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Windows 7 Release May Put the Brakes on Apple Enterprise Growth

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Apple’s performance is besting the top companies in the tech industry. Apple market share, bouyed by sales of iPhones and iPods as well as Macintosh PCs, has grown substantially. Enterprises’ rejection of Vista may have made it easier for Macs to inflitrate corporate offices. But that could change when Windows 7 is released later this year.
– Apple announced its quarterly financial data Tuesday and once again, the company is performing extremely well.

According to Apple, its quarterly profit has risen to $1.23 billion, representing a 12 percent gain year-over-year. It beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share. Once …

Is Green IT Dead

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

While most companies have been forced to temporarily turn their backs on green IT projects, there is some good news – both for cash-strapped enterprise IT departments and the planet, according to Greg Schultz, senior analyst for StorageIO and author of The Green and Virtual Data Center. In this video interview, Schultz tells Ziff-Davis Enterprise that, In these tight economic times, organizations. . .are realizing that they can, in fact, become more green and environmentally friendly by becoming more economically efficient and productive. Literally by shifting and addressing the business issues, becoming more efficient and more focused…green gets funded for free.
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Avaya Bids $475 Million for Nortel Enterprise Business

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Nortel, the bankrupt communications vendor looking to sell off its businesses to raise money, has accepted a $475 million bid from Avaya for its Enterprise Solutions Business. The agreement sets the floor for the bidding for the business unit, and gives Avaya the right to match other bids. The announcement comes a month after Nortel announced a similar agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks for two other business units. One analyst said he expects consolidation in the bloated business communications market to continue.
– Bankrupt communications vendor Nortel Networks is continuing to sell
off its businesses most recently, Avaya put in a bid for its enterprise
division and the fire sale looks like it will continue.
Nortel July 20 announced a $475 million Â“stalking horseÂ” agreement
with Avaya for its Enterprise So…

How to Bring Open-Source Software into the Enterprise

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their organization. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Carol J. Rizzo offers five tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more or less of a risk than proprietary software.
– Over
the past decade, I’ve served as CTO of three different Fortune 500
companies. In each of those companies, one of my primary
responsibilities was to mitigate risks associated with technology.
During the same period, open-source software has gained growing
acceptance in the enterprise. Prope…

Microsoft Azure Could Curb Enterprise Fears About the Cloud

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft is making an aggressive push for Azure, its cloud-based developer platform, to be adopted by the enterprise. While companies have expressed reservations about moving applications and development to the cloud, the standardization and functionality offered by Azure could convince them to take the jump, even if they eventually end up on a rival platform offered by Amazon.com, Google or Salesforce.com.
– Microsoft’s
new cloud-based platform, Azure, could offer the enterprise a way to overcome
its reservations about porting IT infrastructure online, even if companies
ultimately choose to utilize another cloud platform.
Azure, which Microsoft originally announced on Oct. 27, 2008, at the Professi…

SpaceX Hits the Mark with Launch

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Elon Musk’s private enterprise spaceflight company successfully blasts a Malaysian remote sensing satellite into orbit in a landmark mission for SpaceX, which is scheduled to ferry astronauts and crew to the International Space Station after the shuttle fleet is retired at the end of 2010.
– Space Exploration Technologies, aka SpaceX, the private enterprise spaceflight
company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, successfully launched a
Malaysian satellite into orbit July 13 using the company’s Falcon 1 rocket.
After four Falcon 1 test launches three unsuccessful the July 13 effor…

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Sees Tech Refresh Happening Despite Economy

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that even the worst economy in decades won’t prevent IT administrators and the enterprise from executing a tech refresh, in comments seemingly aimed at those reluctant to embrace Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, Windows 7. Despite the recession, Microsoft plans to invest more than $9.5 billion in R D in the coming year.
– Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a July 14
speech in New Orleans that the
economic recession wont necessarily remain an impediment to enterprises
refreshing their IT infrastructure.
quot;This is not an economic prediction, just a thought exercise, quot;
Ballmer told a large audie…

How to Improve the Efficiency of Enterprise Search

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

There is an efficiency gap between enterprise and Internet search today. Enterprise users are used to Googling queries and getting results quickly and accurately, but while searching at work, these same workers often find it difficult to find internal documents with the same speed and efficiency. For better search and retrieval, Knowledge Center contributor Yves Schabes explains why enterprises with large amounts of data should invest in an enterprise search solution that automatically tags and categorizes enterprise content.
– Searching for a document in the workplace usually involves sifting through multiple pages of search results, which wastes time and money. And because enterprise users are searching for specific information not just the most popular answer they expect more precise search results than they would get f…

Windows 7 Heading for Eventual Corporate Success

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Windows 7 is on its way to store shelves, but a new survey claims it won’t appeal to the enterprise as much as Microsoft would like. Is that really true? While this survey shows enterprises are expressing caution about upgrading to Windows 7, a number of factors are coming into play that will ensure broad corporate adoption of this new version over the next two years.
– A survey conducted by ScriptLogic asked more than 1,000 companies if they plan to deploy Windows 7 when it’s released on October 22. According to the research firm, a whopping 60 percent of respondents said they have no plans of deploying Windows 7.
Furthermore, only 5.4 percent of those who …

How to Plan for Smartphone Security in the Enterprise

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

One of the major challenges CIOs face is the deployment and security of smartphones in the enterprise. It’s important for CIOs to assess how their organization should secure the smartphones employees use to access corporate resources. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Chris De Herrera explains how CIOs can deal with some common security concerns regarding smartphones deployed in the enterprise, including Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Palm Pre devices.
– If
you are a CIO, you face several challenges when it comes to deploying
smartphones in your enterprise. Among the most important, you must
determine the security requirements of your organization. Just like
laptops and notebooks used in the enterprise, smartphones often contain
corporate data …