Software

HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2013 20:39

Tags: cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Hewlett-Packard

Interview: Dell software chief talks transformation

John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.

By James Niccolai | 25 April, 2013 17:01

Tags: Dell, PC, software, Components, John Swainson

Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA

As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata database machine and Fusion Applications, while figuring out how to keep the company's vast installed base happy and fending off competition from the likes of SAP.

By Chris Kanaracus | 12 April, 2013 20:47

Tags: business issues, hardware systems, CIO role, mark hurd, software, IT management, COLLABORATE, business management, Oracle, services

UEFI president: We need more key providers

Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

By Joab Jackson | 28 February, 2013 20:51

Tags: open source, Configuration / maintenance, Windows desktops, Microsoft, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle

NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.

By Chris Kanaracus | 09 January, 2013 20:59

Tags: business issues, Zach Nelson, Internet-based applications and services, netsuite, SAP, software, cloud computing, business management, internet, Oracle, personnel

Zend CEO: PHP is fit for the enterprise

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a well-established server-side dynamic language platform for Web development. Among its many users have been important Web properties such as SugarCRM and the Drupal content management system. Perhaps the top promoter of PHP is Zend Technologies, which offers an application server and development tools for PHP and stresses PHP usage in enterprises.

By Paul Krill | 30 October, 2012 15:53

Tags: application development, Languages and standards, software, Zend Technologies

The Grill: Orlando Health CIO Rick Schooler's vision of healthcare IT

Orlando Health VP and CIO Rick Schooler talks about how analytics is transforming healthcare. Insider (registration required)

10 questions for WellDoc CFO Jon Brilliant

Name: Jon Brilliant

Red Hat CEO: We're the cloud leader -- with Linux

Jim Whitehurst says it's not just Red Hat's products, but its philosophy that place it at the forefront of cloud computing

10 questions for Layer 7 Technologies CTO Scott Morrison

Name: Scott Morrison

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor on implications of 'the mobile wave'

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor's big interest these days is "the mobile wave," which refers to a re-ordering of technology and modern life through the proliferation of iPads, smartphones and the increasingly sophisticated software that runs on them.

Epicor CEO Pervez Qureshi talks company's renewal, SaaS and growth plans

Following last year's merger with Activant Solutions, ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor is closing in on US$1 billion in revenue, a figure that belies the vendor's relatively low profile compared to giants such as Oracle and SAP.

10 questions for Recall Senior VP and CFO Allison Aden

Name: Allison Aden

Intel/McAfee: What's the future of security?

Intel completed its multibillion-dollar acquisition of McAfee almost a year and a half ago, and this week McAfee co-President Mike DeCesare spoke with Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about what the merger of Intel's chip-making capabilities and McAfee's security expertise is expected to bring down the road.

10 questions for Gehry Technologies CFO Michael Lin

Name: Michael Lin

10 questions for Hortonworks CTO Eric Baldeschwieler

Name: Eric Baldeschwieler

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red Hat's revenue has grown from US$523 million in its fiscal 2008 to more than $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2012, without deviating from its core strategy of open-source infrastructure software.

10 questions for Agencyport Software CFO Rick Gilbody

Name: Rick Gilbody

10 questions for ownCloud CFO Dan Curtis

Name: Dan Curtis

10 questions for The Children's Center CFO Michael Miligan

Name: Michael Milligan