Oracle
Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
 Sooner than expected, Apple Thursday started previewing a developer-directed beta of Mountain Lion, its next-generation Mac OS X 10.8, due out late this summer.
It’s borrowed some more features from iOS like the popular and unlimited iChat-replacing iMessages IM as well as Notes, Gam...Feb. 18, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 588 |
 Citrix has opened up a beta of its CloudStack 3, the first release of the open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand.
Citrix acquired the Java-based cloud management last year when it bought Cloud.com. A full production version of the branded stuff is supposed to be available ...Feb. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 735 |
 Cloud is a shift from the focus on underlying technology implementation to leveraging existing implementations and further building upon them. Cloud orchestration or a network of clouds is the wave of the future where these clouds can operate with elasticity, scalability, and efficienc...Feb. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 545 |
 The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multite...Feb. 18, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,265 |
 Just when the US Postal Service looks down for the count, a self-funded Seattle start-up called PaperKarma figures its destiny is to suppress junk mail on which the post office depends.
The company was started by Sean Mortazavi, who hasn’t given up his day job at Microsoft yet, and P...Feb. 17, 2012 03:28 PM EST Reads: 524 |
 As a result, it said, of “customer feedback and evolving usage patterns,” Microsoft cut the price of its cloud-ified SQL Azure database 48%–75% for databases larger than 1GB and introduced a new entry-level 100MB model.
It blogged that it’s noticed that many projects start small but ...Feb. 17, 2012 02:06 PM EST Reads: 741 |
 Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows. Documents in 2012 are read, written, collabor...Feb. 17, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 546 |
 Centrify is going into the mobile business in support of iOS and Android phones and tablets.
The move involves putting its multi-platform support for Microsoft’s Active Directory on its own cloud so companies can protect the increasing ubiquitous BYOD they need to control and secure ...Feb. 17, 2012 01:47 PM EST Reads: 516 |
 EMC and VMware are going into the cloud business with Atos, the big, publicly owned, Paris-based global IT services firm, intending to take an equity position in Canopy, an end-to-end cloud company Atos is setting up using EMC and VMware technology.
The companies said Wednesday when ...Feb. 17, 2012 09:37 AM EST Reads: 725 |
 A Munich court Thursday found Motorola Mobility guilty of infringing an Apple patent and handed Apple a permanent injunction against two Android smartphones.
Apple can enforce the injunction after posting a bond lest MMI succeed in invalidating the slide-to-unlock patent (EP1964022) ...Feb. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 890 |
 In a surprise move on Tuesday, January 10, Oracle wheeled out its Big Data Appliance.
That’s the one it said in October would be ready sometime in the first half. Only nobody believed it meant early in the first half. Heck, it’s not even clear anybody thought Oracle could make the fi...Feb. 16, 2012 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,120 |
 The Chinese company that claims it owns the iPad trademark says it plans to seek a ban on iPad exports out of China, threatening global supplies.
According to what a lawyer for Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd told Reuters, the firm is petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipment...Feb. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 536 |
 Cisco Wednesday filed suit in the European Union’s second-highest court, the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging the European Commission’s rubber stamp last October of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype.
Cisco says it isn’t opposed to the merger, but figures the EC sh...Feb. 16, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 728 |
 2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined applic...Feb. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 2,045 |
 As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical application...Feb. 16, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,851 |
 Building a cloud computing environment with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources requires an elastic infrastructure at multiple levels. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. Unfortunately, legacy Fibre Ch...Feb. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,422 |
 Compuware on Monday released Compuware dynaTrace 4.1, an application performance management (APM) solution to provide full support for IBM WebSphere Message Broker. dynaTrace 4.1 also adds to its User Experience Management (UEM) capabilities, enhances visualization and integrates with ...Feb. 15, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 564 |
 Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to public and...Feb. 15, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 761 |
 Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing – speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many – but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume responsibilit...Feb. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 670 |
 HP on Monday took direct aim at the ever-increasing costs of data centers and managing an explosion of data by announcing a new generation of automated and efficient hardware. The new generation of ProLiant servers includes better internal management, powerful automation features, and ...Feb. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 695 |
 HP Monday claimed to have the most self-sufficient line of servers, the x86-based HP ProLiant Generation 8, the first fruits of a two-year Project Voyager meant to eliminate error-prone, downtime-creating manual tasks and cut data center costs.
HP says it’s spent $300 million on Gen8...Feb. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 750 |
 SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced the immediate worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage, a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to easily store, search and retrieve data across the Internet, with optional CDN connectivity, or across...Feb. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 698 |
 Yahoo’s critical negotiations with Alibaba to sell part of its stake in Alibaba back to the Chinese company have collapsed according to All Things Digital, a report later confirmed by CNBC.
Apparently the collapse includes Yahoo’s parallel and intertwined negotiations with Softbank t...Feb. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 623 |
 Contrary to Steve Jobs’ dictum that the 9.7-inch iPad is as small as a tablet can get, Apple is testing a widget that’s around eight inches and has gotten as far as qualifying suppliers for it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s supposed to be working with screen makers AU Opt...Feb. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 561 |
 The Internet highway may start looking like a proverbial New York traffic jam at rush hour soon.
Feel free to substitute any town you like because Cisco says there’s going to be a faster-than-expected 18x surge in worldwide mobile data traffic between 2011 and 2016.
That’s when mob...Feb. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 765 |
 OCZ Technology Group, a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Tuesday announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) flash storage solution, designed to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce operating expenses i...Feb. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 752 |
 Why are APIs so important in clouds? Do APIs have to be open? How fast or slow will standardization in the cloud be? Why is ensuring high availability for the cloud service critical?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, will an...Feb. 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 764 |
 Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Mark Hinkle, Director, Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the convers...Feb. 14, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 983 |
 Hardware and chemistry improvements will make the $1,000 human genome a reality soon. While the massive amount of genomics data that will be generated represents a huge opportunity to advance personal medicine, it also presents an enormous big data challenge.
In his session at the 10...Feb. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 889 |
 The European Commission late Monday cleared Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility but it also issued a simultaneous warning that the companies could be charged with antitrust violations for abusing the fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms of ...Feb. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 629 |
 Apple wants the Ice Cream-bearing Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone that Samsung worked on with Google banned from the United States because it allegedly infringes four strong Apple technical patents – none of this squishy design stuff like before.
Apple quietly asked a district court in Ca...Feb. 14, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 852 |
 In 2011, Apache Hadoop received tremendous attention for helping organizations cost-effectively capitalize on their big data. Hadoop is now disrupting the business of analyzing data.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Baldeschwieler, Co-Founder & CEO of Hortonw...Feb. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,361 |
 The proliferation of device connectivity is redefining the functionality requirements and capabilities of many embedded systems as more and more of these devices look to leverage the “Cloud.” While many commercial software and hardware component vendors have begun to realign their valu...Feb. 13, 2012 11:06 AM EST Reads: 746 |
 Within seconds of Wall Street opening Monday morning Apple tore through the $500-a-share barrier for the first time, a little over six months after hitting $400. The talking heads on CNBC say the company has added the value of a Facebook since its legendary founder Steve Jobs died in O...Feb. 13, 2012 09:44 AM EST Reads: 480 |
 Starting last month an unidentified hacker – or maybe it’s hackers – called Yamatough and believed to be part of a group called Lords of Dharmaraja and affiliated with Anonymous – from the looks of it not a native English speaker – or else a semi-literate – demanded $50,000 in blackmai...Feb. 13, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,129 |
 Microsoft is about to release a limited number of ARM-based widgets running Windows 8 to developers so when the operating system hits GA it can compete against the iPad, according to what Windows president Steven Sinofsky told Bloomberg and others Thursday.
The system, which can’t ru...Feb. 13, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 936 |
 EquaShip, the ambitious start-up that wants to be the fourth US parcel carrier after UPS, FedEx and the USPS, has suspended its weeks-old service to regroup after it couldn’t get packages where they were going in a few days time.
CEO Ron Wiener said it could take a year to fix the pr...Feb. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,098 |
 Intel has finally seen the back of that 2009 antitrust suit that New York State’s attorney general brought against it that was pretty much a case of New York copying over the charges AMD had made in its massive but now long-settled suit.
See, AMD was building a big state-of-art chip ...Feb. 13, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,093 |
 After hearing testimony from World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Netscape co-founder Eroc Bina, HTML embedded tag inventor David Raggetr and prior art inventor Pei-Yuan Wei, who wrote the Viola browser back in 1991, two years before Eolas, and demo’d it to Sun in ’93, a Texas feder...Feb. 13, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,038 |
 Apple quietly wrote a letter to ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, in November asking it to set basic rules for the licensing of standards-essential patents and to make its patent-wielding members commit to the principles.
Apple clearly had Google and its Andro...Feb. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,275 |
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