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 Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s open source software to Like...Nov. 6, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 238 |
 The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an...Nov. 6, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 333 |
 In the wake of the financial crisis and its attendant repercussions across the global economy, the U.S. Congress stands poised to address the issue of patent reform. Much debated and long anticipated, patent reform legislation is back under consideration with the bill possibly coming u...Nov. 6, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 203 |
 The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 298 |
 Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Opera want changes made. According to the ...Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 238 |
 Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services. The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy fo...Nov. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 279 |
 Commenting on the quarter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers noted, "Building off what we saw as a clear tipping point in Q4, our Q1 results continued to reflect strong sequential growth trends that meet or exceed expectations during normal economic times. We view the ...Nov. 4, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 924 |
 This is a deal that has been around for all of this year, and I know the NYC-based guy charged with pulling the technical pieces together. He has been looking at software platforms for months and separating contenders from pretenders based on the criteria he's established. To my knowle...Nov. 4, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 362 |
 The Vitality Group announced that Savvis, Inc. has selected its incentive-based wellness program to motivate and support Savvis associates as they take ownership of their personal health. Savvis, one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world employs more than 2,200 e...Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 342 |
 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: 571 |
 "We've been fairly quiet," said Rex Wang, VP of Infrastructure and Management at Oracle, this morning as he gave the Morning Keynote at the third and last day of the 4th Cloud Computing International Conference Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Wang was ref...Nov. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 631 |
 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: 855 |
 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: 1,345 |
 Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because virtualization is relatively ...Nov. 2, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 1,120 |
 Yahoo! aims to be one of the 800-pound gorillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major ...Nov. 2, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 895 |
 Young as it is, RightScale, the cloud manager, is on to its next-generation platform.
Its ServerTemplate widgetry will now automatically configure servers on specific clouds, system architectures and operating systems, something it didn’t do before.
It should let users take adv...Nov. 2, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 560 |
 Although my presentation focused on individual contributions, these lessons also apply to how businesses benefit by contributing to FOSS. When a business approaches a project they should attempt to build a symbiotic relationship with the community. Such a relationship involves followin...Oct. 29, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 428 |
 Each year, Deloitte compiles a prestigious list of technology companies pushing the limits of innovation, and this year global Web hosting provider Layered Technologies ranked 60th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, achieving a position in the top 12 percent for its impressive growth a...Oct. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 393 |
 Congratulations to Pierre-Jose Billotte for the successful launch of EuroCloud !
Established as a pan European network, EuroCloud are communities that represent a knowledgeable network of companies engaged local and European activities related to SaaS and cloud computing.
The net...Oct. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,028 |
 SCO may yet get to drag Novell kicking, screaming and clutching at the doorpost in front of a jury to decide who really owns Unix.
In the first and only head-snapping legal decision in all the years SCO has been in court, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied the bid No...Oct. 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 458 |
 The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a software-only, deployable solution with RESTful Web Services APIs for programmatic access to storage. It provides service providers such as Tier 3 with the opportunity to provide their own hosted and branded cloud storage offerings to their custome...Oct. 28, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 628 |
 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: 1,060 |
 Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capaci...Oct. 27, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,275 |
 Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform, today announced that Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem will present at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. The Conference theme is, "Bringing the Economics of the W...Oct. 27, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 623 |
 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: 1,445 Replies: 1 |
 It’s been six years, tens of millions of dollars and untold legal delays since SCO first sued IBM for poaching Unix code and putting it in Linux, and without the starch in its collar that its ousted CEO Darl McBride evidently supplied it sounds like it’s folding like a basket of limp w...Oct. 23, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 521 |
 Wall Street declared Microsoft the winner over the economy Friday morning when the results of its September quarter weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were going to be. As a reward, its stock price was pushed up to the highest point since June of last year. Still the economy put ...Oct. 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,200 |
 A new ‘internet’ has been born which can flatten the market place if not managed correctly. New opportunities create greater challenges for any company to stay ahead. Thanks to sites like Ulitzer the corporate world has finally embraced online social media as a real competitive advanta...Oct. 20, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 891 |
 Since the IBM Client for Smart Work is based on Eclipse, Linux and open Web standards, it can integrate with any third-party software. This gives companies the freedom to use technologies of their choice, extend their functions and preserve existing investments.
"Canonical is proud ...Oct. 20, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 925 |
 The real trustee, McBride says, is a Blank Rome lawyer called Bonnie Fatell who couldn't be bothered calling Cerberus - you know, Cerberus, as in Chrysler Financial and General Motors Financial (GMAC) - which was willing to put $25 million into SCO and get it out of hock because Cerber...Oct. 20, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 Replies: 1 |
 LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a world leader in
embedded software, today announced the availability of its board support
package (BSP) for two additional motherboards from Applied Micro Circuits
Corp. (AMCC), a global leader in embedded processing solutions.Oct. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 537 |
 MontaVista Software has announced the next release of their Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) Linux with over 30 different Linux Support Packages (LSP’s) available immediately. CGE 5.1 adds support for next generation 4G wireless networks including LTE and WiMAX, and includes full integratio...Oct. 19, 2009 08:24 AM EDT Reads: 432 |
 LINA is enterprise-ready Open Source software that enables Linux applications to run with native look and feel on all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. The LINA 1.0 beta version was released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. The major features o...Oct. 15, 2009 06:22 AM EDT Reads: 814 |
 I was quite brazen at first, I just logged straight in not fully understand the ramifications. No thought of what could happen if.......? Within Days I was affiliated in magazines, aggregated on global sites, people were creating RSS feeds of my content, the whirlwind grew as my page ...Oct. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,782 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His...Oct. 4, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,658 |
 The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), announced that six new key personnel have joined the company to spearhead strategic technology efforts aimed to position the company for continued growth and technology leadership. The new “Rackers” (as ...Oct. 2, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,078 |
 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, ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,067 |
 This must have been what vaudeville was like when a none-too-successful act opened for the star.
Dell unveiled a high-end anorexic laptop Tuesday that basically has Linux opening for Windows.
Windows has a bit of a problem with this instantly gratifying instant-on booting busin...Sep. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,053 |
 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...Sep. 28, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,429 |
 Taking a page out of Cisco's book - from the chapter on so-called smart cities - IBM late Thursday announced that the city of Dongying near China's second-largest oil field in the midst of the Yellow River Delta is going to build a cloud to promote e-government and support its transiti...Sep. 27, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,001 |
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