Technology Industry Archive

EMC could be in the market for an enterprise search company. As opposed to Web search, enterprise search is used by companies internally to help comply with legal discovery requirements, identify documents that can be archived in inexpensive storage devices, and increasingly, to improve productivity by helping knowledge workers find information more effectively. The enterpise search market grew...

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With all the talk of cloud computing from this vendor and that analyst, it is easy to naturally confuse the cloud with a series of scalable technologies interconnected via the Internet. But that really misses the point. Technology is just the miss. The real thunder and lightning comes from the information, and how companies put that together. Just look at MediaCloud, a project of the Berkman...

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From the looks of things, rumors that EMC was considering a sale of its 84% stake in server virtualization market leader VMware were wrong. If the companies’ leaders are to be believed–and there’s no reason to doubt them at this point–they see the fates of their companies as being inextricably intertwined. Joe Tucci and Paul Maritz, CEOs of EMC and VMware respectively,...

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Google has announced that it will enter the world of behavioral advertising. Although the company is trying to frame the move as “making ads more interesting,” chances are that the driving factor is trying to shore up revenue at an uncertain time. The big question is, even with assurances of the ability to opt out, whether this will only add fuel to the fire of criticism that has...

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Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya and Nortel are familiar names, but John Combs would like to make sure people keep Shoretel in mind as well, even if he has to throw a few sharp elbows to get a seat at the table. Combs is the chairman and CEO of Shortel, which makes IP-based unified communications (UC) systems for enterprise customers. Those systems are gaining in popularity because they allow companies...

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Hewlett-Packard’s finally released its latest 10-Q after providing press, analysts, and investors with an earnings release last month for the quarter that ended on January 31. Perusing the document again shows why the full information can make for far more interesting, and informative, reading. HP continued to march away from product sales and toward services. Net revenue was flat for the...

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There’s been another round of churning in news about Apple. First, Valleywag reports a layoff of 50 salespeople from the enterprise group. Then Apple denied the rumors. Yesterday, Tom Krazit at CNET said that additional sources had confirmed the layoffs, despite Apple’s public statement to the contrary. The immediate reaction has been speculation on whether Apple might be lying and...

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Femtocells, a technology little-known outside the wireless world, promise better indoor cellular service and a new way for wireless carriers to reduce costs and increase revenues without having to resort to price wars. Femtocells are devices connected to broadband Internet connections that allow cellular traffic to travel through the Internet connection, improving the quality of cell phone...

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Apple and Psystar plod toward discovery — Both Apple and Psystar continue the legal filings but the case gets at least a bit closer toward the discovery phase, when each company can compel the other to turn over information. The judge has agreed to a protective order keeping information marked confidential from anyone not associated with the case. Given Apple’s proclivities toward...

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IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a “groundbreaking technology demonstration,” moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data center–it’s called virtualization. But the fact that the demonstration...

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