Richard Adhikari

Security breaches have struck both President-elect Barack Obama and the Pentagon, with both cases pointing to holes in policy, tracking and enforcement, according to observers. In Obama’s case, Verizon Wireless employees stole a peek at his old cell phone records, leading Lowell McAdam, the company’s president and CEO, to apologize and promise retribution. The Pentagon, […]

Despite the worldwide economic malaise, which has resulted in major vendors being unwilling to issue guidance during their recent earnings calls, Salesforce.com is confident about the future. It should be. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader reported net income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, for the quarter ended Oct. 31, up from $6.5 million, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Memo to enterprises moving toward service oriented architecture (SOA) as a way to slash costs. You’re going about it the wrong way, some software experts claimed today. “Today, SOA data access is layered on top of traditional data APIs (application programming interfaces)” such as embedded SQL,” said Rob Steward, vice president […]

At a time when mainframe sales are going strong, CA has announced Mainframe 2.0, an initiative to simplify its tools for managing IBM’s mainframe z/OS operating system. Mainframe 2.0 combines enhancements to CA’s (NASDAQ: CA) mainframe management solutions with new turnkey management services. “A lot of sites have doubled and quadrupled mainframe workloads, but staffing […]

Salesforce is teaming up with Facebook to let customers leverage their employees’ Facebook friends. That will help companies find better employees and, not unexpectedly, upsell to their employees friends and friends of customers. Salesforce users who build applications on Facebook will get immediate access to the social networking site’s 120 million users worldwide, and be […]

Microsoft today declared its surrender in the war for the retail security software market. It has announced that it will stop selling Windows Live OneCare, its software as a service (SaaS) suite that offers maintenance, backup and performance tuning in addition to security, by the end of June. Instead it will offer Morro, a lightweight […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Although the current economic malaise may spell opportunity for Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors, they will have to work hard for it, providing service above and beyond traditional availability agreements. “People expect the system to be up and running 24×7, 365, but even if we do that, it’s possible for […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Not many sectors of the tech economy think the current economic malaise service will be good for them, but Software as a Service SaaS vendors might weather the storm better than most as enterprises look to save on IT spending. Measuring SaaS success can be tricky though. “The model is entirely […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a shaky economic climate widely expected to propel a faster shift to cost-cutting virtualization and cloud computing technologies, Marc Benioff is singing full-throated praises of the cloud. “The most important thing happening today is that platforms are moving off premise and into the cloud,” said the feisty chairman and CEO […]

UPDATED: John W. Thompson, the CEO of antivirus and security software company Symantec, will retire from the post as of the end of the company’s fiscal year, the company announced today. Thompson, 59, will be replaced as CEO by Enrique T. Salem, the company’s chief operating officer, but will remain chairman of the board of […]

For years, the Sinowal Trojan has stymied efforts by antivirus vendors and security experts to hunt it down. In the meantime, it has gone about its business of stealing credentials from about 500,000 bank accounts, according to security experts. Antivirus vendor Authentium thinks it might have built a better mousetrap that will protect users against […]

Researchers with the British Computer Society (BCS) claim to have cracked the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) wireless security standard and will reveal their findings at the PacSec conference to be held in Tokyo next week. Researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck say they broke the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that provides WPA security, in […]