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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Anybody prepared to make an offer for Dell that’s superior to the $24.4 billion bid Michael Dell and private equity house Silver Lake Partners put on the table February 5 intending to take the joint private has to come out of the woodwork by 12:01am Texas time Saturday morning when the...Mar. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,719 |
 HP’s board survived the annual shareholders meeting intact despite attempts to unseat chairman Ray Lane and four other directors for failing to vet HP’s $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy, which resulted in an $8.8 billion write-off a few months later.
They were opposed by two share...Mar. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,205 |
 Today's applications need fast access to data for maximum performance.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, will discuss how in-memory data grids combine distributed caching with powerful in-memory analysis an...Mar. 21, 2013 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,673 |
 Apple polished its reputation as a contrarian Tuesday when the news broke because of an SEC filing that it had hired Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch to be VP of technology and reportedly coordinate its hardware and software teams.
Adobe confirmed his departure effective Friday, March 22.
He ...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,739 |
 New cloud-collaboration tools from Avaya ease the way for enterprises to deal with the growing trend toward Bring You Own Device.
The adoption of UC and CC as a service (UCaaS and CCaaS) brings utility-based pricing to cloud-service providers (CSPs) so they can offer varied and flexib...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,125 |
 The Blackstone Group, the big private equity house said to be seriously
mulling “various scenarios” for a counterbid for Dell that trumps Michael
Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $24.4 billion offer, is supposedly thinking
about replacing Michael Dell as CEO if it bids and wins.
It...Mar. 21, 2013 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,508 |
 Oracle, which was promising growth in its third fiscal quarter, missed across
most product categories and all regions except, perversely, EMEA. Its stock dropped close to 8% after-hours to $35.76. It blamed its salesforce for its poor showing.
Co-president Mark Hurd, the former CEO o...Mar. 21, 2013 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,547 |
 No one is going to argue (at least not strongly) in favor of running business applications on an operating system that does not get security updates. Compliance teams will see this as a huge risk and will move heaven and earth to remediate it. In the next 12 months many IT departments ...Mar. 20, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,087 |
 Hoping to hold the feet of HP’s board to the fire and produce some blisters, former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch sent shareholders an open letter Wednesday morning ahead of the annual stockholders meeting Wednesday afternoon asking five questions about the $11 billion Autonomy acquisition t...Mar. 20, 2013 11:20 AM EDT Reads: 1,802 |
 MapR Technologies, the Hadoop technology concern, has gotten a $30 million C round of financing led by new investor Mayfield Fund. Existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures participated. The new money brings total funding to $59 million.
The new financing...Mar. 20, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,068 |
 As time runs out for an alternate bid for Dell, Blackstone, the private equity house, is reportedly considering upping Michael Dell and Silver Lake’s $24.4 billion buyout offer for the joint.
It has through Friday to make a move under a so-called go-shop provision.
Bloomberg says B...Mar. 20, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,827 |
 Early data has IDC forecasting that PC shipments this quarter might drop 10%, roughly 2% more than it thought a few weeks ago.
It’s also predicting a mid-single digit drop in Q2 and is uncertain if shipments will increase in the second half.
IDC said “Even getting to positive growt...Mar. 20, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,423 |
 Late last Thursday a Reuters exclusive hit the wires saying IBM and EMC as well as other unidentified folks are talking acquisition with SoftLayer Technologies, the Dallas-based cloud and web hosting company founded in 2005. It said the price could be over $2 billion and that SoftLayer...Mar. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,678 |
 Flash house Fusion-io has acquired low-profile British start-up ID7 and
with it the primary developers of SCST, the open source storage subsystem
used by EMC, HP and IBM and anybody else dabbling in storage for Linux
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 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Nicos Vekiarides, CEO & Co-Founder of TwinStrata, will examine in-depth the problems created, common workarounds and why they fail, and how cloud storage can be a simpler, far more effective alternative. Attendees will learn about th...Mar. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,365 |
 No sooner had Google CEO Larry Page said that Android chief Andy Rubin would stop running the unit he created and that Android would be joined to the Chrome operation under Chrome boss Sundar Pichai than the company quietly said it’s breaking up its maps and commerce unit and that its ...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,090 |
 Speculation is back in circulation that Apple – enflamed by Samsung’s “slavish copying,” the ensuring worldwide patent litigation and Samsung’s increasing dominance in smartphones and tablets – is weaning itself off its component dependency on Samsung and moving its A7 chip production ...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,081 |
 Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to n...Mar. 18, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,461 |
 According to a statement released today by Stephen Ewart, Marketing Manager for names.co.uk, over 600 domains were registered within hours of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's anointment as the Head of the Catholic Church. But His Holiness is not the first high-profile world leader to f...Mar. 18, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,852 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) ...Mar. 17, 2013 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,591 |
 Big Data applications such as Hadoop and Hive are becoming more widely adopted and mainstream. There is an increasing number of users who will select the cloud – whether private or public – as an efficient and scalable deployment vehicle for these large-scale distributed apps. Hadoop i...Mar. 17, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,208 |
 On 19 November 2010, according to www.whendidyoujointwitter.com, the account @GoogleCloud was registered with Twitter. 848 days later it has yet to tweet. But that may be about to change...Mar. 17, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,737 |
 McAfee has announced the industry’s first white-listing security solution for Android embedded systems.
McAfee Application Control for Android is the only security solution that resides in the Android operating system kernel.
McAfee provides protection from the installation or exec...Mar. 16, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,723 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that TwinStrata, an innovator in cloud-integrated storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
TwinStrata delivers cloud-integrated...Mar. 16, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,248 |
 On Wednesday Dell joined the Object Management Group – an international open standards organization that’s always been a little bit over its head – and proposed an SDN standardization working committee that it will chair within the OMG technology working groups.
The companies that ar...Mar. 15, 2013 03:49 PM EDT Reads: 1,760 |
 Citrix on Thursday announced it has received the highest possible rating of “Strong Positive” in Gartner Inc.’s “MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing (EFSS).”¹ The report assesses Citrix ShareFile™, the foundation of the company’s follow-me data strategy. Citrix wa...Mar. 15, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,767 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that XO Communications, a provider of advanced IP communications, managed network and hosted IT services for business, large enterprise and wholesale customers, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, ...Mar. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,548 |
 Compuware has published the findings of a global study of consumer mobile application expectations and experiences. The survey reveals that global consumers prefer mobile apps over mobile websites.
Mobile applications are thought to make life easier by streamlining calendars and groc...Mar. 14, 2013 12:17 PM EDT Reads: 2,930 |
 In the name of the software-defined data center VMware says it’s going to merge its vCloud Networking and Security product line with Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) and come out with a single product family based on common technology.
It’ll be called VMware NSX and sho...Mar. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,659 |
 After taking giant bites out of Apple, Android chief Andy Rubin is apparently sated.
He’s stepping away from his fiefdom, according to a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page, to look for something else to do inside of Google.
Chrome and Apps chief Sundar Pichai, who turned down a job...Mar. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,644 |
 VMware has started a new Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit and hired Bill Fathers, the former president of Savvis, the cloud computing and managed hosting outfit, to run it.
VMware, whose stock is at its lowest ebb in three years, made the announcement at a Strategic Forum for Inst...Mar. 14, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,907 |
 The new open source cloud orchestration platform called OpenStack is the promise of flexible network virtualization, and network overlays are looking closer than ever. The vision of this platform is to enable the on-demand creation of many distinct networks on top of one underlying phy...Mar. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,679 |
 Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Nimbula's technology helps companies manage infrastructure resources to deliver service, quality and availability, as well as workloads in private and hybrid cl...Mar. 13, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,725 |
 How do we connect clouds and improve SLA control? As the Internet has no SLA, many organizations are concerned of being exposed to the vagaries of the Internet. There are only a few options for concrete quality of service (QoS) when accessing public clouds.
In his session at the 12th...Mar. 13, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,667 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that DreamHost, a global leader in Web hosting and cloud services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 13th International Cloud Expo, whic...Mar. 13, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,838 |
 Egnyte, the file-sharing, file-storage, not to mention backup hybrid cloud for business, is integrating with third-party public cloud storage starting with the ever-popular – and increasingly cheap – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure and NetApp StorageGrid so its EgnyteP...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,067 |
 Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on its web site Tuesday that it’s decided to open a criminal investigation into the allegations made by Hewlett-Packard about the circumstances surrounding the sale of Autonomy to HP in 2011. But first it’s got to figure out if it’s in conflict...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,207 |
 IDC has been watching the growing popularity of the smaller, lower-priced tablets.
It found that one in two tablets that shipped this quarter had a screen measuring less than eight inches. It figures this strong trend is going to continue – strongly enough, in fact, for it to tickle ...Mar. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,726 |
 Dell Software has launched its next-generation Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) that delivers a comprehensive set of features and capabilities in a single cloud-managed solution. This marks a fundamental shift: now mid-sized companies can take advantage of an MDM solution that s...Mar. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,937 |
 Organizations want extraordinary results from their IT units. Today's mantra is faster delivery, better quality, cheaper solutions, and safer environments. Many CIOs are implementing cloud computing enterprise architectures to address these challenges with results varying greatly. Why ...Mar. 13, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,862 |
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