle that works with mainstay products such as SQL Server, Office applications Excel and Word, and PerformancePoint Server 2007. The BI tools are described in projects that include “Kilimanjaro,” […]

Within the space of five days, computer giants Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM each announced upgrades to their service-oriented architecture (SOA) product lines. HP (NYSE: HPQ) today unveiled version 3.0 of its Systinet SOA governance solution, while IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Thursday announced a slew of software and services based around business processes. The announcements come […]

As break-ins go, this one has the whiff of political dirty tricks. Someone or a group of people broke into the Independence, Mo. Victory Office of the Missouri Republican Party last week and apparently made off with a laptop belonging to regional coordinator Brian Johnson. The laptop had “a great deal of strategic information” for […]

Online thieves have obtained administrative log-in credentials for more than 200,000 Web sites and modified the code of some of these sites to attack users who visit them, a security researcher claims. Among the sites impacted is the U.S. Postal Service, though the USPS disputes the claim. In addition, Ian Amit, director of security research […]

In a move widely hailed by rights groups, several members of Congress have introduced bills that will prevent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from arbitrarily searching and seizing electronic devices. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, publicized July 16th, gave customs agents that right on the grounds of national security, overturning years of […]

Although companies will reduce their IT spending because of the economic meltdown, it’s not going to be all doom and gloom for the IT industry. System integrators and consultants will get a boost from the crisis in the financial sector, say analysts, as institutions that have taken over or bought others seek to align their […]

The crisis hitting the financial industry is expected to result in slashed IT spending, predicted Robert Iati, TABB Group partner and a global head of the consulting firm, in a report just released. Securities industry IT spending in North America will fall from $21.9 billion this year to $17.9 billion in 1009, Iati predicted. This […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today unveiled the database vendor’s newest foray into the hardware business, and hopefully this one will fare better than Oracle’s Network Computer effort of the late 1990s. In his keynote speech at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, being held at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, Ellison announced the HP Oracle […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle’s got a new stinger to use against Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) market share with Exchange Server and SharePoint products, thanks to its BEA acquisition. It’s called Oracle Beehive, which Oracle’s president Charles Phillips described as a collaboration server that runs on Windows, Linux and Unix and supports third party applications. Beehive was […]

CEO Larry Ellison Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps will pop in to Oracle OpenWorld 2008, but the emphasis will be on BEA, BEA, and BEA all the way. The conference will be held at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco today through Thursday. The emphasis will be on BEA because its middleware products are […]

VMware may include a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as part of its offerings but partner IBM beat it to the punch in finding a way to leverage the technology. IBM has created a component based on VMware’s VDI that slashes VDI storage requirements by up to 80 percent, it announced at VMworld 2008, the VMware […]

When VMware (NYSE: VMW) invited archrivals Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) to VMworld 2008, its user conference being held in Las Vegas through Thursday, everyone was surprised. Sure, VMware is trying to show it’s open, but being this open could be a recipe for trouble for the virtualization kingpin. And that trouble […]