Salvatore Genovese

Lisa Schmeiser this morning filed an InfoWorld story in which she writes about the results of her research on recession-proof IT jobs. Three skill sets appear in her story: Virtualization first, then AJAX, and then Ruby-on-Rails, among Web 2.0 technologies. Virtualization and Clo... (more)

Today, Matt Asay, general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, in his CNET blog, writes: “The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog yesterday, Microsoft's Web Application... (more)

Alaska's witch hunting two-year Governor Sarah Palin, who makes all her governmental decisions based on her Pentecostal faith and the direction given to her by her village church pastor, traveled overseas for the first time in her life earlier this summer to visit the increasingl... (more)

Plum Communications has moved its one-day Cloud Computing event and CloudCamp to a future date. This event was supposed to take place on November 12, 2008, in Toronto, Canada. If it ever actually takes place in a future date, the event is aiming to offer "knowledge-based" seminar... (more)

This morning I finally got a chance to plan my travel arrangements for Alessandro Perilli's Virtualization Congress, which was supposed take place next week in London, England. When I went to his website, to my surprise I found out that he had canceled his show. According to the ... (more)

This morning as I was  reading the newswire feeds flashing across my screen, I saw one and clicked on it, “Web Experience Forum 2008 Opens in Boston.” The opening paragraph of the press release continues: “Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty…” which translates to “no one s... (more)

This morning I took the 7:00 am JetBlue flight out from Ft. Lauderdale to JFK. The emergency row where I was seated was empty. I waited until the markets opened before I took my 90-minute nap. The Dow lost its gains after the rate cut news and at the open it was almost down 200, ... (more)

Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's ... (more)

These email spammers with fake gmail addresses are clearly breaking the law and I personally believe that they should be found and jailed. The last time I looked at my inbox I found more than 700 emails from these people who do not have real names, company websites or company ema... (more)

On Monday, July 28, 2008,  the SYS-CON Events team received an exhibitor inquiry from Brentwood, New Hampshire. SYS-CON receives roughly a dozen exhibitor and sponsorship inquiries per day and the events sales team promptly replies to these inquiries. This particular inquiry look... (more)

Last Night I was at an up scale bar in New York City area, happen to be standing next to a number of men who looked like they were working in the financial industry. One man in the middle of the group turned to me and said that this week has been the toughest he has ever experien... (more)

I am one of the very first BlackBerry users - I've been one since 1997 when it was first introduced at the annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Since then I went through more BlackBerries probably than even JetBlue founder David Neeleman. With all the love and around-the-c... (more)

The Democrats had their convention, followed by the Republicans. As VMware gets ready for its own convention, Microsoft has rained on their parade by holding its 'Get Virtual Now' Virtualization party one week ahead of VMware's. I am looking at the news headlines this morning and... (more)

David Marshall in his InfoWorld “Virtualization Report” blog writes: “Despite a sharp slowdown in U.S. business software spending, an April 2008 survey report from ChangeWave Research shows that virtualization may be spared as virtualization software spending has increased.” Mars... (more)

The Associated Press reported this morning the launch of Cuil. IMHO, as much as the search results are displayed on a slick and "cool" page, these guys have little or no chance of competing with Google, but there's a real chance they could be bought by Microsoft before the end of... (more)

SYS-CON Media ripped all Kontera links off of its website yesterday, after a brief trial period. SYS-CON's circulation manager Engin Sezici said: "It was not worth for us to mess up our Website and pages for the actual amount of revenue share we observed during the trial period. ... (more)

Yesterday we read the news of B-hive's acquisition by VMware. Also this week Microsoft closed the Kidaro acquisition, which was already announced earlier in the year. Both of these companies participated in SYS-CON's second international Virtualization Conference & Expo last No... (more)

(February 21, 2008) - The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weav... (more)

The new Sourcefire CEO should be very careful not to go through the same path as Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang who is now going to be fired --like Sourcefire's previous CEO until yesterday-- because he blew Yahoo's once in a life time cashing in opportunity by Microsoft. Associated Press ... (more)

Today I received my free registration coupon code for the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo, June 23-24, 2008, in New York City. I have a limited number of VIP tickets which can be obtained here. Enter the coupon code: speakerguestVIP (case sensitive) to redeem your pass as my... (more)