Enterprise Computing News

Friday, July 30, 2010

• McAfee stock surges; software maker to acquire tenCube
  McAfee's stock surged more than 9 percent Friday after the Santa Clara security-software maker's earnings exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company, which released financial results after the stock markets closed Thursday, also said it would buy
  
• Oracle Launches Oracle Sun Product Strategy Event Series
  -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts To outline its Oracle + Sun product strategy and to demonstrate how the Company can enable highly efficient data centers, Oracle announced the kick off of its Global Next-Generation Data Center Efficiency road show and
  
• Scenes From Avnet's Oracle/Sun Partner Summit 2010
  Slide Shows Sponsored By: Sun VARs Shine In Colorado Avnet Technology Solutions hosted its 2010 Partner Summit for Oracle/Sun Microsystems solution providers outside Denver. Randy Wright, director of products and marketing for Avnet's Sun Solutions
  
• SAP Warms to Open Source
  Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview.
  
• New CEO Thompson Sets Course for Storage Startup Virtual Instruments
  VI, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical
  
• SAP Warms to Open Source (PC World)
  PC World - Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an
  
• Speedy storage upgrades! Four cutting-edge drives reviewed
  2010's Speediest Storage Upgrades: Four Cutting-Edge Hard Drives and SSDs Reviewed These new storage drives will speed up your boot times and make your system snappier. Which one is right for you? Thanks in part to the advent of solid-state drives
  
• SAP warms to open source
  Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview.
  
• Good Technology Evaluated in Recent Study of Enterprise Wireless Email Critical Capabilities
  REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Technology, the leading provider of secure and managed enterprise mobility for iPhone, iPad, Android and other leading smartphone platforms, was recently evaluated in the enterprise wireless email ...
  
• Epicor 2Q loss narrows
  Business software maker Epicor Software Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter loss narrowed as revenue climbed. For the April-June quarter, Epicor's loss totaled $1 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a loss of $6.7 million, or 11 cents
  
• Reveille Software" Announces New Customers for its Management Console for EMC Captiva InputAccel
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• SAP warms to open source
  Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview.
  
• Software AG's Q2 profits rocket 29% fueled by webMethods
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• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Declares $0.32 Quarterly Dividend; 0.7% Yield
  The Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) board of directors has declared a regular cash dividend of $0.08 per share on the company's common stock, $0.32 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 6, 2010, to stockholders of record as of the close of business
  
• Cloud Storage Poised to Save Enterprises Money: Report
  Public cloud storage services are fast becoming a more attractive option for the enterprise, according to a new report by research firm Ovum. In its "Clouds Open for Enterprise Storage" report, Ovum said that a new generation of services is emerging in
  
• EMC Receives Report on Capital & Operating Cost Estimates for the Nyngan Scandium JV Project in NSW,
  Posted by Editor Friday, 30 July 2010 EMC Metals Corp. (the "Company" or "EMC") (TSX: EMC) is pleased to announce that it has received an independent engineering report, titled, "Scandium Recovery From Gilgai Laterite" (the "Report"), outlining the
  
• McAfee stock surges; software maker to acquire tenCube
  McAfee's stock surged more than 9 percent Friday after the Santa Clara security-software maker's earnings exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company, which released financial results after the stock markets closed Thursday, also said it would buy
  
• SAP Trails Oracle; Its On-Demand Widgetry About to Pop
  SAP's quarter didn't turn out quite as well as Oracle's, its great competitor. Oracle's earnings in the calendar second quarter were up 25%, helped by the Sun acquisition. SAP's profits were up 16% to $638 million (�491 million), or 52 cents a share,
  
• Lessons on ERP testing and scheduling
  Imagine waking up one day to find out that your company's supply chain has grinded to a halt, making it impossible to fulfill $100 million worth of orders. This is what had happened to Hershey's confectionary manufacturing and distribution operations in
  
• SAP warms to open source
  SAP catches up with rival Oracle on the open source software front
  
• Analyst Research on Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Tellabs (NASDAQ: TLAB), EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and Many More Available Free at BedfordReport.com
  TORONTO--(Marketwire - 07/30/10) - The Bedford Report is pleased to announce that its latest Market Update analyzing recent news and events on Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU - News), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU - News), Tellabs, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLAB -
  
• Cisco, NetApp and VMware combine for 'end-to-end' FCoE storage
  Cisco Systems Inc. and NetApp Inc. -- vendors who have been at the forefront of pushing Fibre Channel over Ethernet storage (FCoE storage) -- have certified FCoE products to run with VMware vSphere. On Wednesday, the vendors said VMware validated
  
• Storage networking tutorial: Upgrading to 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 10 GbE and FCoE
  Storage networking is constantly evolving, becoming faster and more scalable. The newest option, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), promises a converged network that can handle both Fibre Channel (FC) and Ethernet traffic over an enhanced 10 Gigabit
  
• Why Microsoft and HP will never catch Apple
  No one can deny that Apple has dominated the technology conversation...
  
• As promised, SAP expands open source efforts, execs say
  IDG News Service - Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials
  
• Q. How can I use esxtop to identify storage performance problems?
  Rating: (0) Windows IT Pro InstantDoc ID #125690 A. If your storage ain't happy, you virtual machines (VMs) won't be happy either. Storage problems are an insidious problem in virtual environments, because they can be particularly challenging to track
  
• HP and Red Hat Partner; HP Financial Services to Finance Red Hat Consulting Services
  This IDC Flash discusses the announcement by HP and Red Hat Inc. on July 19, 2010, of a portfolio of expanded consulting services to help IT buyers more effectively migrate from an existing Solaris/SPARC environment to one powered by Red Hat Enterprise
  
• Software maker SAP completes Sybase acquisition
  Featured In: Industry News Double-click any word to search Highlight any phrase & click HotSearch German business software maker SAP AG said Friday it has completed its $5.8 billion acquisition of U.S. database software maker Sybase Inc. SAP, based in
  
• ERP is the top task on enterprise IT's to-do list
  The most mature technology is enterprise resource planning. Two-thirds of companies polled by Computer Economics have ERP in place and about half are looking to initiate a system or expand existing systems. IT organizations are also focused on revamping
  
• HP Hurricane tablet release date: Will it give fight to Apple iPad 3G
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