Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: technology

EDS and Sabre Holdings extended and renegotiated a long running information technology services deal to 2014. Under the extension, EDS said Wednesday that it will garner new revenue of about $630 million. The new agreement requires that EDS support "Sabre's continued business transformation, including its move to open systems."...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6497

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: mysql, database, sql, postgresql

Zoho is filling out it on demand suite with a database and reporting application. Zoho DB can convert spreadsheets into databases and supports pivot tables. It also supports SQL queries (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix and ANSI SQL dialects). ZohoDB has a rich...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6494

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: software, security

As I've mentioned before, I believe that security software for virtualized environments is going to be an increasingly contested market. At this point, a very few entries have been launched. Catbird's V-agent (see this post) was one of the first. Well, the folks at Catbird have come up with yet...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=248

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: database

AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3423

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: software

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6492

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you're worried about your medical and genetic records being shared, how about your psychiatric records? (Logo by Logomagic of Boca Raton, Florida.) Harmonex, a start-up based in Roswell, Georgia, is aiming to do this through a unit called CliniCom. While Sharon Allred is the CEO, most...

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=320

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: software

As Alan Laken is supposed to have said, "Failing to plan is planning to fail." While this statement seems true in most areas of life, it really has an impact in the deployment of virtual machine software on both client and server systems. This goes against the strongly held belief...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=247

Date: 10/01/07     Keywords: software

NCR said Monday that it has completed the spin off of Teradata, a data warehousing software maker. Teradata is now trading under the ticker "TDC." To reflect that ownership change, NCR shares were roughly halved to reflect the ownership change. Teradata last traded at $26.50 this morning. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6460

Date: 10/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

A recently discovered upcoming feature of Facebook: the ability to organize "friends" into different groups, with each category assigned its own privacy settings, has now been confirmed by the social networking site itself. Facebook's "What's New" page says the feature is "in the works": Sort out...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=319

Date: 09/28/07     Keywords: software

When I've had a chance to speak with executives of suppliers of virtual machine software, they often point out that one of the major benefits of deploying application environments inside of virtual machines is simplicity. That is, they suggest that using virtual machine software reduces complexity in the environment. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=245

Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

Say you're a business owner. You've been converted by the green gospel, and you're willing to do your part to reduce greenhouse emissions. But how do you get started? What, in fact, is a reasonable rate of reduction in emissions? What are other companies your size doing? ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=311

Date: 09/24/07     Keywords: hosting

Jon Vander Hill has built two data centers since 2000 and is on his third for Berbee, the data center hosting unit of CDW. Since then the landscape has changed dramatically. Power costs matter more than ever, as does cooling design. CDW Berbee is currently building a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6364

Date: 09/21/07     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of which is due in the first quarter of 2008. That's according to a September 19 blog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist "PatricG." Master data management is technology...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=728

Date: 09/20/07     Keywords: software

Hyperic has joined forces with another open source software leader to deliver enterprise reporting tools to its new HQ 3.1 platform, sources say. The San Francisco company, which released its core HQ 3.1 upgrade in August, is widely expected to begin shipping an enterprise version of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1450

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

When you compete with the likes of data storage giant EMC, it helps to have a point of differentiation. A gimmick, if you will. In the case of Larry Ellison-backed Pillar Data Systems, that gimmick is green. The company has come up with a clever way of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=297

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: sql, microsoft

SQL Server 2008 isn't set to be released to manufacturing until the second quarter of next year. But Microsoft already is taking aim at Oracle with its forthcoming release. Microsoft officials announced on September 19 that they have no plans to increase the price of SQL Server...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=724

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2). David Berlind: If true, Jobs quote of "A 3G iPhone later next year" should kill demand for iPhone 1.0. Matthew Miller: Steve Jobs confirms that a 3G iPhone will be...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6306

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Opsware has been on a roll. Last Friday, Hewlett-Packard completed its tender offer for the $1.6 billion cash acquisition of the company. Opsware now has 450 customers, 500 employees and will have close to $150 million in revenue this year (60 percent growth for the year). A recent IDC...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6310

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: software

IBM is beefing up its "information on demand" initiative with the announcement today of its intention to acquire Princeton Softech, Inc.Princeton's Optim cross-platform data management software will provide a big boost in meeting the needs of data governance, as well as controlling costs from an increase in data volumes. This...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2517

Date: 07/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

American healthcare system is largely paper-based, but privacy concerns, high costs and doctor reluctance mean that may not change anytime soon.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9592_22-6199147.html