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...

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division(EDD) has appointed Ben Graetz as Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific & Greater China. In this newly created role, Graetz will oversee all Business Development, Operational and Product Marketing functions in Microsoft’s Entertainment portfolio...

AT&T and Microsoft jointly announced an agreement that will soon put the ‘Microsoft Surface’ into AT&T retail stores for customer use. A pilot program beginning in mid April will see...

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...

Microsoft has decided to team up with five of the world’s most popular social networks, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged, to allow users to move their contacts over via a safe and easy deployment...

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...

VMware this week announced a multi-year initiative aimed at expanding its India-based research and development (R&D) operations, part of which includes investing USD 100 million in the country by 2010...

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...

The digital universe is bigger and growing more rapidly than original estimates as a result of accelerated growth in worldwide shipments of digital cameras, digital surveillance cameras, and digital televisions as well as a better understanding of information replication trends...

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...

US consumers are becoming aware of the limitations that some broadband service connections provide, particularly in regard to available bandwidth...

Digital document management company Oce Technologies has expanded its operations in Asia with the opening of Oce Technologies Asia (OTA) in Singapore. The new facility, which was formally unveiled last Thursday, will be the nerve center for all of Oce’s Asia operations...

IBM and Singapore based tertiary Institution Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to launch a Business Software Innovation Centre set to deliver innovative solutions based on the benefits...

Microsoft Corp unveiled its latest and largest enterprise suite of next generation infrastructure and application platform products on Feb 27, which included Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...

Sun Microsystems said on Tuesday that it has successfully completed its acquisition of MySQL AB, cementing its entrance into the 15 billion dollar database market.“Starting today, we're rolling out global programs to raise awareness and adoption of MySQL among more established...