By Jeremy Geelan  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 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,592 |
By Elizabeth White  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: 887 |
By Pat Romanski  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: 1,207 |
By Pat Romanski  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: 398 |
By Dana Gardner  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: 514 |
By Liz McMillan  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: 799 |
By Pat Romanski  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: 654 |
By Scott Sellers  On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you’ll see lots of people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get ... May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 880 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 469 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 515 |
By Jeremy Geelan  With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just seven weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strate... May. 16, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,501 |
By Ajay Budhraja  Cloud facilitates a new generation of technology and related impacts that have never been seen before. With utility computing and on demand capabilities, many organizations want to jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. As the Chief Executive, there are some tough decisions to be m... May. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
By Liz McMillan  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: 730 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 888 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 1,174 |
By Liz McMillan  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: 1,115 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 1,329 |
By Adrian Bridgwater  Talk of so-called “sea change developments” and “paradigm shifts” has long been rife among the IT media and the web’s wider technology commentary channels.
Right now we’re all talking about cloud, mobile empowerment (let’s not forget the Bring Your Own Device tagline here) and virtual... May. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 999 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 1,012 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 1,329 |
By Elizabeth White  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: 986 |
By Patrick Burke  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: 1,317 |
By Srinivasan Sundara Rajan  With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers has y... May. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,192 |
By Jim Vogt  About once every five years or so, the technology industry blazes a new path of innovation. The PC, the Internet, smart mobility and social networking have emerged over the past 20 plus years, delivering new technologies and business ecosystems that have fundamentally changed the world... May. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,267 |
By Hollis Tibbetts  IT exists to support the business - and in best-of-class IT departments, this truism is embedded deeply into the departmental culture.
Yet in so many cases, this self-evident truth gets lost in the mayhem of building, maintaining and supporting the myriad of complicated and brittle le... May. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,105 |
By Madhusudan Hanumantha Rao  Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator that is being used to find the elusive "God particle" generates about 40Terabytes (1 TB=103GB) of data per day from its four main detectors. Assuming an average size of 1GB for a movie, that amounts to a data stream ... May. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 955 |
By Elizabeth White  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 |
By Kevin Nikkhoo  A Chief Technology Officer for a Midwest banking holding company made a very interesting observation. In commenting about the needed increase in fraud fighting resources, he warned about the perils of overemphasizing technology while ignoring training staff in using manual fraud-detect... May. 10, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 717 |
By Liz McMillan  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: 1,044 |
By Hollis Tibbetts  I talk to a lot of CIOs. I met with one recently who oversees the IT operation of a $6 Billion yearly entertainment-related company with about 7,000 employees. This top-notch exec was all about transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible... May. 10, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,286 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 913 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 1,259 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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: 737 |
By Liz McMillan  “The speed of businesses is accelerating, requiring continuous tuning and optimization of business processes and operations,” noted Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo Systems, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “IT organizations mus... May. 10, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,530 |
By Hollis Tibbetts  One of the most challenging things about being an advocate for a broad horizontally applicable technology is that it does not solve a particular business problem. Instead, it solves about 100,000 business problems. That means that everyone is impacted by it, yet nobody is particularly... May. 9, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,398 |
By Gordon Hay  I occasionally get questions from clients who are using Agile and Scrum frameworks for software development.
Techniques and tools aside, it is often questions about the fundamentals of collaboration that seem to be getting in the team’s way.
Unlike most of the rest of the universe, ... May. 9, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 818 |
By Elizabeth White  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: 1,006 |
By Elizabeth White  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: 923 |
By Maureen O'Gara  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 |
By Liz McMillan  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: 1,113 |