Richard Adhikari

Oracle joins the enterprise crowd on the iPhone. Source: Oracle UPDATED: In a move that will heat up the market for mobile access to enterprise applications, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) have announced that some of their business applications will run on the Apple iPhone. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Plus and […]

Diane Greene, who co-founded virtualization darling VMware (NYSE: VMW) in 1998 with husband Mendel Rosenblum and led its successful IPO, has left the company in an abrupt departure that has the industry abuzz. The news was announced by the company’s board of directors today and carried all markings of a CEO who appeared to be […]

VMware Server 2.0, a free virtualization platform formerly known as GSX Server, has hit the Release Candidate 1 mark. This means the entry-level server virtualization product is almost ready for commercial release and users can download and put the RC1 version to work now. There was an earlier Beta 2 of the software March. VMware […]

Corporate IT staff had better prepare for a headache as the number of Apple Macs in the enterprise grows. Over the past two years or so, users have increasingly brought the Mac into the enterprise. However, IT staff are not prepared to deal with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Macs, either from a management or a security […]

Over the past few years, more of Apple Macs computers (desktops and notebooks) have been making their way into the enterprise through the back door, i.e. not necessarily with IT’s approval. Increasingly, users familiar with the iPod andiPhone (including company executives and managers) have either purchased Macs for their departments or have pushed IT to […]

Microsoft has not just released the cat among the pigeons by releasing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it is the cat among the pigeons. Both its allies and its competitors are fluttering about and squawking at the news. Microsoft’s supporters are, understandably, happy to be able to stretch their wings, while its competitors are keeping a […]

As enterprises move toward virtualization, they add yet another layer of complexity to IT systems management. Increasingly, enterprises are looking to manage virtual machines (VMs) and their physical environment together. Netuitive, which offers tools to manage virtual and physical environments, now offers enterprises the ability to correlate data from both together to get a holistic […]

For IT staff in global enterprises, adding a new employee is far more involved than finding a desk and a chair for the new hire. Typically, it means huddling over spreadsheets, muttering to themselves as they figure out what changes to make to access rights and policies while taking into account a labyrinthine array of […]

You’d think that only countries have five-year economic plans, but business software maker SAP is right up there with them. And with its large workforce of more than 51,000 employees in 50 countries, why not? In 2005, SAP (NYSE: SAP) launched an ambitious five-year plan to double its market through joint innovation with its partners. […]

In a move that will strengthen its position in management applications for enterprise, BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) has acquired ITM software. The acquisition of ITM is the latest in a series of strategic purchases by BMC dating back to at least 2004, as the company jockeys for position in the enterprise software management market. The […]