Alex Goldman

NEW YORK — If you’re an IT manager, cloud computing will fundamentally change your job, said Hal Stern, Sun vice president of engineering, in a speech at the technology management conference of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) here Wednesday. “With services, we are leaving the hardware world,” Stern said. He meant that […]

NEW YORK — Frank Abagnale, whose life story was the inspiration for the movie “Catch Me If You Can” about an imposter on the run from the FBI, spoke about crime today at the technology management conference of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). The former imposter and thief has now worked for […]

Oracle’s Virtual Iron acquisition demonstrated the company’s commitment to virtualization, and now the company has shown it’s ready to take on cloud computing. CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the company’s plans for cloud computing during a feisty earnings call in which he boasted of wins over most of Oracle’s competitors. Those plans start with being number […]

As companies learn to manage customer expectations and supply chain risks in a Web 2.0 and hyper-extended enterprise environment, software can help. Oracle this week announced the general availability of Oracle Real-Time Decisions 3.0, designed to help organizations make better use of their data in customer service, and Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3, designed […]

As the cloud brings enterprise applications together, it also gives companies new competitors. Today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (among other cloud app providers) faced off at the Enterprise 2.0 conference over cloud-based applications. Scoring an upset over Google Apps was IBM’s LotusLive Connections, which is so new it’s not available until June 30, […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime, a service the company also calls “Sametime 3D.” The service allows users to interact in a virtual environment. Think of it as an instant messaging conference call with virtual hair. “Today people use synchronous messaging for a variety of different business purposes,” Bob Picciano, IBM […]

At first, technology appeared to be playing a positive role in Iran’s uprising, giving protesters an online voice through services such as Twitter. Now, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Nokia Siemens provided Iran’s government with the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology it needs to monitor communications and crush dissent in an article […]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) topped Wall Street expectations for its fourth quarter, shrugging off the persistent economic malaise gripping the IT industry to post impressive numbers. The company reported earnings after charges of $1.9 billion, or $0.38 per share, a drop of 7 percent from last year. Earnings before charges declined only 1 percent to $0.46 […]

With Asian mobile carriers already fighting a rising tide of wireless spam, Cloudmark is looking to get ahead of the deluge before it arrives on other shores, courtesy of the longtime antispam player’s new MobileAuthority service. Today’s debut of Cloudmark MobileAuthority comes as the latest sign that mobile spam is increasingly in the spotlight as […]

Earlier this year, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem made a splash at the RSA security conference when he said that enterprise security is broken. Today, Symantec is fixing one of the holes Salem identified with its Symantec Managed Endpoint Protection Services. Symantec will monitor the performance of a trio of enterprise software products — Symantec Antivirus […]