Richard Adhikari

With the recession putting downward pressure on IT and software development budgets, more application developers than ever are expected to begin working on virtualization projects, according to research firm Evans Data. In its new North American Development Survey, released today, the firm said that 51 percent of the of 400 North American developers it surveyed […]

Fifteen companies, including some leading high-tech vendors, have launched the Web Services Test Forum (WSTF) to speed up Web services interoperability testing among their products. They include IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), TIBCO (NASDAQ: TIBX), and automaker Ford Motor (NYSE: F). “We view this as a complement […]

Despite the growing number of data breaches reported by U.S. businesses, corporate database security is still not up to scratch. Sixty-seven percent of the 179 companies surveyed by Enterprise Strategy Group said they had suffered one or more confidential data breaches within the past 12 months. Yet many appear satisfied with their security precautions, ESG […]

A bipartisan think tank is calling on the incoming Obama administration to enact sweeping changes in U.S. cybersecurity policy — a move that aims to close holes in the nation’s and federal government’s Internet infrastructure. But the changes could also enforce tough new requirements on agencies and U.S. businesses, according to the recommendations from the […]

In a move that will open up new vistas for application developers, Salesforce.com, which now styles itself the enterprise cloud computing company, today expanded its global strategic alliance with Google. The on-demand CRM firm has announced the availability of its Force.com platform as a service (PaaS) for the Google App Engine application development platform, which […]

The latest Koobface virus attack on Facebook grabbing headlines this week, was actually spawned by an earlier attack back in October, according to a security expert. “This is the result of the virus seeding users’ computers the last time they hit Facebook,” Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of threat research at antivirus software vendor Fortinet told […]

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Obama’s recently named appointee to head the Department of Homeland Security.Source: Arizona governor’s office Though it is charged with keeping America safe, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has also run up a record of high-profile failures during its short history. Its role in the response to Hurricane Katrina, followed by […]

Photo source: Reuters For the second time in recent months, President-elect Barack Obama’s records were illegally accessed by employees of the organization responsible for maintaining them. This time, nine workers at the Illinois Secretary of State’s office are being fingered as the culprits. The office did not release the names of those involved. State officials […]

Hammered by the global recession, players in the IT industry will have to undergo radical changes to simply survive, according to research firm IDC. But that’s not bad news for everyone. Enterprises and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) may be poised reap the benefits of a transforming IT industry — in the form of new […]

As data breaches continue to hit the headlines, Microsoft and RSA today said they would integrate data protection products in a deepening of their long-standing relationship. As a result, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will embed the data-classification engine of RSA’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite into existing and future products. It also said it would tightly […]

As companies begin moving to the cloud to hold down costs in this recession, they are grappling with the question of whether to opt for internal or external clouds. Often, enterprise users plunk down a credit card and use an external cloud service like Amazon’s S2 because that circumvents the need to wait for IT […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Can Twitter survive? Can it make money? The questions are about as common these days as stories about the micro-blogging service’s popularity. If you’re asking Twitter’s CEO and co-founder, Evan Williams, here’s your reply. “We’ve moved revenue higher on the list of priorities,” Williams said. “We’re looking at getting revenue in Q1.” […]