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JDJ News Desk monitors the world of Java to present IT professionals with updates on technology advances, business trends, new products and standards in the Java and i-technology space. Subscribe to the world's most powerful i-technology newsletters and RSS feeds and don't miss a single breaking news story! 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. 16, 2012 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 841 |
 Data centers today are stretched to the limits with fast-paced business demands. On top of that, integrating and managing IT infrastructures can pose major challenges. Organizations need a new solution that consolidates servers and workloads without breaking the bank—and Linux, togethe...May. 16, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 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. 16, 2012 03:06 PM EDT Reads: 340 |
 New tools and services for swift software-as-a-service integration in the cloud lowers the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers.
MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (Sa...May. 16, 2012 10:28 AM EDT Reads: 499 |
 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. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 785 |
 How can businesses harness the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is importa...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 647 |
 Facebook Wednesday upped the number of shares that will be sold when it IPOs Friday by almost 25% or 84 million shares to about 421.2 million shares of Class A common stock.
The overallotment has also been increased from 50.6 million to 63.2 million. If all 484.4 million shares move,...May. 16, 2012 09:50 AM EDT Reads: 449 |
 Oracle’s Java patent infringement case against Google and Android went to
the jury Tuesday afternoon.
The jury, which delivered only a partial verdict on copyright infringement
last week, deciding that Google infringed but unable to say whether that
infringement made “fair use” o...May. 16, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 499 |
 What do the CTO of 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 and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, ...May. 16, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,581 |
 Do you like fast MySQL databases? How about superfast databases – like near 300 TPSs? Do you think you can’t find them in the cloud? Well, think again!
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Daniel Morris, Senior Product Manager at Rackspace Hosting, explains why databa...May. 15, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 726 |
 Brazilian-born Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, 30, traded in his American citizenship last September to take up residence in Singapore, a move that will cut his taxes when Facebook IPOs on Friday.
He is estimated to own about 4% or 5% of Facebook.
The company was valued at $77...May. 15, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 883 |
 District Court Judge William Alsup, who refused last week to decide whether Google had fairly used the Java IP a jury said Android infringed, had no trouble Friday deciding that the jury made a mistake in finding Google only copied nine lines of Java’s rangeCheck code as well as infrin...May. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,163 |
 If you'd like to be able to use a PaaS offering to quickly and securely deploy your website, blog or web-based application, come see a demo and deep dive on Rackspace Cloud Sites.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jereme Hancock, a Rackspace Cloud Sites Linux Syste...May. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,113 |
 Departed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, 54, told the board before he resigned over the weekend that he was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer and was starting treatment, the Wall Street Journal said overnight.
It isn’t clear exactly where this piece is supposed to fit in the puzzle but if...May. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,326 |
 A US Patent and Trademark Office re-examination has found a basic RPost proof-of-delivery patent valid.
In a sweeping decision all 89 of its claims have been left standing against challenges of prior art. Patent holders dream of such things.
It is understood to be a so-called “fina...May. 14, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 999 |
 Dell has turned up with the very first cloud-directed microservers using Xeon processors built on Intel’s teeny-weeny 22nm process with sexy TriGate transistors.
It will be amusing to see if AMD sends its recent SeaMicro microserver acquisition, which used to be tight with Intel, out...May. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,325 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that EffectiveUI has been named Gold Sponsor of 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.
EffectiveUI is a full-service user experience agency that architects and ...May. 12, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 984 |
 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. 11, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,313 |
 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. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,515 |
 While cloud-based communications include a complex web of ports and protocols, typically 85 percent of the traffic flowing in and out of an organization through the cloud is email and web, including identity services. Taking more of your business and business processes to the cloud beg...May. 10, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,042 |
 Dissident shareholder Daniel Loeb, head of the Third Point hedge fund that uncovered Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s resume lie, sent the Yahoo board another letter Wednesday saying it was “farcical” for them to be spending more time deciding whether to fire him than it had deciding to hire...May. 10, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 912 |
 Google, as expected, has put in its papers asking the court to declare a mistrial because the jury only decided it infringed 37 Java APIs in building Android and didn’t decide whether that infringement constituted so-called “fair use” of the code.
So it wants a whole new trial “as to...May. 10, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,258 |
 Judge William Alsup Wednesday refused to decide whether Google had
fairly used the Java IP a jury found Android infringed Monday.
There are, you see, circumstances that allow copyrighted work to be copied
without the owner’s consent such as creating something new that advances
th...May. 10, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 734 |
 It’s easy to lose your head in the clouds. While virtualization has provided a way to satiate the need for on-demand solutions, it is easy to lose sight of the appropriate architecture when being allured to the sky.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, D...May. 9, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,005 |
 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. 9, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 922 |
 Yahoo board member Patti Hart, who led the search committee that resulted in Yahoo hiring PayPal president Scott Thompson as its CEO, won’t stand for re-election at the next annual meeting, according to sources tapped by All Things Digital.
Activist shareholder Third Point has been ag...May. 9, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,313 |
 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. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,106 |
 Do applications using NoSQL still require performance management? Is it always the best option to throw more hardware at a MapReduce job? In both cases, performance management is still about the application, but “Big Data” technologies have added a new wrinkle.
In his session at the 1...May. 9, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,227 |
 “Cloud” promises Flexible IT. Cloud has also taken various forms of every aaS imaginable. Determining the right model for the developer is just as confusing as it is for the end user. The primary reason – multi-vendor, cross-platform components are needed to truly deliver on the promis...May. 9, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,366 |
 After days of deliberating, a San Francisco jury Monday found that Google and its Android operating system infringed the Java copyrights now held by Oracle.
However, the jury remained as deadlocked as it was last Friday over the issue of whether Google made so-called “fair use” of th...May. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ComputeNext Inc. will exhibit at 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.
What’s the scope of your “single pane of glass”? If you’re a cloud architect wouldn...May. 8, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 943 |
 There is no longer any question that the cloud computing model will be the prevailing style of delivery for computing over the coming decades; Forrester Research predicts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. ...May. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,679 |
 When it comes to measuring applications’ performance across our local enterprise network, we think we know what network latency is and how to calculate it. But when it comes to the cloud there are a lot of subtleties that can impact latency in ways that we don't immediately realize.
...May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 |
 IT has already jumped on the SaaS bandwagon. They’ve realized that it is easier to use a SaaS application than to build and support a custom application in-house. As cloud computing becomes increasingly pervasive, businesses will move more and more of their infrastructure into a public...May. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,177 |
 The Yahoo board has until high noon today (Monday) to fired CEO Scott Thompson for cause and to can his confederate in the now infamous “ResumeGate,” board member Patti Hart, or else.
Yahoo’s biggest shareholder Third Point, which is also engaged in a proxy fight with the company ove...May. 7, 2012 11:33 AM EDT Reads: 903 |
 Informatica, which already counts its Cloud processing upwards of a billion cloud integration transactions a day, has upgraded the stuff. It reckons its new Cloud Spring 2012 release will deliver the industry’s most comprehensive cloud integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS).
The b...May. 7, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
 VMTurbo has added application delivery visibility to its intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments.
The new Operations Manager 3.1 basically assures companies that it’s okay to virtualize business-critical applications because it can ensure servic...May. 7, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,438 |
 Metamarkets, the analytics start-up that wants to be the “Visicalc of Big Data,” has gotten a $15 million B round led by new investor Khosla Ventures – Vinod was one of Sun’s founders.
Existing backers IA Ventures, True Ventures, Village Ventures and AOL Ventures kicked in. AOL is a ...May. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,232 |
 The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multite...May. 7, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,351 |
 CIOs today have the opportunity to become cloud champions in their organizations, building innovative new IT models that drive new business opportunities. Whether your business is purchasing a single cloud application or driving a company-wide cloud strategy, it is essential to central...May. 6, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,824 |
