At JavaOne 2008 this week, Sun Microsystems delved deeper into JavaFX, a platform for creating visually oriented applications that can be leveraged in the increasing consumer application space.Seen as the systems company’s latest push into the rich internet applications (RIA) world...

We live in a world today where anyone and anything can be connected and where technology has become so intertwined with our daily lives that we can no longer fathom a life without it. The traditional boundaries of information...

With communities becoming increasingly active in the software arena and the technologies and companies that create them growing more interconnected, a new trend is clear...

The dynamic nature of today’s modern business environment coupled with the increasingly blurring line between business and information technology (IT) has accentuated the need for organisations to protect themselves against new and emerging threats...

InfoPrint Solutions has increased its traction in Asia Pacific (AP) with the opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore. The US-based printer maker said it decided to ramp up its Asia operations and increase...

SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) Tuesday introduced its University Alliance Program to the region which looks to equip students with SAP software training, enhancing their skills and making them more marketable in the ever competitive IT market...

Internet security solutions provider Check Point took the wraps off three new UTM-1 Total Security appliances (Unified Threat Management) , aiming to give enterprises a wider array of solutions to choose from and match the right solution with their security and performance needs...

Stratus Technologies, a vendor focused on providing continuous availability solutions, increased in foothold in Asia Pacific (AP) with the setting up of its very first Asian Managed Services Center in Singapore last week...

Red Hat officially introduced its latest Asia Pacific (AP) initiative, the Open Source Collaborative Innovation (OCSI), in Singapore last week, designed to advance and build a global open source community for collaboration innovation...

EMC announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy out Iomega, a San Diego based organisation that delivers data storage and protection for consumers and small businesses, for 213 million dollars...

Serena Software this week unveiled a Software as a Service (Saas) version to its Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool. The new version of the Serena Mariner 2008 aims to give business and IT managers the most functional on demand...

Switching suppliers has not only become so habitual that it is costing Asian businesses in countries such as Singapore a massive SGD 568 million every year but it also ranks as the number one "killer" for businesses both big and small...

Where the semiconductor market in 2007 was characterized by excess capacity and high demand, 2008 will be characterized by better capacity balance, but softening demand, reports In-Stat...

Internet behemoth Yahoo! and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited, said Monday that they have decided to jointly support cloud computing research...

Disk-based data protection solutions provider FalconStor Software last week signed an agreement with Jardine OneSoltion (JOS) to distribute its new FalconStor Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructure solution in Singapore...

Dissatisfaction with traditional outsourcing relationships is changing the way enterprises and their IT service providers do business. According to Dexter Wee, General Manager iBOSS, Asia Pacific, Infrastructure Operations & Outsourcing Solutions, Datacraft, the swing to Multisourcing is a direct outcome of traditional sourcing strategies...

Data De-duplication, one of the hottest emerging segments within the enterprise storage and data-protection industry, is fast evolving from being just a back up solution to become a feature of a broader data-protection offering. Data Domain, one of the leaders in data de-duplication...

For the third year in a row, business intelligence (BI) applications have been ranked the top technology priority in the 2008 Gartner Executive Programs survey of 1,500 chief information officers (CIOs). According to the analyst group, this is because CIOs know they must implement a BI strategy...

Power consumption and other "green" issues are fast becoming the information technology industry's biggest challenge and as these concerns grow, focus will broaden...

Apple made headlines late last week when it unveiled new software specifically targeted at its enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 release includes the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), as well as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync...