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 The elastic resources offered by cloud computing have created an exciting opportunity for applications to handle very large workloads. However, writing applications that span an elastic pool of virtual servers creates huge challenges for developers. How can these virtual servers easily...May. 7, 2012 09:52 AM EDT Reads: 451 |
 A growing throng of Open Compute Project (OCP) disciples converged on Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, this week to overturn the established sixty-year-old EIA 310-D rack standard inherited from railroad signaling relays and telephone switching and in its place substitute ...May. 7, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
 In a world of ever-increasing demand for performance vs cost, the importance of optimizing infrastructure utilization is critical. With today’s easy access to extremely high-performance hardware and the overabundance of management software, it is easy to “over subscribe” either acciden...May. 7, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,663 |
 For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savin...May. 7, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 The US Department of the Interior has moved its e-mail business to Google, which sued when the agency gave Microsoft a five-year $59.3 million cloud-based e-mail contract in 2010 claiming the department’s research was “stale” and Microsoft’s security wasn’t certified for government use...May. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,098 |
 Enterprises want to mix the best of their own data centers with private and public cloud services without compromising security and uptime. Making internal information assets available to work across private and public clouds requires a management layer that can stitch together dispara...May. 5, 2012 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,404 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Concentric Cloud Solutions, a provider of new cloud computing, content acceleration, and cloud voice solutions for businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in...May. 4, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 809 |
 The rapid pace of technology adoption growth is driving application consumption. It impacts an ever-increasing spectrum of projects across IT organizations such as data center consolidation/expansion, application distribution, mobile workforce enablement, disaster recovery, backup and ...May. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 788 |
 In what FOSS Patents calls the “most anticipated German patent ruling ever,” the Mannheim Regional Court Wednesday gave Motorola Mobility the permanent injunction it was looking for against Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Xbox and they might be using those things...May. 3, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 785 |
 Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud; it’s simply too complex and it doesn’t provide a pay-per-use charge model.
In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, VP Products & Techn...May. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,165 |
 With so many cloud offerings in the marketplace, how are you supposed to understand the differences, let alone pick the right ones to meet your specific needs? And while many of your applications may be a good fit for "the cloud," how will you evaluate which cloud offering will be the ...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,652 |
 Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck a strategic deal that will end their patent litigation and put the substantial Barnes & Noble e-book library including college textbooks on Windows 8.
Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that is called Newco ...May. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 861 |
 If anybody’s making money off of Android, it’s Microsoft, which has just signed another licensing deal with another Android merchant.
This time it’s Pegatron, which is gonna pay Microsoft to run Android and Chrome on its e-readers, tablets and phones. How much is secret like Microsof...Apr. 29, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 945 |
 The complexity of Smart Grid and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) implementations present a challenge for most of the nation’s electric utilities. From skilled resource availability to the operational complexities of installing and maintaining these systems, utilities have often ...Apr. 25, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 978 |
 Facebook and Microsoft said Monday on Facebook’s web site that Facebook is buying the lion’s share of the 925 US patents and patent applications that Microsoft just bought from AOL for $1.06 billion.
Facebook – and Microsoft has an investment in Facebook – is buying 650 of patents of...Apr. 24, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,193 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us as we bring Google’s highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear:
Industry e...Apr. 23, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,277 |
 Microsoft – for reasons that haven’t been plumbed enough to satisfy skeptics – has set up a wholly owned open source subsidiary. Given history that’s an unusual step.
It’s called Microsoft Open Technologies and it’ll be run by Jean Paoli, an XML standards expert whose interoperabilit...Apr. 22, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,551 |
 When Windows on ARM (WOA) finally hits the market it’s going to be called Windows RT, not Windows 8.
The designation Windows 8 is reserved for x86/64 widgets run by Intel and AMD chips.
The decision complicates promotion and one can easily imagine Intel insisting on profiting from ...Apr. 19, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 999 |
 Today is day two of MMS 2012, April 17th, 2012. I just can't believe the number of Announcements that have come out today.
First here at the Keynote at MMS we announced the world wide availability of System Center 2012. To download the trial go to http://aka.ms/syscntr If you missed t...Apr. 18, 2012 01:27 PM EDT Reads: 310 |
 Ariba is now teaming with Microsoft in business streamlining to empower buyers and sellers to better connect and collaborate across Microsoft applications and Ariba's commerce cloud services.
Microsoft Dynamics offers productivity tools and built-in contextual business intelligence th...Apr. 18, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,163 |
 Citrix Wednesday said it bought Copenhagen-based collaborative work platform Podio to expand its social media offerings for SMBs, figuring there’s going to be a surge in demand for so-called social software by the enterprise as part of the consumerization of IT.
Forrester estimates th...Apr. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,537 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Nigel Mackenzie, CTO of Pacific Controls, will discuss how managed services and cloud computing are driving a whole new cycle of systems and technology innovation based on the diverse interactions cloud systems will enable between pe...Apr. 13, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,023 |
 A US judge Wednesday told Motorola Mobility it can forget about enforcing the German injunction it expects to get next week that would prevent Microsoft from selling Windows and Xbox in Germany.
In a bench ruling the US District Court for the Western District of Washington gave Micro...Apr. 13, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 971 |
 I’ve been discussing HTML5 for some time now. In July of 2010, I mentioned that I wasn’t particularly concerned about PowerBuilder supporting HTML5 in the initial PowerBuilder.NET release (12.5) because:
“HTML5 is largely still in its infancy, and there appears to be too much opportu...Apr. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 644 |
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 Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned Tuesday shortly after announcing an $800 million cost-saving plan designed to shore up the Internet-racked brick-and-mortar electronics retailer by lowering its operating costs.
The idea is to close 50 stores and lay off 400 employees. It figures to o...Apr. 11, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,155 |
 AOL is selling 800 and some patents and licensing non-exclusively another
300-odd patents and patent applications to Microsoft for a total of $1.056
billion cash.
Well, AOL Tim Armstrong did say the patent portfolio was “beachfront
property in East Hampton” and that’s how he’s be...Apr. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 591 |
 Yahoo said Wednesday morning that its restructuring would cost an initial 2,000 Yahoos their jobs. That's ~14% of its workforce. The pink slips are just going out and further cuts are thought to be in store for the company.
In a statement CEO Scott Thompson said, "Today's actions are ...Apr. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 Like in an American western Microsoft is getting out of Dodge before the sheriff comes gunning for it.
It’s moving its European logistics center from Germany – where it is currently dangerous for practically anybody to do business – to Holland before a German court says it can’t sell ...Apr. 5, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,127 |
 Last September, Microsoft released some information about what customers could expect to see in Windows 8, and at the very end of February the Windows 8 beta became available. There’s been some interesting activity on the blogosphere about it (see a good blog from Jason Perlow here).
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 This being the 21st century, dissident stockholder Third Point LLC has taken its nascent proxy fight over the soul of Yahoo to the web.
Under a “vacancy” sign, it’s set up a precedent-setting blog at www.valueyahoo.com where it intends to pick apart the litany of Yahoo’s missteps to ...Apr. 3, 2012 09:08 AM EDT Reads: 1,139 |
 Most IT executives agree their application infrastructure will look very different five years from now. That difference will be driven by the changing nature of applications that are increasingly web oriented, dynamic, data intensive and most likely deployed on virtual infrastructure. ...Apr. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 991 |
 To support the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services, MTM Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program.
The Cisco Cloud Infrastructure designation recognizes MTM Technologie...Apr. 2, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 931 |
 AOL has hired Evercore Partners to drum up a buyer for its 800-odd patents as well as drum up some strategic options for the place, according to Bloomberg. AOL shareholder Starboard Value LP claims the patent portfolio might yield upwards of $1 billion in licensing income. They are sai...Apr. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,303 |
 ERP.com is the authority site for enterprise resource planning (ERP). Members of ERP.com and visitors to the site can streamline their business software selection process by searching the comprehensive database of software solutions and ERP packages.
ERP.com also has in-house softwar...Mar. 28, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 988 |
 McAfee has announced the availability of a free open source audit plug-in for MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their databases. The free-of-charge plug-in was created and developed by McAfee as part of a new set of features for its award-winning da...Mar. 26, 2012 08:05 AM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Read an interesting article about the .NET Developer Association user group in Redmond, Washington. You would think that the user group in Microsoft’s backyard (the meetings are held at Microsoft’s offices) wouldn’t have any problems lining up guest speakers and drawing a crowd. Well, ...Mar. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,031 Replies: 1 |
 Business units' demand for speed and agility is leading them to circumvent IT and acquire cloud services, more than half of them from unmanaged clouds.
Cloud computing may be taking the business world by storm, but its success could mean a "perfect storm" that endangers the role of IT...Mar. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,636 |
 Dome9 Security on Thursday announced that its cloud security firewall management service protects cloud servers from today’s serious cloud server security threats, including the recently publicized Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability. Dome9’s cloud security service th...Mar. 23, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,384 |
