Richard Adhikari

After a courtship lasting just about a month, Informatica has completed its acquisition of Nokia subsidiary Identity Systems for about $85 million in cash. The deal will be finalized at the end of the month and Informatica will unveil applications incorporating Identity Systems’ technology within a month. The purchase will bring enterprises a step closer […]

Every time another company is reported to be in breach of compliance, an enterprise IT professional dies a little. The options are so many and real solutions are so few that most IT staff fear they’ll be caught napping. And no wonder: The cost of a breach, from discovery, notification and response to regulatory fines […]

Recession? Virtualization remains a hot seller, according to the latest quarterly survey by ChangeWave Research. In fact, the faltering economy may have a lot to do with virtualization’s continued strong sales . Virtualization is designed to help companies reduce the number of physical servers they need, which means less spending on maintenance of servers, power […]

The biggest cause of security breaches in enterprises is unauthorized access by staff to applications and IT systems. Controlling that access has generally been a mishmash of policy-driven controls leveraging Microsoft Active Directory or a back-end database and ad hoc granting of rights by IT or systems administrators as needed. That has led to the […]

Although HP just plunked down $13.9 billion for EDS to expand in outsourcing and services business it may be some time before the computer giant sees results from the merger. The deal creates a megafirm with $38 billion in combined revenues and 210,000 employees across more than 80 countries. Already, executives are hinting at layoffs […]

In a move that would bolster its services sector and further strengthen its profits, HP is reportedly planning to buy Electronic Data Systems (EDS). HP declined comment. In a press release, HP confirmed it is “engaged in advanced discussions” with EDS about “a possible business combination involving the two companies” and warned that this did […]

In a move that bears out its pledge earlier this year to move full-bore into automating the virtualized environment, VMware today unveiled product bundles and deals with nine replication software vendors. The products, and the bundles, are designed to tackle two critical aspects of the virtualized infrastructure: IT service delivery and business continuity. Managing IT […]

With the growth of the mobile workforce, wired security has become the phrase on many lips in corporate IT. The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or ISC2, reported recently in its latest global information workforce survey that wireless security solutions constitute the leading IT security technology planned by tech staffs — with 15 percent […]

CIOs, value-added resellers and business managers can now create their own custom database applications without writing any code, through SaaSWizard. Built on a scalable J2EE platform, SaaSWizard can be installed on Linux or Windows servers, and lets users build database applications with MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server, using just their browsers. The result can either […]

Startup vendor Neocleus has enhanced and modified the Xen Open Source hypervisor, which is for servers, for use on endpoints such as desktops and laptops to enhance security. The modifications include a graphical user interface (GUI), several connectivity and compatibility options, making the installation process easier, and improving security and performance for end users. The […]

In keeping with its thrust toward virtualization, Dell has made a slew of announcements in this field, covering hardware, software, storage, online purchasing and increased consultancy services. Perhaps the most interesting one is in the storage area, where virtualization tends to bog down. Storage is “a very critical part of virtualization,” Dell’s director of storage, […]

SAP (NASDAQ: SAP) is aiming to make it easier for companies to quickly create and modify business processes with two new enhancements for its NetWeaver Web-based open integration and application platform. The add-ons, SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) and SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management, are designed to help business process experts design, model and […]