Robert J. Mullins

SAN JOSE, Calif. – LSI has introduced a new rackable boot appliance that can control up to 48 servers in direct-attached storage environments. The Syncro architecture and the Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance were introduced at the Accelerating Innovation Summit that LSI hosted here Nov. 14 and 15. The high failure rate and extra maintenance […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The rapid adoption of enterprise social networking features in enterprise applications is going to continue because they are proven to increase sales, improve customer service, quicken product development and produce other business benefits, speakers at a conference here said. “By 2020, we won’t be talking about social applications because all applications […]

Microsoft highlighted social media features in SharePoint 2013, unveiled Nov. 12 in Las Vegas, that come from its acquisition of Yammer in June, and which were noticeably lacking from earlier SharePoint iterations. At a Microsoft-sponsored user conference that drew a reported 10,000 attendees, Microsoft executives touted a number of new features in the new SharePoint, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – Software developers participated in a daylong Windows Azure Developer Camp at the Microsoft campus here, one of 23 simultaneous workshops held across the United States Nov. 12, to spur the development of applications that run in the Azure cloud environment. The training was provided to encourage developers to use Azure to […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – Microsoft invited software developers to come here and to 109 other locations worldwide on Nov. 9 to learn about how to develop applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 with the goals of building a richer software ecosystems for the new operating systems. A total of 13,500 developers were registered to […]

Microsoft is tweaking the design of its Windows Phone Store to draw users and generate sales as it strives to catch up with competing mobile device makers who are way ahead in terms of both market share and in the number of applications they have for sale. Microsoft needs to make the most of the […]

If strong foot traffic and other anecdotal evidence serve as accurate indicators, Microsoft is recording healthy sales of its Surface tablet and can thank its decision to restrict initial sales to its own stores and Website, according to an industry analyst. Selling Surface only in Microsoft stores, “allows them to really talk about the value […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Resellers are discovering that they have a place in the cloud application market even as their customers move from on-premise software to the software as a service (SaaS) model. This was one of the main topics of discussion at the annual Cloud Channel Summit here where traditional software resellers and other […]

VMware said it is working with Motorola Mobility to ship smartphones running VMware’s Horizon Mobile service through Softbank Telecom, a wireless carrier in Japan. Horizon Mobile is VMware’s solution to the problem of how companies can accommodate employees who want to bring their own devices to work, but let the company secure corporate data on […]

Hewlett-Packard is upgrading its Unified Functional Testing tool to do quality assurance during the development process rather than just at the end. The company is also offering a new cloud service for developers to test their mobile apps on various operating systems. The Unified Functional Testing (UFT) tool, version 11.5 of which was released Nov. […]

Moxie Software announced Nov. 5 a partnership with Microsoft in which its enterprise social networking software will be integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for external customer relationship management using social networking tools. Moxie’s approach to social CRM differs from that of Yammer, a recent Microsoft acquisition, which is also being integrated with Dynamics CRM, but […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Samsung hosted a CIO Forum here to tout two newly released solid-state drives but also to share industry insights on how to gain energy efficiency and save money by introducing SSD memory into the data center. The Nov. 1 forum coincided with the release of the Samsung SM843 and SM1625 SSD—also […]