Richard Adhikari

For the past 10 years, IBM has incorporated various Ilog technologies into several of its products, including its WebSphere Process Server business process management (BPM) suite, and now with IBM’s pending acquisition of the French software vendor, the two companies are as one. IBM’s purchase of Ilog continues the trend of acquisitions in the attractive […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — As enterprises move more heavily into virtualization, they will have to overhaul their data backup and disaster recovery strategies because these won’t apply so well to the new virtualized world. That’s the case Deepak Mohan, senior vice president of Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) data protection group, made in a press briefing here […]

There is little agreement about where software-as-a-service (define) is headed and what vendors in this space should do. Participants at a panel titled “Will The Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?” held at the AlwaysOn summit at Stanford University, had different views on these topics. The panelists acknowledged that SaaS vendors are finding it difficult to […]

NetSuite (NYSE: N), which offers integrated business-management suites in software as a service (SaaS) (define) form to small and medium-size businesses, has unveiled upgrades to its CRM+ customer relationship management CRM (define) product and NS-BOS platform-as-a-service offerings. These product refreshes focus around customer service and marketing automation. The AJAX-based (define) CRM+ upgrades expand knowledge management, […]

Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Access Management Suite, which it says will help businesses comply with Section 114 of the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act (FACTA), better known as the Red Flag Rules. This becomes law November 1, and applies to any company that extends or deals with credit, from auto dealers to banks and […]

Oracle has maximized its PeopleSoft and Hyperion acquisitions by creating a hybrid business intelligence/performance management application. The company views it as a two-pronged attack on the market. Its Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. It integrates performance management applications and technologies from Hyperion, which Oracle bought in March […]

Enterprises planning to deploy Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor for virtualization can now run SPARC-based Solaris applications on their x86 Windows servers without porting or recompiling, thanks to QuickTransit, a solution from cross-platform virtualization solutions provider Transitive. QuickTransit supports 64-bit distribution, so it runs on Solaris x86. Once QuickTransit has been installed, enterprises can install or copy […]

Enterprises that run applications on Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) servers can now give their mobile workers access to those applications, using Sun’s Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP). Sun has made MEP available, a little more than two months after it put the platform out to beta at Java One in May. MEP 1.0, announced on Sun’s […]

Apple is crowing in the aftermath its 3G iPhone launch on Friday and the opening of its App Store, the download site for third-party iPhone applications, the day before. The company said today that it tallied 10 million downloads from its App Store since late last week, and has sold one million 3G iPhones so […]

A war of words has erupted between two bitter opponents in the Xen open source-based hypervisor (define) market. Citrix, which owns XenSource and drives the Xen project, has insulted arch-rival Virtual Iron, saying, among other things, that it owns the hypervisor while Virtual Iron just consumes the product. This fired up Virtual Iron’s chief strategy […]