Richard Adhikari

It’s Patch Tuesday today, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has released fixes for 11 security flaws — six of which are rated “critical,” the top-level alert, while the remainder rank as “important.” The 11 security bulletins together cover a total of 26 vulnerabilities, making this Patch Tuesday one of the broadest in recent memory. Microsoft has […]

Listen up, boys and girls, the mainframe is not dead; in fact, it’s very much alive. Every few years, people predict that the mainframe is on its last legs and will be taken over by the technology du jour. That replacement technology has ranged over the years from client-server computing to Web-based computing, and, now, […]

In the little world I inhabit, all the people spent the weekend watching the Olympics. From the opening ceremonies Friday through the last showings we could catch Sunday and still get enough sleep to get into work on time. Tired, sleepy-eyed but on time. The medal fever mounted as the weekend wore on, and, by […]

Seven months after buying BEA Systems for $8.5 billion, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced the first product incorporating BEA technologies into its own, the Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3. It is the cornerstone of the Oracle WebLogic Suite, which will be a foundation for enterprise applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) , Oracle said. SOA is […]

IBM has unveiled eDiscovery Manager, a software product that lets enterprises manage electronically stored information so that they can retrieve it easily when a legal challenge requires e-discovery. The term e-discovery stands for ‘electronic discovery’ and refers to discovery in civil litigation dealing with information in electronic form. Enterprises are being forced to adopt e-discovery […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Vendors of virtual machines must ensure their products are interoperable, or they will lock customers into yet another proprietary stack, nullifying the promise of anytime, anywhere computing on any platform offered by virtualization. This was the major theme of Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief technology officer Simon Crosby’s keynote speech Thursday at […]

Spammers and cybercriminals are fanning the flames of the Beijing 2008 Olympics frenzy in a bid to get a cut of the take. And enterprises need to act now to avoid getting hammered. The latest attack saw 57 e-mails containing press release and media information that appear to be from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) […]

If setting up and implementing Oracle environments makes your database administrators break out in a sweat, help may be at hand. Yesterday the company announced its VM Templates suite, which combines Oracle’s Database 11G, Enterprise Manager 10g, Siebel CRM 8 and Enterprise Linux. All of the apps come preinstalled and preconfigured. Database administrators just copy […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Like other corporations, enterprise software giant Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is struggling to make its IT operations more flexible and responsive to business needs while simultaneously coping with ever-increasing demand for physical infrastructure and the pressure to cut costs. Its solution has been to consolidate and virtualize its infrastructure and install commodity hardware […]

Source: LinuxWorld SAN FRANCISCO — As enterprises virtualize their environments and move toward the next-generation datacenter, the network will enable this move, Rajiv Ramaswami, vice president and general manager of Cisco, said yesterday. In his keynote speech yesterday at the Next Generation Data Center and LinuxWorld conferences, held concurrently at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Optimists say the best things in life are free; realists say yes, but anything that’s free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source software. Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with. The problem is […]

Symantec today announced that it is buying nSuite, a privately-held virtual workspace management company, in a move some analysts see as a bid to ensure its future. The acquisition, scheduled to close later this month is for an undisclosed amount in cash. As Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) moves into the antivirus and security market with its […]