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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! 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. 23, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,443 |
 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. 23, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,769 |
 Cloud computing is becoming an integral part of every enterprise IT environment. With multiple cloud deployment models to choose from, understanding the essential components to any cloud solution will help ensure your success.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ores...May. 22, 2012 01:23 PM EDT Reads: 493 |
 As a Platinum Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Intel 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.
Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs a...May. 22, 2012 11:05 AM EDT Reads: 533 |
 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. 22, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 669 |
 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. 22, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,893 |
 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: 1,705 |
 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: 1,368 |
 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: 1,804 |
 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: 3,084 |
 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: 763 |
 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: 1,408 |
 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: 1,281 |
 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: 707 |
 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: 1,680 |
 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: 1,337 |
 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: 1,358 |
 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: 1,046 |
 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: 1,011 |
 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: 924 |
 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: 1,206 |
 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: 1,063 |
 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. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,520 |
 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. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 999 |
 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. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 814 |
 Cloud supply chain platform provider GT Nexus on Thursday announced the general market availability of Cloud Tools, a multi-enterprise trade network administration solution. Cloud Tools allows authorized participants to independently manage their interactions with other companies on th...May. 17, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 703 |
 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: 922 |
 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: 857 |
 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: 889 |
 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: 1,066 |
 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: 1,467 |
 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: 1,245 |
 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: 1,507 |
 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: 1,140 |
 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: 1,464 |
 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: 1,108 |
 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: 1,122 |
 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: 999 |
 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: 1,398 |
 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: 811 |
