Richard Adhikari

Over the past few years, more of Apple Macs computers (desktops and notebooks) have been making their way into the enterprise through the back door, i.e. not necessarily with IT’s approval. Increasingly, users familiar with the iPod andiPhone (including company executives and managers) have either purchased Macs for their departments or have pushed IT to […]

These days, you can’t look far without seeing a vendor offering solutions that comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) 6.6. One of 12 Payment Card Industry, or PCI, requirements, PCI-DSS 6.6 aims to ensure that data entered from untrusted environments into Web applications is fully inspected. To secure transactions by debit and […]

Microsoft has not just released the cat among the pigeons by releasing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it is the cat among the pigeons. Both its allies and its competitors are fluttering about and squawking at the news. Microsoft’s supporters are, understandably, happy to be able to stretch their wings, while its competitors are keeping a […]

Sun Microsystems has added business roles to its flagship provisioning software package, in a move aimed at bringing it to parity with a slew of competitors in the hot market for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) tools. With the release of version 8.0 of Sun Identity Manager, the company becomes one of the latest to […]

As laptops become more commonplace in the enterprise, so are security holes. It’s almost impossible to prevent a user from logging on to unsecured wireless networks or download applications from the Web or CDs onto their laptops. That has led enterprises to add endpoint security into their overall security strategy. “Most attacks to the enterprise […]

UPDATED: Just nine months after Oracle first announced its Optimized Warehouse Initiative to help accelerate data warehouse deployments, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has introduced its entry into the market. The HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative (OOWI) will be available in July and comes in capacities of 1 terabyte (TB) to 4TB. HP claims it’s […]

For the seventh straight year, IBM is the worldwide market leader in the enterprise portal software market, according to figures recently released by Gartner. Its WebSphere Portal had sales of $351.9 million, or about 33.4 percent of the overall market which totaled $1.1 billion in 2007. However, Oracle’s acquisition of BEA Systems for $8.5 billion […]

As enterprises move toward virtualization, they add yet another layer of complexity to IT systems management. Increasingly, enterprises are looking to manage virtual machines (VMs) and their physical environment together. Netuitive, which offers tools to manage virtual and physical environments, now offers enterprises the ability to correlate data from both together to get a holistic […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The partnership between Google and Salesforce.com took another step forward with the announcement here that developers writing applications on the Force.com platform can now leverage Google APIs within their applications. Previously, this had not been possible because the two systems, Force.com and Google APIs, could not communicate directly — so a […]

For IT staff in global enterprises, adding a new employee is far more involved than finding a desk and a chair for the new hire. Typically, it means huddling over spreadsheets, muttering to themselves as they figure out what changes to make to access rights and policies while taking into account a labyrinthine array of […]

Security software and consulting vendor Panda is tracking the latest Constructor/Wormer worm threat, and its approach by malware networks to entice script kiddies to their bidding. The bad guys in this case are cyber criminals, who target databases and banks. Unleashing applications that make it easy to create malware isn’t quite new, but their approaches […]

You’d think that only countries have five-year economic plans, but business software maker SAP is right up there with them. And with its large workforce of more than 51,000 employees in 50 countries, why not? In 2005, SAP (NYSE: SAP) launched an ambitious five-year plan to double its market through joint innovation with its partners. […]