WhatIs: Enterprise IT news roundup

Informatica and IBM MDM vendor acquisitions put MDM in the spotlight

Jeff Kelly — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:32:31 EST

With two major acquisitions and the release of the first open source master data management (MDM) platform, MDM technology may be primed for a resurgence.

Microsoft patches SMB flaws, Hyper-V problem in big update

Robert Westervelt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:22:07 EST

Microsoft issued 13 bulletins, patching more than two dozen flaws across its product line, including critical Server Message Block flaws and a hypervisor DoS vulnerability.

The Daily Cloud: Sun cloud chief Lew Tucker tweets on his final day

SearchCloudComputing.com Staff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:22 EST

In his last day as head of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, the man who essentially built Salesforce.com's App Exchange said goodbye to the masses via Twitter.

Social CRM customer data management can be the hard part

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:47:22 EST

Some companies are diving headfirst into social CRM initiatives, but as with traditional CRM, they need to be sure to address the data.

MySQL users hope for the best, prep for the worst

Bridget Botelho — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:14:43 EST

After Oracle's acquisition of Sun and its popular open source database franchise, MySQL users hope for the best but are ready to flee.

VMware to beef up disaster recovery offerings, support Microsoft clustering in 2010?

Mike Laverick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:49:34 EST

VMware may beef up storage options for its disaster recovery product, Site Recovery Manager, in 2010; and we may see further development to the VMware Data Recovery appliance. Also: will we see vSphere 4.5, and will VMware support Micrsoft Cluster Server and Veritas clustering?

New IT management framework focuses on business value

Christina Torode — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:35:30 EST

Enterprises such as Chevron and Merck are working together to shape an emerging IT-management best practices framework.

Linux staffs still earn 10% more pay, Dice says

Pam Derringer, News Contributor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:31:29 EST

Dice.com salary survey says Linux pros get 10% more pay; IT job outlook already started to brighten in 2010.

Nasuni Filer offers cloud storage gateway for NAS

Beth Pariseau — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:57:45 EST

Nasuni Filer virtual appliance automatically caches files at a user's local site, while bulk of user's NAS capacity is maintained by a cloud storage service provider.

Cisco data center interconnect aims to fix vMotion network trouble

Shamus McGillicuddy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:40:43 EST

In the past, vMotion network problems have inhibited virtual server migration across data centers, but Cisco claims its new data center interconnect technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization, fixes the problem.