Mezeo Software launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter. Sponsored by Mezeo, the Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and blog focus on Cloud Storage insights and observations from industry thought leaders. The Business Model Toolkit helps Service Providers assess the benef...

Salesforce.com unveiled Salesforce Chatter, a new secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform. Salesforce Chatter will revolutionize the workplace by leveraging the social networking models made popular by the consumer Web, allowing any company to collab...

Google is strongly pushing its open Android platform. With its market share declining, Symbian has also joined the open OS sector in order to protect its market. Android announced the Android 1.6 - codenamed Donut Alpha - in July 2009, followed by the Android 2.0 version - codenamed Ec...

This is a second article related to CloudFront Private Content feature that allows you restrict the access to your content. Apparently CloudFront private content configuration is not straight forward and involves many steps as described in our previous post. You have to configure your ...

OpSource announced three innovative OpSource Cloud partner programs that offer incentives, discounts and easy technology on-ramps for individuals and companies of all sizes looking to enter the lucrative cloud computing space. Available for online purchase by the hour from www.opsource...

The strategy includes deployment of Salesforce.com and Aprimo Marketing Studio(TM), two best of breed cloud solutions. In addition to implementation and product integration, the resulting end-to-end sales and marketing solution offered by CoreMatrix includes review and optimization of ...

Panasas today announced that it has collaborated with Cray Inc. to certify Panasas storage with the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer. For organizations wanting to harness supercomputing power without the complexity of traditional computing clusters, the combined solution delivers except...

Progress Software Corporation has announced that British Airways (BA) will use its portfolio of SOA solutions as a key part of its travel program to upgrade its IT systems. This will extend to the end of 2014 and will revolutionize travel by integrating over 600 different electronic sy...

Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an invest...

Kadient, the experts in sales enablement, today announced that sales teams who use Oracle CRM On Demand can now benefit from Kadient's embedded Sales Playbooks. Kadient now fully integrates with the popular CRM platform, enabling salespeople who use Oracle to have access to situati...

athenahealth announced that on November 10, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued athenahealth a patent entitled, ‘Practice Management and Billing Automation System’ (U.S. Patent No. 7,617,116) for its athenaNet rules engine that is part of the Company’s revenue cycle m...

Budding cloud merchant Rackspace Hosting came in with better-than-expected net revenue of $162.4 million for the September quarter, up 17.4% year-over-year and up 6.8% sequentially. Earnings were up 45.3% year-over-year to $7.6 million or six cents a share and up 8.8% quarter-over-quar...

In a move reminiscent of Intel and Wind River, Cavium Networks, maker of specialty ARM and Mips processors, is buying MontaVista Software, the embedded Linux shop, for $50 million and it’s only paying $16 million in cash. The rest is stock. MontaVista, however, took in at least $93 mil...

Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a number of native e-commerce...

Berkeley DB Java Edition is a transactional storage engine for key-value pairs written entirely in Java that can be deployed as an embedded or so-called edge database, so developers can build applications that don’t need any manual administration. It now includes new replication featur...

Waleed Al Muhairi, the COO of Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government-owned investor in AMD as well as the chairman of Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), AMD’s Abu Dhabi government-owned partner in Globalfoundaries, its fab spin-out, said at a conference in Dubai Sunday that a c...

This from the Windows Blog: “An inaccurate quote has been floating around the Internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and whether its look and feel was “borrowed” from Mac OS X. Unfortunately this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designi...

The ERP Comparison Guide shortens the time needed to purchase ERP software for companies looking to get 2009 off to a successful start! Begin accurately controlling costs, inventory and revenue forecasts in 2009.

This may feel like Christmas when all you get is ties but Samsung is launching its own smartphone operating system called bada, which it expects to compete with Android and LiMo. It’s not yet clear exactly what it is. Could be still another Linux variant. More likely it’s Samsung’s pro...

Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been...

Learn what a Sales Force Automation system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Worried about locking yourself into a CRM solution that does not work as expected? It just takes 30 seconds to download our buyer's guide to get...

"As many as 85% of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools..." Gartner analyst Robert DeSisto Many large companies also underestimate how complex their business and customers are, which leads to an inadequate CRM program. Learn how to eas...

Every business today is looking to cut costs in these slowing economic times. Now, learn how to save costs by choosing the right IP office phone system. Many companies are transitioning from either a Centrex service or Key system / PBX product to a state-of-the-art Hosted IP or IP PBX ...

Learn what an Premise PBX system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Traditional business PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and TDM (time-division multiplexing) systems are fast becoming outdated and obsolete and oftentimes do ...

Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant messaging (IM) programs such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, your company’s network is at risk for malware infection...

The ability to formally define, effectively retain, and successfully archive email and other electronic business records is one of the most important jobs facing US and Canadian organizations. Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively preserve, protect, and produce legally compliant em...

Overcome the obstacles that keep data quality solutions tactical, departmental, and unsustainable. Learn how to drive pervasive data quality throughout your organization to all stakeholders, projects, domains, applications, and geographies.

Learn how to define, design, and implement SOA-based data services to solve core data integration problems. Find out how use data services to deliver a trusted, timely single view of data and to create a virtual data warehouse for operational BI.

Traditional, retroactive data quality approaches are insufficient. Companies need to use a pervasive data quality approach—one that includes all data, in all domains, for all applications. With new technology, pervasive data quality is now possible.

The business and IT need a common language and a common set of tools they both can use to collaborate on data issues. Learn how the business and IT can collaborate more effectively to better manage and use data to drive critical business initiatives.

Learn how your company can become a data-driven enterprise and beat the competition. Find out about the people, processes, and technology you need to make sure you’re harnessing the power of your data assets to operate faster, better, and smarter.

When business requirements align with IT delivery, your company works faster, cheaper, and smarter. This white paper shows how Informatica 9 helps the business and IT collaborate to support critical data quality and data integration initiatives.

Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end and not an end in itself; the reason tiered storage —not just tiered, but effectively and efficiently tiered storage—is becoming more crucial (indeed, a prerequisite for many organizations) is a simple matter of economics....

Intel is paying AMD $1.25 billion to settle the massive private antitrust suit AMD has lodged in Delaware. AMD will also drop two cases against Intel it has pending in Japan and withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide.Intel has also agreed to abide by a “set of business pra...

Today’s businesses are especially vulnerable to accidental email loss, compliance demands, and the threat of e-discovery. Yet these same companies often have the fewest resources for combating these risks on their own. Many businesses today are turning to email archiving services to el...

InsideView for NetSuite was built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform and is the first social intelligence application delivered natively within NetSuite. The new application expands the NetSuite-InsideView partnership beyond its original sales intelligence focus to delive...

Gist, a beta-phase e-mail start-up kicked off by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, has raised a $6.75 million first round led by the Foundry Group. Its widgetry combines e-mails with the latest news about contacts taken from blog posts, social networking sires and Tweet...

Netlist, Inc. launches HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank (vRank) memory module for servers. A double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud maximizes server utilization to improve datacenter application performance. HyperCloud a...

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines "Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS." The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP's website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byro...

Oh, my sainted aunt. Google thought about buying the New York Times, according to Barron’s, which got it from somebody else’s interview with Ken Auletta, author of Google: The End of the World as We Know It. Reportedly the hands of Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt were...