David Needle

These aren’t your father’s printers. That seems to be HP’s mantra with its recent moves in the printer space, as it moves to update a staid, if profitable, line of products for the era of cloud computing and the mobile workforce. This week, HP is out with a new line of printers geared for on-the-go […]

As they look to crack the enterprise market, cloud vendors have been struggling to convince prospective clients that their offerings are as secure as traditional software and services. Many firms are reluctant to adopt technology that takes their most precious data and processes outside of the company firewall. Google has been right there, fighting to […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Cloud-based software-as-a-service offerings are sprouting up like weeds, but for IT managers, avoiding the trap of getting locked into a single vendor’s solution can be a challenge. Appirio thinks it has an answer. The firm’s new CloudWorks solution aims to enable […]

Innovation comes from many sources. At this week’s DEMO conference, a number of innovative startup companies showed off products and services that may prove to be worthwhile alternatives to the vastly more established offerings they hope to displace. While the DEMO conference has had its share of misses over the years, it’s also been the […]

The first quarter was kind to Oracle, with new software licenses and an expanding hardware business combining to lift the database giant’s earnings 38 percent ahead of last year. The earnings come amid the ongoing integration of Sun Microsystems and fresh on the heels of the hiring of former HP CEO Mark Hurd. Next week […]

Enterprise IT buyers don’t lack for choices when it comes to buying technology. In addition to the vendors they already use, competitors and startups aggressively pursue IT buyers to try and win a piece of their business. At the DEMO conference, a panel of two CIO’s and one CTO discussed their approach to buying technology […]

One size rarely fits all when it comes to enterprise software. Different companies may, for example, use the same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, but there’s a good deal of customization required to make it work effectively and meet a specific company’s needs. The latest new products from SAP leverage the enterprise software provider’s experience […]

Intel ushered in this week’s Intel Developer Forum with a tantalizing display of the capabilities it expects to unleash with its new Sandy Bridge processor technology. With a design that merges integrated graphics onto the CPU, Sandy Bridge is poised to begin appearing in desktops and notebooks by early next year. And if Intel executives […]

Wasn’t the on-demand model of the cloud and software as a service supposed to knock down the barriers to software distribution? That was the promise, but according to a new survey, workers at medium and large-scale businesses still experience significant delays when they request new software. Analysts highlight the inefficiencies of the slow distribution model, […]

Someone at Google played a funny joke back in 2000 with a fake screen at the company’s home page that was supposed to show how the search engine could anticipate a user’s search request before he or she even typed it. “It was our April Fools joke,” recalled Google executive Marissa Mayer, at the launch […]

HP isn’t through with Mark Hurd just yet. The tech industry’s largest player yesterday filed a lawsuit against Oracle, charging that its hiring of former HP CEO Mark Hurd will lead to leaked trade secrets. It’s the latest development in a series of controversies surrounding the departure of Hurd from HP, the company that he’s […]

Plenty of skeptics weighed in following Oracle’s announcement last year that it planned to buy Sun Microsystems. As the critics were quick to point out, Sun’s sales had slumped and Oracle faced a major challenge in both absorbing the company and transforming itself from software and services to a supplier of complete systems, competing directly […]