CIO Insight Staff

When James Gosling led the team that created the Java language and platform, Sun Microsystems was riding high and Java stood as a landscape-changing revolutionary technology, but financial realities eventually brought Sun to its knees and Oracle entered in as a potential savior–saying all the right things, but behind the scenes, as far as Gosling […]

As a JavaScript exploit wreaked havoc on Twitter.com on the morning of Sept. 21, a survey of small-business IT managers revealed spam as the primary security threat to business networks. Despite the increasing number of malware attacks originating from social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, the managers called those threats “marginal” to businesses. […]

A Gartner IT survey finds that enterprises worldwide are spending 10.2 percent of their external IT services budget on cloud computing services from external service providers. Forty-six percent of respondents with budget allocated to cloud computing indicated they planned to increase the use of cloud services from external providers. Gartner analysts said there is a […]

Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of business applications from the database giant, on Sept. 20, was announced on opening day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference in San Francisco. In his keynote address, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said that by setting the standard for application architecture, design and deployment, customers will be […]

IBM has agreed to acquire data warehousing firm Netezza for approximately $1.7 billion. The acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010. Netezza specializes in data warehouse analytics, and competes in the space with companies such as Teradata and Oracle. The move also follows EMC’s […]

Intermec, which makes a range of rugged handheld devices for use in such areas as warehouses, health care settings and construction, is rolling out the CS40, a rugged mobile computer that has the size and looks for a smartphone. The CS40, announced Sept. 20, offers a host of features that put it into the “rugged” […]

Oracle used its OpenWorld 2010 conference in San Francisco assure its base of Solaris customers that the operating system is not going anywhere. In a presentation on Sept. 20, John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle shared a roadmap for Oracle Solaris 11. Fowler said Oracle is increasing its investment in the Oracle […]

The worldwide market for enterprise software will increase over the next year, as businesses begin to refresh their hardware and software in the wake of the massive global recession. That prediction, in a Sept. 20 research note from Gartner, also suggests that enterprise-software spending in North America will lose momentum in the second half of […]

Dell later this year will release a new convertible mobile device that can be used as either a tablet PC or quickly reconfigured into netbook-style machine complete with a keyboard. Dell executive David Zavelson showed off the 10-inch device Sept. 14 during the morning keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. It was […]

Research In Motion and Verizon have unveiled the new BlackBerry Curve 3G, 9300 model. The device, slated for release Sept. 16, is priced at $30 with a two-year contract through the carrier. It seems intended as a low-end complement to RIM’s other new smartphone, the Torch 9800, which retails for $199 via exclusive carrier AT&T. […]

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire ArcSight for $1.5 billion, ending weeks of public speculation about the security vendor’s future. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. In late August, it was reported that ArcSight, a leading vendor in the security information and event management (SIEM) space, was shopping itself around […]

Nokia, the company’s chairman, Jorma Ollila, has announced that he will step down in 2012. Ollila’s plan to leave the company in 2012 comes as Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s executive vice president of mobile solutions, announced plans to leave the company in six months, and Nokia just named Microsoft executive Steven Elop as the successor to […]