Richard Adhikari

A slew of contenders old and new are coming out swinging in the market for add-on software and services for virtualization. The latest contenders looking for a share of the enterprise virtualization dollar are focusing on monitoring and management software and virtualized test management. These are key support technologies to ensure compliance and make sure […]

August 8, 2008, the day the Olympics will kick off, is auspicious to the Chinese — their word for eight is faat, which sounds like their word for wealth, and that repeated four times is a mighty powerful mantra. But it could spell woe for corporations, as they may have to scramble to ensure their […]

IBM today announced that it will build an advanced datacenter in its Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, N.C., facility for $360 million. This will be the first datacenter to be built with the computer giant’s New Enterprise Datacenter design principles. The New Enterprise Datacenter platform is a fusion of Google’s Webcentric cloud approach and the MySpace […]

While crime fighters are buzzing about malware , SQL injections , phishing and other similarly fascinating acts by cybercriminals, the really bad guys are within the corporate firewalls. A study conducted in late 2007 by ID Analytics, which offers identity intelligence on demand, found that from three to 36 percent of identities stolen by internal […]

By 2013, 90 percent of e-commerce sites will use at least one product from software as a service, or SaaS vendors, according to a Gartner report released today. And 40 percent of e-commerce sites will use a complete SaaS solution. These sites will be put up mainly by SMBs and smaller companies, although some large […]

Brabeion is the latest vendor to offer a solution to corporations looking for relief from the burden of regulatory compliance. In Brabeion’s case, its governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution comes in Software as a Service (SaaS) form. Brabeion On Demand, released today, is designed for enterprises that want to jump-start their GRC efforts. This […]

In a move that will boost VMware’s efforts around compliance, log data management and intelligence specialist LogLogic has signed on to the virtualization giant’s Technology Alliance Program (TAP). The pairing could help VMware (NYSE: VMW) customers improve compliance with PCI-DSS, the credit card industry’s security standard, as well as ensure compliance with other governmental regulations. […]

Instead of putting up their own Web sites, malicious hackers are now focusing their efforts on corrupting legitimate sites. A survey released today, and conducted between January and June by messaging- and data-protection firm Websense, found that hackers compromised 50 percent more legitimate Web sites during this period than between July and December 2007. According […]

Less than two weeks ago, new VMware CEO Paul Maritz announced in the firm’s second quarter earnings call that the next version of its ESXi hypervisor would be free. Today, the company delivered as it unveiled the latest version of its ESXi 3.5 hypervisor, Version 2.5, available at no charge. The act itself was not […]

For the past 10 years, IBM has incorporated various Ilog technologies into several of its products, including its WebSphere Process Server business process management (BPM) suite, and now with IBM’s pending acquisition of the French software vendor, the two companies are as one. IBM’s purchase of Ilog continues the trend of acquisitions in the attractive […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — As enterprises move more heavily into virtualization, they will have to overhaul their data backup and disaster recovery strategies because these won’t apply so well to the new virtualized world. That’s the case Deepak Mohan, senior vice president of Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) data protection group, made in a press briefing here […]

There is little agreement about where software-as-a-service is headed and what vendors in this space should do. Participants at a panel titled “Will The Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?” held at the AlwaysOn summit at Stanford University, had different views on these topics. The panelists acknowledged that SaaS vendors are finding it difficult to penetrate […]