Top Cloud Computing Providers in 2008: The Cloud Crowd
Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through the googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to "cloud computing" has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their current offerings? SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal zeroes in on the facts and the faces behind this white-hot Enterprise IT technology trend.read more |
SOA World Expo - SOA Software Announces Record Growth
SOA Software announced that the number of transactions processed by its systems each month grew by 400%, to over 2.5 billion transactions a month. The growth was due to the expansion of existing production systems and the deployment into production of new SOA Governance systems. SOA Software attributes this growth in production usage to the expansion of the market driving demand for SOA Governance solutions.read more |
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New Suit Puts Hans Reiser’s Company in Play
Hans Reiser’s children Rory, 8, and Niorline, 7, represented pro bono by Morrison and Foerster, the big-time San Francisco law firm, have sued their father for the wrongful death of their mother, seeking unspecified damages for being deprived of her “love, support, companionship, comfort, affection and society.”read more |
Reiser Sentenced
Two years ago this weekend Linux programmer Hans Reiser murdered his estranged wife. Friday he was sentenced to 15 years to life as part of a deal that reduced his first-degree murder conviction and its mandatory 25 years-to-life sentence to second-degree murder in exchange for taking authorities to the wooded site where he had buried her body.
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The Hana Financial Group Selects ActivIdentity Mini-tokens to Meet New FSA Mandatory Requirements for Two-factor Strong Authentication
“A major requirement of the Hana Financial Group was to select a standards-based authentication solution. The ActivIdentity Mini-token was selected as it complies with the OATH open standard, providing compatibility with 3rd party software, and assurance of future proofing as industry requirements move over time.” A Hana Bank spokesperson said.read more |
Cloud Computing Expo - PTO Denies Dell’s Trademark
If Dell is going to pursue its quixotic quest to trademark the expression “Cloud Computing,” it’s going to have to convince the US Patent and Trademark Office that the buzzword is neither merely descriptive (like, say, spotted pony) or generic and so “incapable of functioning as a source-identifier” for Dell’s services because that’s what the PTO called it in its latest communiqué to the company, a “non-final action” that denies its trademark application. read more |
Symantec Redefines Endpoint Virtualization
Symantec announced it is delivering expanded endpoint virtualization solutions to further protect and manage endpoints, whether physical, virtual or hybrid. Symantec provides IT organizations the flexibility needed to deliver applications with a variety of computing models matched to the specific needs of different workers in the company. Symantec is changing the way software is managed, delivered and consumed at the endpoint by separating information from the operating system and applications, thereby improving user productivity while lowering IT cost. read more |
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IBM Introduces New Products and Initiatives to Enable Next-Generation Linux
IBM introduced a series of new products, services and initiatives that further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux.
As the company marks ten years of support for Linux, IBM announced a number of cross-company initiatives to drive the next generation of Linux. read more |
IBM and Linux Distros Gang Up on the Microsoft Desktop
IBM, Canonical, Novell, Red Hat and the distributions’ hardware partners are ganging up on Microsoft, intending to push a Microsoft-free desktop alternative involving Linux, Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony. They think they see an auspicious constellation of stars in the sky – like PC margins – paving the way to making Linux-on-the-desktop mainstream – well, more mainstream anyway.
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Google's Top Copyright Man Ceases Blogging: The State of Copyright's Too Gloomy
Although Google's top copyright man, William Patry wrote his blog in a purely private capacity as one of the leading copyright scholars in the world. But now he has decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. When one of the world's pre-eminent experts in the field is so depressed by the state of copyright that he can't bring himself to blog about it, you know that something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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VMware Virtualization Helps Universities
VMware announced that more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand are using VMware virtualization to enhance the online experience of their students. VMware is working with the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) which paves the way for more than 40 member institutions to deliver virtualization solutions at standard and low costs, regardless of a school's size. CAUDIT members include nearly every university in Australia and New Zealand.read more |
SOA World - Abstraction and Control in REST vs RPC
One of the biggest debates in the software industry is about getting the level of abstraction right. By this I mean a level of interaction with computers higher than binary code or machine language - in other words, anything that presents humans with a more natural or intuitive abstraction of a CPU's instruction set and binary data storage format.read more |
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Minimize XML Performance Challenges and Boost Productivity
Today's applications rely on data feeds from many sources, using technologies that are based on the use of XML. XML data descriptions can be complex often creating performance and scalability challenges for the enterprises. Efficient XML processing is the cornerstone of almost every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment, regardless of the language or data center environment.read more |
An IT Admin's Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization
Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and applications off a USB flash drive or iPod, and centrally-managed updates delivered simultaneously. Whaley will also talk about key security benefits to building and deploying virtual desktops including malware immunity, backing up to the cloud and automatic rejuvenation.read more |
Parallels Virtualization Automation Adds Integration for Secure64 DNS
Parallels announced that its Parallels Automation solution now integrates with Secure64 DNS, giving service providers who use Parallels Automation the ability to easily manage Secure64 servers within their datacenters. Through the collaboration, Parallels Automation is able to offer a new option for service providers searching for secure and highly available DNS solution.read more |
Web 2.0 Journal Case Study: Transcending E-mail as a Platform for Multi-Person Collaboration
E-mail is extremely easy to adopt and use, and lends itself very well to certain types of collaboration. When two people are attempting to collaborate asynchronously, e-mail is usually the best solution. It's certainly far less frustrating than phone tag. But once more people are involved, email's utility rapidly degenerates. While the rise of free, open-source solutions makes it tempting to build one's own collaboration tools, on-demand or Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are the better choice for the majority of users and uses.read more |
Red Hat Delivers on Linux Automation
Red Hat announced advancements that extend the Company's Linux Automation strategy by providing expanded capabilities and incorporating broadened community involvement for secure management of both users and systems across virtual and physical enterprise infrastructures.read more |
Sun Puts MySQL on an "All You Can Eat" Plan
Sun is offering to put its open source Glassfish application server and MySQL database on as many servers as a company's got for a flat annual subscription - no counting servers, CPUS, cores or virtual machines, it says.read more |
Android Won't Be Home for Xmas
Android, due in the second half, could reportedly be delayed until Q4 or maybe even next year, according to the tale the Wall Street Journal tells, a situation that opens up a can of worms for Google. Google has to prove that it's more than a one-trick pony and that it can deliver something other than beta software. The paper says Google is so absorbed with getting a T-Mobile Android phone out in Q4 that Sprint Nextel and China Mobile have fallen by the wayside.read more |
Reiser's Lawyer Says He's Nuts
On Monday, nine days ahead of his sentencing on July 9 for the murder of his wife, William DuBois, the lawyer for ace Linux programmer Hans Reiser, filed a brief with the court saying - for the very first time since this case began - that under penalty of perjury that he think Reiser 'may be mentally incompetent as a result of mental disorder or developmental disability' - not simply socially inept or perhaps mildly autistic, as he's suggested before - and that Reiser can't - and these are supposed to be magic words to a court - 'understand the nature of the criminal proceedings or assist counsel in the conduct of the defense in a rational manner.'read more |
Virtualization - Sun Upgrades MySQL
Sun has released a new real-time, shared-nothing, carrier-grade version of MySQL called MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3 certified for use in telecom environments, such as subscriber data management systems (hlr, hss) and service delivery platforms.read more |
SCO Gets Extension
Novell was foiled in its attempt this week to persuade the bankruptcy judge in Delaware, who's holding SCO life in his hands, to deny SCO another extension in filing a formal plan of reorganization. If the judge had agreed with Novell - which he didn't - that would have ended what they call in bankruptcy circles the 'exclusivity period' when only the debtor - in this case SCO - can file a reorganization plan.read more |
Xsigo Systems to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Xsigo Systems is the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, a solution that reduces IT expense by changing the way that servers are connected to networks and storage. The Xsigo I/O Director delivers the following benefits and more: 70% fewer cables, cards, switch ports, 50% less capital cost, 100x greater agility and centralized, remote control of I/O resources.read more |
Virtualization for High-End Computing
The session will describe the use of system aggregation, a revolutionary virtualization technology that allows end-users to get access to a large shared memory system built using multiple off-the-shelf x86 systems. Aggregation provides organizations with better price/performance compared to traditional symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, and lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to clusters. This new virtualization technology for high-end computing takes advantage of the traditional SMP operating model such as ease of installation and management, as well as large memory, while maintaining the cost structure of x86 clusters.read more |
Managing Storage in the Virtual Enterprise
It's no secret that data centers are faced with exponential storage growth, increasing operational costs, power and cooling limitations, and the need to provision and bring new applications online more rapidly to support critical business needs, many customers look to virtualization strategies to ease the management burden. SRM technology can address the demands and management complexities that virtualization presents. Virtualization, by definition, can apply to operating systems, applications and storage arrays. This session will identify and elaborate on the various virtualization categories, and talk about how SRM technology can enable IT organizations to manage storage in the virtual enterprise.read more |
A Social Registry - Bridging Technology and Community for SOA
SOA is about people as much as technology. This talk will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or 'Web 2.0') features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers, businesspeople and technologists. We'll show you how a social registry/repository can enable both grass-roots development and CIO-pleasing governance, all with standard REST interfaces. And because we can directly connect SOA components and metadata with the human community creating them, the relationships of both the software and the people can be enriched.read more |
GHS Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is a highly successful software company specializing in virtualization and security. Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY is the first operating system or virtualization technology to be accepted for EAL 6+ Common Criteria IT Security evaluation; the level required to protect assets from hostile and well-funded attacks. Green Hills' INTEGRITY PC technology, using the unique Padded Cell virtualization architecture, enables IT organizations and equipment manufacturers the ability to deploy completely secure systems while supporting environments such as Windows and Linux.read more |
3PAR Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
3PAR is a provider of utility storage, a category of highly-virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning - a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies - 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.read more |
PlateSpin Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
PlateSpin provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending workload profiling and portability technology liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads (data, applications and operating systems) over the network between physical and virtual infrastructures. The freedom to drag and drop workloads onto the physical or virtual hosts where they will run most efficiently ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs, boost operational efficiencies and solve today's most pressing data center challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery.read more |
JBoss Hits Amazon's EC2 Cloud
Red Hat is beta testing its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as a solution on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It's a way to tickle enterprise adoption of its Java application server. EC2 offers developers, enterprises and startups a web-scale compute infrastructure with virtually unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go pricing. And of course clouds right now are very chi-chi.read more |
High Intensity Virtualization - Taking Your Virtualization Strategy to the Next Level
With the rapid deployment of server virtualization technology in the data center, IT management is actively looking at optimizing their SAN storage architecture to reap the full benefits of their virtualization investment, such as workload mobility and disaster recovery, without running into I/O bottlenecks and unpredictable utilization of SAN resources that comes with a much more dynamic environment. This session will explore how Data Center Fabric enables virtual servers and physical servers to stand on an equal footing. It will also discuss capabilities specifically designed to support virtualized environments such as VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen.read more |
Akorri Adds Citrix XenServer Support
Akorri announced the availability of its flagship BalancePoint management platform for Citrix XenServer virtualized environments and certification in the Citrix Ready program. BalancePoint for Citrix XenServer offers cross-domain management and advanced analytics for virtualized environments running Citrix XenServer. For Citrix XenServer customers, BalancePoint provides deep visibility into server and storage resources to help resolve data center performance problems and improve service levels.read more |
PowerBuilder Editorial - "There You Go Again"
If that doesn't ring a bell, it's from the Reagan / Carter debates in the 1980 election cycle. Carter had presented a string of criticisms of Reagan's positions, which Reagan pretty much dismissed with that statement. Back in the heyday of client/server development, the folks at Borland released a hit piece on PowerBuilder written by a Delphi advocate. You can still find a copy of it as a series of articles on the CodeGear site.read more |
SAP Honors Novell with SAP Pinnacle Award
Novell announced it has received an SAP Pinnacle Award in the category 'Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business,' recognizing Novell as an SAP partner who has made significant contributions to SAP's customer-focused ecosystem. Novell was honored specifically for work with SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP as well as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server high availability and virtualization for SAP.read more |
SOA RIA News - Appcelerator to Shake Up Rich Internet Application Market
'I'm looking forward to helping Appcelerator shake up the rich Internet application market,' said Bearden. 'Companies are struggling with how to take advantage of all the money and time they've poured into SOA. Appcelerator answers the question once and for all by enabling them to build rich applications on top of that SOA infrastructure.'read more |
SOA World Magazine 6th Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations Open
SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the 'Oscars of the Software Industry,' has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade.read more |
When Yahoo! Says Cloud, It Means a Freakin' Big Cloud
Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms were not disclosed. What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has 'substantially more processors than any other supercomputer currently available for cloud research' - 14,400 of them to be precise along with 28TB of memory, 140TB of disk space, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops.read more |
Novell Ain't No Red Hat, Even with Microsoft
Novell made $5.87 million, or two cents a share, in its second fiscal quarter ended April 30 on flat revenues of $235.7 million, up only ~$3 million. A year ago it lost $2.9 million, down a penny. Legal and R&D cost it $4.5 million. On a non-GAAP basis, income from operations for the second fiscal quarter 2008 was $16 million versus $9 million last year.read more |
Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple"
Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, including the iPhone and Macs. New Yorkers are pissed off! New York City, universally known as The Big Apple, is facing a lawsuit from Steve Jobs' Apple Computer Inc. for, of all things, copyright infringement.read more |
SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine Announce Judges for SOA Case Study Contest
The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine have announced the expert panel of judges who will be reviewing entries to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Contest. The contest is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies that have successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach.read more |
Web 2.0 and Enterprise Application Expert Joins Nexaweb As CTO
'Businesses today are looking to build on the success of their existing technology investments with a future-proof architecture that will support continued enhancements to their enterprise applications,' said Jeremy Chone, newly-appointed CTO of Nexaweb. 'Jeremy brings a great balance of Web 2.0 and enterprise application software management and leadership experience to our team,' said Chris Heidelberger, chief executive officer, Nexaweb.read more |
Linux, Wind and the Atom
Wind River and Intel are putting their heads together to create an extensible open source Linux platform for the automotive industry - an infotainment (gad, that horrid word) platform for Intel's newfangled Atom chip. It's part of a major new product strategy for Wind River, which is going to open source the specification and code from the platform at Moblin.org in hopes of creating Open Infotainment Platforms that everybody uses and that attract a vibrant ecosystem.read more |
JavaOne 2008: Sun Challenges Linux
Sun's mule train has finally pulled into Indiana after three years on the road. Indiana is the Linux-friendly Fedora-like OpenSolaris project meant to move the Solaris-shy Linux community off Linux and on to Solaris tempted by Solaris widgetry like the highly scalable, rollback-easy, 128-bit ZFS default filesystem, Linux-like network-based Image Packaging System (IPS) application install accelerator, DTrace predictive self-healing and scalable Containers virtualization, not to mention its Gnome 2.22 front-end and built-in Firefox browser.read more |
CNR.com Announces Support For Linux Mint Operating System
Linspire announced the support for the Linux Mint operating system. To gain access to the free CNR Service, Linux Mint 4.0 users simply install the free CNR Client that is available at CNR.com. With Linux Mint support, CNR.com now offers its one-click software delivery service to five Linux distributions available, including Freespire 2.0, Kubuntu 7.04 & 7.10, Linspire 6.0 and Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 & 8.04 (32bit).read more |
SCO & Novell in Court
SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt to tax Linux. This is the money that SCO claims it doesn't owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries.read more |
Linux Programmer Reiser Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder
Linux programmer Hans Reiser has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of his estranged Russian-born wife Nina, who went missing after dropping their two small children with their father on Labor Day weekend 2006. Reiser, who's been in jail since October of 2006, is now looking at a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison. First-degree murder assumes the killing was premeditated.read more |
Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over
Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over hippie movement he's been leading is no longer the radical anti-software establishment counter-culture his rag-tag army fancies it is. Nope, it IS the software establishment. That is the finding of the Standish Group, which after five years of research on open source has delivered a $1,000 report called 'Trends in Open Source,' a study that finds that FOSS is now costing software vendors $60 billion a year in annual revenues, and it's still only 6% of the global spend.read more |
IBM zSeries Servers Supported by Likewise Software
Likewise Software announced support for IBM zSeries servers that are using either Red Hat or the Novell SUSE Linux platforms. Customers that rely on zSeries for their mission critical applications can now use Likewise Software products to directly join their systems to MicrosoftR Active Directory. zSeries servers are used by IBM customers for business-critical installations where scheduled and unscheduled downtime costs are high.read more |
Microsoft & Novell Go to China in Search of Converts
Microsoft and Novell have taken it into their collective head to push their peculiar axis into China - and elsewhere - to convert unsupported Linux users to SUSE. They say they've had demand 'to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software and provide interoperability and IP peace of mind,' a claim that set off guffaws across the open source community considering China's reputation for ignoring IP rights - among other civil liberties - and the fact that it's been a big-time Windows pirate.read more |
OLPC's Founder Ready To Climb in Bed with Microsoft
One Laptop Per Child, the effort to put technology in the hands of third-world kids, has lost its number two guy Walter Bender, who was president, software and content until last month when he was shifted to head of deployment although not many of OLPC's novel Linux-based XO machines have been getting deployed. Bender, credited with building OLPC, has now reportedly gone off to develop XO's icon-based Sugar GU interface - meant to be an intuitive educational tool - and port it to other species of Linux besides the Red Hat Fedora operating system XO uses.read more |
