IBM acquires Israeli mobile software firm

In a move expected to help expand its enterprise mobile capabilities, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israel-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms were not disclosed in a release posted on the company's website.With this acquisition, IBM's mobile offerings will span mobile application development,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Trend Micro Mobile Security

Trend Micro has announced the latest addition to its mobile security portfolio, Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition, a solution designed to protect both Android smartphones and tablets that includes a free app scanner, lost device protection and enhanced security to block threats while surfing the Web, calling or texting.As Android devices gain in popularity, there are growing threats... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Adoption of PaaS still linked with uncertainty: Gartner

The evoloution of Platform as a service (PaaS), a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to Gartner, Inc. "With large and growing vendor investment in PaaS, the market is on the cusp of several years of strategic growth, leading to innovation and likely breakthroughs in technology and business use... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Wipro gets US patent for SW optimization methodology

Wipro Technologies, the global IT, consulting and outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, has been granted a patent by USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for its StORM (Statistics Operations Research Matrix) methodology. StORM is a system and method for software test suite optimization, achieved by generating an Orthogonal Array(OA) for software testing using the mathematical... By sanjay.gupta gupta

TCS completes multi-million dollar transformation at UK firm

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that Diligenta, its UK-based Financial Services Authority (FSA)-regulated subsidiary, has successfully concluded a multi-year, multi-million dollar transformation project at Phoenix Group, the UK's largest specialist consolidator of closed life funds. This unprecedented program involved replacing and decommissioning 11 major life and pension... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Apple sells more iPads than HP sells PCs: report

Research firm Canalys has announced that Apple, after reporting stellar results, became the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4 2011. Apple shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Macs, representing 17% of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally in Q4. Overall, the total client PC market, including desktops, netbooks, notebooks, and pads grew 16% year-on-year. Excluding... By sanjay.gupta gupta

6 Trends that will drive identity, access and privacy mgmt

Six major trends will drive the evolution of corporate management of identity and access management (IAM) and privacy management in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc.In 2012, businesses need to increase their focus on identity and privacy projects that can achieve quick time-to-value and deliver real value not just to IT, but also to the business, said Bob Blakley, vice president and distinguished... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Newgen in Top 3 'value for money' BPM vendors: Ovum

Newgen Software, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Customer Communication Management (CCM) solutions, has been included in the Ovum Decision Matrix Report 2011 as one of the top three value for money BPM vendors and ranked fourth overall on the user sentiment dimension. The report states that the greatest strength of Newgens BPM suite is its... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Ubuntu Server: Aiming for the Cloud

With no licence fees and a focus on cloud features from primary sponsor, Canonical, Ubuntu has flourished in the cloud. Ubuntu has become a popular guest operating system on Amazon EC2 and other infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options, and the reference OS of choice for OpenStack and Cloud Foundry projects. While the Linux-based OS has been closely associated with the desktop, the projects... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Windows Intune gains traction

Microsoft has announced that global nonprofit Save the Children, professional services company goetzpartners and e-discovery firm eLitigation Solutions have all implemented Windows Intune to help solve some of their most pressing IT challenges.While these three organizations vary in industry and size, they have one thing in common: Their employees expect to work anytime, anywhere, with access to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

McAfee integrates Application Control with Threat Intelligence

The latest release of McAfee Application Control is integrated with McAfee Global Threat Intelligence to show the file reputation of every file in the enterprise. This feature, coupled with whitelisting and memory protection, makes it an ideal solution for blocking advanced persistent threats and zero-day attacks, McAfee claims in a company release. The solution is centrally managed by McAfee... By sanjay.gupta gupta

The Open Source Advantage

THE SITUATION... Does opting for open source environment help Praveen Kumar drive down cost of IT in the true sense?Praveen Kumar, IT manager at a manufacturing company, is using proprietary software across OS, servers and other applications for some time now. Kumar finds costs escalating with new software licenses being procured year after year and even during mid year with new employees... By sanjay.gupta gupta