Salvatore Genovese is a Cloud Computing consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Rome, Italy. He occasionally blogs about SOA, start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. Sal can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com.
Apparent Networks today issued a new Performance Advisory detailing an outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services. The outage occurred on Dec. 9, 2009 beginning at approximately 3:34 a.m. EST and lasted approximately 44 minutes. During that time, access to systems in the A...Dec. 10, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 332
IBM opened a new Hong Kong Cloud Computing Laboratory to support LotusLive cloud services. With more than 18 million client seats in its first year, IBM has established an elite team of experts to meet the demand of cloud-based collaboration services. The news marks IBM's tenth cloud c...
Raker said that as cloud computing starts to see "significant adoption" by businesses, managing how it is used will become increasingly important. Cloud computing leads to increased service and elevated security requirements for the companies that use them, and CA's "product portfolio ...
SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today predicted that virtualised-driven, cloud computing offerings will render hardware security appliances all but functionally obsolete by the end of 2011. SpamTitan cited sales evidenc...
Savvis and Cisco announced an expanded relationship focused on the development of private clouds for the enterprise. Savvis will integrate the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) as the cornerstone of Savvis Symphony, Savvis' next-generation private clouds platform, previously dubbed ...
Dolphin Equity Partners recorded one of the largest single returns for limited partners among venture capital investors in 2009 and the largest sale of a privately held Cloud Computing company with its fourth-quarter sale of longtime investment Gomez Inc. to Compuware Corporation (NASD...
Dune Networks' Highly Scalable Switch Fabric Technology Expands Broadcom's Product Portfolio for Data Centers and Large Scale Cloud Computing. Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dune Networks, a privately-held company that...
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside ...
Comptel Corporation announced that BT and Progress Software will be participating in the second phase of the Service Model Catalyst, as it explores the creation of new converged services that include cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platf...
Acumatica, a provider of web-based accounting, ERP, and CRM software, today announced availability of its SaaS solution which runs on Windows Azure and includes the Acumatica software subscription, the operating environment, backups, upgrades, a service level agreement, and automatic u...
Cast Iron Systems announced that it has won the Best of SaaS Showplace Award, presented by THINKstrategies, the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market. The Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award program recognizes the Saa...
AT&T today announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity. Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Ser...
Shavlik Technologies released findings of a comprehensive survey designed to gauge market drivers for new virtualization and cloud computing initiatives in corporate IT environments. The survey found that data, server and licensing consolidation and disaster recovery functionality are ...
Fujitsu today announced in North America free hosting of BPM applications for up to ten users. Based on the newest release of its Interstage(R) Cloud BPM platform, solution providers and enterprise teams of up to ten users can quickly develop and use process-based applications at no ch...
LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile industry leaders today announced the Vodafone 360 Samsung M1, the second LiMo compliant device built upon LiMo Platform Release 2 (R2). This latest handset developed by Samsung offers mobile consumers a unique mobile experience presented t...
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capaci...
The applications that support of an enterprise exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. In his general session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, discusses...
SYS-CON Events announced that LSI, a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convent...
Day One Support Covers Wyse’s All Hardware and Software PortfoliosLONDON, UK. – 22 October 09 - Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced Day One support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, the latest versi...
SplendidCRM continues to evolve with the incorporation of the Silverlight 3 Toolkit to replace the previous flash-based and hand-made charts. “We continue to pioneer the use of XAML-only graphics as a means to promote rapid application development”, noted Paul Rony, President and Foun...
The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), announced that six new key personnel have joined the company to spearhead strategic technology efforts aimed to position the company for continued growth and technology leadership. The new “Rackers” (as ...
Adult super star Sunny Leone's first app, the free "lite version" that offers exclusive pictures, a blog and video clips, is now available. Version 2.0, a premium version with more features, photo sets and videos is currently awaiting approval. Version 2.0 is packed with all new intera...
Dell and Perot Systems have entered a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion. Terms of the agreement were approved yesterday by the boards of directors of both companies. The acquisition will result in a compelling c...
Managing content effectively at a low cost while adhering to regulatory controls has become an indispensible part of running an efficient business. According to the study “Above the Clouds: a Berkley View of Cloud Computing,” the cost is one-fifth to one-seventh of that offered to a me...
Service-now.com EMEA Executive Briefing and User Conference -- Service-now.com, the pioneer of modern SaaS for IT service automation, today announced details of the Service-now.com Fall 2009 release scheduled for Sept. 25, 2009. The new features are designed to help IT service manageme...
The combination of the two companies will increase the value Adobe delivers to customers. For designers, developers and online marketers, an integrated workflow — with optimization capabilities embedded in the creation tools — will streamline the creation and delivery of relevant conte...
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RealWire is a global news release distribution service specialising in the online media. The RealWire approach focuses on delivering relevant content to the receivers of our client's news releases. As we know that i...
iPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow(R), Shake to Shuffle(TM), and access to the legendary iTunes(R) Store. And now, the new iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which aut...
Apple introduced the new iPod nano(R), adding a video camera, mic and speaker to the world's most popular music player. Music lovers can now shoot video wherever they are, view it on their iPod nano and use their computers to easily transfer their videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano f...
Kaazing Corporation, developers of real-time Web communications software that connect web-based applications to high-volume, real-time message traffic, today announced the appointment of Vito Palermo, a 23-year veteran of the technology industry with extensive executive level operating...
Terremark announced it is the first service provider to offer hosting services for SAP solutions on its cloud computing platform. Through its innovative Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, Terremark will be able to leverage its secure, top-tier data centers with access to massive and dive...
Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, "Member Communities," which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular category online - ahead of personal email. It is growing twice as fast as any of the other four largest s...
Rackspace Hosting cloud computing company announced it has won a three-year, competitive deal to provide fully managed support to the Joint Server Farm (JSF), a secure hosting environment for Ministry of Defence (MOD) websites. The relationship will see MOD, Army, Royal Navy and Royal ...
Mellanox announced that the Intalio Cloud Appliance accelerated by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, has received a Best of VMworld 2009 award in the Cloud Computing Technologies category. An independent team of judges consisting of experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com rev...
Today at VMworld 2009, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced it has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with RTO Software to integrate its industry-leading Virtua...
OpenAir announced that it has partnered with AIPEX to resell and support OpenAir solutions in Australia. This partnership is expected to help bring the industry's leading PSA and SRP solution to Australian companies, enabling them to manage their projects, resources, time and expense t...
Red Hat announced that members of Red Hat’s executive team will host a press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast from the Red Hat Summit in Chicago on September 2, 2009 at 12pm EST.
To view the webcast, please visit here.
Emulex Corporation announced that it is providing a Virtual Fabric Adapter based on its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture for flexible Ethernet network connectivity in IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade servers. This marks Emulex’s first announced 10Gb/s Ethern...
Facebook today announced plans to further improve people's control over their information and enable them to make more informed choices about their privacy. These improvements will include new notifications, additions to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and technical changes designed to give...
For many, Facebook barely existed three years ago and for most, Twitter didn't exist three months ago. Today, they are part of the common lexicon. As technology, social networking and the way we communicate via the Web continue to transform at a rate that challenges Moore's Law, consum...
