EMC has poached Pat Gelsinger, the head of Intel’s enterprise chip business, and made him president and COO of its storage products. It’s also promoted Howard Elias to president and COO of storage and cloud services, touching off a two-man race to succeed incumbent CEO Joe Tucci. G...

Intel not only lost Pat Gelsinger to EMC Monday, its general counsel Bruce Sewell is also off to someplace else six months before AMD’s antitrust case against Intel goes to trial. Sewell’s departure was reportedly a surprise to Intel and under the circumstances observers are curious to...

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...

A CRM solution can have an enormously positive effect on your business's bottom line, but a lot can go wrong during a rollout if you haven't planned properly. Follow these 10 steps to help ensure that your CRM implementation is a success, from the planning stages to post-deployment imp...

The right SFA solution can be an enormous benefit to your company's sales reps, as it can help them automate operations, eliminate errors, and forecast revenues. But, as is the case with any technology, you need to consider several important factors to make sure you end up with a solut...

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SOA does not have to be overly complex or expensive. This white paper shows you how the JBoss SOA Assessment Tool can help you chart a course to a successful SOA implementation. And the broad portfolio of JBoss Enterprise Middleware can help you get there, with fully supported platform...

Intel’s Lynnfield chips, the widgets meant to drive its newfangled Nehalem architecture into the mainstream, arrived on Tuesday. The new dumbed-down 45nm arrivals include three quad-core desktop devices officially designated the Core i5 750, i7 860 and i7 870 clocking 2.66GHz, 2.8GH...

Managed Methods Inc., a provider of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance, has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for applications running on IBM WebSphere ESB, MQ, WSRR and environ...

Cast Iron Systems, a provider of SaaS and Cloud Integration company, has announced that Cast Iron is leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer customers a faster way to move enterprise applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The Cast Iron Cloud, now also on A...

CA CEO John Swainson, the IBMer brought in five years ago in the aftermath of the $2 billion stock fraud that ultimately sent one of his predecessors to a federal pokey for a 12-year hitch, wants to retire by the end of year, if not before. CA’s board is now looking for a replacement. ...

Salesforce.com has poached Cisco mandarin Doug Dennerline, the head of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group, the repository of its WebEx widgetry and its cloud and SaaS ambitions – like the idea of taking on Microsoft’s $60 billion Office franchise with some Google Apps-like mojo that ...

Atlassian, the Aussie ISV, has released Bamboo 2.3, the latest take on its cloud-supporting continuous integration (CI) server. Bamboo automatically builds and tests code changes as they’re committed so bugs don’t pile up. Bamboo 2.3 improves the widgetry’s support for running “elastic...

Intel has acquired a little five-year-old Canadian number called RapidMind that specializes in parallel programming for multi-core processors and accelerators. It was originally founded to commercialize a programming system called Sh and now has a C++ development platform to create sin...

SYS-CON Media announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for its first annual Government IT Readers' Choice Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Voting will begin September 7, 2009, and...

SYS-CON’s SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Voting will begin on September 7 ...

Iomega, an EMC company and a global provider of data protection, has announced the next generation of its quad-drive desktop NAS appliance with the worldwide launch of the new Iomega(R) StorCenter(TM) ix4-200d. Based on industry-leading enterprise-class EMC(R) storage technologies, the...

SYS-CON’s SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "...

SYS-CON Events announced today that JP Morgenthal, Senior Principal Analyst for QinetiQ North America, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. His session will be entitled “Protect Your Government...

Mimecast, the UK company that does SaaS e-mail archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has upgraded its flagship Unified Email Management platform to provide the advanced features of on-premise e-mail solutions in its SaaS delivery model. The new functionality addresses the...

We explore how IT search and systems log management as a service provides low-cost IT analytics that harness complexity to improve performance at radically reduced costs. We'll examine how network management, systems analytics, and log search come together, so that IT operators can gai...

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced the availability of two new industry standards: the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) and SOA Governance...

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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...

Orchestra LLC, an IT company serving small and mid-size businesses, is expanding into Portland, Oregon. Orchestra is a leading provider of business management software, website development, and web marketing on the West Coast.

With an eye over its shoulder to see what rivals HP and IBM are doing, CA is making a cloud play in concert with Amazon EC2. Both are hunting large enterprise accounts because – in the words of Willie Sutton – “that’s where the money is.” They are telling them to manage the cloud as a ...

MIT spin-out Permabit Technology Corporation has launched what it calls value tier storage for cloud service providers. It’s supposed to address the three concerns customers raise about cloud storage: scalability, availability and security. The widgetry, reportedly available on a flexi...

BMC Monday said it has acquired privately held MQSoftware, the Minneapolis outfit that does middleware and enterprise application transaction management. Terms were not disclosed. It’s BMC’s very first mainframe-related acquisition and it says it’ll be the first time that the enterpris...

iTKO is announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement for HP to resell iTKO’s LISA Virtualize product. With this agreement, customers can combine iTKO’s innovative virtualization software product with HP’s market share leading Quality Management, Functional and Performance Testi...

The European Union’s ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros has slammed the European Commission for “maladministration” in the conduct of its antitrust case against Intel, according to the Wall Street Journal. Diamandouros, whose job is to investigate company complaints of high-handed treatm...

CA has continued to deliver on its Mainframe 2.0 initiative with new releases of its application testing tools that modernize mainframe ownership and ease the transfer of management tasks to a new generation of IT professionals. In addition to leveraging CA's Mainframe 2.0 technology, ...

ZapThink today announces the availability of its online, computer-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) training and credentialing course. In this first-of-its-kind offering, attendees can get access to over 20 hours of self-paced video instruction...

Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, and AppLabs, a software testing and quality management company, have announced a strategic partnership. AppLabs has entered into an agreement with Original Software to take to market its innovative quality management s...

Revel Consulting has announced the launch of its Cloud Computing Practice, providing business solutions for both software companies transitioning to web-delivered services, as well as businesses incorporating web-based technologies into their day-to-day operations. Cloud computing, whi...

Progress DataDirect, the data infrastructure division of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) and provider of premium, vendor-independent, data access and integration technologies for any data source, platform or operating environment, today announced the Data Integration Summe...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers customers powerful capabilities to create dynamic service-based business processes, increasing development flexibility and reducing development cost. The downside of this flexibility is increased application distribution and management complex...

Most business problems today – customer interactions, BI, compliance, marketing – require access to internal, external, structured and unstructured information. Yet SOA initiatives based on traditional technologies have narrow scope or lack flexibility to solve business needs quickly. ...

In today’s business world, measuring your success is a must, especially in our current economic climate. It’s something we do as individuals, teams, and companies. But, with the drive to advance SOA, tying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to your SOA strategy can get lost in the compl...