Spare Backup began shipping a monthly backup service in a box this week. It is aimed at small-to-medium businesses and home workers. The service is packaged as a product for retail store shelves.
It’s not much of a surprise, but according to a survey of attendees at this week’s SHARE user meeting in Boston, the person to have had the greatest impact on IT in the last 50 years is no other than Bill Gates.
EnterpriseDB is on a roll. The company won an award in the best database solution category at LinuxWorld and announced the general availability of EnterpriseDB 2005 in only a little more than 2 months after emerging from stealth mode.
VMWare, which nearly single-handedly revived interest in technologies that provide a logical, rather than a physical view of computing resources, has plans to support paravirtualized Linux and Sun Microsystems’s Solaris x86 operating systems in future releases of its infrastructure platform products, Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server.
Bruce Perens led his biannual “Open Source State of the Union” talk at the recent LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco with a hard knock on the plan to create a “patent pool” to protect open-source projects from patent lawsuits.
Sales associates at Gordmans, an apparel and home fashions retailer, found they were spending more time waiting for inventory data than they were spending on customers.
Nine commercial distributors of Debian-based products have formed an alliance to maintain a set of essential programs, or packages, that will serve as a common foundation for each member’s distribution.
CopperEye introduced a business event repository that allows companies to store hundreds of terabytes of data indefinitely and retrieve it when necessary.
Accelitec, a transaction management systems provider, has unveiled PayPilot, an end-to-end RFID payment system. Using Automated Clearing House’s credit and prepay systems, PayPilot allows for faster, more secure, and convenient payment methods, while reducing interchange transaction costs and giving retailers greater control, Accelitec says.
IBM introduced business intelligence software aimed to allow AIX users to archive, integrate and analyze vast amounts of historical data.
Although a majority of enterprises plan to boost IT staffing this year, it will be difficult for them to find the talent they are looking for. The most difficult-to-hire positions for IT organizations include project manager, Web applications programmer, security analyst, database administrator and network engineer.
The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, announced that products from eight companies passed testing at Liberty’s most recent interoperability conformance event.
SPSS, a predictive analytics software provider, has unveiled what it says is a significantly enhanced version of SPSS 14.0, its flagship statistical software package.
SOA Software said yesterday that IBM has validated SOA Software's XML VPN product as WS-Trust "Ready for IBM Tivoli Software." SOA Software XML VPN employs WS-Trust to integrate with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, allowing the enterprise to exchange secure B2B transactions sharing trusted, end-user identities, SOA says.
Airgas recently underwent a rapid expansion, but its workflow was done the old-fashioned way—manually. Manual processing is always painstaking, but entering data for 80,000 SKUs for specialty gases is especially tedious.
An OASIS committee has announced a project to create technical blueprints for businesses vying for a reliable way to develop applications for a service-oriented architecture.
The top three development projects planned for the next year for small and medium businesses are: B2B e-commerce, Customer Relationship Management and Work Flow Management, according to Evans Data's new Summer 2005 Small and Medium Business Development Survey.
JetBlue Airways plans to secure and monitor what the airline anticipates will be a growing number of Web services with the help of SOA Software’s Service Manager.
Custom-built BI applications need tune-ups. And if the rate at which new features are added to shrink-wrapped BI releases from major vendors is any indication, BI consumers, in particular, aren’t shy about asking for more. As a result, there’s a good chance custom-built BI apps will require more attention than other kinds of homegrown software.
Business Objects announced yesterday that BusinessObjects XI, which includes Crystal Reports Server XI, now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server platforms. To simplify deployment, BusinessObjects XI on Linux features guided installation and Web-based management, BO says.