Monthly Archives: February 2008
Why We’re Starting to Trust Storage in the Cloud
News item from Reuters, Feb. 22, 2008: "EMC, the world's largest storage infrastructure company, hired a former Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz, to start a...
Zimbra Delivers on Next-Gen E-Mail
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The recent release of Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 provides a look into the future of enterprise applications, as the Zimbra...
Google’s Space Race: Cannonball Run for the 21st Century
The blogosphere is brimming with news of the 10 contestants for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, which the gambit's site expertly describes in marketing...
Bush on Telco Immunity: No Compromise
President Bush refused to budge Feb. 21 on his stance that telecommunications carriers should be given immunity for participating in the president's warrantless spy...
LinkedIn Tailored for the iPhone
LinkedIn has created an application that lets users on the go tap into their professional network from any Web-enabled mobile device, especially Apple's popular...
Top 10 Disruptive Technologies Affecting the Data Center
Top 10 Disruptive Technologies Affecting the Data Center
Unified CommunicationsBy 2010, 80 percent of unified communications components will be purchased as part of a broader...
It’s Show Time for Microsoft’s Office File Format
Microsoft's announcement of greater interoperability and openness comes just days ahead of a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva that is the precursor to the...
Lawson Software to Acquire VasTech
Lawson Software announced Feb. 22 that it has agreed to acquire VasTech, a workforce management software vendor. The acquisition strengthens Lawson's vertical market strategy...
Microsoft Exec Sells Yahoo Bid to Employees
In a rally-the-troops e-mail, a senior Microsoft executive explained the benefits of acquiring Yahoo and swatted aside concerns about disparate corporate cultures and technologies.However,...
Microsoft’s Pie in the Sky Play with SkyDrive
Although it's a little late to the game, Microsoft's free hosted storage service entered the market with a lot of noise. After all, the...