Maureen O'Gara

CFOs in Technology on Ulitzer Microsoft’s CFO Chris Liddell (pictured), 51, a New Zealand import, is bored and wants a better job. So he’s “looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO” – according to a statement out of Microsoft – and will ... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Gartner has updated its crystal ball - or gotten a new one - and now says that more PCs will ship this year than it expected because laptops, especially netbooks, are selling; it gives Windows 7 little to no... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer When Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's biggest telco, took a piece of the $10 million E series funding going into OpSource earlier this year, the pair reportedly didn't know they would be going into the cloud business together - or that... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Cisco had to up its bid Monday for Tandberg to overcome stockholder resistance to the $3 billion deal the Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker's board agreed to. The sweetener for what Cisco calls a "very strategic" asset amounts to rou... (more)

IBM Journal IBM In the interest of selling more widgetry to more people, IBM has transformed one of its mainframes into what it calls Blue Insight, a private cloud packed initially with a petabyte of structured and unstructured data that 200,000 of its sales, product development... (more)

Azure Cloud on Ulitzer RightScale, the cloud manager, plans to support Windows Azure and let customers deploy RightScale-managed applications and take advantage of Azure's particular properties. It said it would support Azure infrastructure-level services through its new Service... (more)

Intel Virtualization Magazine A piece of the $25 million investment pie Intel Capital sliced up and handed out recently to seven start-ups went to Joyent Inc, the California company that claims to have launched the first cloud infrastructure service in China a few weeks ago. It... (more)

Salesforce.com Journal on Ulitzer Salesforce.com is going the way of Facebook and Twitter with a reportedly secure private social networking application called Chatter that companies are supposed to use internally so their people can "collaborate" in real-time, but potentially t... (more)

Google's App Engine Platform LTech, a little friend of Google's, has spun up the first Power Panel for Google Apps to give enterprises moving to the cloud central administrative functionality. It's also announced Single Sign-On for Google Apps now that Google Apps are pushing d... (more)

AMD Virtualization Journal It took a mediator to get Intel and AMD to arrive at the magic number - and who would pay it - that would cause them to settle their litigation out-of-court last week, according to BusinessWeek. AMD wanted to be paid for its antitrust claims. Intel want... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Talend, the open source data integration house, have popped up with two free integrated virtual machines. One combines the Community Edition of Infobright's MySQL-based analytic database... (more)

Intel Virtualization Journal Turns out Intel apparently didn't give Globalfoundries, the AMD-Arab joint venture now making all of AMD's processors, an x86 license when Intel and AMD settled their outstanding litigation last week. Nope. What Intel and Globalfoundaries have is an "... (more)

CEOs in Technology Egenera, the very first company to build a blade system meant to handle peaks and valleys, has reportedly had another purge. It's now on its fourth CEO with CTO and EVP of engineering Pete Manca replacing Mike Thompson and product marketer Ken Oestreich in as ... (more)

Microsoft Developer Striking while Oracle is at sixes and sevens over Sun, SAP and Microsoft, two of its worst enemies, have cut an anti-Oracle accord. Microsoft will recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application to its customers as its preferred solution... (more)

Dell News on Ulitzer Dell, which hasn't been involved in the litigation except as a witness and source of discovery, has featured large in AMD's suit against Intel over rebates, the European Commission's action against Intel and now in the new antitrust suit lodged by New York A... (more)

SEO Journal on Ulitzer Microsoft hasn't been able to make a dent in Google's top-heavy market share in search but it appears to be doing a nice job sucking the vital juices out of its intended partner Yahoo. According to the latest figures from comScore, Bing, Microsoft's new sea... (more)

Dell News on Ulitzer Dell's fiscal Q3 profits plunged 54% to $337 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenues of $12.9 billion down 15%, but the company says demand is improving and, if looked at sequentially, revenues were up 1%. Wall Street expected it to show up with at least $... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine on Ulitzer Now that ICANN has relaxed its rules on domain names in non-Roman characters, Egypt Monday became the first country to request a web address in Arabic script. .Egypt will be .masr but in Arabic script. The move is meant to open the Internet to all t... (more)

AMD Virtualization Journal on Ulitzer The world's most powerful supercomputer is Jaguar, the recently upgraded Cray XT5 rig at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, according to the new semi-annual Top500 list. Jaguar's roughly 250,000 processors went from quad-core Optero... (more)

AMD Virtualization Journal Fresh from agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, Intel upped its dividend 12.5% to 63 cents a share annualized, beginning with the first quarter next year. The company said it was a sign of its "confidence in business prospects going forward... (more)