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 Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping point” before mid-summer and i...Nov. 6, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 342 |
 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 terabyte...Nov. 6, 2009 02:20 PM EST Reads: 454 |
 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: 680 |
 It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in. Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 443 |
 SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications. If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way t...Nov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 454 |
 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 ...Nov. 4, 2009 04:45 PM EST Reads: 613 |
 3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memory SMP systems the likes of mainframes, proprietary...Nov. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 614 |
 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 th...Nov. 4, 2009 07:01 AM EST Reads: 426 |
 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: 925 |
 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.Nov. 3, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 371 |
 Altova, creator of XMLSpy, today announced the availability of Version 2010 (v2010) of the Altova MissionKit®, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. Version 2010 delivers over 70 of customers' "most wanted" features across the product line, from support for new technolog...Nov. 3, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 458 |
 "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: 3,952 Replies: 1 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,438 |
 icloud has announced the launch of its improved desktop with Super Search and a new innovative start menu. Super Search integrates many of the most popular services on the internet with simultaneous search of your private files in the cloud. It has never before been more convenient to ...Nov. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 558 |
 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: 653 |
 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 ...Nov. 2, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 441 |
 Not long ago I worked on a team charged with building up a Java-based REST infrastructure. Our goals were to first support what was then an emerging specification for Java-based RESTful services called JAX-RS. Beyond that, we had thoughts of building an entire framework, both server an...Oct. 30, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 635 |
 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...Oct. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 651 |
 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: 496 |
 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: 1,630 |
 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: 486 |
 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: 1,077 |
 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 core...Oct. 26, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 718 |
 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 ...Oct. 25, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,458 Replies: 1 |
 Barnes & Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook. On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not a...Oct. 25, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,685 |
 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. ...Oct. 23, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,354 |
 "We believe that cloud is an important trend that we will support. We have two objectives. The first is to ensure that cloud computing is fully enterprise grade, meaning high performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security and standards-based for portability and interoper...Oct. 22, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,818 Replies: 1 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, pioneer in server-side application virtualization, was named "Silver Sponsor" of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will be taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
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 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...Oct. 21, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 934 |
 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 Or...Oct. 21, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 943 |
 Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart...Oct. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,104 |
 Lately there has been a barrage of articles with regards to cloud security, and some very public demonstrations of outages with Facebook and Twitter. Its been a field day for many who oppose the cloud computing model. Let me get this out of the way so that there is no misunderstandin...Oct. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,783 |
 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...Oct. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,018 |
 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.
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 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 & ...Oct. 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 We spend a lot of time talking to business managers about how their operations run. The perspective that we commonly face is one of "this is how we do it; we are looking for software to do it better." But from a business perspective, that is the wrong approach.Oct. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,400 |
 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 Ga...Oct. 12, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 907 |
 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).Oct. 12, 2009 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 754 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,111 |
 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 K...Oct. 9, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 880 |
