Enterprise Technology News

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations.

San Francisco - Can a business be run solely in the cloud without a server anywhere in sight? Appirio says it can and is already doing it.

Investors punished tech stocks Thursday after networking-gear maker Ciena gave a disappointing outlook, just the latest recent report fueling fears of a broadening slump.

Texas, of course, is the prime source of oil in the U.S. But anyone who's been out on the Texas prairie knows that it has another abundant energy source: wind.

Google Chrome may be the fastest browser around, but it may actually prove to be even more important to the enterprise for its ability to interact with service-oriented architectures (SOA).

(Reuters) - CNBC has entered into an alliance with LinkedIn under which the financial news channel will air content generated by the professional networking site's 27 million members.

TRENTON, N.J. - The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Sun, a daily newspaper launched six years ago as an often conservative-leaning alternative to The New York Times, may stop publishing by the end of September unless it gets additional financial backing.

Intuit's customers have taken to its message boards to voice their anger about an upgrade to its Quicken software, which produced downloading issues and incorrect stock quotations in customer portfolios. Intuit, meanwhile, now says an updated quotes server is in place as of Wednesday.

San Francisco - Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in the datacenter as a way to respond quickly to the varying server demands.

Although the IEEE 802.11n specification is still a year or more away from release, a small group of engineers is already moving ahead to the next generation of wireless networking. The goal? Gigabit Wi-Fi, to match the wired gigabit Ethernet links of today's PCs.

San Francisco - With an upgrade to its software development framework for PHP scheduled for release today, Zend Technologies is mixing in client-side AJAX capabilities with server-side PHP functionality.

San Francisco - VeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and other domains. In recent years, it's had both strong ups and strong downs.

In advance of its WiMAX rollout this fall, Sprint announced Thursday a lineup of mobile partners to localize its customer's 4G experience. In what the company calls "geobrowsing," XOHM users will get local news, weather and many other localized networking features delivered to their laptops and mobile devices.

The second beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download by developers and consumers alike on Windows-based PCs running Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

Networking king Cisco Systems this month reported results that buoyed Wall Street but raised questions about one of its key products.

Anyone perusing porn sites at home will appreciate Microsoft's latest efforts at browser privacy, but it's not clear it will do much for the enterprise. Internet Explorer product manager Andrew Ziegler discussed the new privacy features of IE8, currently in its second beta, in an extensive blog post Monday. Users of the new software will be able to turn on Microsoft's InPrivate Browsing and Blocking features.

San Francisco - With its new JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications, Sun Microsystems hopes to leverage the strength of the Java development base and Java's ubiquitous presence on devices to make a strong run in a race it has entered very late -- and where Adobe Systems and Microsoft have a huge head start.

(Reuters) - U.S. computer group International Business Machines widened its market share lead over rival Hewlett-Packard Co in worldwide server shipments in the second quarter, researcher IDC said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cable network AMC has angered online fans of its critically acclaimed drama "Mad Men" by asking social networking site Twitter to shut down feeds inspired by the show.

If you're on Facebook and were thinking about playing Scrabulous -- an online, unauthorized version of the classic word game Scrabble -- the word you're looking for is "banned." As in "banned from Facebook," since that popular social-networking site has now pulled the game from most of the world that could still play it.

Courtesy of power protection maker Tripp Lite, PowerAlert is a free new energy management software designed to help both individual end users and enterprise-level IT managers maximize their system efficiency.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard , the computer and printer maker, said on Tuesday it closed the $13.9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp., a deal that HP hopes will help it better compete with IBM .

Amazon today announced the acquisition of book sharing site, Shelfari, which will add social networking to the shopping site.

NEW YORK - Business software maker VMware Inc. said Monday it has named David Sung, an ex-IBM executive, as president of its greater China region.

Tech services firm Ciber passed $1 billion in annual revenue last year, but it still faces the unenviable task of having to compete directly against much larger rivals, including IBM, Accenture, Deloitte and Capgemini.

Investors hammered Salesforce.com on Thursday, bidding shares down 18% in the wake of a cautious third-quarter outlook, slower growth in billings and the expected earnings hit from its newest acquisition.

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.

Microsoft has elected to jettison certain licensing restrictions that previously discouraged its customers from moving the software giant's server applications within a server farm at will.