Alex Goldman

Oracle today unveiled the latest version of its Fusion Middleware, version 11g, a major release in Oracle’s most profitable software line. “It has significant new capabilities across all product lines,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle (NADSAQ: ORCL) senior vice president for Fusion Middleware products, in an online press briefing with reporters ahead of the release. It […]

NEW YORK — If you’re an IT manager, cloud computing will fundamentally change your job, said Hal Stern, Sun vice president of engineering, in a speech at the technology management conference of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) here Wednesday. “With services, we are leaving the hardware world,” Stern said. He meant that […]

As the cloud brings enterprise applications together, it also gives companies new competitors. Today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (among other cloud app providers) faced off at the Enterprise 2.0 conference over cloud-based applications. Scoring an upset over Google Apps was IBM’s LotusLive Connections, which is so new it’s not available until June 30, […]

Virtualization, cloud computing, and service oriented architectures (SOA) are all driving change in the vital data center management and business intelligence markets. These products, which connect mission critical systems to each other, are moving to the Web as software sublimates, turning assets that were once physical into services delivered over the Web. Many of these […]

Earlier this year, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem made a splash at the RSA security conference when he said that enterprise security is broken. Today, Symantec is fixing one of the holes Salem identified with its Symantec Managed Endpoint Protection Services. Symantec will monitor the performance of a trio of enterprise software products — Symantec Antivirus […]

There’s an astonishing quantity of cloud computing-related news this week, but some companies feel they can stand out from the crowd by offering platforms as well. For example, Platform Computing is today announcing the release of Platform ISF, a private cloud management system that combines reporting, self-service, provisioning, and delivery of servers and connectors with […]

NEW YORK — While many of today’s Web users associate the word “free” with “download”, Wired editor Chris Anderson said that the pricing strategy dates back to the nineteenth century. He said that the free economy was made possible by the industrial revolution and dates back to Jello. Anderson pitched his latest book, called “Free: […]

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates saidearlier this year that the Department of Defense (DoD) must be able to train 200 cyber security experts, up from 80 now. How about the whole U.S. government? There’s a clear need in agencies as diverse as energy, aviation, and, of course, defense. “We are conducting a national competition and […]

As Gartner predicted, the cloud computing market is growing, services are heating up, and new players are entering the game. The flood of cloud-related announcements began on Monday with CSC’s entry into the business. Tuesday, cloud integration specialist Boomi announced that it would open up the supply chain software market by connecting legacy supply chain […]

An ex-employee of Energy Future Holdings logged on to the corporate VPN and caused $26,000 in damages related to lost business, reports say. A company spokesperson told InternetNews.com that the company could not comment due to an ongoing FBI investigation, but added, “at no time were any of our operations at risk, and the employee […]