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Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industry news related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies. SYS-CON Events announced today that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place ...Jul. 6, 2009 03:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,142 |
 Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of m...Jul. 5, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 845 |
 With the spoils of the BEA acquisition now fully baked into the mix -- and with anticipation for what the pending Sun Microsystems buy brings -- Oracle is well on its way to obviating the middleware moniker. Perhaps we should call it "anyware."Jul. 5, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 749 |
 How many companies, large and small, do you know that rely on the Internet? Some people may have never heard of the term "Cloud Computing". It refers to "a computation or storage offered as a service supported by a pool of distributed computing resources, also known as utility computin...Jul. 4, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 514 |
 Citrix has released a public AMI ( Amazon Machine Image ) in the EC2 Cloud recently as part of the C3 Lab initiative with Amazon Web Services. XenApp Fundamentals is the new name for Access Essentials which is an ideal solution for SMB's looking for a simple way to administer and deliv...Jul. 4, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 471 |
 Want to know what gets my blood pressure up? It’s when there’s both a huge shift in thinking around how we should do computing, namely cloud computing, and at the same time, there’s a bunch of information out there that causes confusion. As cloud computing hype spikes to a frenzy, so d...Jul. 4, 2009 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,218 Replies: 1 |
 A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its popular list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many aga...Jul. 4, 2009 02:55 AM EDT Reads: 22,841 Replies: 3 |
 CloudBerry Lab has started a beta testing program for CloudBerry Online Backup - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.Jul. 3, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 499 |
 With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.
Jul. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,181 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...Jul. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,241 |
 ESRI, the leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year award. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Award recognizes partners that have developed and delivered exc...Jul. 2, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 725 |
 "What's fueling the interest in RIA?" asked Regev Yativ, President & CEO of Magic Software Enterprises in the Americas, at the beginning of his session at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in NYC last month. The answer is the growth of broadband, Yativ said, which has made the Internet ...Jul. 2, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,999 |
 CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Explorer v1.5, a freeware application that allows users to manage files in Amazon S3 buckets just as they would on their local computers.Jul. 1, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 284 |
 System architects and engineering teams are designing increasingly complex embedded systems in order to satisfy their customers’ stringent functionality and performance requirements. In addition, within tactical systems, it’s not uncommon to require deterministic real-time behavior whi...Jul. 1, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 779 |
 F5 Networks, Inc., a provider Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has announced integration between its BIG-IP solutions and VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCenter Server, together creating a scalable and extensible platform that allows IT administrators to improve organizations' contr...Jul. 1, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 543 |
 As part of today's Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced that Oracle Fusion Middleware remains the Company's fastest growing business. Oracle's commitment to delivering innovative products strengthened Oracle Fusion Middleware's position as an industry leader in vend...Jul. 1, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 617 |
 With the advent of Cloud Computing, the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery is plunging fast by several orders of magnitude. Behind all the buzzwords, a basic shift is occurring - the wholesale outsourcing of core business applications. This is why...Jul. 1, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 521 |
 Virtualization, viewed as one of the most promising technology investments in an economic downturn, is of great interest to enterprises seeking to build a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with rapid business change. Investments are being made in proven products for infrast...Jul. 1, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 456 |
 Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) yesterday moved to overcome CIOs’ concerns about security of data in the cloud, cited by organizations and industry analysts as the top impediment to adopting cloud computing for business needs. Unisys unveiled an innovative cloud computing strategy and s...Jul. 1, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 788 |
 Red Hat, Inc., has announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology so...Jul. 1, 2009 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 863 |
| As a pioneer in large-scale computing, Unisys has tackled some of the toughest security challenges in the world for both public and private sector clients. The company brings a holistic approach to security that spans digital and physical environments, securing a client’s people, place... Jul. 1, 2009 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,454 |
 “SOA serves as the foundation for the move into the cloud,” stated Dr. Kareem Yusuf, Director Product Management, WebSphere Software, IBM in his keynote at SOA World Conference & Expo in NYC Tuesday. “What are the characteristics of the cloud?” Dr Yusuf then asked. Shared infrastructur...Jun. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,523 |
 The new offerings, including the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and HP Cloud Roadmap Service, are part of a larger portfolio of HP consulting services for enterprise customers who are looking to efficiently drive business benefits from the cloud. Jun. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 906 |
 In today’s economy, an enterprise must have strong financial motives for transitioning to SOA. SOA’s superior technical capabilities are a strong motive for information technology professionals to make that transition. However, enterprise stakeholders are motivated by solid investment ...Jun. 30, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 635 |
 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in November will introduce two new and dedicated tracks - “SOA in the Cloud” and “RIAs in the Cloud” - which will examine how service oriented architecture, AJAX, rich internet applications, enterprise mashups, social media and Web 2....Jun. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 463 |
 Anyone familiar with the history of Unisys will not be at all surprised to learn that the company is the latest giant to enter the arena of enterprise cloud computing. Indeed, with its deep experience and rich technological innovation and capabilities in the enterprise server marketpla...Jun. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 801 |
 The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the growing interest in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the Cloud. The purpose of this group is to present experiences and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud co...Jun. 30, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leader in high-value technology and business solutions to global enterprises, Unisys, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place on November 2 ...Jun. 30, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 920 |
 CloudSwitch (www.cloudswitch.com) is developing an innovative software appliance that delivers the power of cloud computing seamlessly and securely so enterprises can dramatically reduce cost and improve responsiveness to the business. With CloudSwitch, enterprises are protected from t...Jun. 30, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 418 |
 Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise (Enterprise RIA) can convey multiple benefits to a business, from lower cost of ownership, overall application availability and better security, to tremendous user experience. But these benefits come at a price: complexity and cost. For ent...Jun. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 776 |
 FatWire Software, a web experience management (WEM) provider, has announced new releases of FatWire Engage 7.5 for personalization and FatWire Analytics 2.5 for web content optimization. In conjunction with the FatWire Content Server web content management platform, FatWire Engage and...Jun. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 464 |
 ThinkGrid, provider of business IT on demand, today launches its cloud storage service for organisations that need to retain ever-increasing amounts of data, but lack the capital to invest in high-cost, on-site storage. Customers can now benefit from this enterprise-class data stora...Jun. 29, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 312 |
 Good Data, a leading provider of on-demand, collaborative analytic solutions, today announced the integration of its on-demand analytics service with NetSuite, the industry's leading on-demand business management suite. Offered free to NetSuite customers, the analytics service enables ...Jun. 29, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 311 |
 Red Hat’s revenues were up 11.4% to $174.4 million in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. Subscription revenue was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year. It earned $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up 7%. Its non-GAAP income for the quarter was $28.7 million, or 15 cents a share, ...Jun. 29, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,069 |
 Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, th...Jun. 29, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,682 Replies: 1 |
 A new shift in computing is upon us – cloud computing. As our use of computing resources evolves from mainframes to PCs and networks, we are now facing a major shift in the way we work. This could have dramatic effects on the way we use computers, both for work and play. But the securi...Jun. 29, 2009 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 768 |
 Cloud computing requires a dynamic computing infrastructure. The foundation for the dynamic infrastructure is a standardized, scalable, and secure physical infrastructure. There should be levels of redundancy to ensure high levels of availability, but mostly it must be easy to extend a...Jun. 27, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,750 |
 EMC has set up EMC Research Cambridge, a new research presence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and joined the MIT Media Lab as a consortium sponsor. The company says EMC Research Cambridge leverages and brings into close collaboration RSA Laboratories, EMC Research China and its Santa Cla...Jun. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 416 |
 Former Sun president Ed Zander has suddenly resurfaced on the NetSuite board. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison owns most of the on-demand Salesforce.com rival and Oracle is buying Sun. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson also used to work for Zander at Sun. Zander, who was ousted as CEO of Motorola after...Jun. 26, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 822 |
 LiveOffice, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email hosting and email continuity solutions, and Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced beta availability of LiveOffice CloudMerge f...Jun. 26, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 353 |
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