Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named 'Astro', builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with new support for custom filters and effe

'Should CFML developers switch to Java?' asks Andrew Powell in an article this week at SYS-CON.com. 'No,' he answers. ColdFusion is the fastest way to get data to AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, and even JavaFX, according to Powell, who adds: 'ColdFusion also provides complex services easier

SAP announced a design and development governance offering for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA.) The new offering will enable SAP customers to experience tangible business benefits as a result of an enterprise SOA strategy. Growing adoption of the SAP enterpris

Patni Computer Systems announced its customizable solution framework for the development or modernization of insurance business applications. Initially, the framework will support Patni's application components for Life New Business. Based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and bui

DataCore Software announced that its two storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony and SANmelody, have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1 as virtual SAN appliances running on XenServer virtual machines as well as in a standard physical storage server configuration. Rig

Aptec Distribution has been appointed the authorized distributor for VMware in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Bahaa Salah, Managing Director for Aptec Distribution, said, 'VMware is a strategic partnership for us, helping us build our one-stop-shop concept by offering

Sun Microsystems announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media

Zoho announced that it is welcoming Google and Yahoo users with a unified login designed to encourage those users to try Zoho applications. Now, Google and Yahoo users who visit Zoho can simply log into Zoho using the usernames and passwords associated with their Google and Yahoo accou

Embotics introduced a whitepaper describing the costs associated with virtual sprawl and suggestions on estimating the cost of sprawl in an enterprise environment. The nature of virtualization frequently leads to the misconception that virtual machines (VMs) have no real associated cos

BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains in productivity, implem

Acronis announced Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server, an application that enables IT managers in small businesses running Microsoft SBS to backup and restore both physical and virtual servers. Acronis will market its Small Business Server backup application bundled

Software AG announced that Volvofinans has selected CentraSite as its enterprise platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and metadata management. CentraSite will serve as the foundation for the new IT infrastructure being implemented by Volvofinans to accelerate the

HCL Technologies announced Penstock InsureWrite, an SOA-based policy underwriting system that automates the entire underwriting process, allowing insurance carriers to consolidate the multiple administration platforms used across their entire business. The highly competitive landscape

While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it is too

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, esp

Conference in San Francisco. Dvorak held forth on a number of topics, including the new AMD/Intel lawsuit, the viability of Java and Sun, the value of (or lack thereof) of corporate PR, and whether or not a new book about Silicon Valley is really worth reading.

3Leaf Systems, the four-year-old start-up that has raised $32.5 million in funding - some of it from Intel - is promising - once it gets all its ducks in a row - to virtualize the whole x86 data center infrastructure - memory, CPU and I/O. Such a feat, it says, has never been done befo

VirtualLogix, the real-time virtualization outfit that some might better remember as Jaluna and that used to belong to Sun, has come out with VLX Developer 2.0 with enhanced support for performance-critical Intel systems, a first for Intel systems and a boot up for Intel's so-called MI

F5 Networks announced that it has launched the File Virtualization For Dummies program with Wiley Publishing that offers the For Dummies guide along with a supporting webinar. Keeping in line with Wiley's For Dummies guides, this program offers a pragmatic approach to a pervasive issue

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is - an architectural pattern. In many instances, SOA is a vital component of healthy enterprise architecture. Indeed, I've provided some keynote talks around this very topic at about half-a-dozen ente

Altor Networks, a 14-month-old start-up backed by $6 million in funding from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, says the kind of security used on physical machines flat-out doesn't work in the virtual world and that you've got to think of virtualized machines as a network unto itse

My first technical session was about Java SE presented by Danny Coward from Sun. It was about the current situation of Java SE 6 and the roadmap to Java SE 7. The talk started with a few encouraging stats. For example, Java's performance increased 220% between Java SE 5.0_04 and Java S

This is my third JavaOne. Many topics were discussed, friendships were made, new partnerships were started. I must say things have changed a lot and stayed the same yet again, here are my thoughts in no particular order, bear in mind that they do not represent the opinion of my current

HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock Exchange. The price of $25 a share represents a 32.5% premium to

Adaptec unveiled a new family of entry-level Unified Serial RAID controllers. The new low-profile Series 2 RAID controllers, built on the same Adaptec dual core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) architecture used in its successful Series 5 RAID controllers, provide significant performance enhancement

VaST announced that Seiko Epson ('Epson') has selected VaST's CoMET as the development tool for printer product design. Epson's extensive evaluation of CoMET showed it was easy to use and improved software development productivity. CoMET combines high-speed, and cycle-accurate virtuali

VaST announced the promotion of Jason Niatas as vice president of North America sales. Niatas joined VaST in 2006 as director of sales and in his new position will expand his responsibility to all of North America. Niatas was responsible for growing and strengthening VaST's relationshi

NextIO announced the ExpressConnect family of products. ExpressConnect is a family of ioGateway products for the virtualization market. The ExpressConnect are end-to-end connectivity solutions that leverage industry standard PCI Express (PCIe) technology. The ioGateway segment of the v

Insight Integrated Systems (IIS) will showcase NetApp's server virtualization solutions. Virtualization is a technique for increasing server utilization by supporting multiple operating systems running on a single server. It provides an abstraction layer that decouples the server's phy

Alternative Technology announced an agreement to distribute Marathon Technologies everRun fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual server environments. Marathon's everRun software is for IT professionals at midsize companies and enterprises who want to preven

In keeping with Dell's mission to simplify IT, Dell announced the seamless integration of Dell EqualLogic storage arrays with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which automates disaster recovery (DR) management in virtual infrastructures. As one of VMware's largest resellers and Globa

IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core processes, such as claims

'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. To

Citrix says that Dell has started pre-installing XenServer on PowerEdge servers at the factory for worldwide distribution. It said XenServer Dell products are the only virtualization solutions to integrate Dell's OpenManage agent technology, which is supposed to make customer feel comf

AMD has rethought its roadmap and, given its limited resources and near-death experience with Barcelona, it's scrubbing Montreal, the eight-core chip that was supposed to follow Shanghai, the chip after Barcelona, and substituting a six-core part code named Istanbul to be followed by a

SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartner in the leader's quad

VMware announced two new bundles of its suite of management and automation products for the datacenter. The VMware IT Service Delivery Bundle includes all the products necessary to automate the entire lifecycle of IT services from initial request to final retirement: VMware Lifecycle M

EMC announced it will offer the broadest technology support for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), a new product in the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) portfolio that automates and accelerates the recovery of virtual machines in the event of a disaster in a VMware VI3 environmen

'Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, wo

VMware announced that VMware Site Recovery Manager, a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation, will be available for order next week with general availability expected to follow within 30 days. VMware Site Recovery Manager, which is part of VMware's suite of