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CEO Marten Mickos makes the case that Amazon compatibility in private clouds, with support for major hypervisors, is Eucalyptus' competitive edge.


text Windows 8 Says Goodbye To F8 Reboots
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:17 EDT
Windows 8 will display new menu of troubleshooting choices to give users of fast-booting PCs and tablets plenty of time to enter alternate startup modes such as Safe Mode.


Box cloud file sharing service adds more reasons for enterprises to take company seriously, even while shrugging off an apparently minor outage.


In two years, IBM data mining software has identified $191 million in potentially false Medicaid claims.


text Google Beats Oracle Patent Claim
Wed, 23 May 2012 15:20 EDT
Second major phase of trial ends with a win for Google, but judge must still decide whether APIs qualify for copyright protection.


text Oracle Buys Vitrue For Social Marketing
Wed, 23 May 2012 12:03 EDT
Vitrue could provide the social marketing hook to drive sales into RightNow and Oracle's CRM systems.


text VMware Buys Wanova: Watch Out, Citrix
Wed, 23 May 2012 10:09 EDT
VMware makes another move indicating it intends to catch up to Citrix in the desktop virtualization market. Wanova's technology brings VMware a number of advantages.


text SAP Ariba Deal: Not All About Cloud
Wed, 23 May 2012 09:15 EDT
SAP bids for leading trading network, but look beyond the cloud hype in the $4.3 billion deal. Ariba competes with specialized supplier-management and trading firms, not Salesforce.com.


Microsoft Windows 8 enhances support for multi-taskers, including display options that tap into Metro interface features.


Salesforce will add instant messaging and presence in June, followed by a pilot of screen sharing for Chatter.


Gesture-based computer interaction, as depicted in "Minority Report," looks like it will soon become commonplace. "The Leap" peripheral lets you control UI elements using gestures made in the air.


Windows 8 tablets and PCs to arrive for holiday season; Microsoft will ditch the Aero glass look in favor of Metro interface and a minimalist design.


Following up on last year's acquisition of Cohuman, Mindjet creates a social platform that excels at letting users visually map out plans, then collaborate to get work done.


Forrester Research ranks the leaders in a market segment that excludes social intranet portal players like Jive Software.


IT services firm CGI skipped the pilot project and launched Tibco's Tibbr to 31,000 users at once.


Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says as social enterprise trend diversifies company's sales, he's hiring aggressively to keep up with customer demand.


text Google Apps: Has Adoption Slowed?
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00 EDT
Google renewed its pitch to embrace cloud IT at its Atmosphere roadshow. But its count of companies going Google Apps doesn't add up.


text SAP Builds Ecosystem To Boost Hana
Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00 EDT
SAP forges closer ties with Intel, IBM, analytics vendors, and systems integrators to jump start its in-memory database.


IBM expands private, public, and hybrid cloud options for customers with its SmartCloud offerings, including IaaS in IBM data centers with dedicated servers.


What does Google's new search technique mean for you? Augmenting search results with sets of associated facts could please users but decrease traffic to other sites.


text SAP Streamwork: One Customer's Story
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:22 EDT
Prototype system helps Applied Materials organize approvals on complex custom product specs, but not without tradeoffs.


SuccessFactors founder Dalgaard, now leading SAP cloud strategy, wants to move toward "independent but super-integrated" apps.


text Globoforce Maps Top Employee Performers
Wed, 16 May 2012 11:03 EDT
Talent Maps puts social media analytics behind recognizing the staffers doing the most to drive a company's economic value.


250,000 students and faculty at Los Angeles community colleges will move to Microsoft Live@edu online communication and collaboration services after school system rejects Google Apps.


Mule iON SaaS edition provides tools, workflow to relieve the pain of trying to integrate software-as-a-service applications.