Recent Articles
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NEC Boosts Server to Dual-Core
NEC Solutions America is unveiling Feb. 8 a new line of fault-tolerant servers that feature dual-core Intel chip options, greater management capabilities and a more streamlined design. The Express5800/320Ma, which will be announced Feb. 8 but offered in limited availability in March and general availability in April, will come in three variations—with 3.2GHz or 3.8GHz…
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Ingres Scores a Money Man
Open-source database company Ingres has snapped up a financial whiz to be chief financial officer. The company announced Feb. 6 that it had tapped Tom Berquist for the role. Berquist is currently managing director with Citigroup, where he follows medium-to-large capitalized software companies such as BEA, Microsoft and Oracle. Terry Garnett, Ingres chairman and CEO,…
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EMC Places Its SMB Bet on the Channel
Following a string of acquisitions and enterprise product launches, enterprise storage goliath EMC is turning its sights on the SMB (small and midsize business) market, with a new product line and an all-channel market strategy. EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., announced on Feb. 6 its EMC Insignia, six new products for storage, management, protection and…
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Business Objects Demystifies Promotions for Packaged-Goods Players
Business Objects on Feb. 7 will help to unfrazzle consumer packaged-goods execs by delivering analytics that spell out what’s going on with all the money they’re spending on trade promotions. BusinessObjects Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analytics will be backed up by the release of industry-focused BusinessObjects XI Release 2 analytic applications, which run on the company’s…
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Hard Drive Sales Spiral Upward
A healthy spending environment, with businesses and users snatching up servers and PCs, last year pushed sales of hard disk drive units to grow by 25 percent unit in 2005. Leading the HDD charge, Seagate Technology shipped 108 million drives to customers and organizations, according to a new report by TrendFocus. In the desktop HDD…
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Security May Dog Software as a Service
As the thirst for low-maintenance on-demand software continues to grow in the enterprise, some security experts and customers worry that security weaknesses could disrupt on-demand applications and leave them high and dry. For now, these security concerns lurk well below the surface—few of the big vendors pitching their wares at the RSA Conference on Feb.…
