Jessica Davis

VMware (NYSE:VMW) has announced it will acquire open-source e-mail and collaboration software company Zimbra from Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), paving the way for a potential rival to Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail and collaboration empire. The deal follows a week of rumors that VMware was targeting the open-source company amid speculation that if the deal went through it could […]

You hear the stories all the time. Stories of unsatisfied customers. Stories of unbelievably poor customer service. Case in point: A business needs to upgrade its bandwidth with its ISP but gets routed to a call center in the Philippines (or insert your favorite outsourcing location) and the person on the line can’t tell them […]

CES as a Venue for Business Products CES as a Venue for Business ProductsSure, you got a chance to see the latest 3D television at CES and the newest amazing computer game for your Wii console. But this electronics-industry trade show for consumer electronics has also replaced Comdex as the de facto place vendors to […]

While the converged data center holds the promise of more efficient power usage and administration, it’s failed to win over a few key constituents so far – data center workers afraid of losing their jobs and IT solution providers who say that early programs from some vendors have favored direct sales over channel sales. But […]

Do you have an affinity with a particular business book that has guided you in your business and life decisions? Yesterday I was speaking with Arlin Sorensen, founder and CEO of Heartland Technology Solutions and also the creator and founder of the peer groups Heartland Technology Group (HTG). He told me that members of HTG […]

Point-of-sale and retail vertical industry IT distributor ScanSource reported that it will post higher year-over-year revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31. The Greenville, S.C., distributor said that revenues will be in the range of $537 million to $547 million and will include the revenues of the acquisition of Algol Europe, which was completed Dec. […]

Lots of technology companies are expecting a big migration this year from Microsoft’s Windows XP to its new operating system introduced in October 2009, Windows 7. That’s because the market is considered to be bloated with pent-up demand from so many people skipping Windows Vista, the highly criticized operating system in between. Indeed it was […]

Looking to new technologies to improve the energy efficiency of information technology and telecommunications, the U.S. Department of Energy this week announced it will award $47 million for 14 projects across the country to develop them. The idea behind the move is that while data processing, storage and telecom have become crucial parts of the […]

Ford Motor Co.’s CEO will deliver the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show this morning as marquee news organizations such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal run with articles about bringing PC functionality to the dashboard, and talking about the dangers of distracted drivers. But while CES is all about […]

As if it weren’t enough that VMware owns most of the server virtualization market out there today, now the company is rumored to be interested in buying open-source messaging, e-mail and collaboration vendor Zimbra from Yahoo. Rumors first surfaced last fall that Yahoo, which purchased Zimbra two years before, was looking to sell it just […]

If you are looking to fill some skills gaps at your business, or if you are one of the many unemployed who lost an IT job during the recession, take heart. While it is unlikely that IT jobs and hiring will return at any great clip in 2010, employers who see a pickup in business […]

After more than a year in the toughest recession in memory, when so many companies implemented work force reductions, hiring freezes, pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, is it any surprise that job satisfaction levels may have plummeted to their lowest levels on record? The Conference Board the week of Jan. 4 released a survey showing […]