AJAXWorld News Desk

XenApp Fundamentals for SMB Now in Amazon EC2 Cloud

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Citrix has released a public AMI ( Amazon Machine Image ) in the EC2 Cloud recently as part of the C3 Lab initiative with Amazon Web Services. XenApp Fundamentals is the new name for Access Essentials which is an ideal solution for SMB's looking for a simple way to administer and deliver Windows apps to office PC's, Thin Clients, Desktop Appliances, home PC's, Mac's, Laptops or mobile devices. Only a Receiver client is required on the endpoint, the applications get installed on a single XenApp server and are simply published to the users you want to access the app. The Admin console is wizard driven and easy to use, with the option for advanced features only if required.

Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West: Call for Papers Deadline July 15

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EDT

With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

"Government IT Expo" to Highlight Cloud Computing and SOA

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC, builds on the success of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, the fastest-growing conference anywhere in the world devoted to the delivery of massively scalable IT as a service using Internet technologies. Data storage, security and software services are among the major themes of the technical program.

"RIAs in the Cloud" - Are They Ready for the Cloud?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EDT

"What's fueling the interest in RIA?" asked Regev Yativ, President & CEO of Magic Software Enterprises in the Americas, at the beginning of his session at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in NYC last month. The answer is the growth of broadband, Yativ said, which has made the Internet more popular now in the USA than even TV.

Direct RIA + Google App Engine = Simplicity + Scalability

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 EDT

Direct RIA is a robust and comprehensive rich Internet applications engine which turns any client (web browser, mobile device) into an efficient and engaging environment. Direct RIA maximizes developer productivity by direct access of user interface, database, and web services. Direct RIA minimizes the development cost by transparent and automatic synchronization between client and server.

CA Presents at "SOA in the Cloud Expo" in New York City

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:45:00 EDT

"Application Performance Management enables you to prioritize your problem list." So stated Janelle Shaw, Principal Consultant for Application Performance Management solutions at CA Wily Technology, at the 15th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East held June 22-23, 2009, in New York.

"SOA in the Cloud Expo" 2009 New York Photo Album

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, colocated with AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, held on June 22-23, 2009, in New York City, featured parallel content-rich tracks reflecting the worldwide adoption of the distributed computing paradigm, in which web services are deployed through specific service-oriented architectures.

Data Mashups at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 EDT

At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in New York, held June 22-23, 2009, Suresh Chandrasekaran, leader of sales and marketing in North America and APAC for Denodo Technologies, discussed the Enterprise Data mashup platform and how to build virtual data services.

Magic Software's uniPaaS with .NET Integration for Mobile RIA Clients

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the uniPaaS application platform, now with .NET integration for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Clients and equivalent support for mobile devices.

Secret to Advancing "SOA in the Cloud"

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EDT

At the 15th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East, which opened Monday in New York City, Sean Valcamp discussed how in today’s business world, measuring your success is a must especially in our current economic climate. It’s something we do as individuals, teams, and companies. But, with the drive to advance SOA, tying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to your SOA strategy can get lost in the complexity and rush to move your projects forward.

Atwitter About Twitter

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:00 EDT

A smart entrepreneur knows to stay connected. Twitter, a micro-blogging tool, enables you to immerse yourself in your industry, develop your company's brand, and relate to your customers. With 14 million people on Twitter (and more joining daily), if you're an entrepreneur and not participating, the only question is: why not?

AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker lineup is as usual dripping with real-world expertise. So here we bring you an A-Z of Front-End & RIA Engineering in the form of the sessions we're serving up today and tomorrow.

Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant: WSJ

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago, according to an unconfirmed story in the Wall Street Journal. He has been on medical leave from the company since January to treat the fact that he appeared to be starving to death. Jobs is expected to return to Apple on schedule at the end of the month, the story says, but may work part-time for a while, and Apple COO Tim Cook, who has been standing in for Jobs, may take on a bigger role.

Silverlight Applications 70% Smaller

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EDT

With the release of Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft introduced a new and exciting way to create cutting edge rich Internet applications (RIAs). The size of these applications developed by Silverlight users influences the download time and consumption of network resources. In response to the call for faster download and conservation of resources, ComponentOne, a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner program, announced the release of ComponentOne XapOptimizer. XapOptimizer is a stand-alone utility that reduces the size of XAP files by removing unused classes and XAML resources.

Software AG Named "Gold Sponsor" of SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EDT

Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. The company's 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on Software AG solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services - achieving new levels of business flexibility.

Intel Named “Gold Sponsor” of SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Intel was named "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East. The 15th International SOA World Conference will take place June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. Intel’s SOA Products Group offers SOA Expressway – a soft appliance deployed to address common XML and SOA problems such as acceleration, security, service mediation and service governance.

Google Apps on SaaS Marketplaces

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:00:00 EDT

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 integrating Google Apps into their customers' business operations. Etelos is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific needs. For more information on Etelos marketplace and syndication programs, please visit www.etelos.com and to learn more about the Google Apps Reseller program, go to http://www.google.com/a.

AJAX Enhances The Pleasure Of Wine Tasting

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:45:00 EDT

Logabottle.com allows users to store their wine tasting notes online where they can be accessed from anywhere,anytime,either from a computer or mobile device with internet access.The founders of the site see emerging Internet technologies like AJAX as powerful tools in the effort to never forget a great bottle of wine.

Adobe Tries Commercializing Its Online Software

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscriptions meant for business users that add capacity and capabilities to the otherwise freebie software.

Adobe's Major Update to Acrobat.com

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EDT

“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 directly in a fluid online environment,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Adobe’s Business Productivity Business Unit. “Over the next 12 months, we will continue to add powerful yet simple-to-use team collaboration capabilities that establish a new way to work, while removing barriers to getting work done within and across companies and around the world.”

An A to Z of Rich-Content RIA Web Development

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:45:00 EDT

A round-up of Themes & Topics shortly to be discussed at the 7th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo being held in New York City, 22-23 June 2009.

MS Access Tool Replaced by a Web-Based Job Maintenance Application

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:11:49 EDT

Culpepper and Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of compensation data and human capital benchmarks. Over 1,500 organizations use Culpepper survey market data to benchmark their global total rewards programs. The company provides job descriptions for a wide range of positions and reports compensation/benefits data for those positions. Culpepper Job Descriptions is an online subscription service with comprehensive descriptions and level cutter guides for a wide range of jobs in IT, technology, and life science organizations.

AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2009 West: Call for Papers

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:30:00 EDT

The conference theme of the 8th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, to be held September 22–23, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, is 'Good User Experiences Are Good Business.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of investing in user experience (UX) design to provide strong return on investment (ROI). Case studies from companies that have chosen to invest in UX and UI, with measurable benefits, are especially encouraged.

Oracle Executive to Keynote on Rich Enterprise Applications at AJAX World

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events today announced that Oracle's Ashish Mohindroo will deliver the Opening Keynote at the 7th International AJAX World Conference & Expo (ajaxworld.com), being held June 22-23 in New York City.

Appcelerator Titanium for Native iPhone and Android Applications

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EDT

As customers increasingly look to more functional devices to stay connected and informed, developers must be able to quickly adjust to the demands of the new platforms required to serve these users. Titanium addresses this need by delivering a single platform for mobile, desktop, and web development. Once built with Titanium, applications can be tested, packaged, distributed and analyzed through Appcelerator Network, a cloud-based suite of services for commercializing Titanium-based applications.

Data Access for RIAs

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:22:00 EDT

ZapThink just produced a good report on the state of Web 2.0 tools entitled "Evolution of the Rich Internet Applcation Market." In the report, Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer of Zapthink highlight a critical gap in most RIA solutions: the inability to access data from within the UI. They then point to this as a major source of competitive advantage for Adobe

AJAX & Rich Internet Applications Take Center Stage This Month in NYC

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Adobe Air, AJAX and AJAX Push, BlazeDS, Browser Issues, Cloud Computing, Comet, Developer Productivity, DotNetNuke, EC2, Enterprise RIA, Flex, HTML5, IE8, Information Dashboards, iPhone Development, JavaScript 2, Java Servlet 3.0, Mashups, Real-Time Web, Rich Clients, Ruby on Rails, Silverlight, Thin Clients, UX, VOIP, Web Platforms - a round-up of the Themes & Topics due to be discussed at the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, being held June 22-23 June, 2009 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

Hadoop Start-up Cloudera Raises $6m

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Cloudera, the eight-month-old commercial Hadoop start-up that raised a $5 million first round last year, has gotten a $6 million B round it says it doesn’t need, led by Greylock with Accel Partners, an existing backer, kicking in. Greylock gets a board seat.

Visual WebGui 6.3.7 Platform for Rich AJAX Applications Released

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Gizmox released today a new version of the Visual WebGui Platform for Rich .NET AJAX applications. Visual WebGui 6.3.7 is a further stabilization to the 6.3 pre-release version which adds support for wrapping of AJAX based controls into the Visual WebGui framework as well as support for additional languages.

TIBCO Silver – Amazon for Dummies

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:45:00 EDT

TIBCO is going down the cloud path like everybody else and like everybody else is claiming that what it’s got is “unique.” Its mission is to make it easier for the cloud-curious but diffident Global 2000 to use Amazon and put to rest their availability, security, integration, and governance worries.

Using Actuate OEM Solutions to Enable Business Users to Build Reports

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:30:00 EDT

This white paper explains how the Actuate platform enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to continuously evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development, as well as how to empower users to easily create and modify their own interactive reports. By creating highly usable and scalable reports, OEMs can drive the market's adoption of their application, while reducing the burden on IT staff and OEM professional service organizations.

Gartner Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open Source Software Model

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:45:00 EDT

The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open source is evolving the software industry in numerous ways.

Test Drive e.Spreadsheet Report Designer

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:45:00 EDT

e.Spreadsheet Report Designer from Actuate is a free, easy-to-use report writing tool for creating authentic Excel files and reports that retain formulas, formatting, live charts and data connections.

Try BIRT Report Designer Today to Design Rich Interactive Content

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EDT

BIRT Report Designers are easy to use visual report development tools that offer programmatic control, extensibility and a component-based model for reuse.

Forrester Report: Open Source Paves Way for Enterprise IT

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EDT

This report finds that Open Source has become the hidden backbone of the software industry, and leads to a paradigm change in enterprise IT.

SYS-CON White Paper: Actuate on the Open Source Foundation

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application technologies, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive. Popular web sites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and highly interactive. Download this White Paper by Actuate to see how this is important to you.

SYS-CON White Paper: Secure Critical Information in Excel

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for automating the generation and secure distribution of spreadsheet reports.

SYS-CON White Paper: TowerGroup 2009 Predictions

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:15:00 EDT

This report provides critical tips for building a long-term customer retention strategies and maintaining growth in a tough economic environment.

SYS-CON White Paper: Actuate’s Rich Information Deployment Platform

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:05:00 EDT

The majority of information delivery approaches fail to meet two core requirements of success, scaling while adding features and adapting to changing requirements. Learn about an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that meets the business reporting and analysis needs of any user in an organization, any partner and any customer outside the firewall, within the context of a business-specific application experience. To learn more download this White Paper by Actuate now!

Sun Releases GlassFish Enhancements

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:15:00 EDT

Sun Microsystems has announced several technology updates to the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the most complete, open source, high-performance Web application platform. The GlassFish Portfolio is comprised of leading open source technologies, including OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, Sun GlassFish Web Stack and GlassFish – the industry's most downloaded application server. Additionally, Sun announced early access of GlassFish v3 containing a full preview of the forthcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) specification. To purchase the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, visit: http://www.sun.com/glassfish.