In a relatively rare headhunting raid, AMD has hired Donald Newell, one of Intel’s own, to run its server chip roadmap and platform design programs as CTO of its server unit.
Newell was previously senior principle engineer heading the System-on-Chip (SoC) and datacenter networking ar...
Worldwide server revenues surged 11% to $10.9 billion in Q2, according to IDC, which calls it the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003 and the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand.
Trouble...
The Texas district court that will hear Neon Enterprise Software’s antitrust suit against IBM for monopolizing the mainframe market – an issue that has both the European Commission and the Justice Department investigating Big Blue – was looking over its calendar the other day and – lo ...
A US court has told Chen Lai-juh, the CEO of Taiwan LCD screen maker AU Optronics Corporation, not to leave the country until his trial on Justice Department-brought charges of price-fixing is over. A federal grand jury indicted Chen and a half-dozen other AU officials of years of pric...
After getting bounced out of HP for God knows what former CEO Mark Hurd filed to sell $30 million worth of what he doubtless considers its ungrateful stock, ratcheted up by his cunning. Bloomberg picked up on his notice to the SEC that he intended to sell as many as 775,000 common shar...
The bidding for 3PAR now stands at $30 a share. That's like two billion bucks, pushing passed what appeared to be hysterical speculation about how far into the clouds the offers could go just days ago.
Dell this morning rolled out of bed and matched HP's price late yesterday of $27 ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that iTKO, the leading provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, 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 Conven...
The industry conversation is all about cloud, but the real goal is the elusive transformation of IT into a business-ready service that is available on demand and as needed. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) leverages an open cloud computing approach that spans both internal, private clouds and p...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Thursday announced its inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 list. The company was ranked 155th overall, and 12th in the IT Services industry, based on revenue growth from 2006 to 2009.
Issued annually, the Inc. 500|...
SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, 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.
Join RightScale on...
Amazon cloner Eucalyptus Systems, newScale and rPath are seeking strength in numbers to ward off the raft of upstart newcomers like Nimbula promising to give companies their own private Amazon-style clouds.
The company also gives Eucalyptus some salve to rub on the nasty nicks it got...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer, a "new media" social journalism platform, has been named "New Media 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.
Ulitzer is a revol...
3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, announced on Wednesday that it has joined forces with Nissho Electronics in Japan to address the needs of virtual datacenters and the cloud computing service business in Japan. As part of this enhanced partnership, Nissho has become the first...
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has submitted the API specification for Apache Deltacloud to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its participation in the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group. Red Hat’s submission to DMT...
It seems every company in the industry is announcing some form of cloud offering and bombarding enterprise buyers with new pitches and acronyms. This can leave even IT experts confused about which cloud offerings are the best solutions for their enterprise computing challenges.
In hi...
iTKO, a provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, announces the availability of new independent research from OVUM, based on a thorough product review and market positioning analysis of their LISA 5.0 Suite.
Produced by principal analyst Ro...
Last week, practically three years to the day that the doors of the Federal Correctional Center in Fairton, New Jersey – a very unpleasant place – slammed behind him, former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar’s bid for a reduction of his 12-year sentence was denied by a federal appeals court.
His l...
Intel’s gonna to take over TI’s cable modem business on undisclosed terms, combine the Puma widgetry with its own Atom-based SoCs and turn out set-top boxes, residential gateways, digital TVs, Blu-ray disc players and modems for the cable industry. It’s chasing the rising consumer dema...
Unisys Corporation on Tuesday announced that it has won a five-year extension of its contract to provide end-user support services to Flowserve Corporation. Flowserve is a global leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and othe...
Former Satyam CEO B. Ramalinga Raju, who’s been in custody for the last year and a half awaiting trial after confessing to overstating the Indian outsourcing company’s assets by a couple billion dollars thanks to forged invoices, falsified accounts and non-existent interest income, has...
Nvidia is developing a tablet chip that’s supposed to compete with Intel widgetry according to two people who talked to Bloomberg. The effort reportedly began after a laptop effort crashed and burned. Supposedly it’s using x86 widgetry it got from the performance-challenged Transmeta f...
Intel has trotted out a couple of new Atom chips designed for home and small business networked storage appliances like the ones concerns like Acer, Cisco and LG have been peddling since March. There’s a 1.8GHz D425 single-core and D525 dual-core chip whose faster clock is supposed to ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that INTEC, a provider of Utility Computing, 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.
INTEC rises above its competitors by delivering com...
It’s a reporter’s dream. How often do you get a constellation of stars like this:
IBM is trying hard to ignore the fact that one of its own, a guy that was supposedly a heartbeat away from someday becoming its CEO, is currently looking at doing six months in jail for whispering famil...
SYS-CON Events announced today that 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, 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.
3PAR is the leadin...
SYS-CON Events announced today that PerspecSys, a provider of Cloud Data Governance, has been named “Silver 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.
The PerspecSys mission ...
RightScale has started supporting Windows apps running in the cloud claiming it can keeps Windows users from getting locked in to any one cloud region, provider or type – public or private. It must be thinking mostly Amazon.
It says that with the latest release of its Cloud Management...
HP has come up with a new reason for why it let Mark Hurd go.
I forget how many this makes now but they keep getting better and better.
According to the Wall Street Journal the board supposedly got ticked off because Hurd settled with the woman in question the day before he was fir...
Dell came in Thursday with second-quarter earnings of $545 million, or 32 cents a share before adjustments, on revenue up 22% to $15.5 billion, mostly from its commercial customers whose spending increased 28% to $12.7 billion compared to consumers, its problem market, which was flat a...
The World Trade Organization in Geneva has told the European Union to lift its tariffs on flat-panel displays, multi-function scan-fax-copy printers and TV set-top boxes that deliver the Internet. They violate the WTO’s 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
The EU continues to...
Hewlett-Packard posted Mark Hurd’s last quarter Thursday delivering
earnings up 6.1% to $1.77 billion, or 75 cents a share, on revenues up 11.4%
to $30.7 billion, a tad better than what the company projected the numbers
would be on August 6 when the board forced Hurd to resign. Its ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon Web Services, a provider of an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud, 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 S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Kaavo, an innovative provider of solutions for managing distributed applications in the clouds, 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, ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tilera, the leader in many-core general purpose microprocessors for cloud computing, has been named “Silver 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...
Now you can test and diagnose Internet-facing applications under immense global peak loads using the power of the cloud. Check out the key features and benefits of SilkPerformer CloudBurst from Micro Focus for insight into the value this brings your performance testing challenges.
Software development can be a vast punishing wilderness without true application lifecycle management. The problem is typically cost and full-time resources.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Derek Nielsen, Principal Architect at SCM Solution, will discuss how CALM,...
“Through effective infrastructure engineering lifecycle management comes an enterprise cloud”
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, will outline how enterprise IT organizations need to institute discipline and automate...
What is the state of open cloud standards, including interoperability, portability and the acceleration of cloud technologies that is already being realized among the OpenStack community?
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack chief technologist,...
SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, a provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, 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.
SoftLayer prov...
U.S. federal prosecutors want former IBM server and chips chief Robert Moffat, supposedly a candidate to replace IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, to spend six months in jail for passing insider information to love interest New Castle Partners trader Danielle Chiesi, a prime player in the big Gal...
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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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In a relatively rare headhunting raid, AMD has hired Donald Newell, one of Intel’s own, to run its server chip roadmap and platform design programs as CTO of its server unit.
Newell was previously senior principle engineer heading the System-on-Chip (SoC) and datacenter networking ar...
Worldwide server revenues surged 11% to $10.9 billion in Q2, according to IDC, which calls it the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003 and the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand.
Trouble...
The Texas district court that will hear Neon Enterprise Software’s antitrust suit against IBM for monopolizing the mainframe market – an issue that has both the European Commission and the Justice Department investigating Big Blue – was looking over its calendar the other day and – lo ...
A US court has told Chen Lai-juh, the CEO of Taiwan LCD screen maker AU Optronics Corporation, not to leave the country until his trial on Justice Department-brought charges of price-fixing is over. A federal grand jury indicted Chen and a half-dozen other AU officials of years of pric...
After getting bounced out of HP for God knows what former CEO Mark Hurd filed to sell $30 million worth of what he doubtless considers its ungrateful stock, ratcheted up by his cunning. Bloomberg picked up on his notice to the SEC that he intended to sell as many as 775,000 common shar...
The bidding for 3PAR now stands at $30 a share. That's like two billion bucks, pushing passed what appeared to be hysterical speculation about how far into the clouds the offers could go just days ago.
Dell this morning rolled out of bed and matched HP's price late yesterday of $27 ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that iTKO, the leading provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, 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 Conven...
The industry conversation is all about cloud, but the real goal is the elusive transformation of IT into a business-ready service that is available on demand and as needed. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) leverages an open cloud computing approach that spans both internal, private clouds and p...
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Thursday announced its inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 list. The company was ranked 155th overall, and 12th in the IT Services industry, based on revenue growth from 2006 to 2009.
Issued annually, the Inc. 500|...
SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, 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.
Join RightScale on...
Amazon cloner Eucalyptus Systems, newScale and rPath are seeking strength in numbers to ward off the raft of upstart newcomers like Nimbula promising to give companies their own private Amazon-style clouds.
The company also gives Eucalyptus some salve to rub on the nasty nicks it got...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer, a "new media" social journalism platform, has been named "New Media 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.
Ulitzer is a revol...
3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, announced on Wednesday that it has joined forces with Nissho Electronics in Japan to address the needs of virtual datacenters and the cloud computing service business in Japan. As part of this enhanced partnership, Nissho has become the first...
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has submitted the API specification for Apache Deltacloud to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its participation in the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group. Red Hat’s submission to DMT...
It seems every company in the industry is announcing some form of cloud offering and bombarding enterprise buyers with new pitches and acronyms. This can leave even IT experts confused about which cloud offerings are the best solutions for their enterprise computing challenges.
In hi...
iTKO, a provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, announces the availability of new independent research from OVUM, based on a thorough product review and market positioning analysis of their LISA 5.0 Suite.
Produced by principal analyst Ro...
Last week, practically three years to the day that the doors of the Federal Correctional Center in Fairton, New Jersey – a very unpleasant place – slammed behind him, former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar’s bid for a reduction of his 12-year sentence was denied by a federal appeals court.
His l...
Intel’s gonna to take over TI’s cable modem business on undisclosed terms, combine the Puma widgetry with its own Atom-based SoCs and turn out set-top boxes, residential gateways, digital TVs, Blu-ray disc players and modems for the cable industry. It’s chasing the rising consumer dema...
Unisys Corporation on Tuesday announced that it has won a five-year extension of its contract to provide end-user support services to Flowserve Corporation. Flowserve is a global leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and othe...
Former Satyam CEO B. Ramalinga Raju, who’s been in custody for the last year and a half awaiting trial after confessing to overstating the Indian outsourcing company’s assets by a couple billion dollars thanks to forged invoices, falsified accounts and non-existent interest income, has...
Nvidia is developing a tablet chip that’s supposed to compete with Intel widgetry according to two people who talked to Bloomberg. The effort reportedly began after a laptop effort crashed and burned. Supposedly it’s using x86 widgetry it got from the performance-challenged Transmeta f...
Intel has trotted out a couple of new Atom chips designed for home and small business networked storage appliances like the ones concerns like Acer, Cisco and LG have been peddling since March. There’s a 1.8GHz D425 single-core and D525 dual-core chip whose faster clock is supposed to ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that INTEC, a provider of Utility Computing, 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.
INTEC rises above its competitors by delivering com...
It’s a reporter’s dream. How often do you get a constellation of stars like this:
IBM is trying hard to ignore the fact that one of its own, a guy that was supposedly a heartbeat away from someday becoming its CEO, is currently looking at doing six months in jail for whispering famil...
SYS-CON Events announced today that 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, 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.
3PAR is the leadin...
SYS-CON Events announced today that PerspecSys, a provider of Cloud Data Governance, has been named “Silver 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.
The PerspecSys mission ...
RightScale has started supporting Windows apps running in the cloud claiming it can keeps Windows users from getting locked in to any one cloud region, provider or type – public or private. It must be thinking mostly Amazon.
It says that with the latest release of its Cloud Management...
HP has come up with a new reason for why it let Mark Hurd go.
I forget how many this makes now but they keep getting better and better.
According to the Wall Street Journal the board supposedly got ticked off because Hurd settled with the woman in question the day before he was fir...
Dell came in Thursday with second-quarter earnings of $545 million, or 32 cents a share before adjustments, on revenue up 22% to $15.5 billion, mostly from its commercial customers whose spending increased 28% to $12.7 billion compared to consumers, its problem market, which was flat a...
The World Trade Organization in Geneva has told the European Union to lift its tariffs on flat-panel displays, multi-function scan-fax-copy printers and TV set-top boxes that deliver the Internet. They violate the WTO’s 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
The EU continues to...
Hewlett-Packard posted Mark Hurd’s last quarter Thursday delivering
earnings up 6.1% to $1.77 billion, or 75 cents a share, on revenues up 11.4%
to $30.7 billion, a tad better than what the company projected the numbers
would be on August 6 when the board forced Hurd to resign. Its ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon Web Services, a provider of an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud, 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 S...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Kaavo, an innovative provider of solutions for managing distributed applications in the clouds, 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, ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tilera, the leader in many-core general purpose microprocessors for cloud computing, has been named “Silver 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...
Now you can test and diagnose Internet-facing applications under immense global peak loads using the power of the cloud. Check out the key features and benefits of SilkPerformer CloudBurst from Micro Focus for insight into the value this brings your performance testing challenges. 
Software development can be a vast punishing wilderness without true application lifecycle management. The problem is typically cost and full-time resources.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Derek Nielsen, Principal Architect at SCM Solution, will discuss how CALM,...
“Through effective infrastructure engineering lifecycle management comes an enterprise cloud”
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, will outline how enterprise IT organizations need to institute discipline and automate...
What is the state of open cloud standards, including interoperability, portability and the acceleration of cloud technologies that is already being realized among the OpenStack community?
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack chief technologist,...
SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, a provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, 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.
SoftLayer prov...
U.S. federal prosecutors want former IBM server and chips chief Robert Moffat, supposedly a candidate to replace IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, to spend six months in jail for passing insider information to love interest New Castle Partners trader Danielle Chiesi, a prime player in the big Gal...
