Berners-Lee was reportedly selected unanimously out of a field of 78 innovators from 22 countries for "an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values and encourages sustainable economic development." They're going to make a fuss over him in Helsinki on June 15 at the inaugural Millennium Technology Conference on Future Technology. In saluting Berners-Lee, a Brit ex-pat, the Finns are snubbing one of their own, the inestimable Linus Torvalds. ... (more)

Brad Templeton on "The Gmail Saga" - Google vs Privacy?

Much has been written about the new Google GMail trial, which is an e-mail service that offers a gigabyte of archiving, Google search of your mail archives and a nice interface. It's free, because while you read your mail, Google ads will be displayed based on keywords found in the mail you are reading (just as the Google Adsense program shows ads like the ones you see on the right based on words found in this document.) GMail created a surprising storm for a product that hasn't yet been released. A coalition of privacy groups asked Google to hold back on releasing it. A California state senator proposed a law to ban the advertising function. Editorials and blog entries left and right have condemned it and praised it. I come to this problem from two sides. One, I'm a fan of Google, and have been friends with Google's management since they started the company. I've a... (more)

Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn, Ulitzer, MeettheBoss - Execs Go Online Big-Time

New Media on Ulitzer A recent study run by online business networking service www.MeettheBoss.com shows that executives are spending an extra 11 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. The survey asked its executive users what direct value they gained from spending time running blogs, writing tweets and connecting with other executives on sites such as LinkedIn, Xing, MeettheBoss, Ryze, Facebook, Ulitzer and Twitter. The answers revealed that executives proficient with online activities are spending an average of 11 hours more per month online than this time last year – and over 90% of respondents said they felt their time online was ‘very valuable’ to their daily role. Professionals are rushing to the Web for immediate answers to their most pressing questions. “I find online business networking very useful,” says M... (more)

Solving the Business App Adoption Riddle

Business applications are a bit of a paradox. They are critical to business operations; you know it, and chances are all the potential business users know it as well. However getting adoption of these platforms is often like pulling teeth. Why should it be so hard to get users to leverage the platform they know they need? To make the problem worse, it might take years for an organization to know it is even a problem. Which means the investment in licensing, support, and setup for the application could be wasted for 1, 2, even 3 years out. Log analysis not only will tell you what the adoption of business applications is, it will let you know before it is a problem. If you remember when you were a kid and your parents asked you to brush your teeth. You understood the value, but it seemed like it was cutting into your pre-bed free time, and just not fun at all. Business... (more)

Akorri Wins the Gold in the 2009 Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage Management Tool Product of the Year Award

LITTLETON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/10/10 -- Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that its BalancePoint software solution won Gold in the 2009 Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com Product of the Year awards for Storage Management Tools. Products were judged by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com's editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. The judges rated the products on six criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. This is the second time BalancePoint has captured the top prize in this category, having previously won the same award in 2007. "Akorri Inc.'s BalancePoint has been ahead of the curve in agent-free monitoring, and the lat... (more)

Axway renforce sa présence au Brésil pour diffuser Axway 5 Suite en Amérique Latine

Axway (NYSE Euronext : AXW.PA), leader du marché de la gouvernance des flux de données, annonce aujourd'hui le renforcement de sa présence en Amérique Latine en implantant son siège régional à São Paulo, au Brésil. L'expansion de la société au Brésil fait suite à l’arrêt du contrat de distribution exclusif en place. Axway travaille en accord avec son ancien revendeur pour établir une relation directe avec l’ensemble de ses clients. Cette implantation permettra de mieux répondre à la demande croissante dans les principaux secteurs industriels concernant les solutions Axway 5 Suite diffusées localement. Alliant intégration d'applications, systèmes B2B et MFT, et gestion d'API, Axway 5 Suite aide les entreprises à gouverner les flux de données internes et externes, mais aussi vers le cloud et les périphériques mobiles. Cet investissement va renforcer les ressources d... (more)

The i-Technology Right Stuff

Related Links: Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?" Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!   In alphabetical order the nominees are:   Tim Berner... (more)

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for themselves. (Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)

Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology?

I wonder how many people, as I did, found themselves thrown into confusion by the death last week of Jean Ichbiah (pictured), inventor of Ada.  Learning that the inventor of a computer programming language is already old enough to have lived 66 years (Ichbiah was 66 when he succumbed to brain cancer) is a little like learning that your 11-year-old daughter has grown up and left home or that the first car you ever bought no longer is legal because it runs on gasoline in an age where all automobiles must run on water. How can something as novel, as new, as a computing language possibly already be so old-fangled that an early practitioner like Ichbiah can already no longer be with us? The thought was so disquieting that it took me immediately back to the last time I wrote about Ichbiah, and indeed about Ada Lovelace for whom his language was named. It was in the context ... (more)

Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because they can only give you answers." Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed. What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX? Eric Miraglia of Yahoo! 1.  (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the iPhone SDK vs using AJAX? 2.  How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to make it faster?  3.  When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for my rich web apps?  Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)