enterprise IT
Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
News According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the EC has filed a statement of objections, which says the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database... [10 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News There's no doubt Macs are on the march - albeit not necessarily in the enterprise. None of the IT chiefs surveyed said the latest iteration of the Mac OS - Snow Leopard - will push their business to... [09 Nov 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News It could really speed up that work and that's where the real value lies for the enterprise. It may have only been launched a few months ago but Google's Wave collaboration platform is... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Mobile Lite provides a stripped down version to all salesforce.com customers with Professional, Enterprise or Unlimited Edition licences. Users can view customised financial, HR, supply chain and customer relationship... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News When faced with cloning an entire Microsoft Exchange environment across the whole enterprise, I thought - here was a golden opportunity to do something different," Vincent said. JLR is spending £200m separating its... [26 Oct 2009]
ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications
White Paper The structure of ITIL is evolving from Version 2 to Version 3; understand how the adoption and application of the ITIL framework can add value to your enterprise, and how Siemens is taking the ITIL model and using... [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Because it lacks the expensive licensing that is often the hallmark of proprietary software, open source is regularly touted as a way for IT departments to make their budget stretch a little bit further... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News He now estimates he spends around 80 per cent of his time managing the development of new products, improving enterprise architecture and finding the best talent in order to bolster the company's tech development. [23 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News According to Gartner, the 10 strategic technologies will have an impact on the enterprise over the next three years, with IT chiefs encouraged to make decisions on them within the next two. A technology... [22 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
White Paper Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. Its unique design principles-complete, integrated, hot-pluggable, and... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News Longbottom said this is a huge advantage in the enterprise market: "There is a lot of software out there in the business market that is five to 15 years old that needs to be able to run on Windows 7. With software... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News According to research from Gartner, enterprise tech spending is down 5.2 per cent on 2008 figures. CIOs faced with budget cuts and tougher conditions this year appear to have made the most stringent cutbacks around... [20 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it's going to "liberate SharePoint content". Ideally, workers will be able to collaborate with each... [20 Oct 2009]
The new face of IT service management
White Paper This white paper from Macehiter Ward-Dutton — an IT advisory firm that specializes in issues of IT-business alignment — shows how IT can contribute to the strategic advantage of the... [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Nathaniel Martinez, IDC programme director for European enterprise servers said that last year, more money was spent on powering datacentres than was spent on acquiring new datacentre networking hardware, or new external... [19 Oct 2009]