ScaleMP, which builds SMP machines for HPC by aggregating multiple x86 blades into a single virtual x86 system, has become one of the cloud people. It’s adding some widgetry called vSMP Foundation for Cloud, currently in beta, to its vSMP Foundation line. It enables the dynamic, on-the...

Cisco’s having trouble herding Tandberg’s shareholder into its pen. Despite the deal it cut with management, it’s only gotten 9.37% of the shareholders to accept its $3 billion cash offer for the videoconferencing equipment maker. They figure it’s worth more than Cisco’s 38% premium; C...

Tucked away right now in a private beta is a versatile Cloud Service Broker that sounds like it could be a very handy thing to have around once it’s delivered sometime in the first quarter. Gartner predicted such things would turn up to negotiate relationships between providers of clou...

Cisco’s behaving a little like the Lord High Executioner in the Mikado. It’s got a little list and apparently figures nobody on it will be missed if it sent them to an early grave starting with Microsoft Exchange. See, as of Monday Cisco is in the hosted e-mail business up against Micr...

The ERP Comparison Guide shortens the time needed to purchase ERP software for companies looking to get 2009 off to a successful start! Begin accurately controlling costs, inventory and revenue forecasts in 2009.

Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been...

Learn what a Sales Force Automation system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Worried about locking yourself into a CRM solution that does not work as expected? It just takes 30 seconds to download our buyer's guide to get...

"As many as 85% of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools..." Gartner analyst Robert DeSisto Many large companies also underestimate how complex their business and customers are, which leads to an inadequate CRM program. Learn how to eas...

Every business today is looking to cut costs in these slowing economic times. Now, learn how to save costs by choosing the right IP office phone system. Many companies are transitioning from either a Centrex service or Key system / PBX product to a state-of-the-art Hosted IP or IP PBX ...

Learn what an Premise PBX system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Traditional business PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and TDM (time-division multiplexing) systems are fast becoming outdated and obsolete and oftentimes do ...

In this webcast, you will hear from Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, Esq, a legal expert specializing in Information Technology Law and from Don Bailey, a technology specialist at Mainline Information Systems who can help you sort through different solutions in the marketplace.

Get the critical information you need to transform your data center by implementing a solution based on the greatest possible computing power with the lowest possible energy expenditure. View our educational webcast, “Energy Efficiency: Leverage Dynamic Infrastructure for Cost Savings,...

In a time where companies and consumers rely on the internet for immediate results, we are seeing a shift in the amount of tolerance business leaders have for IT disruptions. Just one minute of downtime can have a negative impact on revenue. The very definition of a disruption has chan...

Whether running on Red Hat or Novell SUSE, Linux has earned the reputation for flexibility and cost effectiveness. Companies are benefiting from the openness of Linux that is supported by a large open source community.

The growing popularity of outsourced computing is no surprise. Together, with the now wide-availability of compact, commodity servers has fueled the demand for a wide range of cloud computing models. The promise? The ability to instantly acquire – and just as quickly dispose of – infra...

Gartner Data Center Conference, Dec 1-4 in Las Vegas delivers tactics and strategies on your hottest issues: next-stage virtualization, the impact of cloud computing, best practices in cost optimization, managing escalating energy costs, the aging infrastructure, and more.

Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, Dec 7-9 in Las Vegas. Learn the latest on Cloud computing, SOA, Event Processing, Agile, Application governance, Application development life cycle, Application and data integration, Application modernization, and more...

Deep Virtual Server Monitoring: CPU ready, Memory Balloon, Memory Zero, and many more granular Metrics, monitor Physical, Virtual, and Cloud: Services, applications, servers and more. Onsite/remote datacenters, hybrid environments, outsourced infrastructure, Real World Cast Savings: Pe...

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Explorer v1.7, a freeware application that allows users to manage files in Amazon S3 buckets just as they would on their local computers.

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance. It said software devel...

Evans Data Corp announced that use of the Python scripting language has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according to the most recent North American Development Survey to be released this week to subscribers. Only 13% of developers used Python before Google announced its App Engine p...

NComputing Inc. announced that it has won a massive computerization contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro for deploying 31,000 NComputing virtual desktops in ESIC offices and clinics across the country. ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client wor...

InsideView for NetSuite was built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform and is the first social intelligence application delivered natively within NetSuite. The new application expands the NetSuite-InsideView partnership beyond its original sales intelligence focus to delive...

“The industry is at an inflection point that is perhaps more significant than at any juncture in North American telecom history,” says Rob Chimsky, inCode Telecom Vice President and CTO. “Incremental revenue is shifting from voice to data. However, threats from new competitors offerin...

Netlist, Inc. launches HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank (vRank) memory module for servers. A double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud maximizes server utilization to improve datacenter application performance. HyperCloud a...

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines "Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS." The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP's website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byro...

OpSource announced that SecuCloud has successfully deployed OpSource On-Demand to bring its business-critical database security and compliance solution to the enterprise. SecuCloud offers a comprehensive and automated database security and compliance solution that is designed from the ...

The reality is that technology CEOs - least of all flamboyant ones - aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhi...

When enterprises and data centers evaluate cloud technologies and various solutions move their applications to the cloud computing paradigm, there are many important decisions to consider, such as Will the applications be portable? Are there significant code changes and workflow change...

Shavlik Technologies released findings of a comprehensive survey designed to gauge market drivers for new virtualization and cloud computing initiatives in corporate IT environments. The survey found that data, server and licensing consolidation and disaster recovery functionality are ...

A white paper published today by The FactPoint Group, a Silicon Valley-based research and consulting firm, quantifies significant cost and efficiency gains at Corus Automotive Engineering Group (AEG), a leading engineering company using a private cloud solution powered by Univa UD and ...

SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s...

Microsoft and the government of Taiwan are going to set up a cloud research center before the end of the year. It should help local contract manufacturers develop cloud devices and services. Quanta, for instance, intends to start churning out cloud servers at some point. Microsoft mean...

Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ...

Citrix's new, aggressive program enables businesses to easily identify the best virtualization solutions for use with XenDesktop and their IT environment. The open architecture of XenDesktop 4 gives customers the confidence to make the switch to virtualization and their program include...

Wyse is launching support for VMware View 4 with integrated support for PCoIP across its line of existing thin clients, including immediate support for Wyse thin clients based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard. Wyse will also support PCoIP on its line of Li...

Uniloc USA, which is good at identifying network devices, has launched WebAnchor, extending its physical device recognition technology to the cloud. The widgetry includes a physical, tangible identifier for online services and SaaS applications such as business applications, banking...

ECP is a carrier-class architecture & cloud hosting platform which supports the deployment of very large public cloud infrastructure for service providers. The platform has been designed to span multiple federated data centers in disparate geographies around the globe handling hundreds...

The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for...

Fujitsu today announced in North America free hosting of BPM applications for up to ten users. Based on the newest release of its Interstage(R) Cloud BPM platform, solution providers and enterprise teams of up to ten users can quickly develop and use process-based applications at no ch...