By Alex Forbes  SmartBear Software has introduced API Complete, a first-of-its-kind solution that enables software developers, testers and IT operations staff to test and monitor the quality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and Web Services in an integrated and streamlined fashion. API Com... May. 16, 2012 03:23 PM EDT Reads: 145 |
By Liz McMillan  If you'd like to be able to use a PaaS offering to quickly and securely deploy your website, blog or web-based application, come see a demo and deep dive on Rackspace Cloud Sites.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jereme Hancock, a Rackspace Cloud Sites Linux Syste... May. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,113 |
By Elizabeth White  In spite of the great strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises (e.g., banks, insurance companies, health care firms) continue to be reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Further, resistance to cloud... May. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,271 |
By Elizabeth White  Do applications using NoSQL still require performance management? Is it always the best option to throw more hardware at a MapReduce job? In both cases, performance management is still about the application, but “Big Data” technologies have added a new wrinkle.
In his session at the 1... May. 9, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,227 |
By Pat Romanski  The opportunity for today’s IT leaders is to transform IT by leveraging the new ecosystem of services that liberate IT from a technology focus to an information and innovation focus.
In his general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rich Taggart, Lead Partner at SHI, will ... May. 8, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,903 |
By Liz McMillan  As workers continue to demand business apps on their connected devices, the mobile cloud will play a key role in changing the enterprise IT landscape forever. The mobile cloud provides users with the ability to go beyond the capabilities of their smart devices by offering unlimited dat... May. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,256 |
By Pat Romanski  While many companies are leveraging Cloud Computing to limit their infrastructure and footprint, the reality is cloud computing is driving a massive data center build out. In fact, this data center expansion is growing at an unprecedented scale and is not sustainable based on the paral... May. 3, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,666 |
By Maureen O'Gara  After Sun’s ex-CEOs Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz testified for and against Oracle, respectively, last week at the Oracle v Google infringement trial, Java creator James Gosling, who hasn’t been able to hold a job at either Oracle or Google for more than a few months, waded into ... May. 1, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,732 |
By Liz McMillan  “JReport 11 continues our mission to deliver data visualization, discovery, and self-service tools to our users on all modern platforms,” noted Dr. Bing Yao, President of Jinfonet Software, on the release of JReport 11.
The new release, which provides advanced data visualization with... Apr. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,623 |
By Greg O'Connor  The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, appzero took a market-setting step forward today with the release of zapp cloud migration. This technology extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any... Apr. 26, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,027 |
By Elizabeth White  The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us as we bring Google’s highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear:
Industry e... Apr. 23, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,427 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Workday, the SaaS house co-founded by PeopleSoft veterans David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead its anticipated IPO according to Reuters and heard from “several sources familiar with the situation.” It’s supposed to be one of tec... Apr. 22, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,608 |
By Liz McMillan  Scientists, engineers and software developers are always looking for innovative ways to accelerate performance and shorten computational cycles. SoftLayer is looking to help them out by offering a new high-performance computing (HPC) cloud-enabled solution consisting of servers powered... Apr. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,217 |
By Maureen O'Gara  IBM has gotten as predictable in its acquisitions as it used to be in its suits.
It’s buying another analytics house. This time it’s Varicent Software from up Toronto way. And again IBM isn’t saying what it’s paying.
Nine-year-old Varicent does analytics software for compensation an... Apr. 17, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,722 |
By Liz McMillan  Rackspace on Monday launched new cloud capabilities featuring the world’s first large-scale, production ready next generation cloud, powered by OpenStack and backed by Fanatical Support. Built on OpenStack, the next generation cloud incorporates a robust portfolio of cloud solutions su... Apr. 16, 2012 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,410 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Amazon cloud now has a beta Amazon CloudSearch and it’s notably not Google or anybody else’s search.
It leverages the A9 technology that powers search for Amazon.com so it’s described as fast, fully managed and highly scalable.
Amazon says businesses can integrate it into their ... Apr. 14, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,403 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Compuware Corporation,... Apr. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 993 |
By Liz McMillan  Cloud provider lock-in creates risk and reduces the flexibility, one of the key benefits of cloud computing. Your business, regulatory, and technical requirements will likely change, but the current state-of-the-art makes it difficult and expensive to move cloud applications and servic... Apr. 12, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,084 |
By Maureen O'Gara  This being the 21st century, dissident stockholder Third Point LLC has taken its nascent proxy fight over the soul of Yahoo to the web.
Under a “vacancy” sign, it’s set up a precedent-setting blog at www.valueyahoo.com where it intends to pick apart the litany of Yahoo’s missteps to ... Apr. 3, 2012 09:08 AM EDT Reads: 1,210 |
By Maureen O'Gara  AOL has hired Evercore Partners to drum up a buyer for its 800-odd patents as well as drum up some strategic options for the place, according to Bloomberg. AOL shareholder Starboard Value LP claims the patent portfolio might yield upwards of $1 billion in licensing income. They are sai... Apr. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,367 |
By Javier Paniza  OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications.
OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without co... Mar. 30, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,117 |
By Alex Forbes  SmartBear Software on Wednesday introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI, providing software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for today's desktop, cloud, mobile and Web applications. loadUI Pro is the first commerc... Mar. 29, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 888 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Turkcell, Turkey’s biggest mobile phone company, has put HP cloud widgetry in its data centers so it can offer its business customers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) through a customized, online marketplace.
It’s hoping to become a one-stop s... Mar. 28, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,527 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Yahoo said late Sunday that it has named three independent board members in an attempt to foil Third Point, its largest stockholder, from staging a proxy fight at the next stockholders meeting whenever that is.
Third Point said it offered “several significant compromises to strike a ... Mar. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,308 |
By Elizabeth White  SHI International has a 22 year history as a Value Added Reseller and technology provider to the IT industry. It continues to build by leveraging its strengths and long-standing relationships and is now offering one of the most robust Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS ) cloud solutions... Mar. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,285 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Zumbox, the American digital mail start-up, has changed its overseas strategy. Rather than try to involve the local postal operator – as it has once with New Zealand Post – it’s going to go it alone.
It’s starting in Australia where its wholly owned licensing arm, Zumbox Software Inc... Mar. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,689 |
By Elizabeth White  Opscode, a provider of cloud infrastructure automation, on Monday announced that Ancestry.com, Decide.com, EDO Interactive, LAN Airlines, Marshall University and SolutionSet are among a rapidly growing base of companies using Opscode's Hosted Chef and Private Chef to enable rapid deplo... Mar. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,118 |
By Elizabeth White  As IT Executives continue to focus on IT as a Service, how are the convergence of desktop, laptop and other intelligent mobile devices changing end-user computing? How is the rapid move to Software as a Service impacting this space? How does the end-user experience changing change our ... Mar. 25, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,640 |
By Tad Anderson  All in all if you are building SQL Server 2102 Reporting Services Reports, or if you are interested in learning how to, you owe it to yourself to get this book.
Over the years I have been on quite a few projects and there have been very few if any that did not require some type of rep... Mar. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,256 |
By Elizabeth White  With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have Beta support for the Firefox 11 browser and therefore you can test the performance of your Web sites with the latest available Browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft.
The AJAX Edition now supports Firefox 10, 11 and Internet Exp... Mar. 22, 2012 02:18 PM EDT Reads: 1,136 |
By Liz McMillan  With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have beta support for the Firefox 10 browser and can test the performance of your websites with the latest available browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft.
The new dynaTrace AJAX Edition also helps you prepare for the future. With s... Feb. 7, 2012 10:21 AM EST Reads: 1,578 |
By Elizabeth White  After announcing support for Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 8 and 9 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest versions in the dynaTrace AJAX Edition.
The latest version of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.4 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network... Jan. 11, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,917 |
By Bruce Armstrong  On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash, indicating that HTML5 was “the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” In case that sound... Jan. 10, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,783 |
By Alex Forbes  SmartBear Software has unveiled LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company's load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for w... Dec. 8, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,700 |
By Liz McMillan  Have you ever run into one of the many limitations of Type 4 JDBC drivers?
Ever wished there was an EASY way around them?
If you haven’t already, now is the time to check out Progress DataDirect’s Type 5 JDBC Drivers. In this short video you will learn how to install and test the ben... Sep. 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,378 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Remember Eolas, the one-man company whose 1998 browser patent struck so much fear in the heart of Would Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee that he personally asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to invalid it as a “major impediment to the operation of the web”?
Well, Eolas rushed o... Jun. 13, 2011 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,132 |
By Ambal Balakrishnan  Twitter is not only a great tool for marketing but also a great way to connect and learn from the movers and shakers in your industry. Tom Pick of KC Associates and Cheryl Burgess of Blue Focus Marketing have created #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women. Read on to find out more about who is on ... May. 20, 2011 06:59 PM EDT Reads: 2,195 |
By Fuat Kircaali  The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department on Sofia's welfare in Syria. Sofia was abducted by her mother from the United States ... Apr. 15, 2011 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,718 |
By Liz McMillan  Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive ful... Apr. 12, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,288 |
By Fuat Kircaali  Since her abduction by her mother last summer, my two-year-old US citizen daughter, who is in ailing health, remains in her abducted country of Syria under the immigration status of "Palestinian Immigrant Worker." Sofia needs to appear every three months before Syrian immigration autho... Apr. 11, 2011 03:06 PM EDT Reads: 7,698 |