IBM expands SaaS ecosystem
IBM on Friday detailed a new ISV partnership, a move which, on the heels of cloud-related agreements penned last week with several universities, advances the company's cloud and SaaS realm.
Stories by Tom Sullivan
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Study: IT pay up in three areas, down elsewhere
While salaries for IT skills on the whole dropped in the US last quarter, according to a study by Foote Partners, three areas saw an increase in pay despite the troubled economy.
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Report: Cisco to elbow into server fray
Enterprise IT shops might soon get another option for virtualizing their entire datacenter.
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Gartner's 5 predictions for BI in 2009 and beyond
Through 2012 more than 35 percent of the largest 5,000 companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets, according to analyst house Gartner.
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HP adds orchestration, recovery to Adaptive Infrastructure
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday added tools for orchestration and recovery to its Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio. And, as with most enterprise-class technology announcements these days, HP said that the new tools promise IT cost-savings and reduced risks.
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IBM garners most patents -- again
IBM on Wednesday announced that it has become the first company to earn more than 4000 patents in a single year, and also said it will ratchet up the number of technical innovations it publishes instead of seeking patent protection.
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Five top spending priorities for hard times
No company is immune from the economy's ebb and flow. So it's no surprise that, in the face of a fearsome downturn, IT shops are scrambling to figure out where they should cut.
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Five outside-the-box ways to cut IT costs
Every time the economy turns downward, IT shops take a hit.
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Will the downturn accelerate cloud computing?
Facing uncertain economic times, enterprises may be more likely to turn to cloud computing services -- such as SaaS (software as a service), Amazon-style utility computing, and managed service providers -- for the lower up-front costs, the faster time to market, and the ability to add capabilities quickly without investing in new hardware.
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Dialing down software support
It's no secret that maintenance and support for enterprise applications is wildly profitable for vendors and, likewise, incredibly expensive for IT shops. Some of those IT shops, in fact, are overwhelmed by the cost and find too little return to justify paying for it.
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GM2 Logistics marries SANs and sustainability
Being both green and a paper merchant is a difficult balance to strike. Indeed, it would be easy to write off a company that distributes 600 metric tons of paper products every day as decidedly unfriendly to the environment by the very nature of its business. That, however, is not the case with GM2 Logistics.
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IT heresy revisited: Let users manage their own PCs
Users should choose and manage their own PCs.
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NetSuite unveils integration program
NetSuite has detailed a new effort to let third parties tap its data model as a platform on which to build applications distributed as SaaS (software as a service).
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FaceTime greets, disarms spyware
Sometimes the most subtle and accidental applications can open significant holes in an enterprise's security infrastructure. FaceTime Communications is mounting the argument that programs such as instant messaging and Skype will do just that. Granted, it may be something of a self-serving case since FaceTime sells software to block the malware that might penetrate those weak spots, but the argument has some substantial merit to it, according to Peter Christy, principal at Internet Research Group.
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CA to open source Ingres database
Computer Associates International (CA) is looking to breathe new life into a long-quiet database and, in so doing, is gunning to make it perform better than Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle's 10g.
