Chris Preimesberger

Virtualization desktop software and hardware maker NComputing, which established its reputation in the overseas education sector, is making a play for enterprise business, thanks to a new partnership with more well-known VDI specialist Citrix. NComputing announced May 9 that its portfolio of high-performance thin clients built for Citrix now can provide high-definition corporate desktops for […]

Open-source enterprise software provider Red Hat on May 9 revealed a strategy for offering its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS) cloud operating system, which is aimed at becoming an alternative to current industry market-share leaders, such as VMware’s vSphere, Microsoft Azure and NASA/Rackspace’s OpenStack. Red Hat describes OpenShift is an open cloud application platform […]

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who didn’t earn the computer science degree in 1979 his resume claims, apologized about the discrepancy in an emailed note to company employees May 8 but ignored requests to resign, as has been demanded by at least two powerful stockholders. Yahoo, which acknowledged the mistake on Thompson’s resume on May 3, […]

Virtualized desktop system provider AppSense on May 8 announced that it has acquired RAPsphere, a maker of software that enables CIOs to embrace BYOD in the enterprise while protecting corporate applications and data on mobile devices. BYOD signifies “bring your own device,” which large numbers of enterprise employees want to do at work, rather than […]

Cloud systems automation provider Appnomic Systems on May 7 launched v4.0 of its AppsOne product for U.S. distribution, a platform that is able to ascertain real-time application-usage patterns and present them in a three-dimensional performance-management model. Bangalore, India-based Appnomic claims that AppsOne 4.0 amounts to the industry’s first “application behavior-learning” enterprise software package. The 3D […]

A Case That Was Supposed to Legally Define APIs At the copyright and patent trial in federal court in San Francisco, which began April 16, Oracle charged Google with stealing 37 key parts of its Java software suite to help build its highly successful Android mobile device operating system. Oracle is seeking about $1 billion […]

Facebook’s marketers and financial executives headed out on the road over the weekend to place the social network’s value proposition before potential big-time investors in cities such as Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles. In preparation for this 11-day road trip before the initial public offering hits the stock market on May 18, […]

A second major investor in Yahoo has called for the firing of the company’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, who didn’t earn the computer science degree his resume claims he did back in 1979. Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital, which owns about 3.2 million Yahoo shares, has joined another large stockholder, hedge fund director Daniel Loeb, […]

Yahoo’s headaches don’t seem to subside. The troubled Web search and services company is on the defensive against one of its largest stockholders, hedge fund director Daniel Loeb, who did some research and found that the company’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, didn’t earn a degree in computer science as his resume states. Yahoo also used […]

In a civil trial that could profoundly affect the way software is created, deployed and licensed for decades to come, a 12-person jury in a federal court in San Francisco came close but did not render a decision May 4 on whether Google illegally infringed upon copyrights held by Oracle in the Java-Android intellectual-property case. […]

Virtualized desktop system provider AppSense upgraded its frontline enterprise product May 2, simplifying its setup and administration and improving its management controls and user self-service options. AppSense’s User Virtualization Platform enables enterprises to consumerize their data management. Users can bring in whatever device they have and, using AppSense’s software, IT departments can configure them to […]

Amazon, which made available one of the first enterprise cloud storage services nearly seven years ago but was late providing one for consumers, on May 3 updated its year-old, consumer-oriented Cloud Drive storage service with a new, freely available desktop application for both Mac OS and Windows. Now, instead of having to go to the […]