What forums you may ask; the Sybase NNTP foru...
Apr. 3, 2013
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 What forums you may ask; the Sybase NNTP forums? No, those are going away. Not on the schedule that was originally proposed (December 1 of 2012), but they will go away soon. Replacing them are the online discussion forums in the PowerBuilder Development Center (PDC), part of the SAP Co...Apr. 3, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 974 |
 These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though?
In his general session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rishi Bhargava, VP of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, will he...Apr. 3, 2013 01:01 PM EDT Reads: 482 |
 The cloud provides an easy on-ramp to building and deploying Big Data solutions, particularly the latest technologies that favor scale-out architectures. Transitioning from initial deployment to a large-scale, highly performant operation may not be as easy.
Understanding the benefits...Apr. 3, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 814 |
 Many innovative hybrid cloud strategies are being used to address complex IT challenges. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ed Laczynski, VP of Cloud Strategy & Architecture at Datapipe, will examine how you can take advantage of the scalability and efficiencies of th...Apr. 3, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,871 |
 Last week I watched a presentation recorded at GigaOm Structure: Data conference featuring Gus Hunt, CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In his presentation, he identified SMAC (social, mobile, big data analytics, and cloud) as the culprit for the massive increase in availab...Apr. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 456 |
 Faced with migrating applications from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 or 2012 when adopting the cloud?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Greg O'Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, will demonstrate new “up-level OS” migration capabilities. This technology allo...Apr. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,278 |
 Two or three times a year, Bon-Ton Stores products are featured on Jill’s “Steals and Deals” segment on the “Today Show.” The products are promoted with huge discounts. As soon as the segment first airs on the East Coast, the “Steals and Deals” site displays the featured products, with...Apr. 3, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,067 |
 Gartner has been looking toward the future, and what it sees is a future in the cloud.
Gartner believes that service-led solutions – software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) – will usurp more traditional sourcing methods by 2015...Apr. 3, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 |
 The next two generations of iPhones were designed before Steve Jobs died in October of 2011, according to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who reportedly gleaned this little tidbit during a rambling conversation with Apple’s government liaison, Michael Foulkes.
The San ...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 550 |
 The concept of "Just-in-Time" was pioneered in the manufacturing supply chain as a critical way to reduce costs by minimizing inventory. Implementing a just-in-time system that can handle unexpected demand is not a trivial undertaking. It requires the confluence of a number of discipli...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 685 |
 If you were to ask EMC or VMware whom they consider their major threat and competition you’d be easily forgiven for being mistaken to think it was NetApp, HP or offerings such as Hyper-V. The current cloud era has undoubtedly been spearheaded by the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,176 |
 Red Hat has hired Radhesh Balakrishnan out of Microsoft’s Asia-Pac region where he was responsible for the Windows Azure cloud platform business, to lead its virtualization technologies and solutions worldwide, which includes Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Tech...Apr. 3, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 716 |
 “You need two groups when dealing with cloud compliance,” explained Rob LaMear IV, CEO and Founder of Fpweb.net, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First,” LaMear continued, “you need a provider that is willing to operate transparently and work with ...Apr. 3, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,312 |
 Six months ago my boss sent me an interactive calculator that the New York Times created to help people decide whether it’s a better financial decision to buy a home or simply rent one. He shared the calculator with me because, at the time, we were looking for interesting ways to visua...Apr. 1, 2013 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 1,022 |
 Big Switch Networks figures it’s going to touch off a revolution in open software-defined networking (SDN) when it introduces what it expects will be the industry’s first thin switching software platform, called Switch Light, later this year.
The revolution is aimed at breaking the l...Apr. 1, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 969 |
 How many advertisements for automobiles today promote the fact their cars are horseless carriages? None! Why? It is an assumption that your automobile will be horseless. The same is happening today with mobile apps. Who would develop a work order management or scheduling system tod...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 927 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Obsidian Strategics, the pioneer of “InfiniBand over the WAN,” will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
The Obsidian Longbow™ family of produ...Mar. 31, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 The Big Data and Cloud “movements” have acted as catalysts for tremendous growth in fit-for-purpose databases. Along with this growth, we see a new set of challenges in how we access the data through our business-critical applications. Let’s take a brief look at the evolution of these ...Mar. 30, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,363 |
 VMware’s (VMW) recent hybrid cloud announcement was both expected and yet provocative. It falls into a pattern of successful moves made in virtualization security and networking as the company to grow its addressable market by virtualizing servers and delivering increased IT agility, e...Mar. 30, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,049 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, cust...Mar. 29, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,574 |
 A lot of companies are checking the NoSQL conversation box these days but end up getting confused by the sheer amount of information that is available on the Internet.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloud...Mar. 29, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,220 |
 Rackspace has acquired Exceptional Cloud Services in what it calls a strategic move to add to its toolset for developers deploying and managing applications in the open cloud.
The deal will bring it error tracking and Redis-as-a-Service solutions that are currently used by more than ...Mar. 29, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,316 |
 PrivateFew days ago I noticed a question on a LinkedIn group that made me thinking how important is the notion of private clouds. First, let's briefly look at what is the difference between public, private and community clouds as well as hybrid clouds. Once again those are very well de...Mar. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,442 |
 As much as we try to avoid performance problems, they do happen. It is inevitable. But it is possible to learn to react fast, and in some occasions fast enough that the impact on the end users is negligible. Despite operators’ best efforts, 73% of performance issues are reported by use...Mar. 29, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
 The world’s first vendor neutral marketplace for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing is being built. This marketplace fills the current gap in the value chain by offering standardized products and by addressing the needs of providers and consumers of cloud computing reso...Mar. 28, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,632 |
 For its latest trick Amazon Web Services has launched CloudHSM so users – pointedly the enterprise – can up their data security and meet compliance requirements by using dedicated, tamper-resistant Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
The widgetry actually ...Mar. 28, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,477 |
 Correlsense, a Massachusetts application management and IT monitoring ISV, is partnering with Red Hat around OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
OpenShift customers and community will get access to SharePath, the Correlsense application performance management solution....Mar. 28, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
 In the hypercompetitive online gaming world a couple of milliseconds of lag can be the difference between virtual life and death, and the inability to scale up with demand can kill an entire game title. In the last two quarters, more than 60 new gaming companies have moved to SoftLayer...Mar. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,089 |
 Compuware has entered into an agreement with Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems and services, to be a supplier of application performance management (APM) for its production environments.
Compuware APM – dynaTrace – will be one of Amdocs’ preferred production monitorin...Mar. 27, 2013 01:42 PM EDT Reads: 1,317 |
 More and more of our lives are lived online. Our music collections, bookshelves, vacation memories and more are increasingly digitized and uploaded into the cloud, the vast network of server farms that provide the bulk of online storage today. Research firm Gartner projects that by 201...Mar. 26, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,440 |
 This book is what it claims to be and that is a cookbook on advanced topics. I would follow the author's advice and if you are a beginner with Objective-C or iOS, this book is not the one you want to start with. This book is however an excellent book for experienced developers.
The fi...Mar. 26, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 757 |
 Blender is a beast. At least to a guy like me that is usual in code and not in user interface tools. Sure I use Xcode, Eclipse, and Visual Studio but they just give me a place to code. I have used Photoshop, GIMP, and Expression Studio which make you depend on the tools available but B...Mar. 26, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 539 |
 Cisco blogged Monday that it intents to acquire the privately held Viennese cloud company SolveDirect for its cloud integration software. It said nothing about price.
In 2009 Cisco promised to underwrite the operation, then a subsidiary of Brain Force Holding AG, to the tune of €6 mi...Mar. 26, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 ownCloud allows organizations to integrate existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools with simplicity and flexibility.
OwnCloud, Inc. recently released the latest version of the ownCloud Community Edition with a number of usability, performance, and integration enhance...Mar. 25, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,122 |
 Apple has gotten sued for patent infringement again, but this time the charges are coming from Intertrust Technologies Corporation, now owned jointly by Sony and Royal Philips Electronics NV, which got Microsoft to settle a broad claim back in 2004 for $440 million.
The suit against ...Mar. 25, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,119 |
 Both Paramount and Universal celebrated their 100th anniversary last year, which is a long time to be in the movie business. Arguably, both have made some good, some great, and some bad movies. But, during this year’s Super Bowl, Paramount showed Universal how to design a ‘fast and fur...Mar. 24, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,286 |
 inovex GmnbH has just announced its partnership with C12G Labs to support the deployment and operation of OpenNebula-based enterprise cloud infrastructures, and the automation and migration of legacy systems. With OpenNebula as their software platform, inovex experts can set up cloud i...Mar. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,262 |
 A move to the cloud brings serious benefits, particularly for startups who often need to ramp up their IT capacity quickly without the burden of investing in new hardware or training staff. If your company is ready to offload its applications to the cloud, how do you decide which provi...Mar. 23, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,095 |
 Achmea Holding, one of the largest providers of financial services and insurance in the Netherlands, has made large strides in running their IT operations like an efficient business itself by rearchitecting its IT operations based on clear metrics.
Gardner: Why is running IT more like...Mar. 23, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,772 |
 Anybody prepared to make an offer for Dell that’s superior to the $24.4 billion bid Michael Dell and private equity house Silver Lake Partners put on the table February 5 intending to take the joint private has to come out of the woodwork by 12:01am Texas time Saturday morning when the...Mar. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,143 |
