Tervela offers high-speed messaging and integration via appliance

The vendor is gaining ground in the financial services sector with its high-speed messaging appliance and hopes to duplicate this success in other verticals.

MIS/ Impact Report, 11 Oct 2007
Dennis Callaghan

The hype still outpaces the reality of Google Apps

With acquisitions like Postini and the addition of a presentations app, there's little doubt Google is serious about selling an online suite of apps. But are customers buying?

MIS/ Impact Report, 11 Oct 2007
Kathleen Reidy

Enterprising Zend deepens partnerships and updates products on PHP momentum

Zend wants to be at the crest of PHP's rising wave of popularity in the enterprise. Will this plucky company's mission to maximize choice in a PHP-based Web application stack succeed?

MIS/ Market Development, 11 Oct 2007
Vishwanath Venugopalan

Newly public Teradata lifts the lid on its latest warehouse software

The data-warehousing veteran recently began a new chapter in life as a public company. We take a look at its financial forecasts and the main enhancements to the Teradata 12 release of its warehouse platform.

MIS/ Market Development, 10 Oct 2007
Krishna Roy

Open Virtual Machine Format promises interoperability across hypervisors

VMware, Microsoft and XenSource are all supporting the OVF format, which seeks to establish a portable virtual machine format that should boost cross-platform applications and services from third parties.

MIS/ Market Development, 10 Oct 2007
John Abbott

ClearApp is soaring since name change; eyeing new product directions

Since changing its name from Acsera last year, ClearApp is riding the growth wave – but isn't about to rest on its laurels as it sizes up new market opportunities.

MIS/ Market Development, 10 Oct 2007
Dennis Callaghan

Vivisimo socializes search with Velocity 6.0

By adding social networking techniques such as tagging, bookmarking and commenting to its enterprise search tool, Vivisimo becomes the first such vendor to integrate these tools out of the box.

MIS/ Market Development, 9 Oct 2007
Nick Patience

Can the song remain the same at Zimbra?

Zimbra is adamant that it will be 'business as usual' once its acquisition by Yahoo closes, as it's expected to do later this month.

MIS/ Market Development, 9 Oct 2007
Kathleen Reidy

Infor slows down pace of acquisitions to tackle more product integration

Relentless shoppers can benefit from time-outs to examine their purchases and see which items complement one another. Business apps vendor Infor is doing just that while working on SOA components, integration and a new UI.

MIS/ Impact Report, 8 Oct 2007
China Martens

At version 3, BitArmor expands functionality and greatly simplifies the message

BitArmor has undergone a complete overhaul in how it describes what it does for a living. With decent uptake and its first significant revenue showing great promise for 2007, now it's seeking $7-10m in new funding. We like what we see.

MIS/ Market Development, 5 Oct 2007
Nick Selby

Skytide reveals roadmap for its semi-structured analytic stack, goes for series B round

The startup is now looking for a minimum of $10m to scale out its business. We look at its prospects as well as planned enhancements for its analytic platform, designed for semi-structured data.

MIS/ Impact Report, 5 Oct 2007
Krishna Roy

RIA framework vendor Backbase pushes vision of client-side application server

Backbase introduces a comprehensive Ajax product and services suite and an update to its Ajax framework. Will the company's laser focus on Ajax pay off in the long run?

MIS/ Market Development, 5 Oct 2007
Vishwanath Venugopalan