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 Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s open source software to Like...Nov. 6, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 233 |
 It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 372 |
 The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 290 |
 It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a...Nov. 6, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 570 |
 Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping point” before mid-summer and i...Nov. 6, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 245 |
 Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Opera want changes made. According to the ...Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 235 |
 According to Aster Data, applications need to go to “Big Data,” not the other way around. And to do that the company’s got a massively parallel data-application server that can embed applications inside a massively scalable MPP data warehouse and analyze petabytes of data – or terabyte...Nov. 6, 2009 02:20 PM EST Reads: 308 |
 It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in. Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 383 |
 SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 2,000 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s...Nov. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 995 |
 Platform Computing announced a partnership and joint technology solution with Microsoft for organizations to take advantage of high performance computing (HPC) clusters independent of a cluster's operating system (OS). The combination of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster and Microsoft Wind...Nov. 4, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 355 |
 In an effort to modernize its business operations and eliminate the high cost of maintaining and upgrading SAP's complex, on-premise software, COMMCO transitioned to NetSuite and now relies on NetSuite's cloud computing platform for its core operational needs, including Enterprise Reso...Nov. 4, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 411 |
 Adaptec, Inc. today released the results of third-party
performance testing of its new MaxIQ(TM) SSD Cache Performance Solution in
MySQL environments. AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing and
quality management company, found that Adaptec MaxIQ (with MaxIQ SSD cache
ena...Nov. 3, 2009 03:01 AM EST Reads: 663 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,344 |
 HiT Software, Inc., today announced a new partnership with Solid Quality Mentors, a trusted global provider of education and solutions for Microsoft Data Management and Development platforms. The partnership allows SQL Server users to tap Solid Quality Mentors for expert training and s...Nov. 2, 2009 07:32 AM EST Reads: 238 |
 Attunity
Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration and
event capture software, announced today a strategic partnership to market
solutions that enable real-time business intelligence and efficient data
integration based on the companies' data integra...Nov. 2, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 247 |
 Presently, the enterprise microblogging platform developed by Intridea, Inc., announced today the general availability of the Presently SharePoint Web Part, a free and open-source component for Microsoft's SharePoint Enterprise Collaboration Platform. The Presently SharePoint Web Part ...Nov. 2, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 349 |
 Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no...Oct. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 621 |
 SCO may yet get to drag Novell kicking, screaming and clutching at the doorpost in front of a jury to decide who really owns Unix.
In the first and only head-snapping legal decision in all the years SCO has been in court, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied the bid No...Oct. 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 458 |
 The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a software-only, deployable solution with RESTful Web Services APIs for programmatic access to storage. It provides service providers such as Tier 3 with the opportunity to provide their own hosted and branded cloud storage offerings to their custome...Oct. 28, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 628 |
 A hard disk can be divided into at most four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition. The extended partition can be further subdivided into multiple logical drives. The following reading describes an issue when you can lose an NTFS formatted logical drive in a dua...Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 342 |
 Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leading provider of task management for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced it is developing updates to the Eclipse IDE that will incorporate new features available in Windows 7 into the leading open source dev...Oct. 28, 2009 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 287 |
 Hector Ruiz, then CEO of AMD, was the unidentified source of material information that the busted Galleon ring traded on, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
He’s even higher up the totem pole than Robert Moffat, the head of IBM servers and storage who was arrested a...Oct. 28, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,058 |
 Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook update...Oct. 23, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
 Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 864 |
 Wall Street declared Microsoft the winner over the economy Friday morning when the results of its September quarter weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were going to be. As a reward, its stock price was pushed up to the highest point since June of last year. Still the economy put ...Oct. 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,198 |
 Microsoft and Danger, obviously its most dangerous unit, were up at the crack of dawn Tuesday morning saying that they were ready to start restoring the Sidekick user data that Danger came ever so close to losing forever in the last couple of weeks. They sensibly started with personal ...Oct. 23, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 718 |
 SAML Provisioning is just another step in strengthening the union between the private cloud and public cloud providers. Provisioning identity information from the private cloud to the public provider simplifies management and strengthens integration resulting in cost savings for both t...Oct. 23, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 679 |
 Curious to know what the Services on Server page looks like now? Well, then this is the post for you. Instead of just having the 6 or so services that you had in MOSS 2007, there are many more services listed on the Services on Server page. Here is what your list m... Oct. 23, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 733 |
 Day One Support Covers Wyse’s All Hardware and Software PortfoliosLONDON, UK. – 22 October 09 - Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced Day One support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, the lates... Oct. 23, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 638 |
 Kindle for PC features Amazon’s Whispersync technology that automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. Whether you read Kindle books on a Kindle, Kindle DX, or one of the free Kindle applications, you can always have your reading with you and neve...Oct. 22, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 441 |
 SplendidCRM continues to evolve with the incorporation of the Silverlight 3 Toolkit to replace the previous flash-based and hand-made charts. “We continue to pioneer the use of XAML-only graphics as a means to promote rapid application development”, noted Paul Rony, President and Foun...Oct. 20, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
 Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart...Oct. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,088 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 4th International Cloud Computing Con...Oct. 20, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,638 |
 The real trustee, McBride says, is a Blank Rome lawyer called Bonnie Fatell who couldn't be bothered calling Cerberus - you know, Cerberus, as in Chrysler Financial and General Motors Financial (GMAC) - which was willing to put $25 million into SCO and get it out of hock because Cerber...Oct. 20, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,394 Replies: 1 |
 IBM senior VP Robert Moffat, the head of IBM's Systems and Technology Group - in other words the guy who runs all of its hardware as well its microelectronics unit - and Intel Capital's director of strategic investment Rajiv Goel, one of its VC people, were arrested Friday morning on i...Oct. 18, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,228 |
 You have, perhaps, heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone – known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to permanently lose wh...Oct. 15, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 633 |
 Mimosa NearPoint provides a holistic solution to manage and protect SharePoint Server data with integrated recovery and archiving capabilities, while maintaining easy end-user access to information, or advanced eDiscovery workflow to manage legal holds. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint of...Oct. 15, 2009 08:34 AM EDT Reads: 331 |
 HERMES SoftLab has announced the availability of its MS SharePoint data management technology. The software building block, called the HERMES SoftLab SharePoint Filter, will help storage vendors provide advanced SharePoint data migration for storage applications, such as data protectio...Oct. 14, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 450 |
 After 10 years of trench warfare and a body count of close to $1.8 billion in fines, the European Commission is getting ready to pass Microsoft the roach of concord and close the book on the case. The EC said Wednesday that a final settlement of the browser issue, Europe’s updated vers...Oct. 9, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 727 |
 Enterprise Cloud Computing is a key strategy for CIOs, stated Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy CIO at the CIA, in her keynote session at the 1st Annual GovIT Expo in Washington, D.C. As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transfor...Oct. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,019 |
