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By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON Events has announced that the call for papers submissions deadline for 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo taking place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, is January 31, 2009. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, engineers, architects... Jan. 7, 2009 09:30 AM Reads: 17,676 | By Jeremy Geelan  Every year SYS-CON polls the Internet technologies community and asks them to share their thoughts on what's around the corner in the world of i-Technology and Web-based enterprise. The main themes were very clear. Cassatt Corporation's CEO Bill Coleman, for example - famous in a forme... Jan. 7, 2009 08:10 AM Reads: 2,426 | By Jeremy Geelan  As new offerings like Amazon's CloudFront, Microsoft's Azure, and VMware's vCloud are rolled out, the worldwide cloud computing momentum continues to grow. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal surveys a globe-girdling network of leading infrastructure experts, IT industry executives... Jan. 6, 2009 07:00 AM Reads: 2,687 | By Jeremy Geelan  Cloud Computing and Virtualization both take center stage this March in New York City, as SYS-CON Events brings two of its most popular industry-leading Enterprise IT events to the Big Apple: 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo and 5th International Virtualization Confe... Jan. 6, 2009 04:15 AM Reads: 1,218 | By Jeremy Geelan  Here, SYS-CON's Web 2.0 Journal has asked a selection of the industry's brightest minds what their own advice would be in these troubled times, and assembled it into a ten-point guide for software vendors, entrepreneurs, and startups to riding out a recession.
Jan. 5, 2009 09:20 AM Reads: 2,387 | By Jeremy Geelan  "When coupled with network and storage virtualization, virtual machines offer sophisticated forms of high availability, disaster recovery, and service migration across all forms of platforms," says Christine Crandell, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Egenera in this Exclusi... Dec. 30, 2008 06:30 AM Reads: 1,431 | By Jeremy Geelan  A few years ago, a British newspaper speculated on what might be the Web equivalent of the Seven Wonders of the World, and received suggestions that were hardly surprising: Google search, the Amazon.com e-tail portal, the eBay auction mechanism, etc. But that was back in 1991, before F... Dec. 29, 2008 02:25 PM Reads: 1,557 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  In this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Rajeev Kutty of Keynote Systems speaks of the factors currently driving companies to increase their effort in monitoring the performance of their Web and mobile applications, and about how Keynote foresees a... Dec. 5, 2008 05:30 AM Reads: 2,978 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Cloud-based tools, including large-scale data-intensive computing as offered by Hadoop, are key to the rise and rise of cloud computing. In this wide-ranging Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, the Director of Grid Services at Yahoo! - Rob Weltman - explains how analy... Dec. 1, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,581 | By Jeremy Geelan  While cloud computing reporting has recently been focused on Microsoft's Azure announcement and Amazon's upgrade to EC2, there's an elephant in the cloud: Google. According to a well-researched article in SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a pr... Nov. 16, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 2,099 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  "It's a chance for Cisco to participate on a bigger scale, helping to bring peace to the world. Is that too big a dream?...(long pause)...Maybe." With that thought Cisco CEO John Chambers ends an interview published this week by BusinessWeek in which he reveals that Cisco's cloud compu... Nov. 15, 2008 08:35 AM Reads: 1,793 | By Jeremy Geelan  "What sold me on joining Cisco was the excellent opportunity to explore the 'uncharted territory' that is the network's role in cloud computing." With those words the tireless and insightful Cloud blogger James Urquhart this week revealed that he's taking on the role of Marketing Manag... Nov. 15, 2008 06:50 AM Reads: 1,302 | By Jeremy Geelan  Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON'... Nov. 14, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 3,704 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through Google's googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to "cloud computing" has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their... Nov. 11, 2008 06:30 AM Reads: 10,346 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan  As former IAC executive Julius Genachowski was appointed last week to President Elect Obama's transition team, speculation is growing as to the possibility that Genachowski or someone like him may one day soon become the country's first Chief Technology Officer. Barack Obama's transiti... Nov. 9, 2008 01:50 PM Reads: 2,270 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  From CEP and Composable Services to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing, this is a round-up of the many themes and topic of interest to architects, developers and managers featuring at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 a... Nov. 8, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 4,675 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Virtualization is already widely used, but primarily for the first-order benefit, namely server consolidation,' notes Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, in this Exclusive Q&A with Virtualization Journal. 'The second-order benefits of agility, availability and manageability of the IT stack are n... Nov. 2, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 69,297 | By Jeremy Geelan  "All in all, it was a tough quarter for Sun and our customers," wrote Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, in a determined attempt via the blogosphere to pour oil on the troubled waters of Sun's dramatic net loss for its first fiscal quarter of 9 cents a share. Among other things he co... Oct. 31, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 1,180 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier,' explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A. 'Data services,' Goodson continues, 'provide a level of abstraction that frees developers... Oct. 30, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 20,013 | By Jeremy Geelan  What are the three companies expected to benefit most from the cloud computing boom? One answer would be Google, Akamai, and VMware - according anyway to the Rule Breakers newsletter run by the founder of The Motley Fool, Dave Gardner. But SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal would most c... Oct. 28, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 3,958 | By Jeremy Geelan  "Virtualization is an emerging industry," says Mike Neil, Microsoft's GM for Virtualization, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "But given the increasing demands on IT and decreasing resources and funding allocated within businesses, customers are ready and lo... Oct. 27, 2008 04:30 AM Reads: 2,063 | By Jeremy Geelan  'While the last decade was focused on the Web, the next phase in the evolution of our industry will be on the convergence of Web, mobile and desktop applications and the ability to extend existing applications with these new technologies for a consistent user experience regardless of h... Oct. 15, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 10,205 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Enough with the new words already.' That was how Sean Voisen recently ended a discussion about the burgeoning technology lexicon, which he thinks can only be explained as 'a ploy to keep Merriam-Webster in business.' Voisen, who designs and builds Rich Internet Applications, web appli... Oct. 15, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 14,198 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,... Oct. 15, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 26,255 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan  'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. To ... Oct. 15, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 45,741 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan  "My mission has always been to bring excellence to the field of user interface engineering," says Bill Scott, Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to his session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conferen... Oct. 13, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 1,308 | By Jeremy Geelan  "Improve the user interface of old client-server applications and delight your users while reducing the TCO," says Curl Chief Strategy Officer Jnan Dash in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to his session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conference & Exp... Oct. 13, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 3,911 | By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON Events announced today that the Cloud on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 decision makers, developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will b... Sep. 25, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,378 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  From Amazon EC2 and App Engine from Google to Utility Computing, Virtualization, and Walled Gardens - there's no aspect of Cloud Computing that hasn't already been addressed at some level of detail in SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Journal (www.cloudcomputing.sys-con.com). Here's a ro... Sep. 15, 2008 10:25 AM Reads: 3,865 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who join... Sep. 12, 2008 04:00 AM Reads: 19,669 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Google opened its doors in September 1998. But, as the Google official site phrases it, "The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake." Maybe, now that Chrome is released, instead of waiting till the 27th ... Sep. 9, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,549 | By Jeremy Geelan  It is the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world, but how is it best defined? I refer of course to 'Cloud Computing' - the phenomenon that has as many definitions as there are squares on a chess-board. To try and narrow it down we bring here a ro... Aug. 27, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 12,953 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifica... Aug. 24, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 64,471 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  From AIR to ZK, this is an alphabetical round-up of the fast moving-world of application development tools and frameworks spawned ever since the appearance of Google Maps, the canonical early RIA. The list includes AIR, Appcelerator, ATF, Curl, Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP, Ext JS, Flex, Gr... Aug. 24, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 46,734 Replies: 23 | By Jeremy Geelan  Do Google's servers dream at night? That's a question raised by a fascinating short story just published by George Dyson, the author of "Darwin Among the Machines" and a well-known futurist. The story just appeared online in Edge, having not found a publisher in a fiction venue because... Jul. 31, 2008 06:00 PM Reads: 955 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ... Jul. 30, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 3,536 | By Jeremy Geelan  'We continue to struggle a bit with what developers think 'Eclipse' means. They have heard of it, but they believe that we are entirely focused on Java tools when in fact we are doing so much more,' says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, in this exclusive ... Jul. 21, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 10,724 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ... Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM Reads: 94,568 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Virtualization is quickly becoming a staple technology for enterprise IT. The theme of this November's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo is 'The Next Generation of Virtualization.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers w... Jun. 5, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 25,251 | By Jeremy Geelan A round-up of the Service Oriented Architecture related themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 13th International Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan. Jun. 5, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 3,885 |
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