By Keith Bergelt  In the wake of the financial crisis and its attendant repercussions across the global economy, the U.S. Congress stands poised to address the issue of patent reform. Much debated and long anticipated, patent reform legislation is back under consideration with the bill possibly coming u... Nov. 6, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 206 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 301 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ... Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,347 |
By Liz McMillan  3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing
technology and utility computing services, announces Peter Nickolov,
President and CTO, 3Tera will be participating in two speaking sessions
at the 2009 Cloud Computing
Conference and Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) on November 2... Oct. 30, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 876 |
By Dan Joe Barry  We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cloud computing is full of potential, bursting with opportunity and ... Oct. 26, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,766 |
By Maureen O'Gara  There is now a thing called EuroCloud, for the moment a French-based SaaS and cloud community whose 70-odd members include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, France Telecom and SAP and whose 30 supporters include Amazon. The object of the name is to share best practices and expand... Oct. 23, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 977 |
By Kevin Jackson  I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being ... Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,824 |
By Kevin Jackson  I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been ... Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,068 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Red Hat said Wednesday that its KVM hypervisor, its pet virtualization scheme, can talk to Microsoft’s Windows Server and that customers can now deploy jointly supported server virtualization environments that combine Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The two companie... Oct. 9, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
By David Linthicum  It’s Thursday morning, you’re the CEO of a large, publicly traded company, and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key competitor, and you’re looking for a call-to-action to get everyon... Oct. 6, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,275 |
By Udayan Banerjee  VMware: I already have the most popular virtualization software and I will integrate Spring Source and create the best PaaS offering. Amazon EC2: I am extending my cloud facility to a virtual private environment so that you security concerns are taken care. Microsoft: I am giving you a... Sep. 26, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,607 |
By Theresa Lanowitz  Everyone wants to lower their capital expenditures and increase operational efficiency - it's a sign of the times. The economy of the past 12 - 18 months has forced all organizations to do more with less and become more efficient. While everyone can identify with the request to do more... Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,454 |
By Jeremy Geelan  If the trend of the first six months of 2009 holds, the overall number of M&A deals this year will have plunged to a level last witnessed in 2004. That is the painful truth, according to a report published today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Conventional M&A strategies must be ... Sep. 29, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,141 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Red Hat did slightly better than the Wall Street pundits supposed it would in its last quarter, the dreaded summer months of June through August in the midst of an awful year. Boosted by a tax benefit, earnings were up 29% to $27.5 million, or 15 cents a share or 16 cents (non-GAAP), o... Sep. 25, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 576 |
By Marc Goodman  With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne... Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,169 |
By Govind Davis  On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up. A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is neede... Sep. 16, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,617 |
By Java News Desk  Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess... Sep. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,685 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi... Sep. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,075 |
By Kevin Hoffman  Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a... Sep. 12, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,359 |
By WebSphere News Desk  Are you still using expensive, proprietary middleware? Tired of rising license costs? Enterprises such as Priceline.com, Citistreet, and many more have decided there is a better way. There are compelling reasons to switch to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including more capabili... Sep. 11, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,864 |
By WebLogic News Desk  IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions, migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as... Sep. 11, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,863 |
By SOA News Desk  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... Sep. 11, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,714 |
By Red Hat News Desk  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... Sep. 11, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,963 |
By Open Source News  As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica... Sep. 11, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,386 |
By Thomas Rischbeck  ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ... Sep. 10, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,818 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Eucalyptus Systems, the creator of the eponymous open source private cloud platform, has pushed out its first commercial product, the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EEE), which will let customers implement an on-premise cloud using VMware’s virtualization widgetry, including vSphere, E... Sep. 9, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,539 |
By Max Katz  During my RichFaces session at JBoss World 2009, I showed three small examples of using Ajax with RichFaces 3.3, JSF 2, and RichFaces 4. I thougth it would be a good idea to show you the difference or more correct the similarities between the three. I will be blogging more about Rich... Sep. 8, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,741 |
By Sanjeev Khurana  Often, estimates are initially made with an incomplete understanding of requirements. Estimation is done at the beginning of the lifecycle before the requirements are defined and thus the problem understood. How can you accurately estimate unless you know what the problem we intend to ... Sep. 8, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
By Maureen O'Gara  In competition with VMware this week Red Hat trotted out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the commercial point upgrade that includes its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) mojo, which is integrated into the Linux kernel, a factor that should give it operating efficiencies like the 16 virt... Sep. 5, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,370 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Red Hat Thursday unveiled Deltacloud, a new open source project aimed at enabling an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts and applications that can interoperate across the public and private clouds complements of a common REST-based API that developers can write to once and manage a... Sep. 5, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,040 |
By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat has delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat's cloud foundation. JBoss Enterprise Appli... Sep. 2, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,654 |
By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Lin... Sep. 2, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 961 |
By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat has announced the North American launch of the Red Hat Catalyst Program, aimed at leveraging all of Red Hat's routes to market through a collaborative and innovative marketing program that plans to include an interactive web portal to facilitate the formation of a community aro... Sep. 1, 2009 08:34 AM EDT Reads: 744 |
By Ray DePena  You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var... Aug. 30, 2009 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,457 |
By Treff LaPlante  Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y... Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
By Treff LaPlante  The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ... Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,903 |
By Executive Brief  There is a common misconception that CMMI and Agile are polar opposites. One relies on institutionalization and documentation of processes and methodologies, while the other emphasizes interaction among workers and “working software over comprehensive documentation” (Agile Manifesto). ... Aug. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
By Pat Romanski  Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ... Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,538 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Linux Foundation has updated its April 2008 study on Linux kernel development, the one called “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?”. The updated study found that since April 2008 there’s been a 10% increase in the number of deve... Aug. 21, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 818 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Red Hat Monday kicked off its redesigned Partner Program, meant to give its resellers more financial, sales, marketing and technical help. It’s added a new Premier Business Partner level above the existing Advanced and Ready classifications and it will also feature specializations in R... Aug. 21, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 909 |