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SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in... Nov. 12, 2008 09:11 AM EST Reads: 1,883 |
The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. There have been several calls for standards to... Nov. 11, 2008 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,284 |
There is a high operational cost and complexity associated with the installation and management of clusters: multiple OSs, cluster interconnects, cluster file systems, and application provisioning. The session will present a virtualization technology for high-end computing environments... Oct. 31, 2008 12:16 PM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
 Castro continued: "In Cuba we provide free health care, free food coupons, free housing and if we had any computers on the island, we would provide free laptops and Internet too. So, I agree with Richard Stallman that Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and all American companies pushing this new ...Oct. 27, 2008 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,538 |
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment ... Oct. 25, 2008 03:47 PM EDT Reads: 2,142 |
HP announced today a new course on Virtualization. The disaster preparedness course examines: "The more you know about disaster recovery through virtualization—what it can and cannot do for your business—the better prepared you’ll be to implement these capabilities and avoid pitfalls. ... Oct. 17, 2008 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,332 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Mike Neil, General Manager of Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmo...Oct. 17, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,305 |
 Wall Street firms, banks and insurers are the single biggest consumers of IT and the IDC-owned Financial Insights research firm calculates that IT budgets for hardware software and service recoiled almost 6% this week because of the Lehman bankruptcy and the eleventh-hour Merrill Lynch...Sep. 29, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,525 |
 Cloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, ...Sep. 18, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,508 |
 NComputing, which has 150 people worldwide, now has offices in 14 countries including India, Brazil, Korea and Mexico and roughly 50% of its business comes from emerging markets. NComputing, by the way, calculates that if the 850 million PC worldwide were replaced by its gismo energy u...Sep. 16, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,880 Replies: 1 |
 HP earned $2 billion, 80 cents a share, up 14%, on revenues of $28 billion, up 10%, in its third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2008, outperforming expectations against a hard compare. Salvaged by notebooks, blades and overseas growth, the results calmed jitters that the bellwether woul...Aug. 26, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,149 |
Parallels announced it is collaborating with HP to offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers who want to virtualize business-critical Windows and Linux workloads. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers has been validated to run on HP Integrity servers, including the... Jul. 28, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,891 |
 Information Technology is fantastic, absolutely essential, and largely responsible for this country's increase in productivity over the past decade or so. It's also broken. IT is overly complex, difficult to implement correctly, and expensive to maintain over its short lifespan.Jul. 14, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,178 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft managed to get its VMware-spooking Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based virtualization technology, out the door Thursday, which is something of an accomplishment considering that by Microsoft's clock the thing is weeks early, having not been expected until August sometime.Jul. 6, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,688 |
 HP Tuesday named Don Grantham, Sun's global sales and service boss, and an ex-IBMer, its chief sales officer responsible for enterprise accounts and public sector sales as well as sales to the communications, media and entertainment, financial and manufacturing and distribution industr...Jun. 6, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,015 |
Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have re... Jun. 4, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,989 Replies: 1 |
 SYS-CON Media Website (www.sys-con.com) and email servers were affected from Saturday's explosion at The Planet hosting facility together with 9,000 servers which belonged to more than 7,500 customers. SYS-CON has been hosting its image server and email servers at the facility. At the ...Jun. 3, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,481 Replies: 1 |
 HP is racing to the rescue of those threatening to drown in their own data, but that Web 2.0 lot had better be able to hold on until the fourth quarter when HP can deliver what it calls 'Extreme' storage, the NAS-style ExDS9100. It's a 10U BladeSystem that can hold 820TB of SATA-based ...May. 30, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,623 |
 Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,689 |
 HP, the largest computer company in the world, is pretty pleased with itself. Sales were up 11% in its second quarter, its margin expanded and it delivered its best cash flow performance in the company's history, $4.8 billion. Yes, there are spots where it can do better - like in x86 s...May. 23, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,879 |
SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartner in the leader's quad... May. 21, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,393 |
HP has introduced enhanced quality and management software designed to meet new requirements for mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. To make sure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production deploymen... May. 19, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,841 |
 U.S. corporate software spending continues to trend downward, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of 1,956 professionals involved with software purchasing in their company. The April 8-15 survey results show deterioration in 2nd quarter corporate software spending with little relie...May. 19, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,350 |
HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock Exchange. The price of $25 a share represents a 32.5% premium to... May. 13, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,340 |
 HP Labs says it's found the missing link that would create computers that don't forget, don't need to boot up, consume less power and associate information like the human brain does. It says it's proven the existence of a previously only theorized fourth fundamental circuit element in ...May. 3, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,906 |
 VMware says it's going to put $100 million into India in the next two years and double its local engineering staff to more than a thousand people, cultivating India as a market as well as a cheap source of talent. Along with waiting for Microsoft to mount what will be VMware's fiercest...Mar. 25, 2008 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,414 |
 HP Labs is reorganizing to focus on research that brings in money. Its priorities are now the Information explosion (getting the right information to the right people), dynamic cloud services (dynamically personalized based on a person's location, preferences, calendar and communities)...Mar. 15, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,232 |
 In a press event today at HP company headquarters, HP announced that it has sharpened the focus of its advanced research group, HP Labs, to address the most complex challenges facing technology customers in the next decade - dividing its efforts into 5 areas of interest: the informatio...Mar. 7, 2008 04:30 AM EST Reads: 3,169 |
 Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husband about her abiding crush on HP's CEO, the 'Great Deliverer' - after HP dropped better-than-expected first-quarter results on Wall Street Tuesday and upped its fiscal 2008 forecast des...Feb. 25, 2008 06:15 PM EST Reads: 2,700 Replies: 1 |
 HP is about to put out a novel 1GHz Celeron laptop it calls a mobile thin client, its first, apparently the result of its acquisition of Neoware. Wyse, the other remaining thin client maven, beat HP, now the market leader, to the punch a few months ago and added two more models the oth...Feb. 5, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,930 |
See, HP is open sourcing widgetry very much like theirs, widgetry that it developed for itself over the last seven years at the cost of 'millions of dollars,' it says, and 60 man-years work that sorts out the various licenses that govern open source software - imagine, there are 1,700 ... Jan. 29, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 7,867 Replies: 4 |
 For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit with AquaLogic to build scalable workflow (a la BPM) services. Instead, we users and developers will be waiting for years to see WebLogic and AquaLogic integrated into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. For MyS...Jan. 20, 2008 06:15 PM EST Reads: 15,359 Replies: 1 |
 Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack. It's paying a billion dollars. MySQL was supposed to go public this year but picked the easier monetizatio...Jan. 20, 2008 06:00 PM EST Reads: 21,268 Replies: 1 |
If you listen to IDC, PCs were up a solid but still less-than-expected 15.5% worldwide in Q4. If you listen to Gartner the number was 13.1%. If you listen to Credit Suisse, which is a lot more buoyant, you hear that the IDC-Gartner results 'were largely at odds with one another, callin... Jan. 18, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,854 Replies: 1 |
HP announced it has been positioned in the 'Leaders' quadrant in industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant reports.(1,2,3) Gartner positioned HP in the leaders quadrant in the IT Event Correlation and Analysis, the PC Life Cycle Configuration Management and the Integrated SOA... Jan. 17, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,818 |
HP and Oracle, in collaboration with Intel, announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures. Dec. 17, 2007 06:45 PM EST Reads: 3,973 |
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,372 Replies: 1 |
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