Richard Adhikari

In a move that will strengthen its position in management applications for enterprise, BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) has acquired ITM software. The acquisition of ITM is the latest in a series of strategic purchases by BMC dating back to at least 2004, as the company jockeys for position in the enterprise software management market. The […]

Over the next few years, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will continue to invest heavily in social computing and enterprise search on its Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform. “We believe social computing is the next wave of collaboration,” Kirk Koenigsbauer, Microsoft’s general manager, Office Business Platform, said in a Webinar providing an update on SharePoint 2007. “This […]

The typical enterprise has almost a 70 percent chance of not being in compliance with its software-license agreements, and it has a 60 percent chance of having unlicensed software deployed. These findings, from a survey of more than 350 IT professionals conducted recently by King Research, aren’t just troubling; they could spell big trouble for […]

VMware will include support for Mac OS X Leopard Server in VMware Fusion’s next beta. Users will be able to run as many copies of Mac OS X Server on their Apple Macintoshes as their RAM (random access memory) will support, or run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the Mac. VMware Fusion already lets users […]

The rapid pace of business requires new approaches to business intelligence (BI). The traditional approach — cleansing data, gathering it in a data warehouse, then having the IT department create reports against it for business users — is much too slow for enterprises to remain competitive. “Big companies like airlines and consulting organizations are looking […]

The Microsoft juggernaut is further shaking up the virtualization arena. True, VMware (NYSE: VMW) dominates the market now, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling on with its plans to build an ecosystem of third-party developers to flesh out its offerings. At Tech-Ed Pro, held in Florida this week, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s […]

When enterprises implement virtualization in their datacenters, they can drastically reduce the number of physical servers they have, as physical servers are only switched on and deployed when business needs peak. This has led to savings, but also to a new problem: Provisioning a virtual machine (VM) from a physical server is much easier than […]

At its Tech-Ed for Professionals summit, being held in Florida this week, Microsoft unveiled the first public beta version of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2. This product will handle the entire identity life cycle, from provisioning new users to deployment to termination. It provides a much-needed solution in the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) space in enterprises, but whether […]

The key word for today is virtualization. And verily, it is virtually good. Less than six months after acquiring Thinstall in January, VMware has announced, at Microsoft Tech-Ed Professional being held in Florida today through Friday, that it’s releasing VMware ThinApp 4.0, based on Thinstall’s product. This has two new features, Application Link and Application […]

A little more than three weeks after announcing it had added role management to its identity management offerings, CA (NASDAQ: CA) has unveiled several products focused around that issue as well as the bigger one of governance, risk and compliance (GRC). Here’s why: The easiest compliance breach to spot, and the one that occurs most […]

Managing virtual machines (VMs) has always been difficult because existing tools for managing the physical environment don’t work well with them. It’s difficult to know what’s going on in a VM or to track VM clones that have been created. Version 2.0 of ManageIQ’s Enterprise Virtualization Management (EVM) suite, released yesterday, makes these, and other […]

In a bid to woo smaller companies and independent developers, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has incorporated open source elements within today’s release of Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) 6, the latest version of its suite for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) products. CAPS 6 blends open source code from the Open ESB project with the […]