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 In his Day 3 Keynote at the upcoming 11th International Cloud Expo, Dr. John Bates, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software, will illustrate what has to go into a platform and model to deliver the 10 imperatives of next-generation applications. As par...Oct. 25, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,006 |
 Google is reportedly courting an antitrust charge by the US Federal Trade Commission because of its insistence that Microsoft and Apple pay gouging royalties for Motorola Mobility’s standards-essential patents.
The Wall Street Journal said Friday that Google “is weighing whether to s...Oct. 24, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 609 |
 The smart investment money in software application development is in the management layer.
Actually that’s not true, the smart money is probably on almost every level of the application development lifecycle; but the deployment, release automation, testing, governance and release mana...Oct. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 700 |
 Apple Tuesday brought out the roundly anticipated iPad mini with most of the specs exactly as the rumor mill called it. At least the price remained a secret. The 7.9-inch diagonal widget will cost $329 to start, pricier than many people expected.
In the manner of Steve Jobs’ famous “...Oct. 24, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 477 |
 A founding member of the OpenStack Community, Dell has driven significant interest in and adoption of OpenStack-powered cloud solutions among cloud service providers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kamesh Pemmaraju, OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell, w...Oct. 22, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,416 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that HotLava Systems, a provider of high performance Ethernet network adapters, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
HotLava Systems...Oct. 22, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,314 |
 The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up its year-or-more long antitrust investigation into Google’s search practices and it may sue.
Reuters said last Friday that four out of the five FTC commissioners believe Google illegally abused its power in search at the expense of competit...Oct. 22, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,356 |
 If people really don’t like negative political ads, why aren’t they sick of companies behaving like spoilers and trying to step on each other’s announcements?
Google apparently can’t stand the thought of Apple and Microsoft unveiling products without it putting its two cents in. It’s...Oct. 21, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,160 |
 Companies are engaging customers and prospects on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and through blogs and posts on internal or external websites. But are they in compliance with legal requirements related to social media, not to mention privacy?
Answering questions on every general counsel...Oct. 20, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 979 |
 After Intel and IBM came up short this week, Google’s Q3 numbers were released early Thursday utterly surprising a market high on its business, an enthusiasm that had driven its stock to all-time highs.
It missed big on both the top and bottom line, instantly creating a big sell-off ...Oct. 19, 2012 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 784 |
 Apple finds itself in the enraging position of having to deny in print that Samsung copied its iPad technology after losing an appeal to the UK’s Court of Appeals Thursday.
It was protesting a High Court decision this summer that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 couldn’t possibly infringe...Oct. 19, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 810 |
 Was there some bias as to what got said on Twitter on the night of the debates?
Twitter needs to be able to handle large volumes and if they can’t, they cannot say that they are providing any accurate public barometer on something as important as a Presidential debate.
On the last ...Oct. 19, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 665 |
 Google Q3 numbers were released early Thursday utterly surprising a market high on its business, which has driven its stock to all-time highs.
It missed big on both the top and bottom line, instantly creating a big sell-off of its high-flown stock, losing $19 billion in market cap, b...Oct. 19, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,188 |
 Google released its Q3 numbers early Thursday utterly surprising a market high on its business.
It missed on both the top and bottom line, instantly creating a sell-off of its high-flown stock, losing $19 billion in market cap, before it was halted at the company’s request at $687.30...Oct. 19, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 883 |
 A wealth of security information exists in our networks from a variety of sources – policy servers, firewalls, switches, networking infrastructure, defensive components, and more. Unfortunately, most of that information is locked away in separate silos due to differences in products an...Oct. 18, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,159 |
 Cloud computing is so alluring. The public cloud economizes infrastructure resources and creates a scalable, on-demand source for compute capacity. Additionally, the cloud can be a strategic asset for enterprises that know how to migrate, integrate and govern deployments securely.
App...Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,612 |
 Motorola Mobility is asking for an en banc rehearing of the Ninth Circuit Court’s unanimous decision a couple of weeks ago forbidding it to enforce the German injunctions it got on its H.264 standards-essential claims against Microsoft.
It’s a long shot, which is why Google is claimi...Oct. 17, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 723 |
 Fresh back from maternity leave – she had a boy – Yahoo’s latest CEO Marissa Mayer raided her former company to bring Google’s VP of partner business solutions Henrique de Castro in as COO.
He’s supposed to worry about Yahoo’s sales, operations, media and business development.
The ...Oct. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 748 |
 OK, so Apple can’t find Paris on its maps. At least its maps aren’t under imminent threat of an injunction for patent infringement, which could happen to Google in Germany unless it authorizes its Motorola Mobility subsidiary to pay Microsoft the royalties it wants for its claims again...Oct. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,461 |
 Europe's Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has released a communication called "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe" mapping how the cloud fits into Europe's future.
The paper outlines a series of actions designed to drive European businesses and the public sector ...Oct. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,923 |
 Looks like a US district court is going to tell Motorola Mobility – and its master Google – exactly how much they can charge for the standards-essential patents they’ve been using to try to get injunctions blocking companies like Microsoft and Apple from marketing their products becaus...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,084 |
 Patent victories by Microsoft and Apple have stripped Motorola Mobility of products it can legally sell in Germany, Europe’s biggest market where Android is popular.
The Google subsidiary is down to zero tablets and three smartphones – the Razr i, Razr MHD and the Gleam.
Everything...Oct. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,107 |
 After looking into his crystal ball and seeing nothing all that good in Microsoft’s long-term future, CEO Steve Ballmer has signaled in his annual letter to stockholders Tuesday that Microsoft’s venture into hardware à la Apple’s tight integration is here to stay.
“There will be time...Oct. 11, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 904 |
 Red Hat is looking for a new name for the open source JBoss Application Server, a k a JBossAS, because the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has gotten bigger than just Java.
So it’s staging a community election to rechristen the widgetry with a name that reflects polyglot program...Oct. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,881 |
 Before the trial that led to Samsung being told to paid Apple over a billion dollars in damages for infringing its patents, Apple propose they cut a cross-patent license but they couldn’t agree on terms.
The proposal came to light when the court unsealed some documents this week.
I...Oct. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,665 |
 Android will be getting competition from an open source operating system that’s coming to market backed by a Hong Kong-based ecosystem alliance of still unnamed chipset vendors, OEM and ODM manufacturers, operators and retailers willing to pour €200 million into it and that, folks, is ...Oct. 8, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 Oracle has formally advised Judge William Alsup that it intends to appeal the verdict in its patent and copyright suit against Google and Android.
Judge Alsup, you’ll remember, decided Oracle’s Java APIs weren’t copyrightable, an issue it’s got to prevail on in its appeal.
Whether ...Oct. 7, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,546 |
 Press reports claim Apple is going to announce its unconfirmed iPad mini tablet on Wednesday, October 17 and a major Apple investor told Fortune that he heard from multiple sources that Apple will send out invitations on October 10.
The mini is supposed to have a 7.85-inch screen com...Oct. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,032 |
 Cloud providers are increasingly looking at application marketplaces as the best way of enabling customers to onboard software to their cloud. However, providers often lack the deep pockets or extensive manpower required to populate the marketplace; they must engage and empower an ISV ...Oct. 5, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 Because Apple only managed to sell a record five million iPhone 5s over the weekend – not as many as Wall Street bulls thought – and admittedly can’t keep up with demand, it’s perceived as having component issues blamed on its new thinner, lighter, bigger in-cell touch screen, which co...Oct. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,232 |
 The European Commission said Thursday that it’s going to take Microsoft to the woodshed and formally charge it with breaching a 2009 agreement to offer European users of Windows a mess of alternative browsers, a deal struck to settle a brewing antitrust case.
Microsoft admitted the o...Oct. 1, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,233 |
 Many firms still dismiss the importance of social networking and some of them even ban employees from using these services while in the workplace. They think that “social” starts and ends with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other networks that might be best described as informal, consu...Oct. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,580 |
 Google appears to be perfectly happy to let Apple dangle in the wind and not rush to take advantage of complaints about its newfangled maps program by putting an iOS 6-compatible Google Maps application on the market.
The Verge, however, claims Google was blindsided when Apple unilat...Sep. 27, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,079 |
 In the past few weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences that provided me with a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of Big Data technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts have discovered ...Sep. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,710 |
 Apple put out a statement Monday morning saying it sold over five million iPhone 5s since Friday. It’s not as many as the eight or 10 million Wall Street has been talking about, which may be why the stock is down 2% pre-market.
The company said the “incredible” demand for the phone “...Sep. 24, 2012 09:09 AM EDT Reads: 1,219 |
 Reaching customers and employees with cloud applications when they are located in emerging markets (such as Russia, Indonesia, Brazil and China) poses a major challenge. This is especially true for China, which has not only the largest Internet user base (twice that of the US and growi...Sep. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,126 |
 The cloud is a commercial vehicle. This undeniable truth must now be accepted as a deeply entrenched truism by CIOs who are looking to manage the forward-looking growth of their technology architectures.
We can actually refine this statement further. The cloud is a commercial vehicle ...Sep. 24, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,775 |
 SnapLogic, the enterprise cloud integration outfit that’s supposed to bestride cloud computing and Big Data, has gotten a $20 million C round led by Ignition, a new investor, as well as Triangle Peak Partners and existing backer Andreessen Horowitz.
That makes $32.5 million altogethe...Sep. 22, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,597 |
 To have a reliable and comprehensive, yet flexible, e-commerce business, it's essential to have a solid architecture. Just like the foundations of a house, an online shopping site needs to be robust enough to handle large volumes of traffic and be flexible enough to support many differ...Sep. 21, 2012 10:10 AM EDT Reads: 963 |
 It’s become increasingly clear that Big Data, and the tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing it, are transforming the business landscape. McKinsey released a report in 2011 that projects 40 percent growth in global data generated per year. This is all well and good, but more...Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,252 |
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