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Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media seeks to
Forum Systems announced
the availability of FS
Sentry 7.1, the SOA
Gateway product. FS
Sentry 7.1 enables rapid
integration within a SOA
without compromising
security. FS Sentry 7.1
provides SOA
professionals the ability
to virtualize and
centralize disparate
service endpoints.
Service
Parallels announced it
has signed an agreement
with myLittleTools to
resell myLittleAdmin for
SQL Server 2005, the
web-based management tool
designed for Microsoft
SQL Server 2005. The
application enables
service providers to
manage most database and
server objects, such as
tables, vie
The Ingres Icebreaker BI
Appliance is a self
contained software stack
of o/s, database, and
business intelligence
tools. The solution is
provided in a single
stream install enabling a
rapid and easy deployment
of a complete BI
environment within a VM.
The software appliance
comes with
CACHEfx appliances
deliver high I/O
operations per second and
low latency to accelerate
the performance of data
intensive applications.
The appliances scale to
multiple terabytes of
capacity and attach to
the network,
complementing both
traditional Network
Attached Storage (NAS)
deploy
Interest from the
international arena for
CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia is
on the increase every
year. CeBIT Bilisim
Eurasia, serving as a
gateway between East and
West is enriching its
content every year in
line with the global
trends. In 2007 the show
hosted 140,000 local and
international v
Infinite Group announced
plans to expand its
Virtualization Practice
to the state government
and commercial markets.
IGI's Virtualization
Practice has focused on
the Federal Civilian
Agency market so the
expansion will leverage
that expertise to pursue
the growing
Virtualization market
Currently, 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
Linspire announced the
support for the Linux
Mint operating system. To
gain access to the free
CNR Service, Linux Mint
4.0 users simply install
the free CNR Client that
is available at CNR.com.
With Linux Mint support,
CNR.com now offers its
one-click software
delivery service to five
PlateSpin provides a
unified suite of
solutions to help
enterprises adopt, manage
and extend their use of
server virtualization in
the data center.
PlateSpin's
patent-pending workload
profiling and portability
technology liberates
software from hardware
and streams server
workloads (da
Babya announced the
upcoming release of
Virtual Application
Platinum. Babya Virtual
Application Platinum is a
software virtualization
solution designed for
applications-such as
small utilities. It can
handle the virtualization
of multiple applications.
It seems like not a day
goes by lately in which
some new story of
malfeasance in office
doesn't come out -
whether it's lying under
oath, using the services
of a call girl, or spying
on other officials in the
government in order to
further a personal
agenda. Clearly, our
elected offici
MokaFive, another me-too
desktop virtualization
company, this one started
in 2005 by three Stanford
PhDs and their professor,
Moka chief scientist
Monica Lam, is in the
process of pushing out
its widgetry, which works
on Windows, Mac and
Linux. It started going
commercial a few weeks a
Yahoo's stock dropped
roughly 19%-20% this
morning at the open,
shaving $8.7 billion off
its value, its first
installment on the price
of its independence from
Microsoft. Yahoo, whose
position improved a
couple of percentage
points in the first
half-hour of trading, is
being held up by
ClearCube announced the
company's latest
successes with strong
market demand, technology
innovations, customer and
partner success.
ClearCube's continued
high standing in the
centralized computing
space is demonstrated by
the company's momentum in
a series of corporate
developments ove
Red Hat announced the
release of JBoss
Operations Network (ON)
2.0, an integrated
middleware management
platform that simplifies
application development,
testing, deployment and
monitoring. The release
of JBoss ON 2.0
represents continued
momentum for the
Enterprise Acceleration
initia
There is uniform
agreement that SOA holds
great promise as a
strategy for improving
business agility, better
aligning IT and the
business, and increasing
overall IT efficiency.
Developing an SOA
strategy has become a key
issue for most large
enterprises: CTOs in a
2007 McKinsey survey
Parasoft announced they
will be featuring the
next generation of
application security
solutions at JavaOne.
Improving security
without impacting
productivity, Parasoft's
Application Security
Solutions establish a
continuous process that
helps ensure security
verification and
remediatio
CodeGear announced it has
teamed with
Instantiations to fully
integrate the
Instantiations Swing
Designer visual layout
tools into CodeGear
JBuilder, making it the
commercial Java IDE to
include this technology.
Java developers using
JBuilder will now be able
to construct more
sophisti
Yahoo! founders Jerry
Yang and David Filo
received stupid advice
from their investment
bank advisers and blew
their chance to close the
deal with Microsoft as of
this Sunday morning.
Neither Yang nor Filo are
experts on how to sell a
company in a
multi-billion dollar
deal. They have re
Skytap Virtual Lab, is a
virtual lab solution
available as a service
over the Web. It enables
application development
and test teams to
provision lab
infrastructure on demand
(including servers,
software, networking and
storage) and utilize a
powerful virtual lab
management application
Greg Lyon is an IT
professional with over 25
years experience in
Software Development,
Project Management, Sales
Engineering, and Business
Development. For the last
three years Greg has
worked at Egenera where
he has held positions as
a Senior Sales Engineer,
Sales Engineer Manager,
an
The Virtual-D Platform
enables service providers
to offer hosted,
subscription-based
virtual desktops. A
solution that integrates
all desktop
virtualization layers
through a single,
automated self-service
platform, it helps
enterprises realize the
full benefits of
centralized virtual d
Stoneware is a privately
held corporation
providing innovative
software that delivers
'Universal Web Access' to
all of an organization's
web, Windows, and hosted
applications through a
'Virtualized Web Desktop'
interface. Based on Web
2.0 technology,
Stoneware's webOS is an
offering in
Dell was supposed to cut
10% of its workforce,
about 8,800 jobs. That
was last year's plan. Now
it's saying it will go
deeper in an effort to
save $3 billion a year by
2011. Michael Dell made
the announcement Thursday
at the company's first
meeting with financial
analysts in three year
Rumor has it that
Salesforce.com, that CRM
paean to cloud computing,
is going to start selling
Gmail and Google Docs
integrated into its
system. The pair cut a
deal nine months ago for
Saleforce to include
Adwords in its
applications.
Existing storage
management methods and
tools can't keep pace
with exploding storage
requirements. Application
expansion, digital media
formats, and regulatory
compliance have all
contributed to the
fast-growing demand.
According to IDC, storage
administrator
productivity has to
increa
VMware announced
strategic enhancements to
its channel partner
programs. The
enhancements build on
initiatives announced in
February 2008 to enhance
the VMware VIP Partner
Program, helping VMware's
more than 13,000 partners
around the world that
resell VMware
virtualization solutions
b
Red Hat is a trusted
open source provider.
Red Hat offers enterprise
customers a long-term
plan for building
infrastructures on the
quality and innovation of
open source. Combining
open source operating
system platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux,
together with
applications, management
In February 2007, APC and
MGE UPS Systems combined
to form a $3.5 billion
(2.4 billion) Critical
Power and Cooling
Services business unit of
Schneider Electric. The
Critical Power and
Cooling Services division
offers the industry's
most comprehensive
product and solution
range for crit
The Ubuntu Linux-based
gOS operating system from
Good OS LLC
(www.thinkgos.com)
includes so many Google
applications like Gmail,
Google Docs, Google
Calendar, Google News
Google Maps and YouTube
that it's often referred
to as the Google
operating system. It also
includes Firefox, Skype
Tek-Tools Software
announced that its growth
continues with 40 new
customers and several
existing customers
expanding installations
of Profiler Suite in the
first quarter of 2008.
Increasingly, new and
existing customers are
demanding capabilities in
their IT infrastructure
management
EDS announced the signing
of a comprehensive
agreement with Microsoft
around EDS airline
reservations, flight
operations and service
oriented architecture
products. With the
announcement, EDS will
use selected Microsoft
tools, software and
resources in the
modernization and
operations
TIBCO announced it is
demonstrating how the
combination of SCA and
the TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Service Grid provides a
highly scalable Service
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) combination for
enterprise developers
looking to reap the
benefits of both models.
Using SCA helps in part
by laying a c
So, the geniuses in
Chatsworth, California,
who picked up the remains
of Fawcette Technical
Publications from the
bank in Virginia, and the
remains of 101
Communications, another
platform play that went
seriously south, sat down
in a room this afternoon
and said 'What is SYS-CON
up to
The rapid embrace of
virtualization has helped
change the economics of
IT by not only lowering
capital costs but also
reducing operational
costs. As customers
become more familiar with
the technology,
virtualization is
increasingly being used
to solve more than just
server consolidatio
Egenera announced its
support for Fujitsu
Siemens Computers' launch
of ServerView PAN Manager
on PRIMERGY blade
servers. The two
companies first
established a successful
OEM relationship centered
on the Egenera BladeFrame
system in 2005, amassing
a strong enterprise
customer base in mo
EnterpriseDB released a
plug-in for Postgres
Studio that creates an
AJAX-enabled Java
application based on a
Postgres database table
or schema. Postgres
Studio is a graphical
database administration
console that is built on
the widely admired
pgAdmin foundation and
only available as pa
Instantiations announced
that its customer base
has grown to more than
10,000 customers.
Instantiations reached
this milestone through
increased enterprise
adoption of its
Eclipse-focused product
lines. An early
participant in the
commercial Eclipse
market, Instantiations
continues its
Sun Microsystems and the
GlassFish community
announced the
availability of the
technology preview
release of the Sun
GlassFish Enterprise
Server version 3 and new
Sun GlassFish
Communications Server.
Sun also announced a new
GlassFish Partner
initiative designed to
provide developers,