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| RIA and Cloud Computing AppsWe are using software applications more than ever before. As the demand for new capabilities and functions grows, companies strive to provide an adequate response to business needs. The rate of application evolution places an ever-larger burden on the shoulders of software producers, vendors, and even consumers. In addition, much of the costly software used by organizations was not designed to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace or highly dispersed workforce, requiring its substitution or modernization. read more
Symantec’s CEO To Step DownSymantec CEO John Thompson, 59, the ex-IBMer who bit off more than he could chew when Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion three years ago, is going to retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year in March. He will however remain chairman.
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Head of Cisco's Cloud Team Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley"Cloud Computing by its very nature depends on the Network for both the construction of the Cloud as well as the delivery to users," declares David Bernstein, whose team runs Cisco's internal Cloud Computing platform. As VP and General Manager of Network Applications Infrastructure for Cisco, Bernstein has plenty of first-hand experience in this emerging category. read more
VMware Buys Blue Lane in Hush-Hush DealIt appears that VMware quietly bought a little California number last month called Blue Lane Technologies, which, according to its web site, is no longer selling its wares on VMware’s instructions. Blue Lane’s stock in trade was securing physical and virtual data centers with “zero footprint, zero downtime and zero tuning” - it had a virtual appliance called VirtualShield – developed with VMware – that removed nasty content before it got to the virtual server via a technique called inline patching.
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Lotus Goes into the Hardware BusinessIBM has found something else to do with Linux. Its Lotus software operation is going into the hardware business – it’s concocted a Linux-based server appliance for e-mail, calendaring and its OpenOffice-based Symphony software for SMBs called IBM Lotus Foundations Start. read more
Intel to Debut New Version of XML Software Suite at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CAIntel has just released Intel XML Software Suite 1.2. This latest release helps maximize XML performance, while minimizing the effort for any Enterprise, SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 based applications. Intel XML Software Suite 1.2 optimizes XML application performance, takes full advantage of Intel Architecture, lowers total cost of ownership and allows developers to quickly and easily incorporate technologies for a faster time to market. This updated Intel XML Software Suite includes support for Intel Core i7 processors, StAX API for Java, and increased compatibility with IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic. This new version is also engineered to automatically take advantage of the new Intel Core i7 SSE4.2 processor instructions to further boost XML processing performance. read more
DataServices World 2008 West: Salesforce's Peter Coffee to Run Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services WorkshopIn this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue.read more
XML Heaven or XML Hell?"With proper markup/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML…" So begins the introduction to one of the current crop of open source Web application frameworks on its Web site. Sadly this seems to be a common sentiment within the Java framework development community; the phrase "XML Hell" is thrown around with the same vehemence once reserved for the "DLL Hell" so characteristic of early versions of Microsoft Windows.read more
Fujitsu To Buy Out Siemens For Half a Billion DollarsFujitsu is going to buy out its antsy partner Siemens for 450 million euros (currently a bit over $575 million) and take control of Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV come next April 1 when the joint venture will be integrated into the greater Fujitsu Group. Fujitsu says it will then try to make the venture profitable again. Meanwhile, Fujitsu Siemens president and CEO Bernd Bischoff has resigned – supposedly for “personal reasons” – and has been replaced by the company’s CFO Kai Flore.
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SOA Product Review: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is self-describing data via the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The benefits of XML over opaque message formats in data interchange are well established. No matter if your focus is SOAP, REST, POX, or syndication with RSS or ATOM, your applications will revolve around XML processing.read more
Microsoft Dubs its Cloud ‘Windows Azure’The official name of the widgetry that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently called “Windows Clouds” is going to be “Windows Azure,” described by chief architect Ray Ozzie as a virtualized “scale-out” service that runs on machines in Microsoft’s data centers. A technology preview of the stuff will be released this week at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference. read more
The Altova MissionKit for Microsoft .NET DevelopersAltova (http://www.altova.com), developers of XMLSpy, an industry leading XML editor, offers Microsoft .NET developers, software architects, and IT pros an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools in the Altova MissionKit. The suite of software tools works with Microsoft Visual Studio; supports the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format in 2007 Microsoft Office documents; and provides functionality for querying, designing, and editing data across the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access platforms. Additionally, the Altova MissionKit gives Microsoft .NET Framework-based developers access to a powerful suite of feature-rich software tools at a substantial cost savings. For a live demo of the features available in the MissionKit visit Altova at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC), Booth #711.read more
"Cloud Computing & AJAX" Session by Amazon's Jeff Barr on October 22, in San Jose, CaliforniaCloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, as you'll learn. Amazon Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will review Amazon's multi-year effort to provide software developers and entrepreneurs with the technical and business innovations which allow them to build cost-effective, highly-scalable web applications.read more
AJAX World "Gold Pass" Savings to Expire This FridayRich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.
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Server-Side JavaScript - All the Cool Kids Are Doing It!In this session that no developer who uses JavaScript or ActionScript will want to miss, delegates will learn how to: Overcome common hurdles and pitfalls of client-side only JavaScript development, Speed up development time by cutting out extra server-side code and processing scripts that are no longer necessary, and Clean up your code base by reducing (or even eliminating) the number of languages needed to leverage to accomplish common tasks (i.e. Why bother with server-side PHP scripts to fetch database results when you can do it all in JavaScript on the server? Why mess with Curl to fetch content that your JavaScript code can grab in one line?)
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SOA World Expo - Turning SOA Whining into Debate, Planning, and ActionSOA can create agility and some incredible efficiencies, but there are a lot of issues to resolve before plunging in, unless you want to do a lot of pew pew (e.g., damage). For example, because of the complexity that comes with orchestrating multiple services, work out governance issues in advance. read more
SYS-CON Media's Virtualization Journal Opens Polls for "Readers' Choice Awards"SYS-CON Media's Virtualization Journal announced today that the polls have opened for its first annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. Readers will be casting their votes until November 8, 2008. Winners and finalists will be announced at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 West, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA.read more
Optimizing Virtualization Success in a Time of Virtual Sprawl"Go forth and multiply" has a new interpretation in the IT world: "Go forth and virtualize." It is no surprise that enterprises today are adopting virtualization technologies in droves, not only because of the cost reduction and efficiency it delivers, but for the flexibility the technology delivers as well. read more
OOXML Standardization Naysayers Apparently Throw in the TowelRepresentatives of the state IT organizations of Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela, three of the four countries that protested ISO’s standardization of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, have apparently thrown in the towel on taking their appeal any further. India, the fourth protester, has not been heard from.
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Vordel 5.1 Puts Policy Control at the Heart of XML NetworksVordel unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments.read more
How to Enable High Speed Parsing of Very Large XML FilesAs the number of XML files in enterprise organizations significantly increases, architects, application developers, and data integration specialists must deal simultaneously with the growing number of XML formatted messages on the network as well as their rapidly expanding file sizes. While XML has become the 'de facto' standard for transferring data from one step to the next in a business process or between applications, there are more and more occasions when files are easily exceeding 50-100MB in size, causing performance slow downs and memory overloads.read more
Catbird Launches Virtualization Security Training & Certification ProgramCatbird announced the Certified Virtual Security Professional (CVSP) Program, a professional training and certification program for virtual security. The CVSP program provides IT professionals with in-depth knowledge and tools required for best-practice implementation of security in a virtual environment.read more
FFVA Mutual Leverages Akorri BalancePoint for Proactive Management of Capacity in Virtualization Data CenterAkorri announced that FFVA Mutual Insurance Company has begun using Akorri's BalancePoint software for proactively managing its virtualized data center infrastructure. FFVA Mutual Insurance is leveraging BalancePoint as a communications hub across IT disciplines for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing all resources within its data center to ensure their performance meets application needs.read more
Exclusive Q&A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation'We continue to struggle a bit with what developers think 'Eclipse' means. They have heard of it, but they believe that we are entirely focused on Java tools when in fact we are doing so much more,' says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, in this exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. 'Our goals at Eclipse are to create an industrial-strength open source development platform that spans extensible tools, frameworks and runtimes,' Milinkovich adds.read more
Virtualization from Desktop to DatacenterVirtualization comes in many forms, and by combining multiple technologies, enterprises can transform the way they deploy and manage their software. This session will examine how an enterprise can combine the use of layer-2 'desktop' hypervisor technology, layer-1 dedicated server virtualization software and next-generation management software to rapidly speed the rate at which they can develop and deploy new software within their enterprise. With software developers able to easily create and encapsulate software within virtual machine containers, and then speed this through staging and deployment, enterprises benefit from radical cost reduction and increased time to market. It will also radically simplify complex IT tasks, such as: patching and compliance reporting. This session will include case studies and live technology demonstrations.read more
How to Find and Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks in Virtual Server EnvironmentsCurrently, an overwhelming majority of organizations are migrating and consolidating servers from physical to virtual environments. While the savings of the virtualized data center are extremely compelling, there is a new set of challenges that IT staffs didn't have to deal with in the physical world. One of the challenges is getting used to the fact that all hardware resources: CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization are shared between virtual machines. This means that applications and users can impact each other and therefore resource monitoring becomes extremely important. If you don't closely monitor resource consumption by each virtual machine and simply keep adding more virtual machines without doing analysis on how this will impact all four core resources, the result will be bad performance and even system downtime. Ultimately, this means unhappy users, dissatisfied managers, and a negative impact on the virtualization project. So, you need to find a way to prevent this problem.read more
Endeavors and BCT Group Join Forces to Stream Virtualization ApplicationsEndeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, announced a distribution agreement with Business, Communications & Technologies (BCT Group). BCT will use a localized version of Application Jukebox to deliver applications on-demand to enterprise organizations.read more
VDIworks Integrates With Microsoft Hyper-V VirtualizationVDIworks announced it has integrated its solution with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, which provides management of physical and virtual deployments throughout the data center, desktops and devices. With a new VDIworks plug-in, called VDIvision for System Center, joint Microsoft/VDIworks customers can use System Center to manage a variety of VDIworks-driven features, including a highly configurable and scalable connection broker, leveraging the power of desktop virtualization to reduce costs and improve security, among other benefits. On the heels of Microsoft's release of Hyper-V, VDIworks is a virtual desktop management vendor to integrate with Hyper-V and the System Center management offerings.read more
VMware Virtualization Helps Campbell Clinic OrthopaedicsVMware announced that Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics (Campbell Clinic) has deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 to virtualize its mission-critical applications and create a flexible, easily administered virtual infrastructure. VMware offers enterprise-class functionality in deployment sizes that fit the needs of small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The Campbell Clinic is one of thousands of SMBs that utilize VMware's proven and reliable cost-effective solutions to optimize their existing IT investments. VMware provides the scalability and flexibility for customers to buy what they need today and evolve their virtualization solutions as their business needs grow.read more
From the Virtualization Blogosphere - As VMware Changes CEOThe President of EMC's Cloud Computing Division, Paul Maritz, has been made President & CEO of VMware, immediately replacing co-founder and virtualization pioneer Diane Greene. Here Virtualization Journal brings a round up of the early reactions from the virtualization blogosphere.read more
BLADE's New Network Virtualization SwitchBLADE Network Technologies announced its 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet network virtualization switch for IBM BladeCenter. BLADE's new switch provides the ability to use six 1-Gigabit copper and three 10-Gigabit SFP+ fiber uplinks concurrently -- for 50 percent more bandwidth than alternative blade switch offerings.read more
VMware's Virtualization Helps World's Top Universities Cut Costs and Go GreenVMware announced that the top universities from the Times-QS World University Rankings have deployed VMware virtualization solutions to reduce capital and operating costs, increase application and system uptime, decrease power consumption and improve disaster preparedness. Harvard, which is number one on the list of 100, and Cambridge, which is tied for the second spot, head the list of prestigious schools that have deployed VMware solutions.read more
McAfee Participates in VMware Virtualization Alliance InitiativeMcAfee announced that it is participating in the VMware Alliance Affiliate Initiative. As part of this initiative, McAfee is launching an enhanced channel partner offering to provide extra incentives to top SecurityAlliance partners who jointly sell McAfee security solutions with their VMware virtualization engagements.read more
Shavlik Technologies Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"Shavlik Technologies provides automated, continuous patch assessment and remediation of the total virtual world, including Offline Virtual Images. Continuous assessment and remediation results in a network that is more secure and that reduces operational costs related to managing patches in physical and virtual environments.read more
VKernel Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"VKernel's Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer continuously monitors CPU, memory, and storage utilization trends in VMware ESX environments across hosts, clusters, and resource pools. By utilizing VKernel's quick-to-install virtual appliance model, users can eliminate current capacity bottlenecks and future ones through a simple, single-screen management dashboard. Users also now have detailed capacity information to effectively plan for the addition of new hosts, clusters, and resource pools. By customizing capacity thresholds, users can receive alerts via email and SNMP.read more
Raxco Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware combines the power of PerfectDisk 2008 with additional functionality for your VMware environment to help you automatically boost VMware performance and reclaim disk space on your host operating system drive. PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware defragments VMware's virtual drives with PerfectDisk's patented SMARTPlacement optimization technology and uses native VMware utilities to automatically re-index and shrink virtual drives. The physical (host) machine's drives are also automatically defragmented and optimized.read more
Open Kernel Labs Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"OKL4 is a high-performance system software platform, built using cutting-edge microkernel technology, which provides Trustworthy Virtualization and Secure Decomposition capability for embedded systems. OKL4 supports system virtualization, secure execution of components in an execution environment with a minimal trusted computing base, and fault isolation within complex systems using lightweight protected components. Used alone or as a complement to full-featured operating systems, OKL4 enables development teams to deliver systems that are more trustworthy in less time and at lower cost. Open Kernel Labs OKL4 provides developers with the technologies and tools needed to build and deploy innovative, high-performance, and secure intelligent devices.read more
Symantec Announces Virtual InfrastructureSymantec announced Veritas Virtual Infrastructure, a solution that offers advanced storage capabilities for virtual server environments that effectively manage storage in large scale, x86 production environments. Expected to be available in the fall of 2008, Veritas Virtual Infrastructure combines new, advanced storage management capabilities from Veritas Storage Foundation with the flexible, high-performance Citrix XenServer virtualization technology from Citrix Systems. Veritas Virtual Infrastructure will allow users to fully benefit from server virtualization while both preserving current best practices in storage management from the physical environment and leveraging new opportunities provided by virtualized environments.read more
Vizioncore Participates in VMware Virtualization InitiativeVizioncore announced it is participating in the VMware Alliance Initiative, a co-marketing initiative that includes technology alliance partners from a broad range of technology sectors. These vendors have created custom VMware virtualization training and tools for channel partners, as well as financial incentives on the sale of their products combined with VMware solutions. These vendor incentives help provide additional profitability opportunities for vendor channel partners and reward partners for creating complete solutions for customers.read more
Appistry Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"Appistry's flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, simplifies the process of developing, deploying and managing highly scalable and reliable applications. With Appistry EAF, data- and CPU-intensive software developed using technologies like Java, Spring, .NET or C/C++ can be easily scaled-out across a virtualized 'grid' of inexpensive servers. As a result, Appistry customers such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market with the agility, scale and reliability demanded by their businesses.read more
Vega 3 Compute Appliance Raises the Bar for Java PerformanceAzul Systems announced that its Vega 3 Compute Appliance recorded world record results in the industry-standard SPECjbb2005 benchmark, further demonstrating the company's commitment to providing customers with the highest performing solutions for Java enterprise computing.read more
Storage Virtualization, the Key to Unlock Tomorrow's Data CenterAs data growth rates continue to climb and business requirements further evolve, customers are feeling the pressure to realign their storage infrastructure to better meet the needs of their business. Mr. Yoshida will discuss how storage virtualization is the key enabler towards the storage-based services required to deliver substantial breakthroughs in efficiency and business agility across the entire enterprise. He will discuss how storage-based services such as thin provisioning, content and file management and dynamic data migration, enabled via controller-based Virtualization, are paving the way for the Dynamic Data Center of tomorrow.read more
Evergreen Datacenter, From Concept to ImplementationMost enterprises today are facing the challenges of datacenter space, power, and performance. With increasing demand for 'more' while paying 'less', the IT industry is looking for new technologies, best methods, and practices to find solution to this problem. The Evergreen Datacenter framework is an architectural framework that formulates the best practices and methodologies along with latest technologies that allow enterprises to design an infrastructure with maximum space and power efficiencies. These efficiencies result in 2x the performance while maintaining or reducing the power envelope. Virtualization, high performance, power efficient server platforms are core components of Evergreen Datacenter framework. This discussion will examine the best practices in designing and implementing the Evergreen Datacenter. This session will demonstrate the use of the latest virtualization technology from both a hardware and software perspective, in addition to providing the methodology for developing a virtual infrastructure.read more
Virtualization Conference Keynote - "Using Virtualization to Transform Your Datacenter"How can virtualization help transform your IT environment into a dynamic datacenter? In this Virtualization Keynote, Dr Stephen Herrod will explore how a virtualized IT infrastructure gives any organization a sustainable competitive advantage. We have reached a point in time, Herrod believes, when the industry is shifting and the true power of virtualization is being unleashed, allowing for reduced costs, more efficient use of resources, increased availability of applications and faster responsiveness to business needs.read more
Citrix Buys German Virtualization ProductCitrix has bought sepago GmbH's sepagoProfile software so user profiles in XenDesktop, XenApp and Provisioning Server are integrated. Terms were not disclosed but as part of the deal the Cologne-based sepago will continue developing the product for virtualizing application provisioning for the next year and a half. Sepago specializes in application provisioning on large computer networks.read more
AmberPoint Launches Business Transaction Management Capabilities for SOAAmberPoint announced innovations for analyzing and managing business transactions end to end across distributed applications, services and infrastructure. AmberPoint has extended the reach of its SOA runtime governance software to encompass the transactions flowing across complex heterogeneous systems. These enhanced capabilities from AmberPoint enable organizations to elevate the business value of their SOA-based applications.read more
AgilePath Announces New SOA Governance Solutions and ServicesAgilePath announced its CEO, Eric Marks, has completed his 3rd SOA book focused on SOA governance. The new book is entitled 'SOA Governance: Evolving Governance in the Services-Driven Enterprise,' published by John Wiley & Sons, and is slated for release in August 2008. In addition, AgilePath announced several new SOA governance solutions to build on the strong demand for its vendor-neutral SOA consulting services.read more
AmberPoint Extends SOA Governance to SaaS and Packaged ApplicationsAmberPoint announced that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software to include enterprise applications from software vendors and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. SOA-based systems are heterogeneous composite applications that often include packaged applications - such as customer relationship management (CRM) suites, order management systems and billing systems - as well as hosted applications that are provided on demand. Through its non-invasive SOA runtime governance technology, AmberPoint is able to monitor these prominent participants in SOA systems.read more
Free Download - Simplify Java Persistence with InterSystemsInterSystems simplifies persistence for Java developers by providing product that allow simultaneous SQL and object data access without mapping. InterSystems Caché is the high-performance object database that runs SQL faster than relational databases. It includes InterSystems Jalapeño technology that allows you to automatically create persistent classes from POJO class definitions. With Jalapeño, you can work entirely within your favorite Java IDE to build database applications in less time than you ever thought possible.read more
iPhone 3G - The Best Apple Keynote EverKeynotes are often boring, but watching today's keynote from WWDC conference was just great. I do not want to repeat the facts about iPhone 3G. Needless to say that I'll buy a couple of them this summer. I do not want to bore you with the facts about the countless possibilities that open iPhone SDK brings to the table. Just watch the keynote.read more
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