Larry Barrett

VeriSign this week pushed out VeriSign Managed DNS, a new enterprise-class service that lets companies move their Domain Name System management infrastructure off internal servers to a cloud-based environment. The idea is to give enterprises a cheap, secure way to keep their corporate websites, email and Web systems live and available without burdening the IT […]

Skype, the popular VoIP and videoconferencing service, this week announced plans for an initial public offering that could help it raise more than $100 million, according to the company’s S-1 filingwith the Securities and Exchange Commission. Company officials said Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley will underwrite the offering. As of Monday, the company […]

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it has filed a lawsuit against Oracle, accusing the database and business-applications-software titan of defrauding the federal government on a massive software contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars between 1998 and 2006. In its lawsuit, the DoJ alleges Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) misrepresented its commercial sales practices, causing […]

Businesses’ appetite for on-demand software applications shows no signs of dissipating in the near future, and service-oriented computing will continue to become an even larger percentage of the overall worldwide software market, according to the latest report from IT researcher Gartner. Buoyed by lower startup and maintenance costs compared to on-premises application deployments, as well […]

Oracle this week rolled out Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager, an application that it claims will make it easier for large drug companies to track and monitor pharmaceutical products throughout the supply chain for business and compliance purposes. Whether it’s a drug recall, a surge in counterfeit medications or an emergency that requires a mass […]

CA continued its full-court press in the virtualization management software sector this week with the release of five new applications for its CA Virtual portfolio — including one, CA Virtual Privilege Manager, that governs access and privileges for any IT staffer accessing the hypervisor or service console. Establishing who has access to which virtual images […]

IBM topped analysts’ estimates in its second quarter and raised its profit estimates for the remainder of the year, a clear sign that Big Blue is certain that the economy is in the midst of a significant recovery. After several quarters of tentative industry-wide growth, IBM’s report is good news for the IT sector as […]

Oracle shareholders are expecting nothing less than more of the same from the software giant Thursday when it releases its fourth-quarter sales and earnings report. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are pegging the Redwood Shores, Calif. company for a profit of $0.54 a share, excluding one-time charges, on sales of roughly $9.5 billion, up from […]

IBM this week debuted its latest industry-specific, pre-packaged software platform to help speed the execution and analysis of high-speed securities trading for the financial-services market. The Financial Markets Framework is an open, standards-based compilation of multiple applications tethered to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) cornerstone WebSphere application server. Company officials said the framework will allow large financial […]

Oracle easily hurdled analysts’ estimates in its fourth quarter, posting a profit of $3 billion, or $0.60 a share, excluding one-time charges and special items, on sales of $9.6 billion. A survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters pegged the Redwood Shores, Calif. database and business applications software vendor for a profit of $0.56 a share […]