By Ellen Rubin
November 21, 2009 09:00 AM EST
Although cloud computing momentum continues to build and scarcely a day goes
by without a new cloud announcement or study, there’s been little real
enterprise adoption and almost no meaningful case studies. In part, that’s
because early cloud providers and vendors were focused on... (more)
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By David Strom
November 20, 2009 05:45 PM EST
Desktop Virtualization Journal
GPU, as in graphics processing unit, don’t get as much credit as CPUs, the
supposed “brains” inside the PC. Well, that is slowly changing,
particularly as people figure out that the modern GPUs have a lot of raw
processing horsepower to more around ... (more)
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By Yeshim Deniz
November 20, 2009 05:45 PM EST
Saas Journal on Ulitzer
As part of its continual push to embrace state-of-the-art technology, EON
Reality is proud to join the ranks of top software architects of the industry
at Microsoft's The Architecture Journal (October 2009) with their
presentation on "Lightweight SOA for ... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 04:30 PM EST
Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer
Cisco had to up its bid Monday for Tandberg to overcome stockholder
resistance to the $3 billion deal the Norwegian video conferencing equipment
maker's board agreed to. The sweetener for what Cisco calls a "very
strategic" asset amounts to rou... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:45 PM EST
Intel Virtualization Magazine
A piece of the $25 million investment pie Intel Capital sliced up and handed
out recently to seven start-ups went to Joyent Inc, the California company
that claims to have launched the first cloud infrastructure service in China
a few weeks ago.
It... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:45 PM EST
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
RightScale, the cloud manager, plans to support Windows Azure and let
customers deploy RightScale-managed applications and take advantage of
Azure's particular properties. It said it would support Azure
infrastructure-level services through its new Service... (more)
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By Peter Silva
November 20, 2009 08:42 AM EST
I remember back-in-the-day when Virtual meant ‘almost,’ ‘simulated’
or ‘in essence’ as in, ‘I’m virtually there.’ Today, as it has
made it’s way into computer terminology, it can mean actual or real things
that are done over computers. Virtualization has been the main enabler o... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:15 PM EST
Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer
Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Talend, the open
source data integration house, have popped up with two free integrated
virtual machines. One combines the Community Edition of Infobright's
MySQL-based analytic database... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:15 PM EST
AMD Virtualization Journal
It took a mediator to get Intel and AMD to arrive at the magic number - and
who would pay it - that would cause them to settle their litigation
out-of-court last week, according to BusinessWeek.
AMD wanted to be paid for its antitrust claims. Intel want... (more)
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By Tim Crawford
November 20, 2009 03:02 PM EST
These are copies of the slides from Cloud Bootcamp held at Cloud Computing
Expo in Santa Clara, CA November 2009. Tim Crawford: Introduction Glenn
Brunette (Sun): Cloud Security Kevin Noonan (Push2Cloud): Google App Engine
Jason Christensen (jasonc411): Cloud Computing Mobile
... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:00 PM EST
CEOs in Technology
Egenera, the very first company to build a blade system meant to handle peaks
and valleys, has reportedly had another purge. It's now on its fourth CEO
with CTO and EVP of engineering Pete Manca replacing Mike Thompson and
product marketer Ken Oestreich in as ... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 03:00 PM EST
Intel Virtualization Journal
Turns out Intel apparently didn't give Globalfoundries, the AMD-Arab joint
venture now making all of AMD's processors, an x86 license when Intel and AMD
settled their outstanding litigation last week. Nope.
What Intel and Globalfoundaries have is an "... (more)
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By Joe Austin
November 20, 2009 02:27 PM EST
Virtualization Magazine
Nexsan announced at the company's NexStep EMEA VAR conference that it has
doubled the capacity of the award-winning SATABeast storage system from 42TB
to 84TB in only four units (4U) of rack space. Built to provide the best
power efficiency and space effi... (more)
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By PR Newswire
November 20, 2009 02:22 PM EST
SAINT-CLOUD, France, November 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Dassault Falcon has received
Type Certificate for the Falcon 7X from the Director General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA) in India, confirming that the Falcon 7X meets the rigorous
safety standards outlined by the national airworthiness a... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 02:00 PM EST
AMD Virtualization Journal
Fresh from agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, Intel upped its
dividend 12.5% to 63 cents a share annualized, beginning with the first
quarter next year. The company said it was a sign of its "confidence in
business prospects going forward... (more)
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By Maureen O'Gara
November 20, 2009 02:00 PM EST
Dell News on Ulitzer
Dell's fiscal Q3 profits plunged 54% to $337 million, or 17 cents a share, on
revenues of $12.9 billion down 15%, but the company says demand is improving
and, if looked at sequentially, revenues were up 1%. Wall Street expected it
to show up with at least $... (more)
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By PR Newswire
November 20, 2009 01:06 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Computing, the premier
resource helping IT decision makers connect the dots between architectural
approach and how technology impacts the network, played host to nearly 700 IT
professionals with a timely and highly relevant virtual ... (more)
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By PR Newswire
November 20, 2009 12:44 PM EST
MARSHALL, Texas, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lanier Law Firm is announcing a
settlement and federal judgment issued in favor of inventor Mitchell Prust in
a patent infringement lawsuit over cloud storage and cloud computing
technology that allows individuals to access computer ... (more)
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By Ellen Rubin
November 20, 2009 12:35 PM EST
Over the past few posts I covered a number of key points to consider as you
plan to move to the cloud. These issues are based on our experiences with
many public clouds, as well as what we have learned from working with
enterprises adopting the cloud.
I hope it’s clear th... (more)
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By Raymond Feng
November 20, 2009 11:46 AM EST
In Apache Tuscany, we have been experimenting with Google Android Platform to
build Mobile SOA Applications, and we now have couple Android based samples
that demonstrate a Android mobile application consuming SCA services
available on the cloud.
Store-android: A front end to our... (more)
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