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.
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company announced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolate...Aug. 26, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 913
Sybase, Inc. announced the availability of its leading data management and analytics servers including Sybase SQL Anywhere, Sybase IQ, and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. With these products, customers will have the ability to q...
SAP AG announced that it has successfully transitioned all software solution partners to the SAP(R) PartnerEdge(TM) program, and is now leveraging the company's partner program framework to provide an array of innovative business services and tools to additional partner types that make...
Embarcadero Technologies announced the last of three sneak previews into Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010, part of the Embarcadero® RAD Studio 2010 family. The latest sneak preview showcases expanded database connectivity for more than a dozen platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL S...
Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) announced a new model of the BlackBerry Smart Card Reader -- a lightweight, wearable, ISO 7816 compliant card reader that enables proximity controlled access to a user's BlackBerry smartphone and computer. The BlackBerry Smart Card Read...
Akorri in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced the availability of BalancePoint 3.0 -- the latest version of the company's award-winning virtual infrastructure management software. BalancePoint 3.0 allows IT organizations to ...
Cloud services provider Xignite announced it is working with Wolfram|Alpha, the world’s first computational knowledge engine. Under the agreement, Wolfram|Alpha has integrated Xignite Web services to provide powerful on-demand financial market data calculations for its users. Xignite W...
Unite, the UK's largest union, is warning IBM to brace itself for a backlash from thousands of employees against the company's plans to close the final salary pension schemes to future accrual and to alter the terms of its early retirement scheme.
Whilst Unite is in the midst of an...
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) today announced that it plans to release its first quarter and second quarter 2009 financial results after the market close on Monday, August 17, 2009. The Company's management team will host a live conference call and Webcast at...
SHIFT Communications and Whitley Media today transformed static Twitter profile pages into powerful personal branding tools with the launch of www.clickablenow.com Until today, the background pages on Twitter profiles were largely useless from a marketing standpoint, since urls, email...
The Cash for Clunkers program that's gotten so much attention in recent months is scheduled to launch by the end of July. In addition to providing a comprehensive guide to help explain to consumers how the program will work and which new cars are eligible, Cars.com now offers its picks...
Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009(1).
"Our focus on execution drove another strong quarter for Baidu," said Robin Li, Baidu's chairman and CEO....
Monitise Americas announced the launch of its Mobile Money application on the App Store. Mobile Money gives iPhone and iPod touch users simple access to their account information using a dynamic application that is easy to navigate and safe to use. Mobile Money is a leading global solu...
Zoho today announced the Zoho Mail Add-on for Zoho CRM. For small and medium businesses (SMBs) and others using Zoho CRM, the new module provides affordable, full-featured integration of Zoho CRM and Zoho Mail. A video tour of the Zoho Mail Add-on is available at http://www.youtube.com...
HP and IBRIX announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise-class file serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing deploy...
infoGROUP a provider of data driven and interactive resources for targeted sales, marketing and research solutions today announced a license renewal agreement that includes infoUSA premium local search content to be used in Bing, Microsoft Corp.’s new decision engine. Content will surf...
Many news outlets are erroneously reporting that Pamela Long Wiggins, charged today for murder in Florida, is a Realtor.
The National Association of Realtors can confirm that she is not a Realtor, which is a protected trademark of the National Association of Realtors®, and is not s...
Social sites have grown significantly in recent months and years. Users are becoming more sophisticated in the way they interact with companies. In true Web 2.0 fashion the dialog between companies and users is becoming more frequent. Customers share their experience with their entire ...
Sell My Timeshare NOW, a leader in the advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, is ramping up its social marketing commitment, providing more outlets for consumer interaction through widely available, internet-based relational media. Already using Twitter, ...
As an early adopter to social networking, Kevin used his marketing expertise to create one of the most read personal blogs on the web. He worked to expand his expertise from social networking to other social media staples such as blogging, podcasting, video, micro-blogging, and social ...
The invitation-only community, ConnectedInvestors.com (www.ConnectedInvestors.com), was founded in 2005 by real estate investor, entrepreneur, and author Ross Hamilton. Hamilton says he started the real estate investor focused social network to help other investors create a community t...
The Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps Premier Edition for their customers. Etelos received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integ...
Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and each topic may contain thousands of peer-reviewed feature stories, bylined articles, blog posts, news, reviews, comm...
"Cloud-delivered security for securing Web applications offers organizations potential economies of scale and faster ramp-up times to get their applications tested," said Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner Fellow. "Many enterprises have a backlog of untested applications and cloud-delivere...
Wine bloggers from across the country will converge on Sonoma and Napa Valley in July for the second annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference. The three-day conference for the increasingly influential citizen wine writers will explore blogging technology and techniques, the craft...
“Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration, with the tools business people need to get work done faster, together, from anywhere. Our customers have moved from e-mailing multiple versions of documents back and forth to collaborating on documents dire...
This year's TS2 Conference & Expo in Chicago features one of the most comprehensive and integrated social media marketing and communication programs in the trade show industry to date. In addition to pre-show marketing using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogging, industry group "buzz-b...
According to the National Association of Realtors, 84 percent of buyers now use the Internet to search for properties. This fact confirmed the acumen of First Team Real Estate, which had already begun to upgrade its extensive advertising and marketing to a higher level by building coll...
Consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, Data Domain’s Board is reviewing EMC’s offer. At this time, the Board is not making a recommendation with respect to the EMC offer. Data Domain requests that its stockholders defer making a ...
Desktone and Marubeni Corporation, a leading Japanese conglomerate, today announced that they have signed an agreement to deliver virtual desktops as a service in Japan. As part of the partnership, Marubeni will offer cloud-based virtual desktops based on the Desktone Virtual-D Platfor...
Video game heavyweights from around the industry joined GamePro Media in L.A. last night to celebrate GamePro Magazine’s 20th anniversary. More than 200 people packed the Figueroa Hotel, decorated with poster-sized versions of classic covers showing just how much the industry has chang...
The year 2008 and economic downturn have changed the way companies are going about their daily business. In response to the current recession in Europe, businesses are seeking new ways to stay productive while significantly cutting costs with the help of Web 2.0 solutions. From lower-c...
In lockstep with the pullback seen in the United States, venture capitalists invested 50% less capital in the international markets during in the first quarter of 2009, according to Dow Jones VentureSource (www.venturecapital.dowjones.com). Investors put $1.87 billion to work in 250 de...
TheUpTurn.com, currently in a private Beta, guides users through a series of questions based on their Real Estate desires and their position in the purchasing process. Once completed, TheUpTurn.com matches users interested in Real Estate with Sellers and Real Estate professionals that ...
Cloud Computing bietet den Vorteil, über einen einzigen Provider eine Vielzahl an IT-Kapazitäten als Service ins Netz auszulagern. Somit hat es das Potenzial, zu einem der größten Trends in der IT-Landschaft zu werden. Dennoch äußern viele Unternehmen Bedenken zum Thema Sicherheit und ...
SOA Software, a leading provider of unified governance automation products, announced today the availability of Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. This product provides centralized policy definition and service monitoring for DataPower appliances, allowing customers to easily...
Booyah, a Silicon Valley start-up founded by former games industry veterans Keith Lee, Brian Morrisroe and Sam Christiansen, announced that the Company has raised a $4.5M Series A financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) as part of the firm’s highly sought-after iFund. Af...
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced that TweetPhoto has chosen Cloud Sites™ and Cloud Files™ from Mosso | The Rackspace Cloud to support their innovative new social media photo sharing site. TweetPhoto, which has announced that they are launchi...
Social Computing Journal launched today on Ulitzer. The new online magazine will offer live news, articles, and blog entries. Social computing is a general term for an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems.
The arrival of My.tel allows .tel owners with iPhones to manage their .tel domains without having to log on to a computer. Now they can quickly update information just before boarding a plane, travelling on a road trip, or just to quickly tell their friends which bar they are in. 
