WhatIs: Enterprise IT news roundup

CISO reporting to board of directors: Myth or for real?

Anil Patrick R — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:55:12 EST

There's much talk about how the Indian chief information security officer (CISO) now reports to board of directors. Has the Indian CISO's role changed?

SaaS accounting software usage on the rise among Indian SMBs

Anil Patrick R — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

AMI Partners study forecasts US$30 Mn spends by Indian SMBs on accounting software for 2009. Medium businesses lead SaaS accounting software adoption.

IBM delves into VMware security: News in brief

Alex Barrett, News Director — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:41 EST

Working with VMware VMsafe application programming interfaces, IBM announced Virtual Server Security for vSphere, and other virtualization product news.

Conficker botnet update: A year on, and still a danger

Ron Condon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:07 EST

As we approach the first anniversary of the Conficker worm, Ron Condon reveals what the malware may have in store.

Dreamforce 2009 conference coverage

Staff, SearchCloudComputing.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:18:43 EST

Check out the news and video coverage of Dreamforce 2009, the cloud computing conference in San Francisco.

Users cautious on Red Hat's stake in EnterpriseDB

Pam Derringer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:21:56 EST

Red Hat stake in EnterpriseDB called good strategy but users say impact depends on outcome of Oracle/Sun merger and the fate of MySQL.

Azure's early 2010 launch comes with RightScale support

Steve Cimino, Assistant Editor — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:45:07 EST

This week: RightScale will support Windows Azure from its production-ready launch date in January of 2010; Amazon designs a software development kit for Windows users.

VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1

Alex Barrett, News Director — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:06:14 EST

The first major update to vSphere 4 delivers highly coveted support for Windows 7 as a host and as guest operating system.

Texas Tech turns to data deduplication for data backup, disaster recovery

Dave Raffo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:29:16 EST

Texas Tech University licensed its backup software vendor CommVault's data deduplication software rather than adding a hardware system.

Manufacturing PLM implementations rely on the quality data found in PDM software

Brenda Cole — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:06:46 EST

A lack of synced, quality data can keep manufacturing product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation projects from getting off the ground. That's where product data management (PDM) software comes in.