Enterprise News

NewsFactor - Enterprise modeling software and services firm Proforma has announced the latest release of its ProVision suite, targeted at bringing business and I.T. together to model, analyze, and improve strategy, processes, systems, and technology.

SiliconValley.com - Advanced Micro Devices reported strong sales and profits for the third quarter as it apparently gained market share on rival Intel in both server and laptop microprocessors.

TechWeb - In a recent Intelligent Enterprise poll on business process management, 36 percent of 1,700 respondents said they were actively considering the technology. BPM Analyst Connie Moore of Forrester Research details who's adopting and adds her advice on where to begin.

AP - Months earlier than expected but still half a year behind its competition, Intel Corp. has started shipping server multiprocessors that have two computing engines on a single chip.

SiliconValley.com - Advanced Micro Devices reported strong sales and profit for the third quarter as it apparently gained market share on rival Intel in both server and laptop microprocessors.

MacCentral - Adobe Systems Inc. on Monday announced Adobe InDesign Server CS2. The software is intended for system

TechWeb - Palm Inc. has licensed Research In Motion's BlackBerry

AP - Illegal voicemail interception and cell phone tracking was a matter of routine at both The Sun and the News of the World tabloids, the brother of a whistleblower at the center of Britain's phone hacking scandal said Monday.

TechWeb - VMware rolls upgrades for its data center products, ESX Server 3 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.

NewsFactor - Intel unveiled its first dual-core Xeon chips for two-processor and four-processor servers in an attempt to catch up to rival AMD (NYSE: AMD) and its dual-core Opteron.

TechWeb - Siebel execs talked of big ideas like 'customer-adaptive solutions' at the company's user conference. But many customers just want to know what Oracle's plans are for the CRM vendor.

The Motley Fool - Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) CEO Larry Ellison thinks enterprise software is a mature industry. The next phase, according to him, is consolidation, and he's pushing that trend by buying up the likes of Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL - News) and PeopleSoft.

Investor's Business Daily - IBM's third-quarter earnings handily beat analyst forecasts Monday. But sales were a tad shy of expectations.

AP - The setting was a holdover from the days of the robber barons: a grand private club commissioned by J.P. Morgan himself. But the message IBM executives delivered to 30 companies' technology officers was that many time-honored ways of doing business are long gone.

TechWeb - IBM details several products for server and storage virtualization, and provides a way for third-party vendors to test and validate their software in the mix.

TechWeb - The additions to BMC's service-oriented resource management system are designed to help better allocate resources to virtualized servers and data-center and systems-management processes.

NewsFactor - Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL) introduced a new, comprehensive strategy to tie together all of the company's CRM products and services.

TechWeb - Big Blue is hoping to continue the unit's growth, expecting about $1 billion in services contracts in 2005, but lower-cost outsourcers are hoping to lure their share of the business, too.

TechWeb - Today’s next-generation mobile devices enhance mobile workers’ productivity, but they’re also placing unprecedented demands on enterprise security infrastructure. And until stronger security practices become more widespread, enterprise mobile devices will continue to represent a threat to sensitive corporate data.

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TechWeb - Global Services sales increased by 3%, hardware sales increased by 7%, and software sales increased by 5%.

InfoWorld - Growing interest in SIP-enabled communications -- from VoIP to SIP-based collaboration apps such as Microsoft's LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005 -- has sparked the need to better secure SIP traffic.

TechWeb - SAP AG on Monday extended its "Safe Passage" program to Siebel Systems customers looking to jump ship for another customer relationship management platform such as mySAP CRM

SiliconValley.com - Playing catch-up with its chief rival, Intel announced Monday that it has begun shipping computer chips that have two brains each for corporate server customers.

PC World - Licensing promotion offers deals for server, networked desktop software suites.

AFP - IBM said its third-quarter net profit dipped due to money set aside to pay taxes on repatriated earnings, but the result excluding special items topped most Wall Street projections.

Ziff Davis - The company's new offerings focus on the branch office and data center; the new Application Networking Delivery Business Unit will be headed by George Kurian, vice president and general manager.

Ziff Davis - The flaw could allow a hacker to force an OpenSSL-enabled site to use the outdated—and potentially insecure—SSL version 2.0 protocol.

InfoWorld - VMware and Microsoft are separately attempting to wipe out two layers of uncertainty clouding server virtualization.

AP - Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

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Mashable - Apple said Wednesday that iOS apps accessing users' contact lists will require explicit permission, following a week of accusations that a number of iPhone apps were storing data on their servers.

Digital Trends - Today, Wikileaks began its release of “The Global Intelligence Files,” a trove of 5.5 million emails obtained in December 2011 from global intelligence firm Stratfor. The emails were stolen by Antisec, a sub-set of hacktivist collective Anonymous responsible for hacking servers. The emails reveal a network of corporate “spying” and manipulation, which appear to have benefited Stratfor and its clients.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120120/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/us_wall_street'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120120/capt.531ba1ab50864f8f9340ba404d5f54d6-531ba1ab50864f8f9340ba404d5f54d6-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0xbW1vFMKfTdAGj1fwMaOg--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Financial markets were cautious Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, ahead of another round of debt-reduction talks between Greece and its private creditors that could determine whether Europe's debt crisis flares up again. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)' border='0' /></a>AP - Microsoft and IBM drove the Dow Jones industrial average up in Friday trading after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - The Oregon House has voted to increase the number of enterprise zones to encourage businesses to invest in economically depressed areas.

Digital Trends - Pinterest has taken the Web by storm while simultaneously introducing a host of copyright issues. The entire model of pinning and repining means that artists’ work has the potential to get lost in the mix and original sources can be difficult to find. We examined this incredibly messy situation recently, and found that users are generally quite torn over the problem. While they admit it’s been a huge interest generator for their respective sites, most feel that Pinterest itself needs to do more to urge users to properly cite material. 

Reuters - International Business Machines is sounding out plans to cut thousands of jobs in Germany and other countries to reduce costs and raise earnings, a German union official said.

Digital Trends - The current generation of gaming consoles have gone above and beyond being just devices to play video games. They have become entertainment systems in their own right, that can play DVDs (and blu-rays in the case of the PPS3), stream content online, and even act as media servers.

Digital Trends - The Federal Bureau of Investigation may soon be forced to shut down a number of key Domain Name System (DNS) servers, which would cut Internet access for millions of Web users around the world, reports BetaBeat. The DNS servers were installed by the FBI last year, in an effort to stop the spread of a piece of malware known as DNSCharger Trojan. But the court order that allowed the set up of the replacement servers expires on March 8.

Digital Trends - As of Monday, it seemed all but guaranteed that the files stored on the servers used by Megaupload, which was seized by the US government on January 19, were gone for good. This includes the data of people who used Megaupload for legitimate purposes, like distributing work documents, or their own photo and video creations. But thanks to a collaborative effort between the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Carpathia Hosting, which owns and operates many of the servers used by Mega in the US, users who lost their files may now have a way to get them back.

Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.”

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120120/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/us_wall_street'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120120/capt.531ba1ab50864f8f9340ba404d5f54d6-531ba1ab50864f8f9340ba404d5f54d6-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0xbW1vFMKfTdAGj1fwMaOg--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Financial markets were cautious Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, ahead of another round of debt-reduction talks between Greece and its private creditors that could determine whether Europe's debt crisis flares up again. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)' border='0' /></a>AP - Microsoft and IBM drove the Dow Jones industrial average up in Friday morning trading, after the established tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected. Google plunged on an earnings miss.</p><br clear='all'/>

InfoWorld - Hailed as one of Microsoft's broadest, deepest releases, Windows Server 8 will replace the current version of the OS, Windows Server 2008, in 2012 about the same time the new companion desktop OS, Windows 8, is released.

InfoWorld - Enterprise IT infrastructures now face such an explosion of applications, devices, and data that just running in place is hard enough. Nobody seems to have the time or resources to design new systems that actually improve operations. Nonetheless, there's one step you can take to make life easier and your infrastructure stronger as you deal with rampant growth: introduce logical separation wherever you can.

Mashable - Keyboards and mice may seem like clunky artifacts of the past within the next five years, pushed aside in favor of the ultimate user interface: the human mind.

Digital Trends - According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic already has between 1 to 1.5 million early players taking advantage of early access from preordering the game. Creutz has been watching the amount of servers being rolled out for the game as well as the server population. The analyst counted 140 servers over the weekend, an increase from 106 servers there were available the previous Wednesday. Seventy-seven servers are located in the United States and sixty-three are located in European countries. Players that can already access the game have been complaining of long server queues and wait times to simply log into the game.

AP - Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller wants to appeal an order that compels Gov. Mitch Daniels to testify in lawsuits over the state's cancellation of a $1.37 billion contract IBM Corp. received to modernize the state's welfare system.

AP - Technology stocks fell Wednesday, dragged down by a weak earnings report from business software maker Oracle Corp. Broad market indexes were flat. The Dow Jones industrial average eked out a gain of 4 points after having been down 104 points at midday. Technology stocks were the issue, with IBM the biggest decliner of the Dow's 30 stocks. IBM fell 3.1 percent, and Oracle fell 11.7 percent.

AP - Is Rupert Murdoch's best-selling newspaper in open revolt?

Reuters - Dell Inc launched a new line of servers for enterprise customers, boosting its corporate business unit and shifting its focus further away from consumers, who are increasingly choosing such devices as Apple Inc's iPad.

Digital Trends - CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing “the hacker way,” which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future.

InfoWorld - I've written on a number of occasions about the capabilities of enterprise-class SLC solid-state drives (SSDs) when leveraged in demanding primary storage environments. Their ability to both provide impressive sequential read/write performance and shoulder enormous OLTP loads has made them an almost indispensable component of high-end database and large VDI infrastructures.

Mashable - Bill Kalma is VP of technical services at Model Metrics, an enterprise cloud computing services company. He focuses on the effective scoping, management and delivery of CRM projects from a technical perspective.

NewsFactor - With governments looking to increase their efficiency and reporting, the CRM-in-government market matches a clear need with a solution. Oracle is now expanding its offering in that market with release this week of its Siebel CRM Public Sector 8.2.2, part of its Social Services Suite.

Reuters - International Business Machines is gearing up to take a chunk of the growing Internet security market by applying its data analytics to help companies and organizations fight cyberattacks.

Mashable - Twitter has acknowledged the "Find Friends" feature on its iPhone app stores contact lists on its servers, echoing a recent controversy surrounding the Path iOS app.

The Motley Fool - In this period of "exceptional uncertainty" (to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke), where can investors turn for a considered perspective on the current environment? Produced to feed the beast of the 24-hour news cycle, the bulk of financial journalism and commentary today isn't worth the servers it is stored on. One notable exception to that rule is Buttonwood, the financial markets column of The Economist. Philip Coggan is the columnist -- arguably the most influential position in financial journalism (along with the head of Lex at the Financial Times).

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120215/ap_on_bi_co_ne/us_on_the_money_spring_training_trips'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120215/capt.234390c20bf040ea8f1f5c16ba7afc1b-eea079360787430bb7a2624bc5fcbf1e-0.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=qLewF4nyG6As7OkQ5ovFuQ--' align='left' height='92' width='130' alt='FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012 file photo, Riley Knies, age 9, from Bellingham, Wash., holds a ball as he watches the Seattle Mariners during spring training baseball practice, in Peoria, Ariz. Most fans dream of making at least one trek south to spend a week relaxing in the sun and watching their favorite teams play in Florida or Arizona. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)' border='0' /></a>AP - Nothing stirs the blood of baseball fans quite like "pitchers and catchers report."</p><br clear='all'/>

NewsFactor - IBM on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire a leader in the cloud and on-premise analytics software field. IBM will take over Emptoris for an undisclosed amount.

NewsFactor - In its latest bet to forward its Smarter Commerce initiative, IBM snapped up Emptoris. The company bolsters the procurement and supply chain operations side of Big Blue's analytics business.

AP - Foxwoods Resort Casino has unveiled plans for an outlet shopping center to add to revenue at its eastern Connecticut gambling enterprise.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bank_of_america_stock'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120210/capt.0da8182474594757988d0c4f207c7e01-0da8182474594757988d0c4f207c7e01-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=nrmFxQlxNrv92PkY.b8vsw--' align='left' height='82' width='130' alt='FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. There are fewer and fewer traders on the NYSE floor because of the dominance of computer trading of securities - including the high-frequency trading that can take advantage of price changes in a millisecond. Bank of America is the stock of the moment for high-frequency trading; investors use computer algorithms to exploit small changes in a stock's price. If a computer can seize on a stock like Bank of America a fraction of a second faster than the rest of the market, it can book a tiny profit. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)' border='0' /></a>AP - On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.</p><br clear='all'/>

NewsFactor - Not content to shake up the CRM market alone, Salesforce.com is moving into a new social-software sector with its latest acquisition. Salesforce has acquired Rypple, a cloud-based social-performance management company, for an undisclosed amount.

Reuters - Dell Inc reported revenue that was slightly higher than Wall Street expectations, partly due to strength in its enterprise business.

NewsFactor - It's that time of year again. IBM has just released its sixth annual "IBM 5 in 5." It's a list of innovations that Big Blue bets have the potential to change the way we work, live and interact over the next five years. This year, IBM is focusing on market and societal trends, as well as emerging technologies from its research labs.

The Atlantic Wire - There's more to the story than a 27-year-old hunting big game and punking his employees, however. Swisher revealed the whole story behind Zuckerberg's bison battle, as Facebook closed the doors on their ramshackle, two-building -- but still very fancy -- Palo Alto headquarters. Over the weekend, movers hustled boxes over to the company's new space in the Sun Microsystems former campus in Menlo Park, near the water of the San Francisco Bay. Employees showed up at the new digs on Monday to mark a new era in Facebook history (and a new home for Billy).

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111220/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_russia_oil_calamity'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20111217/capt.ae3c94b9692743a58a10fa68e48de461-be87c1a173de4787a99eb6256569b592-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=c1F74iX.mclZAAqN_YczUg--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='This Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 photo shows dying trees next to an oil spill near the town of Usinsk, 1500 kilometers (930 miles) northeast of Moscow. Komi is one of Russia's largest and oldest oil provinces but ruptures in aging pipelines and leaks from decommissioned oil wells make oil spills in the region routine. Environmentalists estimate at least 1 percent of Russia's annual oil production, or 5 million tons (35 million barrels), is spilled every year. That's equivalent to one Deepwater Horizon-scale leak about every two months. Crumbling infrastructure and a harsh climate combine to spell disaster in the world's largest oil producer, responsible for 13 percent of global output. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)' border='0' /></a>AP - On the bright yellow tundra outside this oil town near the Arctic Circle, a pitch-black pool of crude stretches toward the horizon. The source: a decommissioned well whose rusty screws ooze with oil, viscous like jam.</p><br clear='all'/>

Reuters - EU antitrust regulators accepted concessions offered by International Business Machines Corp to end an antitrust investigation and avert a possible fine, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

Digital Trends - This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a recent online security breach.

AP - A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants.

Appolicious - One of the most popular social networking apps available for iOS and Android devices is in a bit of hot water.

Reuters - Philips Electronics said it shut down one of its servers on Monday because of a possible cyber attack and that it was investigating the nature and extent of the information that might have been accessed.

Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper prides itself on an aggressive reporting style that has delivered decades of sensational scoops and made it Britain's best-selling newspaper. But now it is the one being scrutinized, and it doesn't like it one bit.

Reuters - Rupert Murdoch pledged unwavering support to his scandal-hit Sun on Friday, and promised to launch a Sunday edition soon, to try to win back angry staff in one of the biggest challenges to his more than 40 years as proprietor at the British tabloid.

AP - Enterprise software maker SAP AG said Thursday that it completed its tender offer for all the shares of SuccessFactors Inc., paving the way for its acquisition of the software company to close.

AP - The parent company of the Mohegan Sun casinos has announced a debt refinancing plan offering new terms to bond holders and reducing the loan amount.

AP - IBM Corp. has given out more than $500,000 in grants to Vermont nonprofits organizations and schools.

Reuters - Wayin, the new social media venture backed by Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, announced it has raised $14 million in Series B funding from U.S. Venture Partners.

The Upshot - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it received an "outpouring of support" that crashed its servers Thursday morning after conservative host Glenn Beck pledged $10,000 on the air to the organization and urged his listeners to donate what they can afford. "Let's break all records," Beck said. "Let's show these people that we actually believe [...]

Reuters - A year after network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc unnerved investors with yet another weak quarterly outlook the company looks set to report a stable quarter buoyed in part by improving enterprise demand in the United States.

Mashable - If you're looking for a new job, but you're also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector. More than ever before, tech companies are committed to sustainability -- they're developing greener devices, increasing the life cycle of products and developing meaningful partnerships. In fact, seven of the top 10 green companies are in the tech sector, and IBM leads the way, with a greenscore of 82.5%.

Mashable - In five years, we'll simply be able to think something, and a computer will respond. That's the vision from IBM, which just published its "5 in 5" forecast, which attempts to predict five technologies that have the potential to significantly change our lives in the next five years. One of the more surprising candidates: machines that will read our thoughts.

Digital Trends - Documents briefly posted to Hewlett-Packard’s Web site indicate Microsoft may be considering offering Windows 8 to the public in fewer editions (or SKUs, short for stock-keeping unit) that it current does with Windows 7—even though Windows 8 will be expanding onto a whole new platform with ARM. First spotted by ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman, the documents have since been pulled from HP’s site, but seemed to indicate Microsoft may be ditching the little-loved “Basic” editions of Windows in favor of three tracks aimed at consumers, enterprise users, and high-end professionals:

Digital Trends - Japanese memory maker Elpida has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing debts of some ¥448 billion (about $5.55 billion), making it the biggest bankruptcy filing in Japanese history. Elpida is Japan’s last remaining manufacturer of DRAM, the memory that fuels everything from servers to desktop and notebook computers to smartphones and mobile devices. However, the company has struggled as the price of DRAM has steadily dropped to due competition from the likes of South Korea’s Samsung and Hynix, and the strong Japanese yen has both kept Elpida’s prices high and increased the cost of Elpida’s operations across the board. Although Elpida is still making RAM for the time being, the filing raises concerns that Japan may soon find itself out of the DRAM business it once dominated.

Mashable - Notre Dame researchers have created a semiconductive paste, which can turn surfaces its applied to into solar cells.

AP - The European Union's competition watchdog says it has accepted concessions made by IBM to make it easier for rivals to perform maintenance on its mainframe computers and is closing its investigation of the company.

Mashable - European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy.

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AP - The Vermont company that runs much of the electric distribution system in the state is joining with IBM to build a fiber optic control system designed to make the system more efficient and reliable.

Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.

Mashable - 2011 will go down as a landmark year for space exploration, for a multitude of reasons. From end-of-an-era missions to incredible milestones to breathtaking discoveries, human civilization is reaching out further and more often than ever before from our pale blue dot in the universe.

NewsFactor - A new analytical tool from IBM is helping scientists scan patents and other intellectual property for information about molecular data. The cloud-based strategic IP insight platform, or SIIP, uses image analysis and enhanced optical recognition of chemical images and symbols to quickly obtain the information, a process that otherwise could take months to do manually.

AP - IBM Corp. has laid off roughly 1,100 workers in North America this week, a union organizing group said Tuesday.

Reuters - Anti-virus software maker McAfee warned that a flaw in one of its products could make customers' PCs vulnerable to attacks in which hackers used their computers to distribute spam.

NewsFactor - Predictions are, by definition, iffy. But tech predictions in particular are iffy in this second decade of the fast-moving 21st century, because they often underestimate the speed of technological change.

Reuters - IBM Corp is expected to report solid fourth quarter results on January 19 under new chief executive Virginia Rometty as investors look for news about the potential impact of the Eurozone crisis and currency headwinds in 2012.

Mashable - Joshua March is co-founder and CEO of Conversocial, a provider of integrated social CRM and marketing software for Facebook and Twitter. He resides in London.

AP - Google Inc. has bought another 188 U.S. patents and 29 patent applications from IBM Corp., IBM confirmed Wednesday.

Reuters - F5 Networks Inc said it expects to post a strong second quarter as a boom in data center consolidation boosts demand from enterprise customers for the network gear makers optimization products.