Microsoft and EMC are set to shake up the enterprise content management (ECM) scene after announcing a new alliance that will see close integration of Microsoft’s Office 2007 suite with EMC’s storage software.

A new Unisys study has found that the citizens of Singapore are more concerned with information security and identity theft than they are with terrorism, war and epidemics such as bird flu.

Adaptec has introduced three new network storage systems to its Snap Server range, promising cost-effective storage solutions for the desktop or rack.

HP has launched its independent software vendor club with five local companies promised marketing, technical, networking and business planning support.

Open Text has finalised its acquisition of ECM provider Hummingbird and immediately commenced product re-branding

As of Monday this week, Tibco software has begun offering its General Interface Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit as open source.

Moving desktops and servers from physical to virtual environments can be a task fraught with complication. To make life easier, VMware has released a new converter tool and best of all, it’s free.

Adding to the wealth of applications offering attractive alternatives to proprietary software packages, the web-based application developer Epiware has released its Document Management Suite under the open source license.

Australia’s DataBasics has announced that five HELIOS UB Unbreakable Server Solutions for prepress and enterprise networks can now run on Microsoft Windows-based computers.

In July Microsoft announced that there were big changes in store for its Dynamics CRM package, it is now rolling out pilot projects to test the waters before the full product release next year.