In less than a day, the boutique went from reporting that advisory work in the first quarter fell off a cliff to setting itself up for a multimillion-dollar payday. Yes, indeed, banking is a 'lumpy' business.

Surging tides of malware, a criminal-professional coding industry and crumbling network perimeters are changing the rules of the game that endpoint security firms have been playing for more than a decade. We take a look at who is positioned to succeed.

Power management is a powerful eco-efficient technology capable of reducing energy consumption in the datacenter and on the desktop. But it is only just emerging into a set of clearly defined markets.

We examine the fruits of the MDM pure play's OEM deal with MicroStrategy, explore some future developments and chart the startup's business progress.

The company took a rather astounding $60m VC round last month just as Yahoo announced its entry into the Web analytics market with a free tool. How will Coremetrics compete in this rapidly changing segmentt?

The longtime data warehouser has now decided to introduce the Sybase Analytic Appliance and enter the warehouse appliance fray. What does its new range comprise and which players is it likely to encounter?

Working with Symas, HP's Technology Solutions Group has focused in on the OpenLDAP open source directory server project as the vehicle for a services business. There's an uphill climb ahead, but disruption looms, too, for directory vendors.

The company is out with a new, Microsoft Gold Certified PLM suite that is free and licensed under the Microsoft Community License. But is open source really right for PLM, let alone running on Microsoft?

The European Commission is offering financial support to innovative IT-based projects in its bid to reduce the carbon footprints of buildings and cities. IT suppliers will play a key role in all the projects.

Along with strong Q1 results, Day Software has announced that the company's founder and longtime CEO will hand over the reins. Does this signal a new Day?

The company has grown considerably since we first profiled it a year ago and believes its summer release will bring it more and larger deals.

Data de-duplication vendor Data Domain has extended the upper and lower reaches of its product line lately with the release of new models. Will the company be able to sustain its growth as it begins to venture beyond its core backup market?