Chris Preimesberger

IT service management software maker BMC announced April 28 that is has acquired Coradiant, a specialist in user experience and Web application performance monitoring. Terms of the transaction were not made available by Houston-based BMC. BMC said Coradiant’s Web application software will add new dimensions to its management platform. Coradiant enables users to track the […]

Dell’s new cloud integration division, Boomi, has introduced several new features to its enterprise platform, which helps companies move to cloud computing while not disturbing the production use of their existing IT. AtomSphere Spring 11, launched April 26 as the latest incarnation of Dell Boomi’s cloud integration strategy, features new capabilities for middleware connectivity, large-scale […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–Pervasive Software, which held its annual Metamorphasis Cloud Integration Summit here at the Hotel Sofitel, on April 28 launched a new marketplace for data integration processes. Pervasive Galaxy, which had been running in beta for a few months, is sort of like an app store in the form of a community platform for […]

Another large cloud-service provider, Yahoo, has been hit by a service delivery problem. Two of its most popular services, Yahoo Mail and the Flickr photo service, were down for several hours April 28 for an undisclosed number of users, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said. Yahoo joins Amazon Web Services and Sony Playstation Network as major […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar conference is something akin to a debutantes’ ball. Young and/or startup companies put on their Sunday best, get their goals and priorities well-rehearsed, and compete for a few invitations to be formally introduced to venture-capital society. Then comes the ball itself: the daylong showcase event at […]

Frank Slootman, who as CEO took Data Domain public in 2007 and then enjoyed a bidding war between EMC and NetApp over the company in 2009, has moved on to new challenges. Slootman on April 26 was appointed the new CEO at San Diego, Calif.-based cloud software provider Service-now.com, whose founder, Fred Luddy, invented SAAS […]

Attachmate Group on April 27 reported that it has closed the $2.2 billion acquisition of open-source enterprise software maker Novell, a deal first announced on Nov. 22, 2010. Novell, whose stockholders accepted the merger in February 2011, now will operate as separate business units under the Novell and SUSE Linux brand names and join Attachmate […]

VMware on April 26 acquired a new whiz-bang feature to add to its growing stock of cloud-based products: SlideRocket, an online business-presentation service that competes directly against Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. Terms of the transaction to purchase the 25-person, San Francisco-based company were not disclosed by VMware. SlideRocket, founded in 2007, is currently being […]

Infor, which makes enterprise resource planning, customer resource and other management software, announced April 26 that it is acquiring Lawson Software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Infor, whose CEO, Charles Phillips, formerly was president of Oracle, is handling the transaction with the help of a holding company, GGC Software Holdings. Infor produces on-premises […]

Five full days after its largest outage hit on the morning of April 21, Amazon Web Services said it finally has restored virtually all services to its customers. However, there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven’t yet cooled off completely from the outage that started at 1:41 a.m. PDT April 21 […]

Oracle made a major change in its corporate leadership team April 25, revealing that Chief Financial Officer Jeff Epstein resigned and has been replaced by his immediate supervisor, Co-president and former CFO Safra Catz. Oracle offered no explanation for Epstein’s leaving his job after two-and-a-half years. Epstein handled the bulk of the huge corporation’s financial […]

There’s no question that the trend in SMB cloud computing looks something like this: Open box, take unit out of box, plug in unit, turn on unit, plug unit into the system. Oh, sure, there may also be a few drop-down menus to peruse, and perhaps even an IP address to enter. But more and […]