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Exclusive: Workday Picks Its Bankers for a Fall 2012 IPO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 10 at 11:04 am PT

Having started a search for bankers in December, Workday has settled on four who will take it through the IPO process, starting with an S-1 filing expected in mid-July.

Intel’s Romley Chip Is Good News for Storage Players EMC and NetApp

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 3 at 7:38 am PT

But maybe not so much for Intel itself, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore argues.

Finally! Things Are Looking Up for IT Spending, Survey Finds.

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 29 at 9:45 am PT

A survey of 100 CIOs at large companies finds that their sentiment is moving in a distinctly optimistic direction, which is good news overall. But not for everyone.

Flash Start-Up Violin Poaches VP From VMware

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 27 at 4:10 pm PT

Flash Madness Club member Violin Memory has tapped Narayan Venkat as its VP of product management.

Yammer Adds SAP to the List of Business Software It Supports

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 23 at 6:29 am PT

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow an SAP record as easily as you follow your friends on Facebook? Yammer has made it happen.

Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 5 at 8:59 pm PT

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.

News Byte

VMWare Co-Founder Diane Greene Joins Google’s Board

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 12 at 3:02 pm PT

Search giant Google said today it had appointed Diane B. Greene to its board of directors. Greene, 56, is a co-founder of VMWare and took that company public in 2007. She was its CEO and president for 10 years ending 2008, and was executive vice president at EMC, which partially owns VMWare. She also sits on the board of Intuit.

LG Pushes 4G Smartphone Through Verizon: The LG Spectrum

Lauren Goode in News on January 9 at 10:15 am PT

With its Optimus phone, LG has done well at the low end of the smartphone market. Now it’s pushing a high-end 4G smartphone with a large HD display.

Thanks, Oracle, for Harshing the Enterprise Tech Buzz

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT

A disappointing quarter from Oracle seems to blast apart the idea that enterprise tech companies are holding steady. As usual, the markets overreacted.

Oracle’s Lousy Quarter Takes Many Other Stocks Down

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 7:42 am PT

By missing its sales forecasts by nearly a half-billion dollars, Oracle shares are diving and taking many other enterprise IT stocks along for the ride.