CIO Insight Staff

Customers with legacy J.D. Edwards and PeopleSoft applications have some big decisions to make about Oracle Fusion in the coming year, and many of them will be looking beyond the enterprise software giant out of feelings of frustration and lockdown, according to a new Computer Economics report titled "Go Forward Strategies for Oracle Application Customers." […]

Oracle will be banking the largest U.S. copyright infringement award on record — $1.3 billion — from longtime enterprise application rival SAP after a federal court jury on Nov. 23 concluded that amount was fair restitution in a three-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit. Oracle, in its lawsuit filed in 2007, claimed that SAP — through an […]

At the Supercomputing 2010 conference, IBM released details of a new storage architecture design that can double analytics processing speed. Announced on Nov. 19 at the conference in New Orleans, the new architecture created by IBM researchers can convert terabytes of pure information into actionable insights twice as fast as previously possible. IBM said the […]

When eWEEK comes out with its end-of-the-year data center/storage trends story next month, one of those trends will be something called "data retirement." Not data deletion or data reduction, data erasure, data destroying or anything similar. Data and files can somehow reappear from all of those practices, but data retirement really does excise the unwanted/unneeded […]

IT managers are ranking information security as high IT priority within their organizations, but more training and better policies are necessary to protect them from new threats, according to survey results released by CompTIA on Nov. 18. CompTIA’s Global Security Trends, an annual report examining information security in its eighth year, surveyed 1,400 IT and […]

At the SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans, Intel announced that its supercomputers have been able to simulate the way a football player’s brain responds to collisions. Intel is collaborating with Riddell, which for many years has been the official manufacturer of helmets for the NFL. Intel is also working with Dartmouth’s Thayer School of […]

Even with organizations shifting business-critical applications to the cloud, mainframes remain as relevant as ever, but organizations are struggling to find skilled IT workers familiar with the technology, according to a survey by CA Technologies. CA presented the study results during a panel discussion that was Webcast on Nov. 17. Years after the mainframe was […]

Juniper Networks is buying the intellectual property of Blackwave, which makes Internet video delivery and storage technologies. The deal, announced Nov. 18, marks the second acquisition by Juniper this week and the latest move by the networking company to expand its capabilities in the highly competitive Internet video market, which is drawing the interest of […]

Network Instruments announced the findings of its fourth annual State of the Network Global Study. The study’s findings suggest a need for IT organizations to monitor performance and identify potential trouble spots as organizations move to cloud-based projects, virtualization, and unified communication initiatives. The report concluded these technologies, while being adopted, present “enormous” troubleshooting challenges […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had some kind words for the iPhone in a recent interview with a Dutch newspaper, while also suggesting that Google Android smartphones would eventually eclipse it in market share. “When it comes to quality, iPhone is leading,” De Telegraaf quotes Wozniak as saying in its Nov. 18 article. However, he added, […]

Microsoft formally launched Lync 2010, the rebranding of its Office Communications software suite, with a New York City event Nov. 17. In addition to providing business users with a software platform for enterprise telephony, instant messaging, and video and audio conferencing, Lync can also interface with Microsoft products such as Windows Live Messenger and its […]

Much has been made about the U.S. government’s need to hire more cyber-security professionals. But finding the best way to build that workforce may be difficult. A new survey from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² finds that many of the trending ideas on how to structure the cyber-security workforce do not jibe […]