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 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,348 |
 What is a cloud computing platform? Is it simply automated provisioning systems coupled with a resource virtualization, where the workload is policy driven, and resources over committed and any resource contention handled by policy driven resolution? As it turns out technologies that p...Oct. 28, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 772 |
 We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cloud computing is full of potential, bursting with opportunity and ...Oct. 26, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,768 |
 Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 867 |
 There is now a thing called EuroCloud, for the moment a French-based SaaS and cloud community whose 70-odd members include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, France Telecom and SAP and whose 30 supporters include Amazon. The object of the name is to share best practices and expand...Oct. 23, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 978 |
 Acer has come from behind to knock Dell off its perch as the second-largest PC vendor in the world, and Dell is still hurting from its loss to HP which claimed Dell’s old No. 1 title three years ago.
Acer president Gianfranco Lanci just predicted Tuesday that Acer would dethrone De...Oct. 15, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 944 |
 Bob Gourley discusses leveraging commercial technology, driving transparency and engaging citizens and rethinking notions of IT governance with the Federal CIO nominee. Originally posted in his "CTOvision" blog on February 3, 2009, Mr. Gourley has graciously provided his permission to ...Mar. 8, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,818 |
 I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being ...Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,825 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,068 |
 It’s Thursday morning, you’re the CEO of a large, publicly traded company, and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key competitor, and you’re looking for a call-to-action to get everyon...Oct. 6, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,275 |
 Not content with running off some Sun customers and piggybacking on Sun resellers, HP has plucked Randy Seidl, the senior vice-president of Sun’s North America region global sales and services organization, out of there and made him head of Americas sales for its Enterprise Storage, Se...Oct. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 804 |
 HP is close to moving its printer unit into its PC unit according to an unconfirmed, unattributed piece in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, which would mean redoing what CEO Mark Hurd undid when he got there to shake the Carly dust off the company.
The reorg reportedly just needs Hur...Oct. 2, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 837 |
 VMware: I already have the most popular virtualization software and I will integrate Spring Source and create the best PaaS offering. Amazon EC2: I am extending my cloud facility to a virtual private environment so that you security concerns are taken care. Microsoft: I am giving you a...Sep. 26, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,607 |
 Everyone wants to lower their capital expenditures and increase operational efficiency - it's a sign of the times. The economy of the past 12 - 18 months has forced all organizations to do more with less and become more efficient. While everyone can identify with the request to do more...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,454 |
 This must have been what vaudeville was like when a none-too-successful act opened for the star.
Dell unveiled a high-end anorexic laptop Tuesday that basically has Linux opening for Windows.
Windows has a bit of a problem with this instantly gratifying instant-on booting busin...Sep. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,053 |
 Xerox, which squandered the chance to bring about the PC revolution itself, has needed a growth solution for quite a while. Monday it said it found one and would spend $6.4 billion in cash and stock buying Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), whose $6.5 billion in revenues reportedly ma...Sep. 28, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 950 |
 With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,170 |
 HP has introduced a holistic approach to technology integration with solution-focused services that allow customers to strategically manage deployments faster with lower risk and reduced cost. HP Integration Services offer 10 new modeled solutions to solve the most common industry or t...Sep. 21, 2009 07:46 AM EDT Reads: 269 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Scott Ryan, CEO of Asankya, will be presenting at the upcoming GovIT Expo(www.GovITExpo.com)this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. The session will be entitled “The Growth of Government Clouds.” Now that the Obama administration has pegged cloud ...Sep. 18, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,809 |
 Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,145 |
 On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up. A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is neede...Sep. 16, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,617 |
 Oracle terday afternoon wheeled out "the world's first" OLTP Database Machine based on so-called FlashFire solid-state disk SSD technology from Sun. It's supposed to be the fastest computer on the planet for both data warehouses and OLTP. It's supposed to break the I/O bottleneck by pr...Sep. 16, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,371 |
 Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi...Sep. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,075 |
 Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a...Sep. 12, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,359 |
 ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ...Sep. 10, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,818 |
 Often, estimates are initially made with an incomplete understanding of requirements. Estimation is done at the beginning of the lifecycle before the requirements are defined and thus the problem understood. How can you accurately estimate unless you know what the problem we intend to ...Sep. 8, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), which already owned the lion’s share of Globalfoundaries, its joint venture with AMD, is buying Singapore’s loss-making Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion cash, a move that could eventually challenge Taiwan’s ...Sep. 8, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 544 |
 There’s a big scorch mark where server sales used to be according to IDC, which put out its worst-since-records-have-been-kept Q2 figures Wednesday, hoping that with the installed base growing increasing hoary with age buyers are starting to replace them.
The researcher said factory...Sep. 7, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 690 |
 At VMworld today HP announced what it says is the first virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution for under $1,000 a seat. The HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware was demonstrated during VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s keynote presentation and is currently being deployed ...Sep. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,354 |
 Over the last couple of years I have been focused on identifying sustainable business models for communication service providers. As part of this analysis I have investigated the return on invested capital (ROIC) as a ratio of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a variety of se...Sep. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,041 |
 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...Aug. 30, 2009 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,457 |
 Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y...Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
 The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ...Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,903 |
 There is a common misconception that CMMI and Agile are polar opposites. One relies on institutionalization and documentation of processes and methodologies, while the other emphasizes interaction among workers and “working software over comprehensive documentation” (Agile Manifesto). ...Aug. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,538 Replies: 1 |
 Business is stabilizing according to HP CEO Mark Hurd, who's expecting a spike as the economy comes back. He's also not ready to "call it a turn."
Although PCs, servers, software, printers and storage were all down roughly 20%, the bellwether still beat estimates Tuesday when it rep...Aug. 19, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,348 |
 Ousted HP CEO Carly Fiorina, 54, who was treated for breast cancer in March, filed papers Tuesday that will let her challenge three-term Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer for her US Senate seat next year.
She filed for a tax ID number and registered a campaign committee called "Car...Aug. 18, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,243 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,528 |
 RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...Aug. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,105 |
 iTKO says HP is going to resell its LISA Virtualize software combined with HP’s quality management, functional and performance testing solutions. It’s supposed to accelerate software testing and reduce the cost of developing increasingly complex modern applications. What LISA does is d...Aug. 17, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,136 |
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