For many of the same reasons that Software-as...
May. 22, 2012
Perhaps the next technological wave that will...Latest SOA World Stories & Posts
Latest news, articles, and posts published in SOA World Magazine. For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ...May. 22, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,523 |
 Whatever your course, meet Cloud complexity head on with a unified approach to handle extreme performance, reliability, availability, and simplicity.
In her session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ayalla Goldschmidt, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, will reveal t...May. 22, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,665 |
 The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving,...May. 22, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,328 |
 If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure...May. 22, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,771 |
 According to a 2011 survey by the Independent Oracle User Group, over 50% of Oracle’s customers have deployed or are considering deploying private clouds. Most private clouds today support non-production workloads because enterprises are unable to deploy mission-critical applications i...May. 22, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,716 |
 What do the CTOs of the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer, SOA Software and AppZero, the Founder & Gene...May. 22, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,044 |
 Many key benefits make the Dell MDC a compelling alternative for your data center solution.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Steve Cuming, Executive Director of Data Center Solutions at Dell, will take a look at the hyper-efficient, snap-together, flexible choice m...May. 22, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 430 |
 In this CEO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, leading executives in the Cloud Computing and Big Data space will be discussing such topics as:
Is it just wishful thinking to depict the Cloud as more than just a te...May. 22, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,414 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for ...May. 22, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,027 |
 Cloud computing is creating the new Wall Street boom, according to NIA. The only industry that is as bright as cloud computing on Wall Street is social networking, NIA said in a recent report.
2012 will be known as the year cloud computing became widely adopted worldwide. Cloud comput...May. 21, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,767 |
 As a Bronze Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Appcore is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Appcore manufactures the business of cloud computing. Appcore delivers...May. 21, 2012 03:27 PM EDT Reads: 573 |
 The impact of Big Data is extremely broad for business, information management and technology. Being able to analyze your growing mountain of data can give you a distinct competitive advantage, but Big Data can be more than traditional tools can handle.
In his session at the 10th Int...May. 21, 2012 11:28 AM EDT Reads: 615 |
 Facebook opened below its $38 IPO Monday morning and kept on tanking, losing 10% within 10 minutes. It put up a defense at around $33, down around 13%, and moved to around $34, down around 11%, within 45 minutes but didn’t hold that bottom and was back below $33 when last seen.
Some p...May. 21, 2012 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 694 |
 Whether your company is large or small, you are probably exploring Big Data solutions and using cloud services and will need to integrate with other enterprise workloads.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Gwyn Clay, CEO of Stonebranch, will share detailed informati...May. 21, 2012 10:24 AM EDT Reads: 559 |
 As a Platinum Plus Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Rackspace Hosting is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Rackspace Hosting is the service leader in cloud comp...May. 21, 2012 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 612 |
 In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, industry-leading CTOs & VPs of Technology will discuss such topics as:
Which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle?
Who should...May. 21, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,351 |
 China’s antitrust regulators gave Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility the nod Saturday provided Google’s Android operating system remains open and free-of-charge for the next five years.
The “free” stipulation apparently doesn’t apply to applications or services...May. 21, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 805 |
 Citrix has acquired Virtual Computer, a little Massachusetts outfit with enterprise-scale management solutions for client-side virtualization.
It means to combine the acquisition’s NxTop widgetry with its XenClient hypervisor to create a new Citrix XenClient Enterprise edition that c...May. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,228 |
 Best Buy founder and its largest shareholder Richard Schulze, 71, will be stepping down as chairman June 21 after a board investigation found he didn’t disclose CEO Brian Dunn’s “extremely close personal relationship” with a 29-year-old female employee to the board’s audit committee.
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 In the wake of the Facebook IPO fiasco, Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld beat his breast and told the Wall Street Journal along with other press Sunday that Nasdaq’s “acknowledged design problems” bungled the social network’s landmark lPO Friday.
Reporters were told on a conference call ...May. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 669 |
 The only place to be June 11-14th is the NY Javits Center at Cloud Expo 2012 East. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, Big Data and Virtualization companies such as Dell, SHI, Intel...May. 21, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,669 |
 The federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion a year by moving to cloud services. But it might have saved up to $12 billion if cloud strategies were more aggressive, a survey of federal IT managers found.
The study, drawn from interviews with 108 federal CIOs and IT managers, was ...May. 21, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,663 |
 Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform – reportedly the result of five years of effort – that it called the world’s first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers.
IT departments are supposed to use it to deliver virtualized desktops with the graphics...May. 21, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,386 |
 BMC Software Monday adopted a defensive poison pill to ward off Elliott Associates and its sister firm Elliott International, which have acquired 5.5% of its stock and want BMC to form a special committee to chase a sale of the company.
Elliott, you will remember, is the activist hed...May. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,284 |
 SilkRoad Technology, the aptly named competitor of, say, the up-and-coming Workday that peddles cloud-based social talent management solutions, has topped up its funding with another reportedly oversubscribed $35 million round.
That makes an incredible $162 million since 2003.
The l...May. 21, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,102 |
 Google has reportedly figured out a way to sort of avoid looking like it’s playing favorites if the Chinese ever decide to let it take over Motorola Mobility.
With Jelly Bean, the next version of Android, the Wall Street Journal says it’s changed its strategy. Rather than work with j...May. 20, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
 The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Uni...May. 20, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,342 |
 Businesses today generate billions of events or 100s of TBs of data in a month. These data contain valuable insights into customer behavior, key trends, buying patterns, etc. If these are successfully mined, they can lead to successful decision-making to maximize revenue and traffic fo...May. 19, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 984 |
 We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architect...May. 19, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 963 |
 Facebook closed up a mere 23 cents its first day of trading as a public company after 421 million shares were sold to investors.
The stock, which had jaundiced New Yorkers congregating in Times Square to see what would happen, opened a half-hour late Friday at around 11:30am at $42.05...May. 18, 2012 04:24 PM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Shipments of two new HTC smartphones have been seized for inspection by US Customs because of the limited import ban Apple got from the International Trade Commission in mid-December.
HTC was found to have infringed an Apple patent on “data tapping.” That’s when you, say, tap on a ph...May. 18, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 945 |
 As the Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, SHI International is offering special passes to SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global prov...May. 18, 2012 10:29 AM EDT Reads: 892 |
 Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and bus...May. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 Hybrid is an end state for most customers as it balances choice and the needs of the business against cost, flexibility and risk.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Clifton, Director Cloud Solutions at Dell Commercial Business Unit, will discuss Hybrid cloud ad...May. 18, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 973 |
 Enterprise IT organizations want to deploy a virtualized data center fabric that will provide the foundation for agile private cloud computing. Getting there does not have to be difficult, but it does require a new approach to data center infrastructure design – an approach that is non...May. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,898 |
 Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms enable enterprise to experience agility. Infrastructure agility is key to deploying Big Data platforms and applications. As datasets grow in size and numbers in the enterprise, there needs to be a place to store, secure and analyze the datase...May. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,468 |
 Facebook decision makers and their bankers were reportedly closeted together shortly before the markets closed in New York Thursday trying to decide whether to price Facebook’s IPO at $38 or $39 a share, according to the Wall Street Journal, which evidently had a glass – in the way of ...May. 17, 2012 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 902 |
 An HP source told Business Insider that HP is going to make “massive” job cuts of 10%-15% of its workforce of 324,600 people.
Bloomberg then picked up the tambourine and said the number is more like 8%, or 25,000 people.
Factoring in attrition, early retirement and shifting jobs off...May. 17, 2012 02:53 PM EDT Reads: 1,211 |
 Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and de...May. 17, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,028 |
 A survey of small and mid-size businesses found an interest in harnessing technology to improve business efficiency.
Midsize businesses are turning to IT investments to grow their businesses and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greate...May. 17, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,172 |
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