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 In the run-up to the two next Cloud Expos, 6th Cloud Expo (June 21–22, 2010) in Prague, Czech Republic and 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly,...Jun. 2, 2010 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,512 Replies: 5 |
 Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoti...May. 31, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,793 Replies: 8 |
 With the euro in freefall and the European economy pretty much frozen, this might be a heck a time to do it but HPC house Penguin Computing, which would much rather simply be called Penguin like Apple is now just Apple, is cautiously tiptoeing into the market, mostly through third-part...May. 29, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 630 |
 Novell, the world’s second biggest Linux provider pushed into shopping itself, earned $19.9 million, or six cents a share, in its second fiscal quarter ended April 30 on revenues of $204 million, down 5.4% year-over-year and roughly in line with estimates.
Operating income was also d...May. 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 635 |
 Oh, geez, ain’t in-fighting grand?
CNET reports that Apple has filed for a trademark on the open source Webkit widgetry under its Safari browser; the same Webkit widgetry that Google – Apple’s favorite sparing partner when it’s not playing contact sports with Adobe – uses in its Chro...May. 28, 2010 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 555 |
 Linux developers, stop building RPM packages that don't install properly. Watch this Webinar to learn how to build professional Linux installers fast that install your applications reliably on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and more. If you develop Linux applications for commercial use, it's c...May. 27, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 780 |
 Google Tuesday released what it called a stable release of the Chrome browser for both Linux and the Mac.
It’s the first peek at the Linux and Mac widgetry out of beta, finally catching it up to the Microsoft-harrying version of Chrome for Windows.
The Tuesday release of all three ...May. 26, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 637 |
 Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times.
Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing abou...May. 20, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, on Wednesday announced plans to deliver the industry's first complete end-to-end data integration and business intelligence platform to support Apache Hadoop. The Pentaho BI Suite features a single visual developme...May. 19, 2010 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
 Amazon’s cloud arm said Tuesday that it has added a Multi-AZ deployment option to its MySQL 5.1-based Relational Database Service (RDS) so users can now replicate database instances to multiple, geographically dispersed Amazon Availability Zones and enhance availability and data durabi...May. 18, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 753 |
 Managing an application release and its distribution is a complex piece of the development process. A release may pass every test in QA, then quickly go haywire when in production. Components can get left behind, destination targets are missed or files get installed in the wrong locati...May. 17, 2010 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,550 |
 At first glance, the ecosystem in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world can seem a bit complicated. There are several ways to get software: project websites where you can download it directly, use a software management tool that your Linux distribution provides, or you may als...May. 16, 2010 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
 The last thing you want for any software development effort is to have the developers stop caring about the quality of the results. If that happens, you are probably going to fail.May. 16, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 875 |
 This month marks the fifth anniversary of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an industry standard. On May 1, 2005, ODF (OpenDocument v1.0 specification) was approved as an OASIS Standard, marking the beginning of a campaign for document freedom that many people probably didn't expect wou...May. 7, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 625 |
 In this Exclusive Q&A; with the Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark, Marty Gauvin, the visionary serial entrepreneur speaks out on a variety of issues around Cloud computing including the all-important security aspects. "Security in the Cloud isn’t bad, it’s just different," Gauvin ...May. 7, 2010 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,949 |
 The role of IT in the next few years is crucial for any organization seeking to gain strides over the competition. CIOs in Australia recognize 2010 as an opportunity to explore IT best practices, which will not only optimize infrastructure in a cost-effective manner, but create opportu...May. 4, 2010 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 448 |
 A German appeals court has upheld the validity of Microsoft’s FAT patent, the basis of some of its royalty-bearing IP claims against Linux.
In 2007 a lower German court found that the patent invalid on the basis of prior art. The higher court overturned that decision saying the claim...May. 3, 2010 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 896 |
 Eucalyptus Systems has started beta testing a Windows Broker product that will let customers branch out from Linux and create and launch Windows-based virtual machines. It’ll be part of the commercial Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition. It’s supposed to work with Windows Server 2003 and 200...May. 3, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,041 |
 Red Hat on Wednesday announced another endorsement of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a foundational technology for clouds. NTT Communications (NTT Com) in Japan has built its new cloud computing and hosting service offering, BizHosting Basic, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ...Apr. 29, 2010 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 750 |
 Canonical revealed strong software vendor support for the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support) release for both server and desktop. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, to be released on 29 April 2010, will ship with hundreds of open source applications available at install with many more open s...Apr. 28, 2010 01:26 PM EDT |
 Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, on Tuesday announced an expanded offering on Amazon Web Services LLC in an effort to provide enterprises with a more efficient way to reduce costs, drive innovation and improve business agility with cloud computing. Amazon Web Services is t...Apr. 27, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 922 |
 What will your next PC be? No, it is not your next Personal Computer, it is your Personal Cloud! That’s right, the next PC you invest in may well be a Personal Cloud. All signs point to the Personal Cloud becoming the PC of choice for the future.Apr. 23, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 The benefits of doing things “as-a-Service” (aaS) and leveraging cloud-based technologies are well-known and documented, such as a low barrier to entry, reduced capital outlay and infrastructure, easy scalability, and device/location independence. Many companies also appreciate the rel...Apr. 15, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,932 Replies: 1 |
 Cloud Expo General Session Speaker Marty Gauvin believes that 3G-SaaS – the combined effect of Cloud Computing and outsourcing with application management – will drive the use of IT for a significant period of time. By leveraging existing Cloud service providers, the pay-as-you-go mode...Apr. 15, 2010 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,976 |
 The Sun VP once responsible for key Sun open source products like MySQL, GlassFish, Identity Management and SOA – and who headed the technology and engineering integration of MySQL into Sun – has gone to work for Oracle’s closest open source rival EnterpriseDB as vice-president of prod...Apr. 14, 2010 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
Though I am a strong believer in Agile process, I always get a feeling that a product backlog does not give the full picture of the expected product and we need something more to define it.
Let us first look at how product backlog is prepared?
You start with either a business p... Jun. 18, 2009 01:02 AM EDT Reads: 1,198 |
 Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, on Tuesday announced that it is seeing growth in demand for the Company's 10 Gigabit Ethernet and end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products and...Apr. 13, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 837 |
 Enteros CTO Ron Warshawsky will be presenting a session called, "Hardware vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud - Performance in the Cloud" at Cloud Expo. His session will be on Monday, April 19 at the conference, which is being held at the Javits Center in New York.
His session will report on the c...Apr. 12, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,213 |
 This time I take an a bit of an unconventional approach towards defining performance management. The idea for this article came through a number of customer engagements, where the same question came up over and over again: “How do we start with Application Performance Management and wh...Apr. 11, 2010 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,915 Replies: 1 |
 Ex-SCO CEO Darl McBride bought SCO’s Me Inc mobility business for a hundred grand cash the other day. It’s an outright sale of all the company’s mobile assets, even the server hardware underlying it rather than the $35,000 plus a potential $100,000 payout under the original licensing a...Apr. 9, 2010 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 972 |
 Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...Apr. 9, 2010 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,393 Replies: 2 |
 SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Novell, a provider of integrated IT management software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in ...Apr. 9, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,762 |
 Enterprises are seeing the value in Cloud Services – both the reduction in capital expenditures and the increasing maturity of the services offered. Unfortunately, they can't backtrack on their security and compliance requirements even if it results in money savings and capability impr...Apr. 9, 2010 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,600 |
 Linux Foundation (LF) chief Jim Zemlin needed hand-holding after IBM waved some of its patents under the nose of open source mainframer TurboHercules, particularly those two allegedly penalty-free patents IBM pledged to the open source community five years ago, so he turned to LF board...Apr. 8, 2010 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,364 |
 There's simply no nice way of putting this. IBM is an Indian giver.
To prevent the commercialization of the long-standing open source project Hercules - which might put some of its mainframe revenues at risk since Hercules is a mainframe emulator - IBM has suddenly claimed - out of ...Apr. 8, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,237 |
 CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69.
It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one...Apr. 6, 2010 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,710 |
 To capitalize on what it figures is its vanguard position in the great cloud explosion EMC has recruited one-time Veritas exec Jeremy Burton as its chief marketing officer, and made him responsible for the global structure, strategy and execution of all its marketing efforts.
The com...Apr. 5, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,432 Replies: 1 |
 Ah, sweet irony. On the day that Novell won against SCO on the basis of an agreement that most people (the die-hard Linux contingent excepted) think transferred IP, it lost to Microsoft on the basis of an agreement that most people (except the judge) think didn’t transfer IP, and as a ...Apr. 3, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,051 |
 SCO has one foot in the grave, but the sod hasn’t been thrown over it yet.
With its copyright and slander-of-title case lost to Novell, it says it still means to bring its suspended contract and unfair competition case against IBM if the judge who presided over the Novell case – and w...Apr. 2, 2010 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,435 |
 Enterprises are seeing the value in Cloud Services -- both the reduction in Capital Expenditures and the increasing maturity of the services offered. Unfortunately, they can't backtrack on their security and compliance requirements even if it results in money savings and capability imp...Apr. 2, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,722 |
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