Richard Adhikari

The typical enterprise has almost a 70 percent chance of not being in compliance with its software-license agreements, and it has a 60 percent chance of having unlicensed software deployed. These findings, from a survey of more than 350 IT professionals conducted recently by King Research, aren’t just troubling; they could spell big trouble for […]

True, VMware (NYSE: VMW) dominates the market now, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling on with its plans to build an ecosystem of third-party developers to flesh out its offerings. At Tech-Ed Pro, held in Florida this week, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, discussed the company’s various moves in […]

VMware will include support for Mac OS X Leopard Server in VMware Fusion’s next beta. Users will be able to run as many copies of Mac OS X Server on their Apple Macintoshes as their RAM (random access memory) will support, or run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the Mac. VMware Fusion already lets users […]

When enterprises implement virtualization in their datacenters, they can drastically reduce the number of physical servers they have, as physical servers are only switched on and deployed when business needs peak. This has led to savings, but also to a new problem: Provisioning (define) a virtual machine (VM) from a physical server is much easier […]

At its Tech-Ed for Professionals summit, being held in Florida this week, Microsoft unveiled the first public beta version of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2. This product will handle the entire identity life cycle, from provisioning new users to deployment to termination. It provides a much-needed solution in the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) space in enterprises, but whether […]

Managing virtual machines (VMs) has always been difficult because existing tools for managing the physical environment don’t work well with them. It’s difficult to know what’s going on in a VM or to track VM clones that have been created. Version 2.0 of ManageIQ’s Enterprise Virtualization Management (EVM) suite, released yesterday, makes these, and other […]

Informatica has unveiled version 8.6 of its eponymous flagship data integration package at Informatica World 2008 in Las Vegas. This is a comprehensive, unified platform for data integration, which lets enterprises squeeze the maximum value out of their data by accessing, transforming, integrating and cleansing all their data so it can be trusted. It has […]

A few packages are available that let companies manage the life cycles of their systems virtually, though the major one, from VMware (NYSE: VMW), still requires manual downloading of updates. Enter the MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution, which automates life cycle management for virtual machines and automatically compresses files to reduce network overhead. MokaFive unveils this […]

Mention the Semantic Web, and some people think it’s going to be a little slice of heaven, while others see it as the end of the world. The first camp, which mainly includes scientists and researchers, wants to use computers to link up data from different sources to create a holistic view of the world. […]

Provisioning new desktops with applications has always been a headache for IT administrators, even when done from a server over the LAN, because the process can consume both time and bandwidth. That’s one of the reasons enterprises are moving to virtualization, which speeds up provisioning while reducing network overhead. Xenocode, which focuses solely on application […]