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 Galleon Group, the $3.7 billion hedge fund at the center of the insider trading ring that the government, its wire taps and a reportedly secret SEC data-mining project exposed last Friday, is liquidating its funds and shutting down following what amounts to a run on the bank, according...Oct. 22, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,168 |
 Actually, I quite agree with Beil's assertion. As far as acronyms go, IaaS is about as bad as they get. The fact that your infrastructure is provided "as a service" is an obviously important aspect, but in reality it's not the only or most important driver when looking at implementing ...Oct. 20, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,263 |
 Adaptivity provides integrated solutions that automate IT Delivery optimization across enterprise computing environments. In this exclusive Q&A for Cloud Computing Journal with SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop – CEO of Adaptivity – discusses A...Oct. 20, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,951 |
 "Many people don't realize - or forget - that some of our greatest advancements in the 20th century grew out of innovation in the space and intel programs in the Federal government. We may be returning to that with regard to Cloud Computing." In this brief interview with SYS-CON's Clo...Oct. 19, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,489 Replies: 1 |
 "Virtualization requires massive volume to be profitable. Cloud computing will enable that massive volume." With succinct sound bites like that, it is not surprising that Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, is much in demand as a speaker at conferences devoted to Cloud & Virtualization. In thi...Oct. 19, 2009 05:07 AM EDT Reads: 3,372 |
 While acknowledging that lots of work is currently being done to differentiate and integrate private and public cloud solutions, Microsoft Architect David Chou believes that Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is the area of Cloud Computing that will make its impact most noticeably in 2...Oct. 19, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,820 |
 Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...Oct. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,768 |
 Darl McBride, the CEO of SCO and the industry’s favorite pariah, expects to get fired any minute now.
He expects to get fired because he’s adamantly opposed to winding SCO down, laying off its people and settling the company’s litigation against Novell and IBM for chump change, whic...Oct. 16, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,542 |
 This week I had my attention drawn by a few interesting articles that seem to suggest that the increase into Enterprise Mobility has not occured yet. I am stating... 'Come into the Light of the Mobile Age or be DOOMED!', that is my call to the Mobile Luddites.Oct. 15, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 929 |
 Okay, maybe it's petty and I'm just tooting my own horn, but I found this old article I wrote for Upstream CIO's October issue (written in July '05). In rereading this article today, I surprised myself how aware I was of the forthcoming Cloud & SOA convergence.
The popularity o...Oct. 14, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 888 |
 Everybody acknowledges that IT has to plays a key role in any new service or product design. Therefore, IT needs to align with business and be flexible to changing business needs. It is a question of how to be agile rather than should we be agile.
Then, why is there such a gulf betw...Oct. 9, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,316 |
 Is SOA dead? This question keeps popping up every now and then within the IT community and though we all seem to agree that SOA is far from dead something has indeed radically changed: our expectations. Just a few years ago, perhaps months, we considered SOA to be the solution to all ...Oct. 4, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 "Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Comp...Oct. 3, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,121 |
 Over the past several years, many IT departments have committed to virtualization as an antidote to the spiraling costs and inflexibility plaguing corporate data centers everywhere. By running applications on virtual servers and consolidating underutilized hardware, data centers can ge...Oct. 1, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,513 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,971 |
 Why is cloud computing relevant today from an economic, business and technology standpoint? What are some potential benefits – and pitfalls – of moving to the cloud? What should you look for in a cloud computing provider to ensure the security of your data and applications? And above a...Sep. 29, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,364 |
 If the trend of the first six months of 2009 holds, the overall number of M&A deals this year will have plunged to a level last witnessed in 2004. That is the painful truth, according to a report published today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Conventional M&A strategies must be ...Sep. 29, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,445 |
 "For years, we've talked about how information technology enables companies to do more with less," writes Microsoft supremo Steve Ballmer in his latest "Executive Email" to Microsoft customers and analysts. "But during this economic reset," Ballmer continues, "IT provides business lead...Sep. 29, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,217 |
 Before the New York version of its International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is about to be held again in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, 2-4 November, 2009), SYS-CON.TV invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the ...Sep. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,617 |
 Claiming dibs on digital signature technology, RPost has sued its higher profile rival Goodmail Systems in a Los Angeles federal court saying Goodmail’s Certified E-mail Paper Suppression service infringes two of its patents.
It wants damages and an injunction and says other partie...Sep. 28, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 812 |
 Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Coffee, of eWeek fame. Peter, as industry veterans may be aware, was eWeek’s Technology Editor, and is now Director of Platform Research for Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud computing. Our conversation began with my blatant attempt a...Sep. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,016 |
 At each and every one of its long-running "International Virtualization Conference & Expo" events, held three times a year, SYS-CON Events prides itself on inviting knowledgeable and articulate industry executives to participate in its Power Panels - simulcast at every show direct from...Sep. 28, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,131 |
 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Sep. 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,160 |
 Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer... As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach. Moreover, Ulitzer...Sep. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,124 Replies: 1 |
 With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, SYS-CON.TV recently invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the economics of the Web to Enterprise IT and where th...Sep. 25, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,670 |
 Google News went down middle of the day Tuesday for a couple of hours. Google never explained why but said many were affected. Three weeks ago, Gmail went down big time because of a poorly executed server upgrade and now on Thursday users were complaining on Twitter that they couldn’t ...Sep. 24, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,328 |
 The European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Ellison, who was interview...Sep. 22, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,226 |
 At its long-running "SOA World Conference & Expo" event, held twice a year ever since the year 2000, SYS-CON Events prides itself on inviting knowledgeable and articulate industry executives to participate in its Power Panels - simulcast at every show direct from the keynote hall. In t...Sep. 22, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,013 |
 Dell this morning said it would buy Texas-based Perot Systems for $3.9 billion cash, a 68% premium. The money for the $30-a-share tender offer will come out of Dell’s savings, which this summer amounted to $11.7 billion. IBM turned into a services company years ago; HP bought EDS for $...Sep. 21, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,917 |
 In a transaction expected to close - subject to all the usual approvals - in its November-January fiscal quarter, Dell announced this morning that it's entered a definitive agreement to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion. Terms of the agreement ...Sep. 21, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 As many of you may know, I work for EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Group as part of the Atmos solution team. In this role, I’ve been blessed with getting a closer look at where the future of cloud storage is going as well as some of the drivers that will get it there. In [......Sep. 21, 2009 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,004 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) refers to the tools used to build software applications (software programs) in the cloud. Think of it as a cloud-based development environment for building and managing software applications. These custom-built applications are then hosted on infrastructure...Sep. 20, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,426 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Developing Successful Cloud Strategies by Evaluating Data In...Sep. 20, 2009 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,110 |
 Looks like there’s a few bubbles still left in the old champagne bottle.
Twitter, which has no income to speak of, has reportedly raised another $50 million in funding and been valued at $1 billion.
That’s four times the $250 million valuation it reportedly got in February when...Sep. 19, 2009 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,618 Replies: 1 |
 What every developer wants is access and the ability to shape any data across the Internet through one simple language, with out need to learn different APIs. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides just that and its effectiveness will be demonstrated live at SYS-CON's 4th International C...Sep. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,155 |
 Commoditized from solution to feature, from feature to function, load balancing is no longer a solution but rather a function of more advanced solutions that’s still an integral component for highly-available, fault-tolerant applications. |
 What can SaaS (Software as a Service) offer your organization? Review the countless benefits offered by this revolutionary software deployment model to determine if SaaS merits a test-drive. As you may know, Software as a Service (SaaS) is a method for delivering software applications ...Sep. 18, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 810 |
 On Thursday, September 10th, 2009, I moderated a panel at the 1105 Group’s Enterprise Architecture Conference in Washington, DC entitled, “SOA Goes Mainstream – An Industry and Government Roadmap.” On the panel we had two Federal government agency representatives and two industry repr...Sep. 18, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,479 |
 Lately I've been really intrigued by the PubSubHubbub protocol (PuSH) and its potential use as an intercloud communication protocol for monitoring and auto scaling your external cloud or internal infrastructure (or both).Sep. 18, 2009 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
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