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As industry consultant and conference speaker Tim Crawford said in the run-up to the show, "This session deconstructs cloud computing into the cloud’s true value proposition. Traditional IT operations are buckling under the increased demand from business organizations. A significant ch...Apr. 19, 2010 08:34 AM EDT Reads: 1,660
AMD lost $330 million net, or 49 cents a share, in the June quarter on revenues down 13% year-on-year and flat sequentially at $1.18 billion.
On a GAAP basis, Wall Street thought it would only lose 47 cents on $1.13 billion. It fooled them a little on revenues. This time last year, ...
ESRI, the leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year award. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Award recognizes partners that have developed and delivered exc...
Do You Know Where Your Data Center Is? If multimillion-dollar data centers are getting their own set of wheels and winding up in containers, it might be a good idea to tabs on them. Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company, has come up with what it says is the first asset and shipmen...
Lenovo’s not the only Chinese PC maker with global ambitions. So has Haier Computer Group, reportedly the country’s second-largest PC maker and part of the $16 billion Haier Group, already the world’s fourth-largest white goods manufacturer. So, Haier has tied up with NComputing, the A...
Achieving compelling value from information technology is critical because IT is typically an enterprise or government agency’s largest capital expense. Increasing business complexities and technology choices create greater demands for justification when making IT investments. Cambridg...
The Dora-Mittelbau camp was first mentioned on 27 August 1943 as an external unit of the Buchenwald concentration camp. On 28 October 1944 it became a major concentration camp in its own right, with twenty-three branches, most of them in the vicinity, inside a restricted military area.
SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...
There is a homegrown recession in India, partially driven by job losses related to the collapse of the financial services industry in the US and Europe. But maybe this correction is a good thing, as it is making India more affordable again.
Axcess International has announced that it successfully implemented its patented Micro-Wireless system into the Microsoft BizTalk Server platform. BizTalk Server 2009 provides a solution that allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems, and then process the composite ...
On page 40 of its latest 10-Q filing with the SEC, Sun notes that it may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, quotes a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing as saying that potential violations are usually uncovered when...
The creative use of social networking tools, which offer rich media sharing, integrated communications, and information exposure, are helping to stimulate government operational efficiency and transparency, according to leading independent research and advisory firm, Government Insight...
In a recent report published by Gartner, the market research firm outlined the tremendous opportunity for global cloud services projecting revenues to increase 21 percent this year alone. According to Gartner cloud-based offerings made $46.4 billion in 2008, a number that is projected ...
Federal agencies are now officially exploring cloud computing as an option for some of their IT requirements. Until now most of these efforts have been quietly pursued under existing contract as exploratory pilots. Programs of record are now looking to take cloud computing into the ma...
Digital Signage is the fastest-growing marketing and communications medium in the world second only to the Internet and branded entertainment. It replaces conventional paper signs and posters with electronic signs using liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma screens. Google has pu...
Ariff Kassam, CTO and Co-Founder of xkoto, will deliver the presentation, Database Virtualization versus Database Clustering, at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. The traditional approach of clustering phys...
A record 102 breakout and general sessions are on offer March 30-April 1, 2009 at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, col-located with the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo. Which sessions are you going to attend? Decide by reviewing the deta...
From Apache Hadoop and Google App Engine to Web-Scale Computing and Web Services in action, a round-up of the Cloud Computing themes & topics being discussed March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City by the world-class speaker faculty at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference ...
SYS-CON Events announced that Cycle Computing, the leader in helping Fortune100 companies, government research laboratories, universities, and small organizations alike use Condor for Grid and Cloud computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Exp...
The German research center Forschungszentrum Juelich has selected IBM to develop the first supercomputer in Europe capable of one Petaflop, or one thousand trillion operations per second. IBM will partner with Juelich-based Gauss Centre for Supercomputing to install the new IBM Blue Ge...
Bill McColl, Founder and CEO for Cloudscale, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. For thirty years, in-house databases and data warehouses have been used to store and query data, but the...
as part of a focus on delivering storage integration for
utility and cloud computing datacenters. PTC was incorporated in 1991 to
address data management needs for the manufacturing sector and today has
evolved to provide integrated IT across multiple industries and government
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Vyatta announced that it grew revenues by almost 600 percent during 2008, with their customer count growing more than 150 percent. To date, the company's open networking software has been downloaded more than a quarter million times. The company additionally boasts partnerships with mo...
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) announced the results of its 2009 Predictions Survey, which polls high-ranking open source business executives on their forecasts for the year ahead. The OSA survey results point to new opportunities and challenges for the commercial open source softwa...
According to VietNamNet Bridge, the Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an instruction on using open source software products in state agencies. It was reported that by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers in IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open s...
Since it signed its long-in-making "asset lite" deal with the sheikdom of Abu Dhabi on October 6, AMD has cut its Q4 revenue expectations from flat to down 25%, next year's prospects ain't looking particularly great, and its stock is now worth half what it was two months ago. So the de...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Cycle Computing to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), whic...
Active Endpoints is a leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints allows ...
Adopting Cloud Computing as a primary technology strategy will be one of the main catalysts for technology-savvy business to not only stay in business, but also be successful in the long run. If the Global Recession truly hits as it seems that it will, items that directly and positivel...
NComputing, a comer in low-cost computing run by the guy who started eMachines, has picked up a deal to supply 1.8 million kids in 5,000 schools in Andhra Pradesh with computer access. Andhra Pradesh is the largest and most populous state in South India and the deal, another thumb in t...
Unisys president and CEO Joe McGrath will be stepping down by the end of year. The board thinks “a change in leadership would best enable Unisys to move forward on accelerating execution of the company strategy.” It has formed a search committee.
I have been asked many times by various clients, students, and the IT curious about PowerBuilder: When did Sybase develop the product and how did it evolve? I keep telling this story and answering e-mails on the subject. I am now to the point where I have decided that I should have PBD...
China’s new anti-monopoly law went into effect August 1 and China-based Evermore Software, an Office wannabe, would love to haul Microsoft into court.
It says it’s collecting evidence and has suggested to MarketWatch that the integration between Office and Windows might be just the...
Telstra, the old Australian phone company before government-owned monopolies became unfashionable and now the country's leading telecom and media house, is going into the Software as a Service (SaaS) business. It's got a platform called T-Suite and intends to use it to supply on-demand...
