http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/ Software's Sublimation: Data's diffusion throughout business and into the cloud en-us 2009-09-04T11:27:10-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/sap-acquires-saf-retail.html SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in retail software provider SAF, whose initials stand for Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting. SAF's three core products, SAF SuperStore, SAF SuperWarehouse, and SAF SuperForecast are designed to help retailers... agoldman 2009-09-04T11:27:10-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/ids-scheer-bpm.html The long term view of business process management (BPM) starts in many minds with Michael Hammer who wrote an influential book on the subject called "Reengineering the Corporation" in 1996. For IDS Scheer, the concept dates back farther to the... agoldman 2009-09-03T16:12:23-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/snow-leopard-reportedly-expose.html Source: AppleApple's latest operating system, Snow Leopard, which has otherwise garnered rave reviews, downgrades the version of Adobe Flash on a user's system, Graham Clueley, Sophos security expert, said in a blog post that contains a video of the reported... agoldman 2009-09-02T18:24:04-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/joomla-ibm-x-force-security.html Earlier this week, an IBM X-Force report said that the open source Joomla! content management system led in unpatched vulnerabilities. Elin Waring, president of the Open Source Matters foundation, which supports the Joomla! project, said that characterization is wrong. The... agoldman 2009-09-02T15:31:42-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/microsoft-chafes-at-vmworld.html VMware is restricting the role that Microsoft can play at its virtualization user conference because Microsoft, like Citrix, is a VMware rival, Microsoft said. Based on the agreement Microsoft signed in order to exhibit at the show, "we don't believe... agoldman 2009-09-01T11:48:43-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/09/cast-iron-amazon-ec2-cloud.html Cloud and SaaS infrastructure provider Cast Iron Systems announced today that it has developed code to help enterprise developers move applications to Amazon's EC2 cloud. The company's own Cast Iron Cloud is also running on Amazon EC2. "As the pioneer... agoldman 2009-09-01T08:44:28-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/citrix-vs-vmware-xen-xcp.html Amid many VMware-related VMworld announcements, Citrix announced today that Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen cloud computing project, will build an open-source cloud infrastructure called the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). "Today Xen is already the most widely used... agoldman 2009-08-31T16:54:52-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/trend-micro-offers-web-gateway-security.html Trend Micro today announced Web Gateway Security, a solution designed to enable IT managers to track Web usage in the extended enterprise and to defend their growing network. Security managers are facing some tough challenges, Trend Micro noted. While Web... agoldman 2009-08-31T10:01:04-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/microsoft-starts-patent-appeal.html Microsoft began its appeal of a $290 million fine and a pending injunction against the sale of Microsoft Word with a strongly worded appeal today. "In patent cases, even more than most, the trial judge's role as a gatekeeper is... agoldman 2009-08-26T17:03:49-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/ibm-rational-open-services-oslc.html IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the release of software products to support the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard for sharing data between applications. The first portion of the standard, covering change management, was released this summer, IBM said. The... agoldman 2009-08-25T12:53:09-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/delphi-malware-is-an-unusual-t.html It's looking like fewer software packages can escape the notice of virus creators. Earlier this month, a rare AutoCAD virus appeared, targeting users of that specialized application. Now, reports from F-Secure and Sophos say that Delphi, software that helps developers... agoldman 2009-08-24T14:42:32-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/oracles-ellison-takes-1-salary.html Larry Ellison, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) CEO and founder, will take a base salary of $1 for fiscal year 2010, which started on June 1, 2009, according to a recent SEC filing. That's down from a $1 million base salary for each... agoldman 2009-08-24T11:40:36-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/the-open-group-soa-osimm.html The Open Group today announced two new frameworks to assist organizations in the adoption of a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, an SOA Governance Framework to help companies develop SOA strategies, and the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) to... agoldman 2009-08-24T09:01:48-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/twitter-bots-salacious-photos.html I've said it before here but now that a professional security specialist is talking about it (see Twitter spammers post sexy profile pictures) people should take notice. Twitter has not responded to a request for comment but it's still early... agoldman 2009-08-20T10:12:53-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/08/radisson-credit-card-hack.html It's already happened again. One week ago, ProPay warned readers of the benefits of end to end encryption in securing credit cards. Just yesterday, experts commenting on the Heartland hacker indictment told InternetNews.com that in the future, hackers would attack... agoldman 2009-08-19T14:38:44-05:00