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

Virtutech announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, is deploying Virtutech Simics for the ground segment of the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program. The ground system will be provided by Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for th

VirtualLogix introduced VLX vHA, a solution that enables high-availability (HA) assurances for communications equipment utilizing virtualization. Tightly integrated with its real-time virtualization solution for network equipment, VLX for Network Infrastructure, VLX vHA increases syste

Ericom announced the availability of Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect for Oracle VM, a desktop virtualization (VDI) solution based on Oracle's server virtualization software. Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect for Oracle VM harnesses the power of the companies' respective virtualization products t

DataCore announced that it has accepted a $30 million equity investment from Insight Venture Partners and Updata Partners. Insight Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on the global software and Internet industries. Updata Partners is an information tec

Dell is talking with Tecom Investments, an investment arm of the Dubai government, about a joint venture that could raise Dell's sales profile in the Middle East. Michael Dell mentioned it at a press conference in Dubai but offered no details and early reports suggested Dubai was going

Quest Software has expanded its set of solutions to help organizations plan, deploy and manage their IT infrastructures by maximizing their investment in the Microsoft System Center Platform. Quest will unveil its comprehensive solutions, including the availability of Quest Management

Egenera announced the Dell PAN System as a key component of Dell's virtualization solutions portfolio. Dell and Egenera are partnering to deliver the dynamic data center to customers -- making virtualization and data center automation a reality beyond the blade chassis. The Dell PAN sy

The VMware Fusion team announced the release of VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 for public download. VMware also announced VMware Fusion 2.0 will be a free downloadable upgrade for all VMware Fusion 1.x users. VMware Fusion Beta 1 ships with new features.

According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway

Ceedo Technologies has developed patent-pending virtualization technology that takes a suite of standard off-the-shelf Windows applications, and virtualizes them in real-time, creating a portable virtual desktop, which launches on any Windows host PC with no need to pre-install any sof

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

Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skyway SOA Platform - Devel

Skyway Software announced a strategic partnership with SpringSource. In this technology partnership, Skyway Software becomes an application-delivery ISV certified by SpringSource and integrates Spring into Skyway Visual Perspectives, its end-to-end application development and delivery

Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in

Building on its November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Based on feedback resulting from close cooperation with customers testing in real-world environments, the latest preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g incl

Synopsys announced that NextIO has standardized on the VMM methodology, as defined in the Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog, and on Synopsys' VCS functional verification product to accelerate the SystemVerilog-based verification of their newest I/O virtualization

Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,

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