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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
Before I get into any
sort of detail, I think
it's important to say
that there is more than
one way to approach an
MVC. Go ahead, ask a few
seasoned developers how
they would hack together
a project like this and
each one will give you a
completely different
answer. I'm going to do
my
SAS unveiled a new
solution based on VMware
virtualization to
monitor, manage and
optimize IT operations
across all physical and
virtual environments. SAS
IT Intelligence for
VMware Infrastructure
will enable customers to
better align IT resources
with strategic business
goals.
The US Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
en banc heard oral
arguments Thursday in the
Bilski case, which, if
their honors get to
feeling radical and rule
broadly, could outlaw not
only business methods
patents in the United
States but - by extension
- void all existing
software
StoneFly announced its
entry into VMware's
Technology Alliance
Partner (TAP) and
Hardware Certification
Programs. In addition,
StoneFly announced that
the StoneFly
StoneFusion6.X operating
system now offers
enhanced support for
virtual server
environments, including
the latest versions
For a 22% interest,
Intel, Google, Comcast,
Time Warner Cable and
Bright House Networks are
putting $3.2 billion into
a new company that Craig
McCaw's Clearwire and
Sprint Nextel, two of the
walking wounded, are
forming that combines
their WiMax wireless
broadband businesses.
Trilogy E
OpenOffice.org is
publicly beta testing
OpenOffice 3.0, which is
not recommended for
production use. General
release is expected in
September. Aside from
cosmetics, it will
support the upcoming
OpenDocument Format 1.2
and is capable of opening
Office 2007 and 2008 for
Mac OS X files.
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologies
is b
Virtualization is a
strategic initiative at
Dell and so we have spent
considerable time
planning and seeking the
requirements of hundreds
of our customers of all
types and sizes and
across many geographies.
What we found was pretty
revealing, although not
particularly surprising:
virtu
Contrary to what you may
have read elsewhere, AMD
has not added anything
new to its antitrust
charges against Intel -
just some color - mostly
black redactions - even
after riffling through
the 145 million pages of
discovery that Intel
turned over to it.
According to AMD, 'Intel
has ma
HP is racing to the
rescue of those
threatening to drown in
their own data, but that
Web 2.0 lot had better be
able to hold on until the
fourth quarter when HP
can deliver what it calls
'Extreme' storage, the
NAS-style ExDS9100. It's
a 10U BladeSystem that
can hold 820TB of
SATA-based
Sun's mule train has
finally pulled into
Indiana after three years
on the road. Indiana is
the Linux-friendly
Fedora-like OpenSolaris
project meant to move the
Solaris-shy Linux
community off Linux and
on to Solaris tempted by
Solaris widgetry like the
highly scalable,
rollback-easy, 1
At WaveMaker, we have
hitched our wagon to Java
so I hope very much that
JavaOne is showing us the
ghost of Java present,
not the ghost of Java to
come. The Sun promise to
put Java runtimes
everywhere is meaningless
if nobody wants to
develop for those
runtimes. Adobe and
Microsoft are
ScaleMP announced details
of its channel partner
program. The program,
designed to assist
channel partners in
providing server
solutions for their
customers' high-end
computing needs, offers
resellers and system
integrators the necessary
tools to bring the
recently launched ScaleMP
vSM
Virtualization Journal
now reaches more than
60,000 online readers
with monthly digital
editions and weekly
newsletters. The premier
issue of the magazine's
print edition, which
debuts on May 6, 2008, at
JavaOne in San Francisco,
as a media sponsor of
this event, will be
available on n
A new scalable
virtualization server is
now available from Dell
and based on the
Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor, AMD announced.
Enterprise customers
interested in
consolidating server
infrastructure may turn
to two new virtualization
servers from Dell
utilizing Quad-Core AMD
Opteron p
HP has introduced
enhanced quality and
management software
designed to meet new
requirements for
mainstream deployment of
service-oriented
architectures (SOA) by
businesses. To make sure
that services meet all
functional and
performance objectives
and are ready for
production deploymen
3PAR announced the 3PAR
Replication Adapter for
VMware Site Recovery
Manager. This software
enables 3PAR Remote Copy,
3PAR's remote data
replication software for
3PAR InServ Storage
Servers, and VMware Site
Recovery Manager, a
pioneering product for
disaster recovery
management and aut
Seanodes released the
results of a third-party
survey of IT
professionals that shows
that the transition from
direct attached storage
to networked storage is
dictated by needs that
come with server
virtualization, such as
VM migration, elevating
costs and complexity,
while taxing perfo
ParAccel announced it has
entered into an original
equipment manufacturer
(OEM) agreement with IBM.
Under the terms of the
agreement, ParAccel will
embed IBM InfoSphere
Change Data Capture
within the ParAccel
Analytic Database,
providing ParAccel
customers with seamless
and real-time u
FalconStor announced
FalconStor Storage
Replication Adapter (SRA)
for VMware Site Recovery
Manager. VMware Site
Recovery Manager is a
pioneering product for
disaster recovery
management and
automation. Part of
VMware's suite of
management and automation
products for the
datacenter, VMw
frevvo announced Live
Forms software which
enables users and
developers to easily
create rich AJAX forms
with built-in business
capabilities. Live Forms
provides a complete
Web-based design
experience that can be
embedded into any
application and is ideal
for Enterprise Social
Software
VMware announced that
VMware Stage Manager, a
product for accelerating
and automating the
delivery of applications
from staging to
production, is now
available for order.
Joining VMware's suite of
management and automation
products for the
datacenter, VMware Stage
Manager automates the
MySQL has backed off a
plan to charge for some
encryption and
compression backup
widgetry in the next
version of the database -
and, heavens, NOT OPEN
SOURCE THE STUFF, an idea
it trotted a few weeks
ago and predictably
caught hell for. Sun,
which bought MySQL for a
billion dollars, a
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
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
'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
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 
SAS unveiled a new
solution based on VMware
virtualization to
monitor, manage and
optimize IT operations
across all physical and
virtual environments. SAS
IT Intelligence for
VMware Infrastructure
will enable customers to
better align IT resources
with strategic business
goals. 
The US Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
en banc heard oral
arguments Thursday in the
Bilski case, which, if
their honors get to
feeling radical and rule
broadly, could outlaw not
only business methods
patents in the United
States but - by extension
- void all existing
software 
For a 22% interest,
Intel, Google, Comcast,
Time Warner Cable and
Bright House Networks are
putting $3.2 billion into
a new company that Craig
McCaw's Clearwire and
Sprint Nextel, two of the
walking wounded, are
forming that combines
their WiMax wireless
broadband businesses.
Trilogy E
OpenOffice.org is
publicly beta testing
OpenOffice 3.0, which is
not recommended for
production use. General
release is expected in
September. Aside from
cosmetics, it will
support the upcoming
OpenDocument Format 1.2
and is capable of opening
Office 2007 and 2008 for
Mac OS X files.
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologies
is b
Virtualization is a
strategic initiative at
Dell and so we have spent
considerable time
planning and seeking the
requirements of hundreds
of our customers of all
types and sizes and
across many geographies.
What we found was pretty
revealing, although not
particularly surprising:
virtu 
Contrary to what you may
have read elsewhere, AMD
has not added anything
new to its antitrust
charges against Intel -
just some color - mostly
black redactions - even
after riffling through
the 145 million pages of
discovery that Intel
turned over to it.
According to AMD, 'Intel
has ma
HP is racing to the
rescue of those
threatening to drown in
their own data, but that
Web 2.0 lot had better be
able to hold on until the
fourth quarter when HP
can deliver what it calls
'Extreme' storage, the
NAS-style ExDS9100. It's
a 10U BladeSystem that
can hold 820TB of
SATA-based 
Sun's mule train has
finally pulled into
Indiana after three years
on the road. Indiana is
the Linux-friendly
Fedora-like OpenSolaris
project meant to move the
Solaris-shy Linux
community off Linux and
on to Solaris tempted by
Solaris widgetry like the
highly scalable,
rollback-easy, 1
ScaleMP announced details
of its channel partner
program. The program,
designed to assist
channel partners in
providing server
solutions for their
customers' high-end
computing needs, offers
resellers and system
integrators the necessary
tools to bring the
recently launched ScaleMP
vSM 
Virtualization Journal
now reaches more than
60,000 online readers
with monthly digital
editions and weekly
newsletters. The premier
issue of the magazine's
print edition, which
debuts on May 6, 2008, at
JavaOne in San Francisco,
as a media sponsor of
this event, will be
available on n
A new scalable
virtualization server is
now available from Dell
and based on the
Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor, AMD announced.
Enterprise customers
interested in
consolidating server
infrastructure may turn
to two new virtualization
servers from Dell
utilizing Quad-Core AMD
Opteron p
3PAR announced the 3PAR
Replication Adapter for
VMware Site Recovery
Manager. This software
enables 3PAR Remote Copy,
3PAR's remote data
replication software for
3PAR InServ Storage
Servers, and VMware Site
Recovery Manager, a
pioneering product for
disaster recovery
management and aut
Seanodes released the
results of a third-party
survey of IT
professionals that shows
that the transition from
direct attached storage
to networked storage is
dictated by needs that
come with server
virtualization, such as
VM migration, elevating
costs and complexity,
while taxing perfo
FalconStor announced
FalconStor Storage
Replication Adapter (SRA)
for VMware Site Recovery
Manager. VMware Site
Recovery Manager is a
pioneering product for
disaster recovery
management and
automation. Part of
VMware's suite of
management and automation
products for the
datacenter, VMw
frevvo announced Live
Forms software which
enables users and
developers to easily
create rich AJAX forms
with built-in business
capabilities. Live Forms
provides a complete
Web-based design
experience that can be
embedded into any
application and is ideal
for Enterprise Social
Software 
MySQL has backed off a
plan to charge for some
encryption and
compression backup
widgetry in the next
version of the database -
and, heavens, NOT OPEN
SOURCE THE STUFF, an idea
it trotted a few weeks
ago and predictably
caught hell for. Sun,
which bought MySQL for a
billion dollars, a 
