By Maureen O'Gara  Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s open source software to Like... Nov. 6, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 265 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an... Nov. 6, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 411 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 426 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a... Nov. 6, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 670 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Opera want changes made. According to the ... Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 262 |
By Glenn Rossman  eZ Systems, the world´s largest open source content management software company, announced today that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately. Nov. 5, 2009 06:15 PM EST Reads: 244 |
By Glenn Rossman  Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services. The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy fo... Nov. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 287 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ... Nov. 5, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 614 |
By Cloud News Desk  SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 2,000 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s... Nov. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,009 |
By Cloud News Desk  Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting C... Nov. 4, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 516 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct – revealed in e-mails – to maintain its monopoly power and prices on its microprocessors.” The colorf... Nov. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 410 Replies: 1 |
By Cloud News Desk  "On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in S... Nov. 4, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 493 |
By Bill Roth  The most anticipated talk of the day, at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo yesterday, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge. She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, ... Nov. 4, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,072 |
By Roger Strukhoff  The reality is that technology CEOs--least of all flamboyant ones--aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhile... Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 593 |
By Roger Strukhoff  The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce... Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 565 |
By Business Wire  HiT Software has announced a new partnership with Netezza, a leading data warehouse appliance provider, where HiT will develop and certify new functionality in its DBM data replication product to provide heterogeneous change data capture from source databases such as Oracle, SQL Server... Nov. 4, 2009 07:33 AM EST Reads: 262 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors.
Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North Americ... Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 872 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have d... Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 606 |
By Roger Strukhoff  "This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity ... Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 568 |
By Jeremy Geelan  "With cloud computing, price to deploy applications goes through the floor while flexibility to scale those applications goes through the ceiling!" says WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, in this lively round-up of The State of Cloud Computing compiled and published by Conference Chair Jeremy ... Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 3,882 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the guy who spun out AMD’s plants into a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi and then became chairman of that company when it was formed in March, has stepped down after being identified as one of the tipsters leaking material inside information t... Nov. 2, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 559 |
By Yeshim Deniz  RightScale, Inc., today launched the next generation of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform that delivers increased application portability across cloud infrastructures. With this release, RightScale has enhanced its ServerTemplate technology to provide automatic configuration of ... Nov. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 529 |
By Alois Reitbauer  Distribution and communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution you have to keep some basic principles in mind – otherwise you can easily run into performance and scalability problems. Durin... Nov. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 644 |
By Roger Strukhoff  It's already Christmas season in the Philippines by early October. But there's the matter of the Day of the Dead on November 1, the third most important holiday here after Christmas and Holy Week. Nov. 1, 2009 03:10 AM EST Reads: 215 |
By Fuat Kircaali  Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk o... Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,421 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Third-quarter shipments of graphics processors were up 21.2% sequentially and Q2 was a strong quarter so graphics maven Jon Peddie feels safe in predicting a Merry Christmas for PCs and the industry.
AMD showed the biggest jump in quarter-to-quarter growth at 30% followed by Intel a... Oct. 30, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 576 |
By Liz McMillan  3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing
technology and utility computing services, announces Peter Nickolov,
President and CTO, 3Tera will be participating in two speaking sessions
at the 2009 Cloud Computing
Conference and Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) on November 2... Oct. 30, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 882 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Hubspan, a provider of cloud computing-based business integration solutions, today announced that Trisha Gross, president and CEO, was selected by the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo West organizers to present during the industry event held November 2-4. Gross' presentation will focu... Oct. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 591 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A New York appeals court said the other day that David Johnson, the ex-IBM M&A chief poached by Dell in May and sued by IBM to make him honor his non-compete – which he intentionally signed in the wrong place to get out from under – can work for Dell. The courts weren’t happy with IBM.... Oct. 30, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 630 |
By Cloud News Desk  ParaScale, Inc, a provider of developing cloud storage solutions, announced today that the company's Chief Technology Officer, Cameron Bahar, will speak to attendees of Sys-Con's Cloud Computing Conference and Expo about best practices in cloud storage, on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at ... Oct. 30, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 672 |
By Jeremy Geelan  A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its popular 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 aga... Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 42,804 Replies: 10 |
By Cloud News Desk  Objectivity, Inc. announced today that Brian Clark, vice president of product management, has been named a panelist at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held in Santa Clara, California from November 2-4, 2009. The panel, "Where's the Cloud Headed Next?" w... Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 476 |
By Cloud News Desk  AppZero's CEO Greg O'Connor will be a featured speaker at SYS-CON's 4th annual Cloud Computing Conference, which is co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo November 2-4. O'Connor's session is entitled, "Case Study: For... Oct. 29, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 509 |
By SOA News Desk  Fiorano Software has announced that readers of SOA World Magazine, a leading SYS-CON Media publication, awarded Fiorano "Best SOA Tool" – defeating IBM, Oracle, and Sun – in the SOA World Magazine’s 2008 Annual Readers'Choice Awards. SOA World readers also recognized Fiorano as a final... Oct. 29, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 477 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL has put the Oracle-Sun merger in ... Oct. 29, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,614 |
By Kevin Jackson  Congratulations to Pierre-Jose Billotte for the successful launch of EuroCloud !
Established as a pan European network, EuroCloud are communities that represent a knowledgeable network of companies engaged local and European activities related to SaaS and cloud computing.
The net... Oct. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,032 |
By Cloud News Desk  The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter and join data across Web services in real-time. With YQL, applications run faster with fewer lines of code and smaller network footprint. In this session Jonathan Trevor, who works in the Y! Platf... Oct. 28, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,105 |
By Cloud News Desk  As cloud computing evolves, we are seeing explosive growth in vendor solutions, both in terms of the markets they address and the problems they solve. During this session, Krishna Subramanian will provide a framework to classify the various cloud offerings, and explores how solutions ... Oct. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 975 |
By WebSphere News Desk  IBM today announced a more effective way for organizations to quickly build, deliver and manage high quality services. Through new software integrations, organizations can manage and automate processes across their development, test and operations teams. These new integrations give cli... Oct. 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 480 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Hector Ruiz, then CEO of AMD, was the unidentified source of material information that the busted Galleon ring traded on, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
He’s even higher up the totem pole than Robert Moffat, the head of IBM servers and storage who was arrested a... Oct. 28, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,066 |