TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
With a plan to offer more cloud-based services, a $50 million revenue goal for AAPT’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) business is a reasonable target in the next few years, according to the telco’s CEO, David Yuile.
By Spandas Lui | 03 August, 2011 12:24
Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.
By Chris Kanaracus | 02 March, 2011 07:05
Oracle's recent move to switch Sun Microsystems documentation to Oracle support infrastructure has some users up in arms, since the original links currently redirect to a general table of contents.
By Chris Kanaracus | 28 January, 2011 07:10
Plagued with “exorbitant” maintenance costs due to out of control data growth, Queensland’s James Cook University (JCU) has overhauled its storage area network (SAN) in a $1 million upgrade to IBM’s XIV system.
By Chloe Herrick | 18 October, 2010 10:32
Just five days after a Google researcher published information of an unpatched Java bug, a compromised song lyrics site is sending users to a Russian attack server exploiting the flaw to install malware, an antivirus firm said today.
By Gregg Keizer | 15 April, 2010 06:30
Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security updates.
By Robert McMillan | 09 April, 2010 09:45
Recession has made companies more cost-sensitive and this has increased the popularity of solutions from HP, according to two separate research reports by Gabriel Consulting Group and Alinean Inc.
By Anuradha Shukla | 07 April, 2010 07:40
Orthodox server designs are receiving a face-lift with Intel's Nehalem-EX processor, with vendors implementing new memory features to boost application performance.
By Agam Shah | 31 March, 2010 08:44
Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.
By James Niccolai | 10 March, 2010 12:06
Jonathan Schwartz announced his resignation as CEO of Sun Microsystems in a message sent via Twitter early Thursday.
By Peter Sayer | 04 February, 2010 22:20
In the wake of its merger with Sun Microsystems, Oracle is discontinuing access to Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun as an open source project-hosting site.
By Paul Krill | 04 February, 2010 07:44
Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems' Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, according to a Jan. 30 post on the project's official blog.
By Chris Kanaracus | 03 February, 2010 05:57
Small business has reason the cheer Oracle's acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well--perhaps better--under new ownership.
By David Coursey | 01 February, 2010 07:05
Oracle on Wednesday tried to answer the question that has vexed much of the technology industry since it announce its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last April: How will Oracle make the ailing systems and software vendor a profitable part of its business?
By James Niccolai | 28 January, 2010 14:17
Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders.
By Paul McNamara | 28 January, 2010 01:45
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