SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA...

Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Hasan Rizvi ...

Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...

The government-owned Swiss Post, forced out of the American registered e-mail market when RPost sued it for patent and trademark infringement, says it’s going to try to re-architect its IncaMail service so it doesn’t step on RPost’s toes anymore. Basically it’s the only way the post ...

SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, on Monday announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize th...

“2010 has brought increased spending as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, however budgets will continue to remain tight, spending the right money in the right places will make the difference” states the conglomerate of leading CIOs who have formed the CIO US action co...

The eight-year-old Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is going to fold its assets, operations and mission into a special Member Section of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The move is expected to take a few months. In the n...

Dell, on one of its still rare acquisition outings, bought Ocarina Networks, a storage optimization start-up launched three years ago by a couple of guys from Citrix whose patented hardware and software technology, including compression and deduplication, reduces the data footprint and...

Intel has come to a preliminary antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission’s lawyers. It arrived there a few days ahead of a July 22 deadline, but there’s no deal until it’s approved by the agency’s five commissioners and apparently it didn’t look like they were going to sa...

In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land. Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...

zEnterprise it is then. That’s the name of the new hybridized cross-platform IBM mainframe system that arrived like we said it would on Thursday to be described as the most significant change in the mainframe platform in 20 years. It’s supposed to the fastest, most powerful, scalab...

Dell said Thursday that it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC over its accounting sins in 2001–2006. CEO Michael Dell will pay a separate $4 million for not talking straight about Intel. The AP remarks that the fine isn’t that large but “the decision to charge a sitting chi...

SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS, a global technology solutions provider, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CSS, a global technology so...

CA Technologies, an IBM development partner, on Thursday announced that it is working closely with IBM with the intent of providing same-day support across its mainframe software portfolio for the upcoming release of the IBM zEnterprise System including the new IBM zEnterprise 196 main...

Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization. Unisys Corporation on Thursday introduced the first in a planned series of managed cloud solutions for its ClearPath family of mainfram...

Most people cite security as their primary concern about adopting cloud computing. But most don't realize that cloud computing will actually improve their organization's computing security. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will ...

Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc.) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that...

To help organizations simplify application security, Oracle announced Oracle Identity Management 11g -- an integrated and open set of best-of-breed components built on a common platform and engineered to deliver unparalleled integration both within and across the suite through a series...

Dell is contacting some of its PowerEdge R310, R410, 510 and T410 server customers to tell them that the flash storage on their systems’ motherboards is infected with a W32.Spybot worm and that they didn’t catch the damn thing from the wild, the mobos came pre-infected.

It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" – that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be? Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing ...

So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade. Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core z processor with two times the cache of the old z10 chip and a hundred new instructions, built a new z196 system round it, stuc...

Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhe...

Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key component in these cloud architectures will...

Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Tuesday announced it has launched a new partner program that significantly expands the breadth of training and professional services available to customers. Additionally, the company announced the continued, rapid expansion of its service...

Extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle announced Oracle Service Bus 11g. Part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, and a component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g transforms complex and brittle application archi...

The combined company, SmartBear Software, was created to make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to small and large development teams at a fraction of the cost of other software solutions. SmartBear unites a community of more than 75,000 developer...

Well you can’t beat free and that’s what TIBCO’s latest cloudware Silver Spotfire is going to be for the next year. It’s an on-demand analytical BI system with a chi-chi social component. Users – and TIBCO says that means anyone – can create visual analytics and interactive dashboard...

PC sales worldwide were up at least 20% in Q2. Gartner puts it at 20.7%, IDC at 22.4%. IDC thinks that Dell is the number two vendor to HP again. Gartner says, na, Acer’s still number two and Dell’s still in the number three doghouse. Global sales beat expectations. IDC found des...

TIBCO Software on Wednesday announced the general availability of TIBCO Silver Spotfire -- a fully functional on-demand offering designed to enable anyone to create, publish and share custom dashboards or reports for business analytics and business intelligence (BI) in the cloud. The ...

In the midst of one of the diciest global economies in generations, with whole countries going bust, Intel has delivered the single best quarter in its 42-year history. The news sparked the tech sector and an erratic Wall Street in general.

With a new generation of CEOs who are embracing the strategic innovation of today’s CIOs as business peers, now is the time to take a fresh look at the future. The world of CIOs has been in disarray, an investment ban into IT solutions across sectors seems to have been lifted, leaving...

Intergraph, the 40-year-old Alabama-based inventor of graphical workstations, an early adopter of what would now be called an industry standard combination of Microsoft NT on Intel, which at the time was a radical and ultimately money-losing move, and a company that sued Intel for pate...

The massive transformation of IT, driven by virtualization and cloud computing initiatives, is compelling a rethink of the way enterprises protect their critical assets. The most critical resources are typically the applications and their data, plus their supporting systems, i.e., serv...

Global business models are rapidly changing from simple revenue streams to more complex billing arrangements. Today, as companies have a heightened demand for advanced billing capabilities that can enable the monetization of their complex business models, the imperative for dynamic bil...

Cloud computing has the potential to become one of the most transformative developments in how information technology services are created, delivered, and accessed. Cloud security is by far the most discussed aspect of cloud adoption and the new environment for rising cybercrime also d...

We are in the middle of the biggest computing shift since the Internet uptake in the ’90s: Everything as a Service. The CEO, CFO and CIO now work together to develop a transformation program that encompasses all the major business processes. This includes the role IT plays to distingui...

Dell is buying privately held Scalent Systems on undisclosed terms and means to add Scalent’s real-time virtualization management software to its Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) solution, which is what Round Rock uses so a single administrator can dynamically allocate compute, st...

Microsoft's Windows Azure platform is a virtualized and abstracted application platform that can be used to build highly scalable and reliable applications, with Java. The environment consists of a set of application services such as "no-SQL" table storage, blob storage, queues, relati...

AMD is losing its general counsel Tom McCoy, the guy who, blessed with the patience of Job, finally scratched Intel. McCoy is retiring and, after spending 15 years trying to land a punch on Intel, is going back to his old firm O’Melveny & Myers to work out of Washington and share his...

A preview version of the MeeGo OS for mobile phones has been pushed out for developers with the full blown 1.1 version expected in October . The release includes MeeGo APIs (application programming interfaces), a reference user interface and applications including a status bar, lock sc...