Richard Adhikari

Although HP just plunked down $13.9 billion for EDS to expand in outsourcing and services business it may be some time before the computer giant sees results from the merger. The deal creates a megafirmwith $38 billion in combined revenues and 210,000 employees across more than 80 countries. Already, executives are hinting at layoffs to […]

In a move that would bolster its services sector and further strengthen its profits, HP is reportedly planning to buy Electronic Data Systems (EDS). HP declined comment. In a press release, HP confirmed it is “engaged in advanced discussions” with EDS about “a possible business combination involving the two companies” and warned that this did […]

In a move that bears out its pledge earlier this year to move full-bore into automating the virtualized environment, VMware today unveiled product bundles and deals with nine replication software vendors. The products, and the bundles, are designed to tackle two critical aspects of the virtualized infrastructure: IT service delivery and business continuity. Managing IT […]

With the growth of the mobile workforce, wired security has become the phrase on many lips in corporate IT. The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or ISC2, reported recently in its latest global information workforce survey that wireless security solutions constitute the leading IT security technology planned by tech staffs — with 15 percent […]

CIOs, value-added resellers and business managers can now create their own custom database applications without writing any code, through SaaSWizard. Built on a scalable J2EE (define) platform, SaaSWizard can be installed on Linux or Windows servers, and lets users build database applications with MySQL (define) or Microsoft SQL Server, using just their browsers. The result […]

In a move that might herald sweeping changes for the mobile workforce, SAP has natively integrated its customer relationship management (CRM) application into the Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry hand-held device. This will give the mobile workforce full access to all of SAP CRM’s functionalities, which will be pushed out to them over the BlackBerry. […]

Much of the excitement about service-oriented architecture has been sound and fury — it is, after all, a fairly new approach and enterprises have learned, to their cost, that the emphasis in the term “bleeding edge” is on the first word. Service-oriented architecture, or SOA (define), is a lot of things, much of them complex. […]