IBM is buying Storwize, an Israeli start-up that does real-time data compression software that can reportedly cut physical storage requirements by up to 80%.
That facility in turn is supposed to lower the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. It can scan...
Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people.
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Neela Jacques, Group Manager, Pr...
Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through "pay for what you use," there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a leader in private cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Headquartered in Indiana...
SYS-CON Events announced today that NComputing, the global leader in desktop virtualization will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
NComputing, Inc. is the fastest gro...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus, leaders in Technology R&D and Software Product Engineering, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Imp...
Symplified, the Cloud security company, on Wednesday announced a new provisioning fabric for its SinglePoint identity and access management (IAM) solution. These new capabilities – Symplified Sync, Symplified Identity Vault and the SinglePoint Virtual Directory – provide centralized, o...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Zetta, a provider of enterprise storage on demand, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Award-winning Zetta Enterprise Storage S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Rack...
The European Commission said Monday morning that it has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position.
IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and ...
InfiniteGraph, a new, distributed graph database product that enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery, is being made available through GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider. The InfiniteGraph business unit of Objectivity, Inc. is working with GoGrid...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA...
Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Hasan Rizvi ...
Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...
The government-owned Swiss Post, forced out of the American registered e-mail market when RPost sued it for patent and trademark infringement, says it’s going to try to re-architect its IncaMail service so it doesn’t step on RPost’s toes anymore.
Basically it’s the only way the post ...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Monday announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize th...
“2010 has brought increased spending as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, however budgets will continue to remain tight, spending the right money in the right places will make the difference” states the conglomerate of leading CIOs who have formed the CIO US action co...
The eight-year-old Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is going to fold its assets, operations and mission into a special Member Section of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The move is expected to take a few months. In the n...
Dell, on one of its still rare acquisition outings, bought Ocarina Networks, a storage optimization start-up launched three years ago by a couple of guys from Citrix whose patented hardware and software technology, including compression and deduplication, reduces the data footprint and...
Intel has come to a preliminary antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission’s lawyers. It arrived there a few days ahead of a July 22 deadline, but there’s no deal until it’s approved by the agency’s five commissioners and apparently it didn’t look like they were going to sa...
In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land.
Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...
zEnterprise it is then.
That’s the name of the new hybridized cross-platform IBM mainframe system that arrived like we said it would on Thursday to be described as the most significant change in the mainframe platform in 20 years.
It’s supposed to the fastest, most powerful, scalab...
Dell said Thursday that it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC over its accounting sins in 2001–2006. CEO Michael Dell will pay a separate $4 million for not talking straight about Intel.
The AP remarks that the fine isn’t that large but “the decision to charge a sitting chi...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS, a global technology solutions provider, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CSS, a global technology so...
CA Technologies, an IBM development partner, on Thursday announced that it is working closely with IBM with the intent of providing same-day support across its mainframe software portfolio for the upcoming release of the IBM zEnterprise System including the new IBM zEnterprise 196 main...
Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization.
Unisys Corporation on Thursday introduced the first in a planned series of managed cloud solutions for its ClearPath family of mainfram...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of highly scalable data management and large-scale graph computing solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, whic...
Most people cite security as their primary concern about adopting cloud computing. But most don't realize that cloud computing will actually improve their organization's computing security.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will ...
Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc.) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that...
To help organizations simplify application security, Oracle announced Oracle Identity Management 11g -- an integrated and open set of best-of-breed components built on a common platform and engineered to deliver unparalleled integration both within and across the suite through a series...
Dell is contacting some of its PowerEdge R310, R410, 510 and T410 server customers to tell them that the flash storage on their systems’ motherboards is infected with a W32.Spybot worm and that they didn’t catch the damn thing from the wild, the mobos came pre-infected.
It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" – that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be?
Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing ...
So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade.
Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core z processor with two times the cache of the old z10 chip and a hundred new instructions, built a new z196 system round it, stuc...
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Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhe...
Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key component in these cloud architectures will...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Tuesday announced it has launched a new partner program that significantly expands the breadth of training and professional services available to customers. Additionally, the company announced the continued, rapid expansion of its service...
Extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle announced Oracle Service Bus 11g.
Part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, and a component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g transforms complex and brittle application archi...
The combined company, SmartBear Software, was created to make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to small and large development teams at a fraction of the cost of other software solutions. SmartBear unites a community of more than 75,000 developer...
Well you can’t beat free and that’s what TIBCO’s latest cloudware Silver Spotfire is going to be for the next year.
It’s an on-demand analytical BI system with a chi-chi social component. Users – and TIBCO says that means anyone – can create visual analytics and interactive dashboard...
PC sales worldwide were up at least 20% in Q2.
Gartner puts it at 20.7%, IDC at 22.4%.
IDC thinks that Dell is the number two vendor to HP again. Gartner says, na, Acer’s still number two and Dell’s still in the number three doghouse.
Global sales beat expectations. IDC found des...
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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IBM is buying Storwize, an Israeli start-up that does real-time data compression software that can reportedly cut physical storage requirements by up to 80%.
That facility in turn is supposed to lower the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. It can scan...
Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people.
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Neela Jacques, Group Manager, Pr...
Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through "pay for what you use," there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a leader in private cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Headquartered in Indiana...
SYS-CON Events announced today that NComputing, the global leader in desktop virtualization will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
NComputing, Inc. is the fastest gro...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus, leaders in Technology R&D and Software Product Engineering, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Imp...
Symplified, the Cloud security company, on Wednesday announced a new provisioning fabric for its SinglePoint identity and access management (IAM) solution. These new capabilities – Symplified Sync, Symplified Identity Vault and the SinglePoint Virtual Directory – provide centralized, o...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Zetta, a provider of enterprise storage on demand, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Award-winning Zetta Enterprise Storage S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Rack...
The European Commission said Monday morning that it has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position.
IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and ...
InfiniteGraph, a new, distributed graph database product that enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery, is being made available through GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider. The InfiniteGraph business unit of Objectivity, Inc. is working with GoGrid...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA...
Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Hasan Rizvi ...
Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...
The government-owned Swiss Post, forced out of the American registered e-mail market when RPost sued it for patent and trademark infringement, says it’s going to try to re-architect its IncaMail service so it doesn’t step on RPost’s toes anymore.
Basically it’s the only way the post ...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Monday announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize th...
“2010 has brought increased spending as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, however budgets will continue to remain tight, spending the right money in the right places will make the difference” states the conglomerate of leading CIOs who have formed the CIO US action co...
The eight-year-old Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is going to fold its assets, operations and mission into a special Member Section of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The move is expected to take a few months. In the n...
Dell, on one of its still rare acquisition outings, bought Ocarina Networks, a storage optimization start-up launched three years ago by a couple of guys from Citrix whose patented hardware and software technology, including compression and deduplication, reduces the data footprint and...
Intel has come to a preliminary antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission’s lawyers. It arrived there a few days ahead of a July 22 deadline, but there’s no deal until it’s approved by the agency’s five commissioners and apparently it didn’t look like they were going to sa...
In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land.
Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...
zEnterprise it is then.
That’s the name of the new hybridized cross-platform IBM mainframe system that arrived like we said it would on Thursday to be described as the most significant change in the mainframe platform in 20 years.
It’s supposed to the fastest, most powerful, scalab...
Dell said Thursday that it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC over its accounting sins in 2001–2006. CEO Michael Dell will pay a separate $4 million for not talking straight about Intel.
The AP remarks that the fine isn’t that large but “the decision to charge a sitting chi...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS, a global technology solutions provider, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CSS, a global technology so...
CA Technologies, an IBM development partner, on Thursday announced that it is working closely with IBM with the intent of providing same-day support across its mainframe software portfolio for the upcoming release of the IBM zEnterprise System including the new IBM zEnterprise 196 main...
Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization.
Unisys Corporation on Thursday introduced the first in a planned series of managed cloud solutions for its ClearPath family of mainfram...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of highly scalable data management and large-scale graph computing solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, whic...
Most people cite security as their primary concern about adopting cloud computing. But most don't realize that cloud computing will actually improve their organization's computing security.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will ...
Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc.) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that...
To help organizations simplify application security, Oracle announced Oracle Identity Management 11g -- an integrated and open set of best-of-breed components built on a common platform and engineered to deliver unparalleled integration both within and across the suite through a series...
Dell is contacting some of its PowerEdge R310, R410, 510 and T410 server customers to tell them that the flash storage on their systems’ motherboards is infected with a W32.Spybot worm and that they didn’t catch the damn thing from the wild, the mobos came pre-infected.
It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" – that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be?
Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing ...
So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade.
Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core z processor with two times the cache of the old z10 chip and a hundred new instructions, built a new z196 system round it, stuc...
Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhe...
Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key component in these cloud architectures will...
Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Tuesday announced it has launched a new partner program that significantly expands the breadth of training and professional services available to customers. Additionally, the company announced the continued, rapid expansion of its service...
Extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle announced Oracle Service Bus 11g.
Part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, and a component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g transforms complex and brittle application archi...
The combined company, SmartBear Software, was created to make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to small and large development teams at a fraction of the cost of other software solutions. SmartBear unites a community of more than 75,000 developer...
Well you can’t beat free and that’s what TIBCO’s latest cloudware Silver Spotfire is going to be for the next year.
It’s an on-demand analytical BI system with a chi-chi social component. Users – and TIBCO says that means anyone – can create visual analytics and interactive dashboard...
PC sales worldwide were up at least 20% in Q2.
Gartner puts it at 20.7%, IDC at 22.4%.
IDC thinks that Dell is the number two vendor to HP again. Gartner says, na, Acer’s still number two and Dell’s still in the number three doghouse.
Global sales beat expectations. IDC found des...
