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  • Egnyte Enterprise Local Cloud Taps VMware, Google Docs for Storage Flexibility

    Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. Read my full review at eweek.com.

  • VMware/SUSE: Stacking the Deck in Favor of Enterprises

    The recent wave of vertical integration among enterprise IT vendors appears headed for another crest: There are reports in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that Novell is preparing to split itself in two, selling its SUSE Linux operations to a strategic buyer and the balance of its properties to a private equity investor. The…

  • Zendesk Hosted Customer Help Desk Offers Many Methods of Support

    Zendesk is a hosted customer help desk service that’s easy to deploy while remaining quite amenable to customization. The service supports multiple methods of providing support, multiple channels through which customers can access that support and multiple routes through which an organization can access and interact with the underlying data. Read my full review at…

  • Requiem for a Wave

    Google announced Aug. 4 its intention of killing off its Wave project before the end of this year, citing poor user uptake.

  • BonitaSoft’s Bonita Open Solution 5.2: An Essential Toolkit for BPM

    BonitaSoft’s Bonita Open Solution 5.2 is comprised of an Eclipse-based studio application for designing processes, a form builder for creating Web-based interfaces for the processes and an execution engine for carrying out the processes. Read my full review at eweek.com.

  • Open Source Software: All or Nothing at All?

    Over the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion in open source software circles around so-called open core software business models, in which the “core” of a product is freely available under an open source license, typically with a “community edition” label, while some amount of features are withheld from the free…

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Gets SP1 Flexibility

    Review: eWEEK Labs encountered a few snags testing SLES 11 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11’s Service Pack 1, especially involving KVM and Hyper-V, but Novell is doing a good job of maintaining SLES as a leading enterprise operating system that should be evaluated by any organization that employs virtualization. Read my full review at eweek.com.

  • SQL Server 2008 R2 Offers Enhancements, New Management Capabilities

    One of the most compelling new features in both Excel 2010 and in SQL Server 2008 R2 is PowerPivot, a new tool that enables spreadsheet-savvy workers to take on larger amounts of data from within a spreadsheet-style interface. Read my full review at eweek.com.

  • Fedora 13 Boasts Many Leading-Edge Enhancements

    Red Hat’s Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year. Read my full review at eweek.com.

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Boosts Core Features, Branches Out onto the Web

    Microsoft’s flagship desktop suite comes packed with modest, albeit worthwhile, enhancements to core Office capabilities, while breaking significant new ground by pushing Office apps beyond the bounds of the Windows desktop into rich, Web-based versions that perform as well on Firefox and Safari browsers as on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Read my full review at eweek.com.