Alex Goldman

Oracle today announced that Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications release 7.9.6 is now available, accompanied by the following new products: Oracle Project Analytics, Oracle Loyalty Analytics, and by new features in the core application. The company also announced certified integration between BI and its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne financial management software. Business Intelligence is part of […]

Citrix wants to deliver applications to couch potatoes. The company today said that ordering an enterprise app should be as easy as buying a song on Apple’s iTunes service or ordering a movie on DISH Network’s DirecTV service. “Consumerization will change the face of enterprise computing,” said Wes Wasson, Citrix’s (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief marketing officer, […]

Sometimes a key piece of information slips by in a press release without anyone realizing its significance. A release issued at the recent RSA security conference ended up disclosing a major data security program that is vital to national security. The release was to announce Robert Lentz, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information […]

There’s a lot being said about swine flu on the Internet — but as with any hot topic on the Web, there’s also a lot of noise. A Nielsen report earlier this week noted “the chatter about swine flu even dwarfs that of recent viral media star Susan Boyle.” Just try to follow the traffic […]

Don’t count VMware as among those companies cutting back in a down economy. The virtualization kingpin will respond to challenges, from the competition and from the economy, by releasing new products, said executives on VMware’s earnings callearlier this week. VMware will be betting heavily on its new vSphere 4.0 productto give it the competitive advantage […]

High-flying virtualization company VMware showed that it’s not immune to the current malaise gripping the IT industry, reporting lower-than-expected revenue on weakness in sales. The company reported net earnings of $69.9 million, or $0.18 per share. Before one-time charges, earnings rose to $0.25 per share, above analyst expectations of $0.20. More concerning for investors were […]

Virtualization main players have long been touting the efficiency benefits of their technology. Now VMware is aiming to go one better, taking virtualization to the cloud with the release of vSphere 4.0. The technology builds on VMware’s Infrastructure 3 and Hypervisor products to further ease datacenter management, said John Gilmartin, VMware’s director of product marketing. […]

Once again, software is fighting crime. Microsoft unveiled a suite of tools and initiatives for law-enforcement groups “specifically designed to improve public security and safety,” the company said. Law enforcement agencies, like businesses, face a mountain of data that they are not adequately analyzing. Microsoft’s Citizen Safety Architecture resembles IBM’s BAO announcement in that both […]

The latest report from broadband research firm Point Topic shows Asia leading in fiber optics, which delivers the fattest pipes, and the U.S. ranked 24th globally in per capita broadband penetration, a sad spot for the nation that invented the Internet. The report defines “broadband” as connections with speeds of at least 256 kbps in […]

Valentine’s Day is a the season for social engineering, as many people hope for a note from a mysterious and fascinating someone and are therefore more willing to open suspicious messages and attachments than at any other time. Unfortunately, it is now the season for data theft. It’s at tax time that the highest quantity […]