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Big Data Kills 30-Year-Old Market

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:20:00 EST

According to Aster Data, applications need to go to “Big Data,” not the other way around. And to do that the company’s got a massively parallel data-application server that can embed applications inside a massively scalable MPP data warehouse and analyze petabytes of data – or terabytes, if that’s all you’ve got – ultra-fast. Apps are automatically parallelized for scale; users can take their existing Java, C, C++, C#, .NET, Perl and Python applications, MapReduce-enable them and push them down into the data.

EC to Object to Oracle + Sun: FT

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

The European Commission is about to object formally to Oracle’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Sun because Oracle is hanging tough and refusing to make any concessions concerning the open source database MySQL, a potential Oracle rival as the EC sees it, according to the Financial Times. The paper says a statement of objection (SO) could be issued in the next few days unless one side or the other blinks.

Funambol Acquires Zapatec

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:01:00 EST

Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today announced it has acquired Zapatec, Inc., a leader of AJAX web 2.0 frameworks. The acquisition enables Funambol to uniquely address the industry pervasive device fragmentation challenge that plagues developers and requires building native apps for too many platforms. The combination of Funambol's open source mobile sync and push server, with Zapatec's AJAX web 2.0 technology, will foster a new generation of open, rich mobile browser native apps for billions of smart- and feature phones. This provides the best of both worlds -- rich mobile web native apps that 'sync and push' and that work on all devices.

Cisco, EMC, VMware & Intel Form Acadia JV

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:15:00 EST

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 American Acadia captured in Longfellow's magnificent tear-jerker "Evangeline," although Cisco's new enemies IBM and HP may try to persuade users that it is.

New Relic and RightScale Announce Broader Partnership at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

New Relic announced today at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo the enhanced integration of New Relic RPM with RightScale's cloud management platform, enabling one-click activation of New Relic's monitoring and troubleshooting solution for Java applications.

Industry Experts Discuss the State of Cloud Computing

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

"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 Geelan. 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo is taking place this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center (November 2-4, 2009).

Kaazing Appoints Wall St Technology Expert as Director of Technology

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

Kaazing Corporation, a web infrastructure software company that enables customers to deliver fully interactive web applications with real-time information, today announced the appointment of Frank Greco, as its Director of Technology for the Americas. Mr. Greco will be responsible for understanding customer technology requirements, leveraging his experience as an architect for large-scale enterprise applications deployed by financial services firms.

Microsoft Nudges Eclipse Developers to Windows-Ware

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no stranger to Eclipse although it’s not a member – is being spearheaded by two open source allies of Microsoft: Canada’s Tasktop Technologies for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and France’s Soyatec for Azure and Silverlight. Tasktop’s CEO, by the way, created Eclipse’s Mylyn project.

Arrow ECS Expands GSA Schedule to Enterprise Market

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Further assisting resellers with increasing sales opportunities in the government space, Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc., is expanding its General Services Administration Schedule 70 across its North American operations and adding enterprise technology to its program. A GSA Schedule 70 includes prenegotiated contracts to public-sector agencies for information technology solutions that are available at a set price and have been approved by the GSA to be compliant with specific laws and regulations. The Arrow ECS GSA schedule (previously managed by Arrow ECS’ Alternative Technology Group) is in the top 4 percent of Schedule 70 contractors.

Fiorano Wins ‘Best SOA Tool’ – 2008 SOA World Readers’ Choice Awards

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

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 finalist in the "Best SOA Platform," "Best Integration Tool," and "Best SOA or XML Site" categories.

Oracle+MySQL Opponents Take to the Barricades

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:45:00 EDT

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 limbo – should force Oracle to spit it out to another company.

Ex-AMD CEO, Like Top IBM Guy, Source of Insider Information: Reports

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

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 and charged on October 16 along with five other co-conspirators in what the government called the biggest case of insider trading involving a hedge fund in history

Tilera’s 100 Cores Aimed at Cloud Disruption

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Tilera, the start-up building high-performance multi-core processors that aren’t x86, laid out a roadmap Monday that will see it sampling a single processor with a hundred RISC-based cores in the first quarter of 2011 and producing the widgets a few months later. Imagine that, 100 cores. The company believes the widget, called the TILE-Gx100, will be the world’s first general-purpose 100-core processor and says it will be adopted by major service providers, potentially folks like Facebook and maybe Google – although Google’s always the odd fish – for cloud infrastructure, dislocating the standard Intel-based cloud.

IBM’s Mainframe Monopoly Threatened by BMC Founder’s Shop

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:45:00 EDT

There’s another burr under IBM’s mainframe saddle besides the Justice Department’s investigation into its practices with the European Commission passing the DOJ notes – a Neon burr. Neon Enterprise Software is a Sugar Land, Texas, mainframe tools company 100% owned by John Moores, the “M” in BMC, who has reportedly poured a pretty penny into the place.

SpringSource Moving to Spring 3.0

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT

VMware’s recent SpringSource acquisition, the Java widgetry folk, is moving to Spring 3.0, a major release of its vaunted Java development framework for building web and service-based applications. It announced a feature-complete release candidate Monday and expects to go to GA soon.

Citizen Developers Will Build New Business Apps

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:33:00 EDT

By 2014, citizen developers will build at least 25 percent of new business applications, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that this advance should both enable end users and free up IT resources. However, analysts warned that IT organizations that fail to capitalize on the opportunities that citizen development presents will find themselves unable to respond to rapidly changing market forces and customer preferences. Gartner defines a citizen developer as a user operating outside of the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who creates new business applications for consumption by others either from scratch or by composition.

Oracle’s Summit with EC Apparently Fails

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Oracle co-president Safra Catz met with the European Commission’s antitrust boss Neelie Kroes to try to negotiate Oracle’s way out from under the EC’s investigation into the anti-competitive issues of Oracle acquiring the European-created open source database MySQL if it takes over Sun. Apparently she failed.

Sun To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Blames EC

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Sun said late Tuesday that it will be forced to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide over the next 12 months because of “the delay in the closing of the acquisition of the company,” laying the blame squarely at the doorstep of the European Commission and its prolonged investigation into whether Oracle should be allowed to acquire the Sun-owned MySQL open source database.

Cloud Computing Journal Continues To Publish World's Best Cloud Analysts

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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 as a service using Internet technologies has been mushrooming at a breakneck pace.

Why IBM’s Server Chief Got Busted

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

The United States government has accused Robert Moffat, IBM’s server chief, the guy who was negotiating to buy Sun, with betraying Sun’s financial position to Danielle Chiesi, an employee of New Castle Partners, a New York hedge fund, so she could trade on the insider information. Moffat knew what Sun’s numbers were going to be because he was one of the nine IBMers doing due diligence at Sun this past January.

Quest Study Identifies Potential Barriers To Cloud Computing Success

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EDT

CIO survey advises firms to think twice about ROI before diving into the cloud

LONDON, 15th October 2009 – Cloud computing may be the hottest buzzword in IT right now, but enterprises should take a step back to consider the real costs and benefits before diving into such a strategy, according to research published today by enterprise systems management vendor Quest Software.

Cloud promises multiple benefits for enterprise organisations, yet concerns persist over the true extent of the cost savings associated with this technology. Almost 75 per cent of those CIOs surveyed as part of Quest’s study, which encompassed 100 CIOs from UK enterprise organisations with over 1,000 employees, currently feel unconvinced that switching to a cloud-based applications infrastructure will reduce IT costs for their organisations.

Confusion also persists over the current costs of enterprise IT applications, according to Quest’s study. Half of the CIOs surveyed claim they lack a fully-accurate picture of how much their existing applications infrastructure is costing, making it difficult to calculate the potential financial benefits of cloud. As such, just under half (44 per cent) have no plans at this stage to use cloud computing. This figure may be poised for growth, however, with 20 per cent of these organisations already actively using cloud within their applications stack.

“We’re certainly not saying that cloud computing is a false dawn for enterprise IT – indeed, this technology promises a wide range of benefits to organisations large and small,” comments Joe Baguley, CTO – Europe, Quest Software. “What we would say, however, is that companies should not rush head-first into adopting this technology before firstly taking a step back to analyse current costs and potential benefits of a switch to cloud. Packages such as our own Foglight solution application monitoring solution already provide some useful pointers and we plan to integrate even more application-costing functionality in the near future ,” he explains.

Cost-savings aside, security was identified as the next biggest obstacle to widespread enterprise adoption of cloud, with 38 per cent of respondents identifying this area as prime barrier. Other issues highlighted by Quest’s study included worries over the technical complexity of cloud implementation and lack of understanding of this technology’s benefits amongst potential customers.

"For CIOs cloud computing is a typically enigmatic ITC subject - largely undefined, yet increasingly impossible to avoid,” explains Martin Hingley, ITC Market Analyst at ITCandor Limited. “Quest is helping by filtering out the hype and delivering software to enable the interaction between private and public developments. Its survey is interesting in pointing out the business, pricing and technical challenges."

Joe Baguley explains that, “Although enterprises are right to query areas like data security and migration paths, these considerations needn’t be game-breakers for cloud. It simply falls to the vendor community to ensure that customers are fully aware of the options available to them; that the tools exist to deliver seamless migration of mission-critical applications; and to ensure that facilities exist to roll-back cloud migrations where technical glitches do occur. Cloud computing is poised to change the enterprise IT game and Quest is looking forward to helping CIOs face this brave new world,” he concludes.

For more information on Quest’s products, please visit: http://www.quest.com

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About Quest Software, Inc.
Now more than ever, organisations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software creates and supports systems management products – helping our customers solve everyday IT challenges faster and easier. Visit www.quest.com for more information.

Editorial Contact:
Lucy Davies
Edelman PR for Quest Software
+44 20 3047 2304
lucy.davies@edelman.com

Virtualization Journal "Readers' Choice Awards" Voting Is Now Open

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo. To vote for your favorite Cloud products and services today - don't put it off, voting takes just a few seconds.

Oracle in Leader's Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) positions Oracle in the leader's quadrant. (1) Oracle's EAS technology includes Oracle WebLogic Server, which is available together with related Oracle application grid technology as part of Oracle WebLogic Suite. The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Delivers World Record Single-Node Result

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:11:00 EDT

Today, Oracle announced that Oracle® WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 11g running on an HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server, achieved a world record single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark(1).

MySQL’s Ex-CEO Goes to Bat for Oracle Deal

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT

MySQL’s good-looking and now rich former CEO Marten Mickos asked the European Commission Thursday to rubberstamp Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, which is supposedly held up by EC concerns over MySQL’s destiny at the hands of Oracle. Mickos said in a letter to EC antitrust czarina Neelie Kroes that further delay and uncertainty will blunt MySQL’s competition edge, not to mention Sun’s.

IBM Under Antitrust Investigation

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Gee and it was only four o’clock yesterday morning Microsoft time that Microsoft’s general counsel Brad Smith remarked that antitrust regulators might try targeting somebody else besides Microsoft for a change. Like, oh, say, maybe, IBM for its $5 trillion 100% mainframe monopoly and here we are just hours later and the New York Times, followed by simply everybody, darling, is reporting that the Obama Justice Department has opened a preliminary investigation complete with subpoenas into charges that IBM has abused its mainframe monopoly the one that IBM swore back in 1997-2001 it would never abuse again so it could get out from under its 1956 consent decree with the US government.

Eolas Sues the Internet

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Eolas Technologies, whose overarching browser patent claims struck fear in the heart of World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and left Microsoft, a test case for the industry, significantly poorer, filed a massive patent infringement suit in the infamous Eastern District of Texas this morning against 23 companies, almost all of them brand names.

Oracle to Buy HyperRoll Assets

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:45:00 EDT

Oracle says it’s going to acquire certain assets of HyperRoll, a developer of financial reporting acceleration software in Mountain View, California. HyperRoll’s software analyzes large quantities of financial data. Its customer base is largely retail and financial accounts. Oracle said the widgetry would let its customers report results quicker, with more confidence and lower compliance costs.

HP Raids Sun

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:45:00 EDT

Not content with running off some Sun customers and piggybacking on Sun resellers, HP has plucked Randy Seidl, the senior vice-president of Sun’s North America region global sales and services organization, out of there and made him head of Americas sales for its Enterprise Storage, Servers (ESS) and Networking global business unit, which is now run by David Donatelli, the big cheese HP poached from EMC.

Oracle Fined for Sun Ad

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Remember that ad Oracle ran a few weeks ago on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and later on the back cover of the Economist and repeated on its web site claiming "Sun + Oracle is Faster" than IBM? Oracle's claim for an undefined Oracle-Sun box was supposedly based on TPC-C results that it promised would be disclosed at Oracle OpenWorld October 14.

Sun Microsystems Announces New Release of Sun Java Communications Suite

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:00 EDT

To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite 7. With more than 170 million seats of earlier versions deployed, this new release builds upon proven strengths in scalability, reliability and performance while providing better interoperability and enabling differentiated services with a low total cost of ownership. To learn more, visit http://sun.com/comms.

Can You Really Screen Java Skills of Job Candidates in Two Hours?

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:43:56 EDT

Today, this global leader in Java learning and powered by over 50,000 developers in its global community, announced the worldwide availability of SkillScan, its cutting-edge, automated tool to assess the Java skills of job candidates. SkillScan is used by recruiters and hiring managers to screen Java candidates and staff teams with the right combination of skills. In less than two hours, SkillScan provides a comprehensive and conclusive report of candidate skills in Java programming, sub-topics in Java, and related technologies.

Aonix Announces PERC Java Virtual Machine

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:01:00 EDT

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support for the low-cost BeagleBoard with its flagship product PERC Ultra. More developers and projects will be able to quickly and more cost efficiently launch development that takes advantage of PERC’s new graphics support via the ARM®-based BeagleBoard.

Aonix Announces New Graphics Support in PERC Ultra Virtual Machine

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC Ultra for embedded and real-time systems.

Altor Networks to Exhibit and Speak at 4th Cloud Computing Expo

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Altor will deliver the session “Revolutionizing Security in Virtual Data Center” which will be held at 2:20 pm on Wednesday, November 4.

Oracle-Sun: IBM Reportedly Behind Delay

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in an ad on the front page of the Wall Street Journal last week so the idea that IBM is whispering in the EC’s ear makes perfect sense. And IBM has plenty of practice using the European Commission to attack its enemies. Just ask Microsoft. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims 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 and a weakened revenue stream will impact how many employees Sun gets to keep if and when the acquisition is approved.

And Then Came the Browser-in-a-Browser

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2, but it's really supposedly targeted at the eight-year-old IE6 mandated by many companies.

EC Costing Sun $100M a Month: Ellison

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EDT

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 interviewed on-stage after a Churchill Club dinner Monday evening by former Sun president and COO Ed Zander of all people, told the crowd, “The longer this takes, the more money Sun is going to lose, and that’s not good for anybody. We want to get this done to save as many jobs as possible.”

Dell Buys Perot Systems, Calls Acquisition Critical

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EDT

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 $13.9 billion at less of a premium to compete so Dell is buying the smaller Perot to try to run against the both of them. It called the acquisition “critical.” The combination will turn Dell into a $16 billion concern with $8 billion coming from services.

Netbiscuits Enables Mobile Couponing

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:45:49 EDT

Netbiscuits, a web software platform for the creation, publication, and monetization of mobile websites, today announces the launch of a mobile couponing solution. The new “Messaging and Couponing Tool”, which will go live in October, allows the creation of SMS-based mobile coupons that enable Netbiscuits customers to deliver couponing campaigns to their end customer base the most easy and (cost-) effective way. Coupon messages can seamlessly be combined with and linked to interactive mobile web content and services, marketing campaigns, and m-commerce sites.