On Monday iTKO announced further integrations of their LISA(TM) software with the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform based on the IBM Jazz platform. The combined products help to ease the challenges of developing and testing modern applications, including cloud-based services, int...

On Monday OpenTrust announced that as a key IBM Business Partner, it has successfully reached the critical certification of Ready for Tivoli Software. OpenTrust Smart Card Management (SCM) is now easily connected to IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, providing a highly secure and comprehensi...

The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has tickled the widgetry’s roadmap. It now shows 4x EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) ports at 100 Gb/s (that’s 25 Gb/s per lane), which should be reflected in adapters and switches in late 2011, early 2012. That’s up from the previous forecast of les...

Intel has started laying the groundwork for what it says will eventually be at least a 50-core x86 co-processor called Knights Corner based on a newfangled Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. It says the widget, the first of a family of Knights, will create HPC platforms running...

WSO2 today announced the debut of WSO2 Stratos, an open-source middleware platform for cloud-based enterprise applications. The on-demand or on-premises Stratos platform fosters building and deploying applications and services specifically for platform as a service (PaaS)-type deploym...

Judging from the number of cloud events and publications, cloud computing is here today and here to stay. Reality is that 99% of all transactions still happen in traditional systems. Transitioning the old (the cloud evolution) will be just as important as introducing the new (the cloud...

Cloud computing has rapidly moved beyond the idea of "infrastructure on demand" to encompass a much broader idea of moving data and functionality from private closed systems to shared infrastructures. This change creates huge new opportunities for companies to reinvent the way their da...

Traditionally, infrastructure resources have been at the mercy of the IT system administrator. Development teams using Agile Development Methodologies are made rigid by this dated and inefficient system. “What if” scenarios are generally never attempted because the upfront cost of IT...

Jaspersoft has been recently recognized by several industry analysts for growth and leadership within the business intelligence industry. Today, Jaspersoft shared findings from Gartner Research and independent analysts that recognized the company for its excellence in reporting and ana...

SYS-CON Events announced today that 3scale Networks, a provider of infrastructure for the programmable web, has been named “Wireless Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 6th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 21–22, 2010, at the Hilton Prague Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. Exp...

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web devel...

As you move your data and applications into the cloud, how do you avoid being locked in to a proprietary API or service? And how do you write applications that work with multiple clouds? Most cloud services require application developers to think about arcane details instead of busin...

If you are an Independent Software Vendor or a Systems Integrator, how can you get water from vapor – how can you get money from the cloud? Customer expectations are changing due to the capability of delivering Information Technology as services in methods never possible before. The cu...

Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm is keynoti...

CloudICT is conducting the world's largest global cloud computing adoption survey. Their research is aimed at, and being supported by, global enterprise executives who are the key decision makers at the CEO, CIO, CTO, company director and senior management level. The valuable informati...

The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud. But t...

As tempting as its cost savings and scalability may be, the risks of the cloud are now also coming to light. The performance of the cloud – the speed at which services and applications are delivered to an end user – may, in fact, be one of the most important risks to your business. I...

IBM has cut a cloud deal with Ariba, the B2B trading site that’s now billing itself as a cloud. Terms were not disclosed but their arrangement is supposed to enliven Ariba’s eHarmony-type buyer-and-seller matching service by integrating its newly restyled Commerce Cloud with IBM’s Lo...

Over the last eighteen months, cloud computing has become the most discussed topic in the IT industry. Vendors, the media and analysts have all been debating the topic from a variety of perspectives. In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Gregor Petri, Advisor Lean IT at...

Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? Do you want to learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, ne...

Intel said in a blog Tuesday by spokesman Bill Kircos that it won’t be bringing a discrete graphics chip to market any time soon so AMD and Nvidia can rest easy in their beds. “As we said in December,” he wrote, referring to the multi-core Larrabee, “we missed some key product mileston...

Intel has seconded its mainstream Core, low-end Celeron, even its Pentium chips to ultra-thin (maybe one-inch) laptop service to up the generally pricy widgets’ performance (maybe 35%-40% in certain applications), double their graphics performance and generally make them more responsiv...

Mirroring Intel’s Q1 results, Gartner says that notebooks outdid themselves in the first quarter, up 43.4% to 50 million units, their best year-over-year unit growth in eight – count ‘em – eight years thanks to the blessed consumer, who apparently went for the cheaper netbook models (u...

The altruistic and struggling One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has junked the idea of producing a $100 third-generation laptop in favor of a $75 tablet developed by Marvell Technologies and based on Marvell’s Moby reference design. The project’s founder Nicholas Negroponte described the w...

SGI has designed some new shipping container-based data centers dubbed Universal ICE Cubes because they will accommodate not only all of its own post-merger server and storage systems but other people’s widgetry as well, its first container update in three years. And besides the ones t...

Scalability, availability, low power consumption and low operational costs are key properties when planning to build large scale storage clouds. In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Wim De Wispelaere, Co-Founder & CEO of Amplidata, will demonstrate how you can build yo...

As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including physical...

With the availability of fast, accurate barcode reading and writing toolkits, it’s quite easy to include barcodes within your applications to reliably transfer information. With some basic information about barcode technologies, you can determine how their use could streamline your doc...

Worldwide server shipments were up 23% year-over-year in the first quarter, according to Gartner’s tally, while harder-to-come-up revenues were only up 6%. Gartner says growth on a worldwide level is back thanks to industry standard servers, but not – lest anyone get carried away – to...

Belgium-based Amplidata, an innovator in next-generation distributed storage technology for public and private clouds, announced today that it has successfully closed a first round of institutional funding, totaling €2.5M, with Big Bang Ventures. Amplidata provides unbreakable storage ...

Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, on Wednesday announced that SoftLayer, a provider of hosting and cloud computing solutions, will standardize on the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to offer enhanced infrastructure and application solutions to its managed hosting customers...

Migrating to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is an attractive option for corporations that want to shift from a capital expense to a pay-as-you go model. Regardless of the business driver for cloud computing, of which there are many including reducing costs and adding nimbleness, la...

Over the coming 3 to 5 years, organizations of all sizes, all economic sectors, all countries, will be able to move the vast majority of their applications to SaaS solutions. In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Louis Naugès, Founder & President of Revevol, will give p...

IBM is going to buy Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. It is one of IBM’s pricier acquisitions since it took over Cognos for $4.3 billion three years ago. IBM, which wants to double its earnings in the next five years, is currently on a software acquisi...

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 concerned aspect for cloud adoption. Information security can be strengthened if each s...

Yahoo and Nokia have paired up in a strategic worldwide alliance covering co-branded e-mail, instant messaging, maps and navigation across PCs and Mobile gizmos. Starting later this year Nokia will supply Yahoo’s maps and navigation services while its own Ovi Maps are integrated into...

New Castle hedge fund co-founder Mark Kurland, 61, drew 27 months in a federal lock-up and the forfeit of $900,000 last Friday for his part in the Galleon insider trading scandal, the first of the admitted conspirators to be sentenced for securities fraud. Kurland was Danielle C...

Cloud computing will have a transformative impact on the data center landscape. The traditional measures of success for data center ownership will be thrown out the window in favor of Agile Data Center or Agile and On- Demand Compute Capacity. Traditional data centers can take up to tw...

Cloud Computing is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations build, deploy and use applications, and it’s raising expectations on how quickly and cost-effectively new IT functionality can be made available to the business. And even though the delivery chain for these “border...

Anil Kumar, the former McKinsey director who pleaded guilty to supplying the alleged insider trading ring headed by Galleon CEO Raj Rajaratnam with illegal tips on AMD and the spinout of its factories, has agreed to pay a fine of $2.8 million to settle the civil charges brought against...