A report from TheVerge yesterday emerged with a target date of March 2013 for a release of Microsoft Office for iOS and Android products. That was based on a press release from Microsoft’s Czech Republic team and stated “In addition to Windows, Office will be also available on other operating systems, Windows Phone, Windows RT, ...

Huawei is back in the headlines. This time around the news revolves around a Cisco marketing presentation titled: “Huawei’s & National Security”.  The document dates to September 2011 and was obtained and reported on by The Washington Post; it has apparently has been used by Cisco to dissuade existing and prospective customers from using Huawei’s ...

A battle is erupting between the world of developers and the emerging Windows 8 platform. At the root of the matter – a closed distribution system and what that means to application developers. Microsoft’s new Windows 8 ecosystem is designed with Microsoft as the sole distributor of software through its Windows Store. The provisions within ...

Well it’s Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday as many people know. While this is a monthly event, this month’s release has a “critical” component that may have had some organizations scrambling a bit. The critical patch in question, disclosed in Security Advisory 2661254 is an update that addresses vulnerabilities affecting FAST Search Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange ...

A research report from HP and the Ponemon Institute was released that focused on cybercrime and the costs it incurs. In our briefing with Varun Kohli, Director of Product Marketing in the Enterprise Security Products division at HP and Dr. Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute, the epidemic and creeping financial impact of cybercrime ...

Some lineup changes at EMC indicate that some big things are on tap for the company’s Big Data goals and beyond. John Roese, a twenty-year IT industry veteran has joined EMC as CTO. His most recent role was as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Huawei Corporation’s North American Research and Development organization and ...

Darryl Smith, the Chief Oracle Architect in EMC’s Global IT organization sat down on theCube at Oracle Open World 2012 to talk about the EMC Oracle environment and how they are meeting the incredible demands of that environment. Smith is responsible for all databases at EMC, including one of the largest Oracle Applications and Database ...

Brent Compton Senior Director of product management of Fusion-io dropped by theCube at Oracle Open World 2012 for a discussion about some of the great features of Fusion-io.   The discussion revolved around Fusion-io’s advantages in performance, and what that means to developers. Compton states that with Fusion-io technology, developers are able to gain access to ...

As the latest news of a hack of an unidentified computer on the White House Military Office network spreads, the threat of a national security computer breach becomes more real.  The attack is being attributed to China by anonymous officials.  The WHMO contains some of the nation’s most sensitive information, including what many call “the ...

Workday has announced IPO pricing for its Class A shares at a range of $21 to $24 each. The vaule of the cloud-based ERP software company would then be $3.85 billion with 22.8 million Class A shares. The timing of the announcement comes in the midst of Oracle’s annual Open World event and is a ...