The benefits and the advantages offered by Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) over traditional methods have drawn interests of many firms. Companies will significantly increase investments in service oriented architecture (SOA)-based services throughout the rest of 2006...

Microsoft showcased the community technology preview (CTP) of a new Windows-based environment to create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms, at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006 in Pittsburgh. The new environment Microsoft expects will provide thrust for academic, hobbyist and commercial...

"After finally experiencing the law of diminishing returns on efficiency improvements, many companies are now placing innovation as a top priority. Innovation requires a different environment and a different culture; most companies will require an extreme makeover in order to be successful," asserts the Cutter Business Technology Council...

Only a few applications have been written specifically for grids, and only a small number of today's commercial applications that appear suitable for grids have actually been deployed on or migrated to grids, according to The 451 Group. But as enterprise momentum for grid computing and associated infrastructure models increases...

"If you thought it would be some time before Ajax moved from the realm of Google and Yahoo into the enterprise IT fabric, you’d be mistaken", writes Jason Stamper over at Computer Business Review Online. It's becoming clear that the new rich thin client technology Ajax will make it into enterprise IT sooner rather than later. Ajax seems to be gaining ground by the minute...

Microsoft Corp. has added another server to its Office 2007 line-up, expanding its line of business intelligence (BI) products with a new focus on performance management solutions. The new Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 includes business scorecarding, analytics and planning...

The Information Technology Services marketplace in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan, which has seen tremendous growth in recent years is poised for further growth. According to a research by IT research firm IDC, the market will grow from USD 29.57 billion in 2005, to USD 48.37 billion in 2010. This represents a compound annual growth rate...

IBM has announced enhancements to its storage virtualisation engine software Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (SVC), designed to help organizations virtualize their infrastructures more efficiently and at lower costs over longer distances IBM SVC version 4.1 features Global Mirror functionality designed to provide...

VMware Infrastructure 3, the new version of VMware's infrastructure virtualization software suite is expected to enable systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware...

Collaboration is a key driver of overall performance of companies around the world. Its impact is twice as significant as a company's aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities and five times as significant as the external market environment...

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled an entry-level NonStop server system that delivers business continuity and availability to a new segment of enterprise customers. The HP Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server is designed for smaller companies in the healthcare, financial services and telecommunications industries...

The Asia Pacific market has seen a tremendous growth in information technology market in the last one decade. The establishment of new IT organisations naturally led to growth in enterprise IT sector too. Among all, one of the most important...

HP has unveiled new content initiatives in its strategy to help two converging industries, telecom and entertainment, benefit from the historic shift to digital media. HP, which has been serving the telecommunications and entertainment sectors...

Open Text Corp. ranks as the global market share leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), according to a study conducted by the information and technology research and advisory firm Gartner Inc...

After experiencing two and half years of growth, the server market in the first quarter reported a decline worldwide, marking the second consecutive quarter of revenue decline. The server market  in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) were the worst hit...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it would enhance its Office 2007 lineup. Microsoft said it would improve menus and tools, enhance graphics and formatting capabilities, new time and communication management tools, and provide more reliability and security...

There is a direct correlation between the investment organizations make in Outsourcing Management and Governance (OM/G), and outsourcing engagement satisfaction, according to the results of a study, "Outsourcing Management and Governance...

In a dramatic indication that one of the computer industry's oldest and still most affordable data storage technologies has the potential to provide increased capacity for years to come, IBM researchers have announced they have demonstrated a world record in data density on linear magnetic tape...

Compuware Corp. has introduced the latest version of its performance testing solution, Compuware QALoad 5.5. Compuware QALoad is an automated load-testing tool for web, Java, .NET, packaged ERP/CRM applications and distributed environments...