Nicholas Kolakowski

Hewlett-Packard further increased its presence in the cloud computing space with HP Cloud Assure, a software-as-a-service offering that incorporates a variety of security, performance and availability applications and analytics. In doing so, HP moves deeper into a competitive arena also occupied by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sun Microsystems and other players. The HP solution is available […]

Technology from Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard and Intel went into the Parallels Workstation Extreme, a high-end workstation virtualization solution launched by Parallels on March 30. The solution allows for “near-native performance for resource-intensive applications that utilize large memory support, multiple CPU cores and direct access to graphics cards,” Parallels said. With Workstation Extreme in place, “Users can […]

Worldwide enterprise software revenue will continue to be flat in 2009, growing at a miniscule 0.3 percent, according to research firm Gartner in a report issued on March 30.In dollar amounts, Gartner forecasts that enterprise software revenue will hit $222.6 billion, compared to 2008 revenues of $221.9 billion. The numbers represent a marked contrast to […]

Google Gmail Labs, the company’s testing ground for experimental features for its cloud-based e-mail service, is available in 49 languages as of March 30. Launched in June 2008, Labs (which, like the rest of Gmail, seems to be perpetually in beta) allows users to enable everything from YouTube previews in e-mail to custom label colors […]

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are major investors in Tesla Motors, which on March 26 revealed the prototype of its all-electric, zero-emission sedan, the Model S. The vehicle, which can accelerate from 0-60 mph in under 6 seconds and hit a top speed of 130 miles per hour, will feature a 17-inch touch-screen […]

Google laid off 200 employees from its sales and marketing teams on March 27, raising questions about its strength in the face of the current recessionary environment. The company claims that those jobs were slashed in order to eliminate overlapping positions, a side effect of years of explosive growth. However, coupled with the February 2009 […]

Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites have risen from humble startup origins to redefine how 10s of millions of people communicate on a daily basis. Even the enterprise has started to embrace them as tools; Salesforce.com recently added Twitter to its Service Cloud, which already includes a Facebook application. Now that the form has […]

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other virtualization companies stand to benefit further from their virtualization solutions in coming years, at least according to a March 26 report by research firm Gartner, which said that the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market would accelerate through 2013. Hosted virtual desktops are run as virtual machines on an enterprise server, […]

Google is offering companies and developers a new suite of application under the name Google Services for Websites that will allow users to further customize their online space. Google officially launched the new suite March 25. “This expanded program includes Webmaster Tools, AdSense, Custom Search, and Site Search,” Rajat Mukherjee, group product manager for Google, […]

Google is eliminating 200 employees and showing that even its once sure-fire search and advertising business model is not immune to the sluggish global economy. The search engine company announced March 26 that it would be laying off 200 employees from its sales and marketing teams, citing organizational redundancy as a reason. Google is the […]

Twitter is planning to introduce commercial accounts with expanded features, for an added fee, which would allow the site to generate revenue, which could help the site grow and compete against other social networking sites such as Facebook. The news that Twitter was looking to expand its revenue streams started on March 26. Twitter allows […]

Facebook announced on March 24 that it would adjust its homepage in response to user fervor over its new design. The social networking site’s new look had attracted an immense amount of user feedback, with a Facebook poll finding that 94 percent of respondents took issue with the changes. This is the second time in […]