Steve Staso - Computing Solutions Strategist

NEWS ANALYSIS: Google and Facebook have their gun sights set on each other. As Facebook gains huge new riches with its initial public stock offering, the competition between these two giants is likely to become fierce and even nasty. - When Facebook first launched, it was looked at as a niche social network. The site catered to college kids and seemed to be destined to live in that world. But after an increasing number of people joined the site, and its CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to open it up to the general pu...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Google and Facebook have their gun sights set on each other. As Facebook gains huge new riches with its initial public stock offering, the competition between these two giants is likely to become fierce and even nasty. - When Facebook first launched, it was looked at as a niche social network. The site catered to college kids and seemed to be destined to live in that world. But after an increasing number of people joined the site, and its CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to open it up to the general pu...

Is there strength in numbers? The deal VCE recently struck with BMC suggests that a consortium of companies layering in best-in-class technology might be a more effective approach to win large-scale government and enterprise customers in the private cloud space, writes CIO.com's Rob Enderle.

Analysts expect Dell to focus on the midmarket and infrastructure with its new software division

Cloud firewall management vendors unleash new wares aimed to taming virtual firewall sprawl.

Facebook filed for its initial public offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry that had financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant's initial public offering would be the biggest in the history of the Internet. The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FB,” but has not revealed whether it will trade on the NASDAQ or NYSE. While Facebook will go on touting its Like buttons for Web publishers and hawking its Timeline user interface for consumers and applications alike, the company's financial statements will be poked, prodded and pored over by hundreds of experts looking to divine just how big an Internet player Facebook is now and can become 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Facebook may be the biggest IPO to date, but it isn't the only game in town. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the top Internet company IPOs of the past couple of years, along with some obvious earlier blockbuster debuts. Plus, we make our logical guess for whom we think the next IPO will be. - ...

Facebook filed for its initial public offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry that had financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant's initial public offering would be the biggest in the history of the Internet. The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FB,” but has not revealed whether it will trade on the NASDAQ or NYSE. While Facebook will go on touting its Like buttons for Web publishers and hawking its Timeline user interface for consumers and applications alike, the company's financial statements will be poked, prodded and pored over by hundreds of experts looking to divine just how big an Internet player Facebook is now and can become 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Facebook may be the biggest IPO to date, but it isn't the only game in town. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the top Internet company IPOs of the past couple of years, along with some obvious earlier blockbuster debuts. Plus, we make our logical guess for whom we think the next IPO will be. - ...

What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company's security exposure? CIO.com's Bernard Golden recaps the provocative discussions entertained at the Security Threat 2012 conference.

The latest enterprise release of the Alfresco CMS prepares users for content management in the cloud

What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company's security exposure? CIO.com's Bernard Golden recaps the provocative discussions entertained at the Security Threat 2012 conference.

The latest enterprise release of the Alfresco CMS prepares users for content management in the cloud

Facebook's Feb. 1 filing for a $5 billion initial public stock offering has the potential to give the world's biggest social network a market capitalization that would put it in the same rarified league as Google and Apple. The question is whether its future growth and financial performance will keep it there. - Facebook filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1, claiming to make $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion in net income. With some 845 million users, Facebook may not have been an Internet darling for a few years. When the social net...

Facebook's Feb. 1 filing for a $5 billion initial public stock offering has the potential to give the world's biggest social network a market capitalization that would put it in the same rarified league as Google and Apple. The question is whether its future growth and financial performance will keep it there. - Facebook filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1, claiming to make $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion in net income. With some 845 million users, Facebook may not have been an Internet darling for a few years. When the social net...

Microsoft wasted no time taking some very public jabs at Google's privacy-policy controversy. - Microsoft wasted no time swiping at Google over its recent privacy controversy. Starting March 1, Google will fold 60 of its 70 existing product-privacy policies into one blanket policy. Users cannot opt out. Under the auspices of its new policy, the search-engine giant will also treat any user wit...

Microsoft wasted no time taking some very public jabs at Google's privacy-policy controversy. - Microsoft wasted no time swiping at Google over its recent privacy controversy. Starting March 1, Google will fold 60 of its 70 existing product-privacy policies into one blanket policy. Users cannot opt out. Under the auspices of its new policy, the search-engine giant will also treat any user wit...

News Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloud computing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oracle in the database market. - EnterpriseDB has announced a new database-as-a-service offering, which will bring EnterpriseDBs PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL Plus database products to the cloud. The company has already forged agreements with leading cloud services hosts to immediately offer EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Ser...

News Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloud computing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oracle in the database market. - EnterpriseDB has announced a new database-as-a-service offering, which will bring EnterpriseDBs PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL Plus database products to the cloud. The company has already forged agreements with leading cloud services hosts to immediately offer EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Ser...

If your company is thinking of saving money by migrating to the cloud, don't forget to look to the long term return, a study suggests.

Microsoft appeared interested in maintaining support for Hyper-V in OpenStack, but developers decided to remove the buggy code

If your company is thinking of saving money by migrating to the cloud, don't forget to look to the long term return, a study suggests.