Alex Goldman

NEW YORK — The Software as a Service business model is changing the way software is purchased and deployed by enterprise customers, experts told an audience of technology professionals here at the IDC Software as a Service Summit earlier this week. Subscription software has been available on the Internet for years. What’s new is the […]

Virtualization’s long been touted as a major way for enterprises to cut management, hardware and power costs while improving utilization. But it’s on this last point — the energy-savings angle — where enterprise giants like VMware and Microsoft are focusing much of their energy of late. But while they’re both pushing virtualization as a key […]

NEW YORK — Companies that buy and sell search ads are looking for value beyond the click. That might seem to contradict the highly trackable, click-based pricing model on which the industry today hinges. But it’s a major change now facing the search market, potentially pitting clients and search engines against agencies, according to a […]

NEW YORK — Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff arrived here to bring his insurgent message to the press and to Wall Street. Speaking yesterday in a room at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers packed with clients, prospective customers, partners, analysts, bloggers (there was a Jeff Jarvis sighting), and press, Benioff mapped out […]

NEW YORK — It’s no surprise that datacenters consume power and money, and IT teams are being asked to make do with less of both. Fortunately, there are plenty of strategies, from co-generation to virtualization, that can help them meet this challenge, experts told the financial industry during last week’s seminar of the Wall Street […]

While some are arguing that Sun brings synergies, technologies, and a wealth of talent to IBM, others argue that the deal is all about reducing competition. As the Internet industry is fearing greater regulation and awaiting consolidation, IBM’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has set pulses racing. “This is a mature market transaction,” Pip Coburn of […]

NEW YORK — Twitter gets a lot of buzz, but it has a small number of active users compared to other social media and any business that operates on the platform depends upon Twitter’s open API . “If they shut down the API, we’re done tomorrow,” admitted Thomas Buchar, vice president of business development at […]

There’s a mountain of cash available to stimulate the deployment of broadband, but as the government allocates the money, it will have to make a tough choice between handing it to established monopolies or supporting innovative upstarts. The question now for the government is will the money go to companies like Comcast, nation’s largest ISP/ […]

Enterprise IT spending may be down, but if the investment in new products by software vendors is any indication, the market for enterprise search remains strong. Earlier this week, database activity monitoring specialist Imperva announced several upgrades to its core software and enterprise search giant Autonomy announced the completion of the acquisition of Web site […]

NEW YORK — As mobile phones become more like PCs, Internet companies are betting that they’ll find a new medium in which to thrive. But that’s still some time away, experts said here today at the ThinkMobile conference and expo. After all, mobile advertisers and content providers have barely begun to bring the techniques that […]

Cable TV and ISP giant Comcast is moving to limit the fallout from a data breach that could have exposed hundreds of its customers’ account passwords online. The breach came about thanks to a list of Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) customers’ account names and passwords that had been posted to Scribd, a Web site for publishing […]

Computer and telecom chipset giant Broadcom today unveiled a new design platform for landline Voice over IP (VoIP) phones, bundling chips and other components together in a recipe that promises to add in the kinds of features now associated with advanced, Net-enabled mobile phones. The chief thrust behind Broadcom‘s (NASDAQ: BRCM) new Persona design platform […]