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Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

By Marc Ferranti | 25 May, 2012 22:22

Tags: Investments, business issues, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, workday, Eloqua, palo alto networks, sap, Ariba

Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, cloud computing, internet, Financial / tax, applications, software, Intuit

Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph.

By IDG News Service staff | 25 May, 2012 09:30

Tags: security, sap

Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.

By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30

Tags: University of London, The Cloud, SLAs, service level agreements, Queen Mary, internet, cloud computing

About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, e-mail, applications, software, Google, Microsoft

Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

By Loek Essers | 24 May, 2012 16:37

Tags: Hack In The Box, enterprise architecture, Architecture, software, fraud, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection, data breach, intrusion, security, sap

iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

Tags: symbian, smartphones, mobile phones, Mobile and Wireless, IT industry, IDC, Gartner, consumer electronics, Apple

Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

By Michael Cooney | 24 May, 2012 13:33

Tags: web 2.0, unified communications, software, social media, networking, Internet-based applications and services, internet, IBM, collaboration, ceo, applications

Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, applications, software, Box.net

Brocade outlines its SDN approach

Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

Tags: SDNs, OpenFlow, Network Virtualization, multi-tenant data centers, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, cloud, brocade

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 May, 2012 05:26

Tags: SuccessFactors, software, sap, business issues, Ariba

10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

If at first you don’t succeed…

By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

Tags: service providers, router, LAN & WAN, juniper networks, internet, Ethernet Switch, core routing, cloud computing, Cisco, alcatel-lucent, 100G Ethernet

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 22:08

Tags: software, business issues, Coupa, Concur, SuccessFactors, Ariba, sap

SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 14:54

Tags: databases, applications, software, hardware systems, sap

Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities

Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 05:27

Tags: software, salesforce.com, Internet-based applications and services, internet, customer relationship management, cloud computing, applications

Cloud computing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations

When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.

By Thomas J. Trappler | 22 May, 2012 02:27

Tags: Regulation, internet, Gov't Legislation/Regulation, government, cloud computing, CA Technologies

Amazon load balancers designed to be simpler to use after console upgrade

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its management console, allowing IT staff to use it to administer security protocols on the Elastic Load Balancing service, the company said in a blog post.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 May, 2012 23:26

Tags: internet, Infrastructure services, cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, amazon.com

Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter?

Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack.

By Jim Duffy | 21 May, 2012 20:32

Tags: TRILL, standards, Shortest Path Bridging, MLAG, metro Ethernet, LAN & WAN, internet, extreme networks, Ethernet Switch, Ethernet, data center fabrics, cloud computing, cloud, Avaya, arista, alcatel-lucent

The look ahead to a software-controlled world

The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

By John Dix | 21 May, 2012 20:32

Tags: Zynga, zCloud, software defined networking, software defined data center, SDN, OpenFlow, LAN & WAN, Interop Las Vegas, Interop 2012, Interop, internet, hybrid cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, Allan Leinwand

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