Alex Goldman

NEW YORK — The mobile enterprise industry isn’t just about one company anymore. “It used to be that if you asked a CIO about their mobile strategy, they’d say it was RIM,” said Sybase CEO John Chen at the New York Stock Exchange today. “Today, with the iPhone and other devices, things have changed.” That […]

Oracle today admitted that its virtualization product lacked key virtualization management and efficiency features but promised that those features will soon be added by using new technology gained through the acquisition of Virtual Iron. The acquisition of Virtual Iron is expected to close by the summer. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) said in a statement that it […]

NEW YORK — Google might be the undisputed leader in Web search, but its role in enterprise search is far less certain. But that’s not stopping the company from developing a vision for search in the enterprise that’s just as far-reaching as its role in the consumer market. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) sees it ultimately touching […]

IBM’s new System S can help the oil industry predict the sanding of a drill bit, the medical industry foretell the onset of an illness in premature babies, astrophysicists locate the beginning of a solar flare, and banks execute global trading strategies in real time — all in ways that were never possible before, the […]

SAP is betting on green solutions to boost the bottom line — both in its own business and customers’. The German software giant today announced the acquisition of Clear Standards, a provider of carbon footprint tracking software. SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Clear Standards did not disclose financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close […]

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Click to enlarge. Source: SAP. Enterprise software giant SAP is likely better known for delivering detail-oriented software than for focusing on ease of use. But today in his keynote at SAP’s SAPPHIRE Orlando conference, Léo Apotheker, co-CEO of SAP, presented the company’s BusinessObjects Explorer solution, designed to simplify sifting through reams of information. The software […]

Salesforce.com issued its Summer ’09 release today with many new upgrades built around three core features: workflow optimization; contact center collaboration; and improved charting. The new release will roll out during June of 2009 across, server by server across the Salesforce.com cloud. Rather than focus on any one feature of the new release, executives said […]

The alternative to backing up data to a remote data center is storing it on the PC in the adjacent cubicle at work or on a family member’s computer at home, says Rob Ellison, CEO of backup software provider Cucku, a company whose name is pronounced like the bird. Local backup has two major advantages […]

Officials at the University of California at Berkeley on Friday began notifying students and the public that hackers had breached a healthcare database at the school, potentially gaining access to the personal information of up to 160,000 students dating back to 1999. Complicating matters: The breach is thought to have initially occurred months ago, on […]

Facing extremely tight deadlines, state and local government entities are bracing for their integration into the Recovery.gov Web site which will track every dollar of the stimulus as mandated by the stimulus bill, also known as the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). State and local agencies make their first report on October 10, 2009 […]