Recent Articles
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Calence to Acquire Global Data Systems, Texas Presence
Calence, which is fast becoming one of the nation’s largest service providers, agreed on Oct. 16 to acquire the Texas operations of Global Data Systems, a nationwide VAR. The acquisition increases Calence’s presence in the education and public sector spaces and several key Texas markets—Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston, Laredo, McAllen, San Angelo and San…
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Oracle Updates Enterprise Manager 10g’s ALM
Oracle announced Oct. 16 that it’s tweaking Enterprise Manager 10g’s application lifecycle management so as to allow IT professionals to monitor the entire database and pinpoint specific changes in the database environment, approve changes, and take “snapshots” of the environment. Oracle’s achieving this by deploying service-level management, application performance management, configuration management and change automation,…
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Circuit City Parts Ways with Its CIO
One of retail’s most important IT executives—Circuit City CIO Mike Jones—has left the $11.6 billion chain, with the chief IT job going to his VP of business applications. Jones had a creative and visionary perspective for the chain and a company statement left unclear the circumstances of his departure, although the phrase “to pursue other…
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Microsoft Caves on Vista Security
Security is security, but business is business I guess. It wasn’t worth it to Microsoft to stick to its positions on PatchGuard and the Windows Security Center. The details aren’t in yet, but based on Microsoft’s vague initial statements it appears that the company has essentially acceded to Symantec’s position on PatchGuard and is trying…
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Are Accurate Delivery Dates Too Much to Ask for?
I’m not cynical enough. No, really. I got my nose rubbed into that recently. A good friend of mine wanted to know where—not when—he could buy Vista. I, old and wise in the way of technology vendors, shrugged my shoulders and said, “You can’t,” and then gave the Reader Digest’s version of why Vista hasn’t…
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OpenVZ Virtualization Powers Up Power Processors
The OpenVZ project announced today that its OS-level server virtualization software technology has been ported to—and is now available for—systems based on 64-bit Power processors. When you think virtualization and Linux, chances are the first program that comes to mind is Xen, followed quickly by VMware. OpenVZ, however, is pushing hard to win your mind…
