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  • Warmenhoven’s New Role: Channel Ambassador

    One day last week, Dan Warmenhoven was enjoying a relatively relaxing day compared with the intensity of what his day would have been had he stayed in the chief executive’s office of NetApp. While he sat in his new cubicle down the hall from his former office, his successor, Tom Georgens, was in New York…

  • Oracle Lets Rival Salesforce.com Pitch its Customers

    By Jim Finkle BOSTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Oracle Corp has unexpectedly invited the CEO of archrival Salesforce.com Inc to speak at its annual users’ conference, giving him a chance to hawk his goods to Oracle’s customers. Both companies are vying for control of a $9-billion-a-year market for software that businesses use to manage sales,…

  • Websense Hires New Security Research Leader

    Websense is hoping to get a shot in the arm of innovation with the appointment of a new research leader poached from the labs of antivirus vendor F-Secure. Just under a month ago the web security firm hired Patrik Runald as senior research manager for the Websense Security Labs. With 14 years of security research…

  • Five Hot Technology Gadgets Turning Heads in Hershey

    Five Hot Technology Gadgets Turning Heads in Hershey   No Title From NexAira, this new router lets users plug their wireless carrier laptop sticks into the router and provide Internet access to all the PCs in range of the router instead of just one. It comes in a consumer and business model, with the business…

  • Optimism Greets Upcoming Technology Quarter Earnings

    By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The biggest risk for investors in technology, with stock prices up a whopping 55 percent this year, is they might be just a little too happy. All the buzz isn’t without cause: Corporate technology spending could be set to rebound next year, cost-cutting is paying dividends, and dealmaking…

  • IDC Report: DLP, Security Consulting Spend on the Horizon

    More than half of companies worldwide report that they are planning to invest in DLP technology, according to a new report released yesterday.   Sponsored by Dimension Data and conducted by researchers by IDC, the survey of more than 400 IT security decision makers found that internal data leak concerns were more top of mind…

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