Alex Goldman

Larry Ellison, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) CEO and founder, will take a base salary of $1 for fiscal year 2010, which started on June 1, 2009, according to a recent SEC filing. That’s down from a $1 million base salary for each of the previous three years. But the base salary is just a small part of […]

In the run-up to the VMworld conference next week, some companies are addressing fundamental private cloud problems with basic virtualization controls. rPath will be showing off an application deployment engine that can streamline the development process and generate images for any environment, from the traditional server to the public cloud to the private cloud hypervisor […]

Platform Computing today announced that it has acquired the HP-MPI (Message Passing Interface) technology from HP (NYSE:HPQ), boosting its portfolio of grid management technologies. “The acquisition of HP-MPI enables Platform to continue its leadership in HPC by offering customers an industry-leading tool to improve application performance through parallel processing,” said Songnian Zhou, Platform Computing CEO, […]

The Open Group today announced two new frameworks to assist organizations in the adoption of a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, an SOA Governance Framework to help companies develop SOA strategies, and the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) to help companies evaluate those strategies. The frameworks were led by executives from the companies that […]

Tales from the frontline of companies deploying virtualization were among the highlights of a webinar this week sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. Constraints on physical space and power in the datacenter were among the key reasons companies participating in a panel discussion gave for moving to virtualization technology. “We adopted virtualization initially to handle backup and fault […]

Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) today proved that some companies can keep growing even in these tough times. For its quarter ending July 31, the company posted record revenue of $316.1 million, up 20 percent from a year ago. Income totaled $21.2 million, or $0.17 per share, beating Wall Street estimates by two cents, according to Thomson […]

I’ve said it before here but now that a professional security specialist is talking about it (see Twitter spammers post sexy profile pictures) people should take notice. Twitter has not responded to a request for comment but it’s still early in sunny California. Meanwhile, it’s obvious that a group of spam bots are using sexy […]

Storage provider NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today named a new CEO in the wake of weeks of mixed developments — including a bruising war for control of Data Domain last month, and today, better-than-expected quarterly results. The company said Tom Georgens now becomes its new president and CEO, while Dan Warmenhoven, who had served as chief […]

It’s already happened again. One week ago, ProPay warned readers of the benefits of end to end encryption in securing credit cards. Just yesterday, experts commenting on the Heartland hacker indictment told InternetNews.com that in the future, hackers would attack businesses who did not see IT security as their core competence. Today, Radisson hotels is […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) showed staying power during its third fiscal quarter, narrowly beating Wall Street estimates and reporting profit down only slightly from the same quarter last year, despite the harsher business climate. The company reported non-GAAP earnings of $2.2 billion or $0.91 per share, beating estimates by a penny, according to Thomson Financial. Revenue […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three hackers with the theft of over 130 million credit cards through data breaches that compromised businesses including Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and supermarket chain owner Hannaford Bros. One of the three, Albert Gonzalez, is already awaiting trial in jail after having been earlier charged with the attack […]

A majority of IT practitioners feel their company lacks adequate policies, procedures, and security techniques in managing threats to data in development environments. That’s according to a study of IT pros conducted and released today by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Micro Focus. The results of the survey are no surprise, Larry Ponemon, chairman […]