Alex Goldman

Reuven Cohen achieved Web-wide notoriety this past week when Steven Martin, Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) director of platform development, criticized the efforts of his fledgling cloud computing industry association in a widely discussed blog post. The repercussions continue to play out today. A comparatively small player in cloud computing, Cohen, CEO of Toronto-based cloud computing startup […]

As the code also known as Conficker, Downadup, Kido, Confick and the April Fool’s Day worm starts its countdown, security vendors are cautioning users that if they’ve implemented basic security on your home computer or network, they’ll be fine. Others, however, face risk from a worm that’s spread rapidly and without a clear indication of […]

NEW YORK — The Software as a Service (define) business model is changing the way software is purchased and deployed by enterprise customers, experts told an audience of technology professionals here at the IDC Software as a Service Summit earlier this week. Subscription software has been available on the Internet for years. What’s new is […]

NEW YORK — It’s no surprise that datacenters consume power and money, and IT teams are being asked to make do with less of both. Fortunately, there are plenty of strategies, from co-generation to virtualization, that can help them meet this challenge, experts told the financial industry during last week’s seminar of the Wall Street […]

Enterprises may be late adopters of social media, but today’s announcement by Salesforce, along with related social media news from last week, shows that companies of all kinds will be able to scour the Web more effectively. Some will use it to obtain more data about the market, some will carefully scrutinize what customers are […]

NEW YORK — Enterprise software provider SAP and software delivery specialist Sybase have announced a partnership to deliver SAP Business Suite Software to the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and other wireless devices. The partnership is driven by the recognition that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is growing rapidly. It’s a tough economy, […]

Longtime collaborators SAP and IBM demonstrated how enterprises running SAP software on IBM hardware can use virtualization technology to more efficiently distribute workloads across servers — reducing operational costs and lowering carbon emissions. The companies’ technology enables IT administrators to create an in-house cloud, spreading SAP utilization across an enterprise’s servers and datacenters as needed. […]

Despite first gaining traction in the corporate datacenter, virtualization is now becoming as popular with small- and midsized businesses (SMBs) as it is with larger enterprises — perhaps even more so. That’s according to the results of a recent survey from Forrester Research, which said in a new report that about 36 percent of the […]

We visit the Broad Street, New York City offices of Toronto, Canada-based JumpTV on a Tuesday afternoon, walking past the New York Stock Exchange, down some of the most heavily guarded streets in the United States. In what might be the most expensive real estate in Manhattan, a multilingual, multinational team is bringing together television […]

Morganville, N.J.-based Ranch Networks has announced the development of security code for Asterisk, the open source VoIP project, that allows enterprises to combine Asterisk with Ranch appliances. The code is certified by Huntsville, Ala.-based Digium and is available in the latest Asterisk version, number 1.2.3. The code uses a standard developed by the IETF called […]