Enterprise Technology News

NEW YORK - Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff said Cisco Systems Inc.'s meeting with analysts Tuesday reinforced his upbeat outlook on the networking gear maker and its shares. Full Story »

San Francisco - Oh, what a difference a year makes! In October of last year, I reviewed a pair of virtualization servers from Dell. Full Story »

Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday. Full Story »

A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - MySpace on Tuesday announced that it has bought online music service imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community. Full Story »

That's when his IBM bosses called him to New York to get his take on the successor to the firm's top-selling 7000 series of computers. Full Story »

Five of the largest U.S. newspaper and magazine publishers have announced plans to develop a new digital e-reader format that would meld the visual esthetics of print with the rich capabilities of online media, including video, social networking, touch input, and games. Full Story »

Seagate introduced a new solid-state drive (SSD) Monday that is destined for deployment in enterprise blade and general server applications. Based on single-level cell flash memory technology, the company's new Pulsar device features a 2.5-inch small form factor and capacities ranging between 50GB and 200GB. Full Story »

Microsoft has posted a reminder that support for Windows 2000 Server and client and Windows XP SP2 will end on July 13. The company is suggesting that consumers and especially organizations still using these OSes should prepare. Full Story »

BRUSSELS - The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health care reform. Full Story »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and SAP will attend an EU hearing on Oracle Corp's plan to buy Sun Microsystems Inc that could help EU regulators decide whether to clear or block the deal, two people close to the matter said on Tuesday. Full Story »

Zero-day flaws that allowed for attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and 7, disclosed in late November, pick up critical patches in today's Patch Tuesday, as does Microsoft Office Project and Server 2008. Full Story »

Seagate jumped into the SSD (solid state drive) market today with the unveiling of its Pulsar drives. SSD drives have been a growing segment, but Seagate adds significant credibility and opens up new possibilities for the nascent technology. Full Story »

Mobile phone operator Orange plans to open Life Is Better On, its take on mobile social networking, on Wednesday. Full Story »

Seagate tosses its hat into the solid state drive (SSD) market today with the unveiling of its Pulsar drive, a unit aimed at enterprise-level blade and server applications. The new drive stores up to 200GB of data in a 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. With the Pulsar drive, Seagate lays claim to being "the first enterprise HDD vendor to deliver an enterprise-class SSD solution." Full Story »

San Francisco - Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of "database as a service" is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself provides EC2 instances running MySQL, and Amazon's SimpleDB service offers capabilities similar -- but not identical -- to Amazon RDS. Full Story »

Seagate launched its first solid-state disc (SSD) product Tuesday morning, the Pulsar, which will be designed for the enterprise market. Full Story »

IBM is offering a hosted version of its Tivoli monitoring software for companies that would rather pay a subscription fee than license the product for on-premise use, IBM was set to announce Tuesday. Full Story »