Richard Adhikari

UPDATED: In a bid to fill a long-standing gap in its capabilities, VMware has entered a definitive agreement to acquire application performance management software vendor B-hive Networks. B-hive’s technology is slated to be wrapped into the VMware product suite; VMware will be able to offer customers the ability to manage the performance of their virtual […]

When an employee leaves your company, do you make sure you shut down his or her user accounts at once? And do you check to confirm this has been done? If not, you’re evidently not alone, according to a new study conducted by eMediaUSA for Symark International that found that too often, the accounts of […]

Seven months after ending a two-way lawsuit over patents with competitor Cenzic, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has unveiled the latest release of its Application Security Center. This new version ensures applications are tested for security throughout the development process, from requirements all the way through production, instead of testing after the application has already been created, […]

Mention the Semantic Web, and some people think it’s going to be a little slice of heaven, while others see it as the end of the world. The first camp, which mainly includes scientists and researchers, wants to use computers to link up data from different sources to create a holistic view of the world. […]

Exactly what is Citrix planning by teaming up with Akamai? Akamai is one of the many vendors offering application acceleration, and it does so not by offering a hardware appliance, but by providing a B2B network to clients that selects the optimal route over the Internet to transmit files and applications. Enterprise clients just have […]

A few packages are available that let companies manage the life cycles of their systems virtually, though the major one, from VMware (NYSE: VMW), still requires manual downloading of updates. Enter the MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution, which automates life cycle management for virtual machines and automatically compresses files to reduce network overhead. MokaFive unveils this […]

Provisioning new desktops with applications has always been a headache for IT administrators, even when done from a server over the LAN, because the process can consume both time and bandwidth. That’s one of the reasons enterprises are moving to virtualization, which speeds up provisioning while reducing network overhead. Xenocode, which focuses solely on application […]

Rushing to get into the increasingly profitable desktop virtualization market, Microsoft has made release candidate 1 (RC 1) of its Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hypervisor available for download. Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, made the announcement during his keynote speech at Citrix Synergy, held this week in Houston, Tex. […]

As enterprises look for ways to virtualize their IT systems and consolidate their server costs, virtualization vendors are coming up with better ways to deliver applications to the desktop. Take Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS), which is launching a new network delivery method that deploys what it calls “repeaters” and “receivers” as a way to deliver information and […]

Small and medium-sized businesses constitute the bulk of the economy, it’s no surprise that enterprise software and hardware vendors have been going crazy trying to figure out ways to market to them. Take the case of SAP: Just over two years ago, it began efforts to target medium-sized businesses with MySAP CRM, its customer relationship […]

One day ahead of the opening of arch-rival Citrix’s annual application delivery conference in Houston, Tex., VMware, the major player in the virtualization market, has unveiled moves that will further strengthen its position. It is attacking the thin client, rolling out professional services, and teaming up with Sun Microsystems to extend its reach. “Our announcements […]

Banks, retail chains and other enterprises that sell products or services online spend billions on fighting online fraud. For example, eBay has an entire team of fraud investigators, who teamed up recently with US and Romanian law enforcement agencies to crack down on organized crime groups specializing in Internet fraud. And online bank E*Trade has […]