This month's price increase for Microsoft client-access licenses (CAL) is a "lose-lose" deal for enterprise customers, but will likely yield a major revenue boost for Microsoft, analysts say. On Dec. 1, Microsoft overhauled its enterprise ...
Tags: Microsoft, client-access licenses, CALs, revenue
Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.Credant,founded in 2001,is ...
Blue Coat has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire network security company Crossbeam Systems. The acquisition brings together two market leaders that deliver complementary technologies to scale and secure the ...
In the battle for the hearts and minds of enterprise mobile developers, Apple's iOS has taken a commanding lead as businesses show concern over Android, according to a recent survey of mobile developers by Appcelerator and IDC. Does ...
Tags: Apple, app devs, Android, consumer devs, Microsoft
Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7, an analyst said. Employees, however, have a higher-than-expected interest in the ...
Tags: CEO Steve Ballmer, consumerisation, Microsoft, Windows 7
As storage spending consumes an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets across the public sector against a backdrop of severe spending cuts, the case for using open-source storage software in government is gathering momentum. The public ...
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Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.Credant,founded in 2001,is ...
Tags: Dell, Credant, acquisitions, IT security offering
Brocade today announced support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 server operating system across all product lines, including the company’s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and Ethernet fabric solutions. ...
Tags: Brocade, Microsoft, Virtual Fibre Channel, windows server
SAP is close to having 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making some adjustments to enterprise edition pricing, an executive said during a webcast event yesterday. There are now more than 500 total ...
Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix. The advisory addressed the “zero-day” ...
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Oracle is expanding its support for R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, the company announced Friday. New features include R ports for the Solaris and AIX OSes, adding to existing support for Linux and Windows ...
With Intel unveiling a tablet processor this week, analysts say the chip maker may be on track to becoming less dependent on the struggling PC market. Intel on Thursday took the wraps off a new processor code-named Clover Trail. The Atom ...
Tags: PC market, tablet chip, Intel
SAP is closing in on 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making adjustments to enterprise edition pricing, an executive has said. There are now more than 500 total customers for HANA, which was released ...
Tags: SAP, HANA in-memory database, SAP database and technology
The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company has announced. The lab entry allows cellular carriers to ...
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Employees now have the ability to take personal control over the delivery of the IT services and information they require. BMC’s MyIT is an enterprise software solution that has been designed to empower users to request IT ...
Tags: IT service, information, MyIT, IT assistance