SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space...
Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...
SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Novell, a provider of integrated IT management software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in ...
Enterprises are seeing the value in Cloud Services – both the reduction in capital expenditures and the increasing maturity of the services offered. Unfortunately, they can't backtrack on their security and compliance requirements even if it results in money savings and capability impr...
Linux Foundation (LF) chief Jim Zemlin needed hand-holding after IBM waved some of its patents under the nose of open source mainframer TurboHercules, particularly those two allegedly penalty-free patents IBM pledged to the open source community five years ago, so he turned to LF board...
SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen...
There's simply no nice way of putting this. IBM is an Indian giver.
To prevent the commercialization of the long-standing open source project Hercules - which might put some of its mainframe revenues at risk since Hercules is a mainframe emulator - IBM has suddenly claimed - out of ...
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that CUBRID is its newest member.
CUBRID provides an open source database system that is optimized for web services to support mission-critical Internet applications.
T...
Meanings and terms often change or get adjusted over time, especially with Information Technology. While never walking 5 miles to school in two-feet of snow, I did live during an era of TV’s without remotes and vinyl record players. I tend to include many ‘remember when…’ type storie...
CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69.
It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one...
GroundWork Open Source Inc. (GWOS, http://www.gwos.com/), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today launched the newest version of its Enterprise Quickstart virtual appliance powered by Canonical’s Ubuntu Server 9.10. Targeted as a trial soluti...
Delegates will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming April 19-21 to 5th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at The Jacob Javits Center with the 8th Virtualization Conference & Expo. Here is a round-up of some of the Cloud & Virtualization themes...
As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did?
As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programati...
A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell owns the Unix copyrights. They never transferred to the Santa Cruz Operation and so they never transferred to its descendent SCO.
A decision in SCO's favor would have opened the door for it to pursue its original multibillion-dollar case agai...
Abiquo, a leading developer of Cloud infrastructure management software, today announced that it is a Platinum Plus sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Computing Expo, April 19-21 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. CEO Pete Malcolm also will deliver the conference key...
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. Cloud Expo's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully im...
Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway if it was difficult to write. He replied "Not at all, you just sit at the typewriter and bleed!"
Hemingway must be turning these days in his grave, because if Cloud Computing has done anything it has shown once and for all that technology commenta...
Oracle on Thursday announced fiscal 2010 Q3 GAAP total revenues were up 17% to $6.4 billion, while non-GAAP total revenues were up 18% to $6.5 billion. Excluding the impact of Sun Microsystems, Inc., which Oracle acquired on January 26, 2010, GAAP total revenue grew 7%. GAAP new softwa...
Mårten Mickos, the guy who sold MySQL to Sun for a billion dollars, has got himself another company. Now all he has to do is find another sucker like Sun.
Mårten, who wouldn't be Mårten without that cute little Finnish doohickey over his name, has been named CEO of Eucalyptus System...
Dell on Wednesday unveiled Intelligent Data Management solutions to help customers facing unprecedented challenges storing and managing data transform that information into a strategic asset.
Applications for creating and consuming digital content, increased server virtualization, a...
Texas ISV Neon Enterprise Software, accepting that it's in a fight to the death with IBM over mainframes, ripped the kid gloves off, amended its pre-Christmas suit against its giant nemesis for tortious interference, business disparagement and unfair competition and charged Blue with a...
Robert Moffat, the former head of both IBM's server and chips units, who was arrested in October in the first dragnet of culprits connected with the now infamous Galleon Group hedge fund and its alleged insider trading ring, is expected to wave indictment and plead guilty, according to...
TurboHercules SAS, the Paris-based concern started last year to commercialize the 10-year-old open source Hercules mainframe project, filed a formal antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission Tuesday.
The little company says IBM is blocking it from selling its open...
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immer...
Cordys, the leading provider of software for business process innovation, has reported strong growth in 2009, achieving a 56 percent growth in license revenues, compared with 2008.
According to independent analyst firms, Cordys is one of the hottest technology vendors in 20101, lea...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order."
This article looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal is to provide a detailed look at what management must focus on to drive a...
Sentilla Corporation has come up with the first software-only real-time way to track the power utilization of every single asset in a data center from the switchgear down to each and every server, storage and networking device, be they metered or unmetered.
CEO Bob Davis says, “In ...
You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...
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The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet.
This...
The news last week that Italian authorities have convicted three Google executives with criminal privacy violations got my attention for two reasons. One, the charges are based on a video that shows an autistic boy being bullied, a video that Google did not create or post. It was filme...
After Wall Street closed yesterday, Elliott Associates LP, a hedge fund with $16 billion under management, made a reportedly unsolicited bid to buy Novell, the Linux operating system’s lackluster number two champion, for what looks like about $2 billion and take it private.
It’s off...
The Linux Foundation on Monday announced it will host the MeeGo project, the open source software platform for the next generation of computing devices. MeeGo combines Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects into one Linux-based platform.
MeeGo, on Monday announced in a joint releas...
Dell said Thursday that it’s buying the privately held systems management appliance company Kace Networks Inc. It did not say what it’s paying. Acquisitions are rare at Dell, but the company is desperate for growth and confirmed this week that it’s trying to buy bankrupt Exanet in Isra...
JetBlue flew 2.11 billion revenue passenger miles last month, compared to 1.93 billion in January 2008, such growth is encouraging, but the company warns of growing costs throughout 2010. Its apparent due to aircraft maintenance, the volatile fuel market, and the need for greener trav...
Dell confirmed that it’s trying to buy the gone-bust Israeli clustered NAS start-up Exanet after Israel’s Globes news site said Monday that the deal was in the bag.
There is also speculation that Dell might start selling EMC’s recently acquired Data Domain deduplication widgetry, t...
Today's enterprise IT organizations are intimately familiar with the pain of change. Under pressure to do more with less while accelerating velocity and responsiveness, IT is finding software systems harder than ever to provision and maintain. Similarly, most IT organizations lack cons...
There are no more obstacles standing in the way of the Linux-freighted trial over who the heck owns Unix. The new judge, Ted Stewart, who’s presiding over the SCO vs Novell case shot the pins out from under Novell’s motion to rehear its claims to the tens of millions of dollars SCO got...
The New Zealand Post is one of three government agencies looking to rip out their Windows desktops and replace them with Linux and open source applications. A tiny four-desk proof-of-concept of the Linux scheme is reportedly set to start in February and run for two months followed by a...
OpenNebula, which was was born as a research project in 2005 by Dr. Rubén S. Montero, Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, is an open and flexible tool that fits into existing data center environments to build any type of Cloud deployment. OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool...
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SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space...
Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...
SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Novell, a provider of integrated IT management software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in ...
Enterprises are seeing the value in Cloud Services – both the reduction in capital expenditures and the increasing maturity of the services offered. Unfortunately, they can't backtrack on their security and compliance requirements even if it results in money savings and capability impr...
Linux Foundation (LF) chief Jim Zemlin needed hand-holding after IBM waved some of its patents under the nose of open source mainframer TurboHercules, particularly those two allegedly penalty-free patents IBM pledged to the open source community five years ago, so he turned to LF board...
SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen...
There's simply no nice way of putting this. IBM is an Indian giver.
To prevent the commercialization of the long-standing open source project Hercules - which might put some of its mainframe revenues at risk since Hercules is a mainframe emulator - IBM has suddenly claimed - out of ...
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that CUBRID is its newest member.
CUBRID provides an open source database system that is optimized for web services to support mission-critical Internet applications.
T...
Meanings and terms often change or get adjusted over time, especially with Information Technology. While never walking 5 miles to school in two-feet of snow, I did live during an era of TV’s without remotes and vinyl record players. I tend to include many ‘remember when…’ type storie...
CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69.
It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one...
GroundWork Open Source Inc. (GWOS, http://www.gwos.com/), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today launched the newest version of its Enterprise Quickstart virtual appliance powered by Canonical’s Ubuntu Server 9.10. Targeted as a trial soluti...
Delegates will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming April 19-21 to 5th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at The Jacob Javits Center with the 8th Virtualization Conference & Expo. Here is a round-up of some of the Cloud & Virtualization themes...
As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did?
As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programati...
A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell owns the Unix copyrights. They never transferred to the Santa Cruz Operation and so they never transferred to its descendent SCO.
A decision in SCO's favor would have opened the door for it to pursue its original multibillion-dollar case agai...
Abiquo, a leading developer of Cloud infrastructure management software, today announced that it is a Platinum Plus sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Computing Expo, April 19-21 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. CEO Pete Malcolm also will deliver the conference key...
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. Cloud Expo's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully im...
Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway if it was difficult to write. He replied "Not at all, you just sit at the typewriter and bleed!"
Hemingway must be turning these days in his grave, because if Cloud Computing has done anything it has shown once and for all that technology commenta...
Oracle on Thursday announced fiscal 2010 Q3 GAAP total revenues were up 17% to $6.4 billion, while non-GAAP total revenues were up 18% to $6.5 billion. Excluding the impact of Sun Microsystems, Inc., which Oracle acquired on January 26, 2010, GAAP total revenue grew 7%. GAAP new softwa...
Mårten Mickos, the guy who sold MySQL to Sun for a billion dollars, has got himself another company. Now all he has to do is find another sucker like Sun.
Mårten, who wouldn't be Mårten without that cute little Finnish doohickey over his name, has been named CEO of Eucalyptus System...
Dell on Wednesday unveiled Intelligent Data Management solutions to help customers facing unprecedented challenges storing and managing data transform that information into a strategic asset.
Applications for creating and consuming digital content, increased server virtualization, a...
Texas ISV Neon Enterprise Software, accepting that it's in a fight to the death with IBM over mainframes, ripped the kid gloves off, amended its pre-Christmas suit against its giant nemesis for tortious interference, business disparagement and unfair competition and charged Blue with a...
Robert Moffat, the former head of both IBM's server and chips units, who was arrested in October in the first dragnet of culprits connected with the now infamous Galleon Group hedge fund and its alleged insider trading ring, is expected to wave indictment and plead guilty, according to...
TurboHercules SAS, the Paris-based concern started last year to commercialize the 10-year-old open source Hercules mainframe project, filed a formal antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission Tuesday.
The little company says IBM is blocking it from selling its open...
Cordys, the leading provider of software for business process innovation, has reported strong growth in 2009, achieving a 56 percent growth in license revenues, compared with 2008.
According to independent analyst firms, Cordys is one of the hottest technology vendors in 20101, lea...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order."
This article looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal is to provide a detailed look at what management must focus on to drive a...
Sentilla Corporation has come up with the first software-only real-time way to track the power utilization of every single asset in a data center from the switchgear down to each and every server, storage and networking device, be they metered or unmetered.
CEO Bob Davis says, “In ...
You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...
The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet.
This...
The news last week that Italian authorities have convicted three Google executives with criminal privacy violations got my attention for two reasons. One, the charges are based on a video that shows an autistic boy being bullied, a video that Google did not create or post. It was filme...
After Wall Street closed yesterday, Elliott Associates LP, a hedge fund with $16 billion under management, made a reportedly unsolicited bid to buy Novell, the Linux operating system’s lackluster number two champion, for what looks like about $2 billion and take it private.
It’s off...
The Linux Foundation on Monday announced it will host the MeeGo project, the open source software platform for the next generation of computing devices. MeeGo combines Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects into one Linux-based platform.
MeeGo, on Monday announced in a joint releas...
Dell said Thursday that it’s buying the privately held systems management appliance company Kace Networks Inc. It did not say what it’s paying. Acquisitions are rare at Dell, but the company is desperate for growth and confirmed this week that it’s trying to buy bankrupt Exanet in Isra...
JetBlue flew 2.11 billion revenue passenger miles last month, compared to 1.93 billion in January 2008, such growth is encouraging, but the company warns of growing costs throughout 2010. Its apparent due to aircraft maintenance, the volatile fuel market, and the need for greener trav...
Dell confirmed that it’s trying to buy the gone-bust Israeli clustered NAS start-up Exanet after Israel’s Globes news site said Monday that the deal was in the bag.
There is also speculation that Dell might start selling EMC’s recently acquired Data Domain deduplication widgetry, t...
Today's enterprise IT organizations are intimately familiar with the pain of change. Under pressure to do more with less while accelerating velocity and responsiveness, IT is finding software systems harder than ever to provision and maintain. Similarly, most IT organizations lack cons...
There are no more obstacles standing in the way of the Linux-freighted trial over who the heck owns Unix. The new judge, Ted Stewart, who’s presiding over the SCO vs Novell case shot the pins out from under Novell’s motion to rehear its claims to the tens of millions of dollars SCO got...
The New Zealand Post is one of three government agencies looking to rip out their Windows desktops and replace them with Linux and open source applications. A tiny four-desk proof-of-concept of the Linux scheme is reportedly set to start in February and run for two months followed by a...
OpenNebula, which was was born as a research project in 2005 by Dr. Rubén S. Montero, Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, is an open and flexible tool that fits into existing data center environments to build any type of Cloud deployment. OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool...
