Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...

The United States government has accused Robert Moffat, IBM’s server chief, the guy who was negotiating to buy Sun, with betraying Sun’s financial position to Danielle Chiesi, an employee of New Castle Partners, a New York hedge fund, so she could trade on the insider information. M...

CIO survey advises firms to think twice about ROI before diving into the cloud

LONDON, 15th October 2009 – Cloud computing may be the hottest buzzword in IT right now, but enterprises should take a step back to consider the real costs and bene...

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & ...

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) positions Oracle in the leader's quadrant. (1) Oracle's EAS technology includes Oracle WebLogic Server, which is available together with related Oracle application grid technology as part of Oracle WebLogic Suite. The Ga...

Today, Oracle announced that Oracle® WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 11g running on an HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server, achieved a world record single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark(1).

MySQL’s good-looking and now rich former CEO Marten Mickos asked the European Commission Thursday to rubberstamp Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, which is supposedly held up by EC concerns over MySQL’s destiny at the hands of Oracle. Mickos said in a letter to EC antitrust czarina Neelie K...

Gee and it was only four o’clock yesterday morning Microsoft time that Microsoft’s general counsel Brad Smith remarked that antitrust regulators might try targeting somebody else besides Microsoft for a change. Like, oh, say, maybe, IBM for its $5 trillion 100% mainframe...

Eolas Technologies, whose overarching browser patent claims struck fear in the heart of World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and left Microsoft, a test case for the industry, significantly poorer, filed a massive patent infringement suit in the infamous Eastern District of Texas this...

Oracle says it’s going to acquire certain assets of HyperRoll, a developer of financial reporting acceleration software in Mountain View, California. HyperRoll’s software analyzes large quantities of financial data. Its customer base is largely retail and financial accounts. Oracle sai...

Not content with running off some Sun customers and piggybacking on Sun resellers, HP has plucked Randy Seidl, the senior vice-president of Sun’s North America region global sales and services organization, out of there and made him head of Americas sales for its Enterprise Storage, Se...

Remember that ad Oracle ran a few weeks ago on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and later on the back cover of the Economist and repeated on its web site claiming "Sun + Oracle is Faster" than IBM? Oracle's claim for an undefined Oracle-Sun box was supposedly based on TPC-C re...

To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite 7. With more than 170 million seats of earlier versions deployed, thi...

Today, this global leader in Java learning and powered by over 50,000 developers in its global community, announced the worldwide availability of SkillScan, its cutting-edge, automated tool to assess the Java skills of job candidates. SkillScan is used by recruiters and hiring manager...

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support for the low-cost BeagleBoard with its flagship product PERC Ultra. More developers and projects will be able to quickly and more cost efficiently launch deve...

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC Ultra for embedded and rea...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in...

Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in...

Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2,...

The European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Ellison, who was interview...

Dell this morning said it would buy Texas-based Perot Systems for $3.9 billion cash, a 68% premium. The money for the $30-a-share tender offer will come out of Dell’s savings, which this summer amounted to $11.7 billion. IBM turned into a services company years ago; HP bought EDS for $...

Netbiscuits, a web software platform for the creation, publication, and monetization of mobile websites, today announces the launch of a mobile couponing solution. The new “Messaging and Couponing Tool”, which will go live in October, allows the creation of SMS-based mobile coupons tha...

The other day Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, one of the brighter bulbs on Wall Street, toyed with the idea of Oracle walking away from the Sun deal. He figures it’s unlikely but he wondered if Oracle’s conviction level would waiver at all on its earnings call Wednesday. A...

Teradata, NCR’s discarded data warehousing operation, has been M&A poison since it floated off two years ago because any potential acquirer would have had to pay back hundreds of millions of tax credits for the privilege of taking it over. That string is soon to expire and Oracle’s mov...

Oracle, whose takeover of Sun has been delayed because the European Commission suspects it of harboring foul intentions toward MySQL, the popular open source database Sun bought, has enhanced the performance of its Berkeley DB embeddable databases (née SugarCat). There are new releases...

Oracle terday afternoon wheeled out "the world's first" OLTP Database Machine based on so-called FlashFire solid-state disk SSD technology from Sun. It's supposed to be the fastest computer on the planet for both data warehouses and OLTP. It's supposed to break the I/O bottleneck by pr...

Oracle is supposed today to announce “the world’s first” OLTP Database Machine based on what it calls FlashFire technology from Sun. Reportedly FlashFire is solid-state disk (SSD) technology. It’s Oracle’s way of thumbing its nose at the European Commission, whose investigation ...

Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more m...

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...

Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise as enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and scope....

What do the following industry executives have in common: the CTOs of Citrix, EMC and Sybase, the Founders of ParaScale and CloudSwitch, the CEOs of Zetta and Kaavo, the Chief Security Architect at Sun, the President of Hubspan and the Chairman of NComputing? The answer is that, alo...

Oracle bought a hard-to-miss piece of the front page of the Wall Street Journal Thursday to run an ad apparently in hopes of arresting the increasing erosion in Sun’s server business. The bulleted ad is addressed to Sun customers and says Oracle “plans to spend more money developin...

IBM’s chief economist thinks the recession is over. EMC’s CFO thinks the worst of the budget lock is over for high-tech firms. And the Federal Reserve’s got a new survey suggesting the economy is growing again by 3%-4% in most of the US due to business spending. Unemployment hit 9.7% i...

The United States Postal Service, which will be lucky if it only loses $7.1 billion by the end of its fiscal year in September, and escapes with a cash shortfall of $700 million and a debt load of $10.2 billion, has come to the cloud in the wake of its FedEx and UPS rivals. The pos...

JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has...

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...

Gartner database analyst Donald Feinberg and his colleague George Weiss told Cnet that the only reason the European Commission is holding up the Oracle-Sun deal on the pretext of investigating Oracle’s intentions on MySQL is “political” and “protectionist” – as though the rest of us di...

SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has announced that iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, has deployed SpringSource Hyperic HQ, a key part of SpringSource’s full solution set, which covers the entire b...

Sun said Wednesday that it’s got an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription called MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 that will let DBAs graphically drill down into database bottlenecks to improve application performance. The widgetry can be had for the moment on a free 30-day trial subscr...

Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre...