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 Adobe’s AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux have been sent out to beta. Flash Player 10.1, advertised as the first “consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that will enable uncompromised web browsing of expressive applications, content and high-...Nov. 20, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 318 |
 "As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surge...Nov. 20, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 618 |
 Google says it’s working with a bunch of unidentified “top OEMs” to create a Chrome notebook based on a Google hardware reference architecture that will hit market around this time next year in time for the holidays. It expects the widgets to change the basic computing model by transfe...Nov. 19, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 478 |
 Citrix Systems today announced the groundbreaking new “Pay-as-You-Grow” pricing for its Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances. Most networking systems require expensive hardware replacements to expand capacity and functionality, w...Nov. 18, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 632 |
 CIO and CTO salaries will see a spike of 12.5% in 2010, according to research conducted by Bluewolf on salaries in the Tri-state region (New York, Conn. and New Jersey). Bluewolf is a global technology consulting firm and the preeminent source of salary data and statistics for IT profe...Nov. 18, 2009 08:00 PM EST Reads: 942 |
 Zeus Technology, the application traffic management folk, has ported the weeks-old edition of its web traffic management widgetry to Amazon EC2 with Amazon's help - including how to word Tuesday's announcement - despite the fact that Amazon has its own unashamedly rudimentary load bala...Nov. 17, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 796 |
 In one of my older articles, I explained how Ubuntu Server has slowly made significant inroads in many enterprise data centers. Ubuntu has been the favorite distribution of many system administrators, architects and various other IT staff. It was these fans of the Linux distribution th...Nov. 15, 2009 05:05 PM EST Reads: 494 |
 UPSonNet, a consulting and Power Protection information source launched recently an Uninterruptible Power Supply Products Directory, which enables buyers to see at a glance main manufacturer's systems, explore specifications, compare and contact relevant professional suppliers. Nov. 15, 2009 03:05 PM EST Reads: 205 |
 In a move reminiscent of Intel and Wind River, Cavium Networks, maker of specialty ARM and Mips processors, is buying MontaVista Software, the embedded Linux shop, for $50 million and it’s only paying $16 million in cash. The rest is stock. MontaVista, however, took in at least $93 mil...Nov. 13, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 752 |
 Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a number of native e-commerce...Nov. 13, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 647 |
 Back when the SCO litigation was under Utah district court judge Dale Kimball, whose decision that Novell owns Unix was overturned by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Novell thought it was simply ducky that SCO’s case against Novell should go ahead of SCO’s case against IBM, which is...Nov. 13, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 768 Replies: 1 |
 Bright Computing, a specialist in Linux-based cluster management software and services for high-performance computing (HPC), has started offering its Bright Cluster Manager software bundled with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Bright and Novell are going to co-market the stuff to ...Nov. 13, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 413 |
 This may feel like Christmas when all you get is ties but Samsung is launching its own smartphone operating system called bada, which it expects to compete with Android and LiMo. It’s not yet clear exactly what it is. Could be still another Linux variant. More likely it’s Samsung’s pro...Nov. 13, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 551 |
 Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist, and Limbo – have come up with an experimental new programming language called Go that Google, the...Nov. 11, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,223 |
 The Utah district court, Judge Ted Stewart, a new face, presiding, has set November 23 for a status conference in the matter of SCO v Novell, the case over who owns Unix that the appeals court sent back to be heard by a jury. Novell is expected to do what it can to delay the case from ...Nov. 10, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 529 |
 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. 9, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,168 |
 EMC today announced a range of new products, solutions and services designed to enhance the value of the VMware View(TM) 4 desktop virtualization solutions. These offerings provide organizations with new technology capabilities, along with consulting services and actionable guidance to...Nov. 9, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 502 |
 The European Commission Monday served Oracle and Sun with a statement of objections (SO) that takes exception to their $7.4 billion combination. Sun immediately told the SEC that "The Statement of Objections sets out the Commission's preliminary assessment regarding, and is limited to,...Nov. 9, 2009 08:30 PM EST Reads: 487 |
 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: 681 |
 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: 481 |
 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: 718 |
 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: 608 |
 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: 526 |
 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: 1,105 |
 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: 617 |
 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: 565 |
 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: 891 |
 "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: 1,494 |
 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: 1,323 |
 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: 1,577 |
 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: 1,611 |
 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: 780 |
 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: 586 |
 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: 558 |
 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: 1,170 |
 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: 579 |
 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: 820 |
 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: 1,339 |
 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: 1,649 |
 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: 732 |
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