Richard Adhikari

Apple is crowing in the aftermath its 3G iPhone launch on Friday and the opening of its App Store, the download site for third-party iPhone applications, the day before. The company said today that it tallied 10 million downloads from its App Store since late last week, and has sold one million 3G iPhones so […]

A war of words has erupted between two bitter opponents in the Xen open source-based hypervisor market. Citrix, which owns XenSource and drives the Xen project, has insulted arch-rival Virtual Iron, saying, among other things, that it owns the hypervisor while Virtual Iron just consumes the product. This fired up Virtual Iron’s chief strategy officer […]

Oracle joins the enterprise crowd on the iPhone. Source: Oracle UPDATED: In a move that will heat up the market for mobile access to enterprise applications, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) have announced that some of their business applications will run on the Apple iPhone. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Plus and […]

Well, the mobile apps world has just been stood on its head. The RIM BlackBerry, long the standard for mobile enterprise workers, is now being seriously threatened by the iPhone, which is going to run Oracle business applications. It’s a combination of mobile enterprise underdogs taking on the establishment, consisting of BlackBerry on the wireless […]

UPDATED: Diane Greene’s ouster as CEO of VMware may have been sudden, but it was not a spur-of-the-moment thing; parent company EMC had been planning it for months, observers say. As increasing competition and the ready availability of free hypervisors eroded VMware’s dominant position in the market, the company’s board of directors wanted the technology-driven […]

Connection broker provider VDIworks has just announced a new product that could help strengthen Microsoft’s position in the virtualization sector. The product is a plug-in for System Center, Microsoft’s set of server products that help manage Windows Server and client desktop systems. Called VDIvision for System Center, it aims to bring desktop virtualization management capabilities […]

Diane Greene, who co-founded virtualization darling VMware (NYSE: VMW) in 1998 with husband Mendel Rosenblum and led its successful IPO, has left the company in an abrupt departure that has the industry abuzz. The news was announced by the company’s board of directors today and carried all markings of a CEO who appeared to be […]

Managed IT hosting provider Rackspace has released a bundled solution that will help clients achieve PCI compliance. Clients can buy the entire bundle or get the individual solutions piecemeal. The bundle, known as the PCI Toolbox, consists of standard components such as anti-virus protection, customer network scanning services, firewall services, intrusion detection systems, and log […]

Up to now, enterprises have been cautious about putting data- and transaction-intensive applications such as stock trading on the cloud because managing them has been difficult. Solutions are beginning to appear, however. It’s faster to set up a Web site on the cloud than to go through corporate IT. All users need is a credit […]

VMware Server 2.0, a free virtualization platform formerly known as GSX Server, has hit the Release Candidate 1 mark. This means the entry-level server virtualization product is almost ready for commercial release, and users can download and put the RC1 version to work now. An earlier Beta 2 of the product was released in March. […]

While corporations are struggling with PCI compliance after PCI 6.6 became mandatory June 30, they may be overlooking one of the most critical areas for compliance — passwords. Generally, enterprises do not revoke passwords when their owners move to other departments within the company or leave, resulting in orphaned accounts. But user and system administrator […]

Corporate IT staff had better prepare for a headache as the number of Apple Macs in the enterprise grows. Over the past two years or so, users have increasingly brought the Mac into the enterprise. However, IT staff are not prepared to deal with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Macs, either from a management or a security […]