By Maureen O'Gara  Having pushed the boundaries of modern technology, ScaleOut Software, the distributed data grid start-up, can now link distributed data grids at different locations into a single logically coherent grid. Seems a simple thing but it’s been illusive and ScaleOut says it’s the first to ma... Nov. 19, 2009 03:30 AM EST Reads: 740 |
By Liz McMillan  The rise of RIAs and cloud computing, and the increased diversity of Internet-connected devices are spawning the need for contextual applications that take advantage of specific functionality offered by operating systems and devices. The Flash Platform enables developers to create cont... Nov. 18, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 1,382 |
By Oracle News Desk  Are you facing critical business and IT challenges? Do you have pressing deadlines to meet these challenges? Do you need solution ideas FAST? Nov. 18, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 548 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Immunet, developer of next generation AntiVirus technologies, announced today that it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Altos Ventures with participation from Atlanta-based TechOperators. Ho Nam, General Partner of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of ... Nov. 18, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 457 |
By Steve Lesem  Mezeo Software launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter. Sponsored by Mezeo, the Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and blog focus on Cloud Storage insights and observations from industry thought leaders. The Business Model Toolkit helps Service Providers assess the benef... Nov. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 687 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Salesforce.com unveiled Salesforce Chatter, a new secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform. Salesforce Chatter will revolutionize the workplace by leveraging the social networking models made popular by the consumer Web, allowing any company to collab... Nov. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 716 |
 Elastra Cloud Server helps IT organizations leverage the economics of cloud computing, while preserving existing architectural practices and corporate policies. Elastra offers a free edition of ECS running on Amazon Web Services and an enterprise edition for private data centers. I was... Nov. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 386 |
By Pat Romanski  E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA, Inc. and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Security Mega Trends: Study of IT leaders in the U.S. federal government. Released CA's IT Gover... Nov. 18, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 1,020 |
By Dana Gardner  The thin-client offerings from the Palo Alto, Calif. company include the HP t5740 and HP t5745 Flexible Series, which feature Intel Atom N280 processors and an Intel GL40 chipset. They also provide eight USB 2.0 ports and an optional PCI expansion module for easy upgrades. The Flexible... Nov. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 765 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Trusted by Fortune 500 multinationals and national governments, Astadia's rigorous engagement methodology was developed over two decades of experience with transformational client projects. Many firms claim that customers can save money merely by moving applications to the cloud. Astad... Nov. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 503 |
By Chevy Weiss  Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui, today announced that it will reveal its application platform atop Windows Azure and its development framework, VWG platforms offers a push-button .NET desktop legacy application migration path to Windows Azure. With VWG enterprises will be ab... Nov. 18, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 442 |
By Nadezhda Lukyanova  This is a second article related to CloudFront Private Content feature that allows you restrict the access to your content. Apparently CloudFront private content configuration is not straight forward and involves many steps as described in our previous post. You have to configure your ... Nov. 18, 2009 12:24 PM EST Reads: 359 |
By Pat Romanski  Norris has over 20 years of enterprise software experience with leading virtualization and storage technology companies, both private and public organizations. During this time, he has catapulted start-ups including Rainfinity, the leader in network file virtualization acquired by EMC,... Nov. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 621 |
By Yeshim Deniz  OpSource announced three innovative OpSource Cloud partner programs that offer incentives, discounts and easy technology on-ramps for individuals and companies of all sizes looking to enter the lucrative cloud computing space. Available for online purchase by the hour from www.opsource... Nov. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 598 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A court in China, where most software is pirated, has ordered Microsoft to stop selling the Chinese versions of its operating systems because they infringe on fonts owned by a Chinese company called Zhongyi Electronic.
Microsoft says it has a license from Zhongyi and will appeal.
... Nov. 18, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 468 |
By Yeshim Deniz  The strategy includes deployment of Salesforce.com and Aprimo Marketing Studio(TM), two best of breed cloud solutions. In addition to implementation and product integration, the resulting end-to-end sales and marketing solution offered by CoreMatrix includes review and optimization of ... Nov. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 541 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Company details strategy and road map for developers to move, enhance and transform applications for the cloud. Microsoft today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In his opening keynote address, Ray Ozzie... Nov. 17, 2009 09:15 PM EST Reads: 791 |
By Yeshim Deniz  iWay Software, an Information Builders company, today announced its robust, enterprise integration solutions are now available on-demand with the release of iWay Cloud Services for Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2). iWay Software's on-demand solution dramatically reduces administrat... Nov. 17, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 691 |
By Liz McMillan  Cycle
Computing, providing proven, secure and flexible high performance
computing (HPC) and open source solutions in the cloud, today announced
that the increasing enterprise demand for HPC and cloud computing is
fueling its rapid expansion across industries. Cycle helps cutting-e... Nov. 17, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 595 |
By Liz McMillan  SugarCRM today announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud platform for web applications and ser... Nov. 17, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 825 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Zeus Technology, the application traffic management folk, has ported the weeks-old edition of its web traffic management widgetry to Amazon EC2 with Amazon's help - including how to word Tuesday's announcement - despite the fact that Amazon has its own unashamedly rudimentary load bala... Nov. 17, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 982 |
By Maureen O'Gara  AT&T said Monday that it will turn on its Amazon-like global Synaptic Compute as a Service later this quarter and target the scalable on-demand computing capacity at companies of all sizes. Since it's at the recruiting poster phase, AT&T has yet to divulge what the EC2-like service wil... Nov. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 597 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Greg O'Connor has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry. Greg was founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). There he grew the company from concept to over $40 million in revenue. At Sonic, he evangeliz... Nov. 17, 2009 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,176 |
By Salvatore Genovese  Cast Iron Systems announced that it has won the Best of SaaS Showplace Award, presented by THINKstrategies, the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market. The Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award program recognizes the Saa... Nov. 17, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 536 |
By Cloud News Desk  View our educational webcast, “Virtualization & Consolidation: Leveraging Dynamic Infrastructure for Cost Savings, Ease of Management & Security,” lead by Steve Dowling, Architect and Level 10 Systems Engineer at Mainline Information Systems. Nov. 17, 2009 12:06 AM EST Reads: 799 |
By Cloud News Desk  Jinfonet Software announces the General Availability of JReport 9.1, providing JReport Cloud and JReport Designer for Eclipse. JReport Cloud provides agility for rapidly and inexpensively re-provisioning infrastructure resources, greatly reduces the cost on hardware, software, and serv... Nov. 16, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 930 |
By Liz McMillan  AgilePath IT management consulting firm, today announced the launch of its Cloud Computing Practice. AgilePath's Cloud practice builds on its other consulting practices and competencies, which focus on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise G... Nov. 16, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 510 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  The Planet today announced its membership in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. Through this partnership, The Planet provides small Web development and design firms with free Microsoft licenses for the latest versions of Windows Server and SQL Server, key tools for building and design... Nov. 16, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 457 |
By Yeshim Deniz  The keynote address will be presented by Amy Wohl, President of Wohl Associates. Amy is a world-renowned computer industry analyst and author. Her presentation is titled, "The Impact of Software as a Service (SaaS) on the Enterprise Data Center." The Plenary Session will be presented b... Nov. 16, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 405 |
By Pat Romanski  Internally called Blue Insight, IBM's cloud environment democratizes information, providing access to a variety of client and market data regardless of where an employee sits in the company. It gathers information from nearly 100 different information warehouses and data stores, provid... Nov. 16, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 470 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Cloud Computing has become the most important business trend of the decade. It has the potential to be as important to the way companies use technology as the Internet. While business and technology leaders are aware of the importance of the cloud, there is much confusion about what it... Nov. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 482 |
By Salvatore Genovese  AT&T today announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity. Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Ser... Nov. 16, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 434 |
By Liz McMillan  WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the launch of the WSO2 Cloud Platform. Available today, the new WSO2 Cloud Platform features a family of WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines; WSO2 Cloud Connectors for enabling fast, secure cloud services; and the multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-... Nov. 16, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 919 |
By Cloud News Desk  Global DataGuard today announced plans to develop a Unified Cloud Security solution by extending its award-winning, systemic security architecture to support cloud or hybrid networks, in addition to premise-based environments. With commercial availability scheduled for Q1 2010, Global ... Nov. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 409 |
By Cloud News Desk  iLinc, a provider of web and video conferencing solutions and services, today announced the availability of iLinc for Salesforce CRM on the AppExchange. iLinc for Salesforce CRM combines iLinc’s feature-rich web collaboration and conferencing technology with the data management functio... Nov. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 433 |
By Cloud News Desk  Adaptive Computing said today it has signed an agreement for HP to resell Moab Adaptive Computing Suite for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem server families to integrate in highly scalable and flexible infrastructure solutions for high performance computing (HPC), datacenter and cloud compu... Nov. 16, 2009 07:07 AM EST Reads: 313 |
By Liz McMillan  Netlist is demonstrating the world's first 16GB 2 virtual rank (vRank) double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud. Netlist will also showcase the interoperability of HyperCloud memory with standard JEDEC server memory solutions on popular ent... Nov. 16, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 421 |
By SOA News Desk  Progress Software Corporation has announced that British Airways (BA) will use its portfolio of SOA solutions as a key part of its travel program to upgrade its IT systems. This will extend to the end of 2014 and will revolutionize travel by integrating over 600 different electronic sy... Nov. 16, 2009 03:01 AM EST Reads: 617 |
By Ray DePena  Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Coffee, of eWeek fame. Peter, as industry veterans may be aware, was eWeek’s Technology Editor, and is now Director of Platform Research for Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud computing.
Our conversation began with my blatant att... Nov. 15, 2009 03:45 AM EST Reads: 579 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Budding cloud merchant Rackspace Hosting came in with better-than-expected net revenue of $162.4 million for the September quarter, up 17.4% year-over-year and up 6.8% sequentially. Earnings were up 45.3% year-over-year to $7.6 million or six cents a share and up 8.8% quarter-over-quar... Nov. 13, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 707 |