Alex Goldman

Citrix wants to deliver applications to couch potatoes. The company today said that ordering an enterprise app should be as easy as buying a song on Apple’s iTunes service or ordering a movie on DISH Network’s DirecTV service. “Consumerization will change the face of enterprise computing,” said Wes Wasson, Citrix’s (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief marketing officer, […]

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara got a rare glimpse into the Internet’s seamy underside earlier this year when they successfully hijacked a botnet — and learned key details that may help the IT industry better protect itself from similar threats. The researchers, from the computer science department at the University of […]

IBM is increasing its bet on data discovery with today’s acquisition of Exeros, a privately held company that specializes in helping businesses find connections between data held in multiple databases. For IBM (NYSE: IBM), the acquisition aims to capitalize on the fact that enterprise environments are complex, and that while companies have a lot of […]

The mainframe continues to defy declarations of its demise and have found new life, rejuvenated by cloud computing and virtualization technologies, but some of the software hasn’t changed in decades — and the same can be said about the people who run them. “The Achilles heel of the mainframe is that the management infrastructure and […]

The Department of Defense has confirmed that its cybersecurity outreach program to vital companies will grow this year. The program, called the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Security Task Force was established in early September 2007 “to more effectively mitigate the risk to DoD information on DIB unclassified networks,” wrote Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh in […]

IBM is gearing up to profit from what it sees as a coming paralysis in the industry stemming from Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The company announced a further commitment to its Sun migration program — a bounty-based effort that offers customers $8,000 worth of software or services per processor if they trade in […]

PBX vendors and collaboration app makers have been put on notice: Oracle is adding several new features to its Beehive enterprise collaboration software, including unified communications and Web-based collaboration. The features don’t come cheap from Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). The product starts at $50 per user for basic features plus $30 per user for Beehive Team […]

U.S. officials urged citizens to stay informed about the situation, to be prepared, and to consult their doctor if they get sick. As the World Health Organization raises the swine flu alert level to 5, meaning “pandemic imminent,” government officials noted that it means that although the disease is contagious, it is not at pandemic […]

There’s a lot being said about swine flu on the Internet — but as with any hot topic on the Web, there’s also a lot of noise. A Nielsen report earlier this week noted “the chatter about swine flu even dwarfs that of recent viral media star Susan Boyle.” Just try to follow the traffic […]

Sometimes a key piece of information slips by in a press release without anyone realizing its significance. A release issued at the recent RSA security conference ended up disclosing a major data security program that is vital to national security. The release was to announce Robert Lentz, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information […]

Cloud computing and virtualization can save money, but the environments aren’t easy to manage. The security challenges of dynamic datacenters drove Trend Micro’s acquisition of Third Brigade yesterday. Today, IBM is answering the provisioning challenges of rapidly changing datacenters with its IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance Priced at $45,000, the appliance will deliver pre-fabricated software images […]

The nation’s largest broadband providers may worry about the future but for the moment, Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, continues earning money and adding customers. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) today reported first-quarter earnings of $0.27 per share, beating estimates of $0.23 per share according to Thomson Reuters. The company’s broadband and digital phone businesses […]