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Oracle announced a new version of its Java application server, Oracle WebLogic Server, 12c, which enables enterprises to better integrate cloud computing into their IT mix. As the center piece of Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation, and a core part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, Oracle WebLogic Server continues to deliver innovative capabilities for […]

IT security and data protection company Sophos announced the latest version of its endpoint security solution, Patch Assessment, which identifies, prioritizes and scans for critical threat-related security patches. Patch Assessment also enables scanning for Microsoft and third-party patches from vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Citrix, Skype and others. Sophos Web Filtering makes it possible to […]

As we head into 2012, enterprise developers will need to focus on some major themes, including the emergence of HTML5, big data and analytics, and Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). They should also continue to concentrate on Web, mobile and cloud development, and take advantage of advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs). HTML5 […]

Microsoft, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and Research In Motion are just a few of the companies denying their smartphones and services are loaded with Carrier IQ, the company whose smartphone diagnostics software is accused of monitoring users activity without their explicit consent. IT pro Trevor Eckhart conducted a very public test, with video, demonstrating what […]

Unified networking solutions provider D-Link expanded its line of network switches with the DGS-105 and DGS-108 Gigabit Ethernet and DES-105 and DES-108 Fast Ethernet metal switches. Available in five- and eight-port form factors, these unmanaged switches offer small to medium-size businesses (SMB) high-speed networking and intelligent data streaming with quality of service (QoS) prioritization, and […]

Global cyber-security spending is expected to reach $60 billion in 2011 and is forecast to grow 10 percent every year during the next three to five years, according to a report from PwC, "Cyber Security M&A: Decoding Deals in the Global Cyber Security Industry." The United States accounts for more than half of all deals […]

NEW YORK — If there was a theme for Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff’s question and answer session at Cloudforce here Nov. 30, it was how to run an enterprise software business that is vastly different from the world Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) dominated. Noting that Oracle appears to simply want to sell database […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) command 71 percent of smartphone market share in the United States, with Android accounting for 43 percent share and iOS nabbing 28 percent through the third quarter. HTC had 15 percent of Android phone share, followed by Motorola and Samsung at over 10 percent apiece, according to new data from […]

Lenovo could be on the verge of toppling Dell as the second-largest global PC brand, according to a new research note from IHS. That would place the Chinese manufacturer behind Hewlett-Packard, which continues to reign as the world’s largest despite some well-publicized recent troubles. According to the firm, Lenovo’s global PC shipments rose 14.5 percent […]

Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) Nov. 30 introduced its Social Marketing Cloud, an effort to get ahead of the rest of the market by using social media to market and sell products to customers. The Social Marketing Cloud leverages and builds on assets from Radian6, a social media monitoring company Salesforce.com picked up earlier this year. As the […]

In its inaugural Global Cloud Index (2010 2015), Cisco estimated global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. To put that in perspective, […]

Hewlett-Packard made a significant leap ahead in the storage systems market Nov. 29 when it launched a fast-processing, enterprise-scale, disk-based backup system with an advanced data deduplication feature. HP, which calls the new dedupe scheme "Deduplication 2.0," claims that its B6200 StoreOnce Backup System can process and restore data at the breakneck speed of 28TB […]