Richard Adhikari

At VMworld 2008 Monday, VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) user conference being held through Thursday in Las Vegas, the virtualization giant unveiled strategies aimed squarely at the enterprise amid a backdrop of increasing competition from players like Microsoft. Those strategies center around VMware’s Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), its combination of infrastructure, application and cloud services for […]

Is there a need for a separate EULA (end user license agreement) in the open source Mozilla browser? To date there has been, but that EULA is going to change very soon. In a conversation with InternetNews.com, Mitchell Baker, chairperson of Mozilla, admitted that Mozilla may not need both the EULA and open source license, […]

Terry Childs, the system administrator who is in jail awaiting trial for, in effect, holding San Francisco’s fiber-optic wide area network hostage back in July, continues to darken the lives of members of the city’s IT department. Childs had installed equipment on the network without authorization and essentially taken it over, creating a super password, […]

Terry Childs, the system administrator who is in jail awaiting trial for, in effect, holding San Francisco’s fiber-optic wide area network hostage back in July, continues to darken the lives of members of the city’s IT department. Childs had installed equipment on the network without authorization and essentially taken it over, creating a super password, […]

Thirty percent of enterprises cut IT spending and only 12 percent spent more than planned in the third quarter, according to the latest ChangeWave Research survey of nearly 1,500 respondents involved with IT spending in August. For the fourth quarter, 29 percent say their companies will cut or stop IT spending and 13 percent say […]

Enterprises have been struggling for years to leverage all the information on business processes they have stored away in order to conduct business better. The problem is much of this information is created in unstructured documents, such as spreadsheets and word processing documents, rather than in a database, making it difficult to control and manage. […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) this week gave further signs that it’s ready to challenge virtualization leader VMware on its home turf, taking the wraps off its Hyper-V Server 2008 and revealing that another key virtualization component is only weeks away. The company said Hyper-V Server 2008 will be available free on the Web, while System Center […]

SAN FRANCISCO – As expected, new and interesting products were on display today in the Demo Pit at TechCrunch50, being held at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse through Wednesday. They include a site that lets companies pay people around the world securely, an online selection-based search system that speeds up online search, and a […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The winds of change are blowing through collaborative software, and they’re blowing pretty hard. Here at the Office 2.0 conference, Adobe Systems and Joblogs previewed their approaches, which are strikingly similar. They both offer real time collaboration. Both use mash-ups and provide ease of use well beyond today’s collaborative systems, which Joblogs […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As more enterprises incorporate cloud computing (define) into their IT infrastructure, the number of clouds will proliferate, and there will be “thousands of clouds deployed out in the world,” Dell executive Forrest Norrod said at a press briefing here this week. Many will be owned by enterprises on their premises, and others […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – SAP said it plans to aggressively pursue new markets with a slew of innovative new technologies for its troubled Business ByDesign on-demand suite of products for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. When SAP first detailed its plans for Business ByDesign a year ago, it was met with tepid reviews. “When […]

As enterprises virtualize their data centers to cut costs and consolidate their servers, they may be setting themselves for big trouble. According to the latest disaster recovery research report from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), based on surveys of 1000 IT managers in large organizations worldwide, 35 percent of an organization’s virtual servers are not included in […]