Richard Adhikari

Over the past few years, more of Apple Macs computers (desktops and notebooks) have been making their way into the enterprise through the back door, i.e. not necessarily with IT’s approval. Increasingly, users familiar with the iPod andiPhone (including company executives and managers) have either purchased Macs for their departments or have pushed IT to […]

Microsoft has not just released the cat among the pigeons by releasing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it is the cat among the pigeons. Both its allies and its competitors are fluttering about and squawking at the news. Microsoft’s supporters are, understandably, happy to be able to stretch their wings, while its competitors are keeping a […]

As enterprises move toward virtualization, they add yet another layer of complexity to IT systems management. Increasingly, enterprises are looking to manage virtual machines (VMs) and their physical environment together. Netuitive, which offers tools to manage virtual and physical environments, now offers enterprises the ability to correlate data from both together to get a holistic […]

For IT staff in global enterprises, adding a new employee is far more involved than finding a desk and a chair for the new hire. Typically, it means huddling over spreadsheets, muttering to themselves as they figure out what changes to make to access rights and policies while taking into account a labyrinthine array of […]

You’d think that only countries have five-year economic plans, but business software maker SAP is right up there with them. And with its large workforce of more than 51,000 employees in 50 countries, why not? In 2005, SAP (NYSE: SAP) launched an ambitious five-year plan to double its market through joint innovation with its partners. […]

In a move that will strengthen its position in management applications for enterprise, BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) has acquired ITM software. The acquisition of ITM is the latest in a series of strategic purchases by BMC dating back to at least 2004, as the company jockeys for position in the enterprise software management market. The […]

The typical enterprise has almost a 70 percent chance of not being in compliance with its software-license agreements, and it has a 60 percent chance of having unlicensed software deployed. These findings, from a survey of more than 350 IT professionals conducted recently by King Research, aren’t just troubling; they could spell big trouble for […]

True, VMware (NYSE: VMW) dominates the market now, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling on with its plans to build an ecosystem of third-party developers to flesh out its offerings. At Tech-Ed Pro, held in Florida this week, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, discussed the company’s various moves in […]

VMware will include support for Mac OS X Leopard Server in VMware Fusion’s next beta. Users will be able to run as many copies of Mac OS X Server on their Apple Macintoshes as their RAM (random access memory) will support, or run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the Mac. VMware Fusion already lets users […]

When enterprises implement virtualization in their datacenters, they can drastically reduce the number of physical servers they have, as physical servers are only switched on and deployed when business needs peak. This has led to savings, but also to a new problem: Provisioning (define) a virtual machine (VM) from a physical server is much easier […]

At its Tech-Ed for Professionals summit, being held in Florida this week, Microsoft unveiled the first public beta version of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2. This product will handle the entire identity life cycle, from provisioning new users to deployment to termination. It provides a much-needed solution in the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) space in enterprises, but whether […]

Managing virtual machines (VMs) has always been difficult because existing tools for managing the physical environment don’t work well with them. It’s difficult to know what’s going on in a VM or to track VM clones that have been created. Version 2.0 of ManageIQ’s Enterprise Virtualization Management (EVM) suite, released yesterday, makes these, and other […]