SugarCRM today announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud platform for web applications and ser...

Zeus Technology, the application traffic management folk, has ported the weeks-old edition of its web traffic management widgetry to Amazon EC2 with Amazon's help - including how to word Tuesday's announcement - despite the fact that Amazon has its own unashamedly rudimentary load bala...

AT&T said Monday that it will turn on its Amazon-like global Synaptic Compute as a Service later this quarter and target the scalable on-demand computing capacity at companies of all sizes. Since it's at the recruiting poster phase, AT&T has yet to divulge what the EC2-like service wil...

Greg O'Connor has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry. Greg was founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). There he grew the company from concept to over $40 million in revenue. At Sonic, he evangeliz...

Cast Iron Systems announced that it has won the Best of SaaS Showplace Award, presented by THINKstrategies, the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market. The Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award program recognizes the Saa...

View our educational webcast, “Virtualization & Consolidation: Leveraging Dynamic Infrastructure for Cost Savings, Ease of Management & Security,” lead by Steve Dowling, Architect and Level 10 Systems Engineer at Mainline Information Systems.

Jinfonet Software announces the General Availability of JReport 9.1, providing JReport Cloud and JReport Designer for Eclipse. JReport Cloud provides agility for rapidly and inexpensively re-provisioning infrastructure resources, greatly reduces the cost on hardware, software, and serv...

AgilePath IT management consulting firm, today announced the launch of its Cloud Computing Practice. AgilePath's Cloud practice builds on its other consulting practices and competencies, which focus on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise G...

The Planet today announced its membership in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. Through this partnership, The Planet provides small Web development and design firms with free Microsoft licenses for the latest versions of Windows Server and SQL Server, key tools for building and design...

The keynote address will be presented by Amy Wohl, President of Wohl Associates. Amy is a world-renowned computer industry analyst and author. Her presentation is titled, "The Impact of Software as a Service (SaaS) on the Enterprise Data Center." The Plenary Session will be presented b...

Internally called Blue Insight, IBM's cloud environment democratizes information, providing access to a variety of client and market data regardless of where an employee sits in the company. It gathers information from nearly 100 different information warehouses and data stores, provid...

Cloud Computing has become the most important business trend of the decade. It has the potential to be as important to the way companies use technology as the Internet. While business and technology leaders are aware of the importance of the cloud, there is much confusion about what it...

AT&T today announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity. Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Ser...

Global DataGuard today announced plans to develop a Unified Cloud Security solution by extending its award-winning, systemic security architecture to support cloud or hybrid networks, in addition to premise-based environments. With commercial availability scheduled for Q1 2010, Global ...

iLinc, a provider of web and video conferencing solutions and services, today announced the availability of iLinc for Salesforce CRM on the AppExchange. iLinc for Salesforce CRM combines iLinc’s feature-rich web collaboration and conferencing technology with the data management functio...

Adaptive Computing said today it has signed an agreement for HP to resell Moab Adaptive Computing Suite for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem server families to integrate in highly scalable and flexible infrastructure solutions for high performance computing (HPC), datacenter and cloud compu...

Netlist is demonstrating the world's first 16GB 2 virtual rank (vRank) double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud. Netlist will also showcase the interoperability of HyperCloud memory with standard JEDEC server memory solutions on popular ent...

Progress Software Corporation has announced that British Airways (BA) will use its portfolio of SOA solutions as a key part of its travel program to upgrade its IT systems. This will extend to the end of 2014 and will revolutionize travel by integrating over 600 different electronic sy...

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Coffee, of eWeek fame. Peter, as industry veterans may be aware, was eWeek’s Technology Editor, and is now Director of Platform Research for Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud computing. Our conversation began with my blatant att...

Budding cloud merchant Rackspace Hosting came in with better-than-expected net revenue of $162.4 million for the September quarter, up 17.4% year-over-year and up 6.8% sequentially. Earnings were up 45.3% year-over-year to $7.6 million or six cents a share and up 8.8% quarter-over-quar...

ScaleMP, which builds SMP machines for HPC by aggregating multiple x86 blades into a single virtual x86 system, has become one of the cloud people. It’s adding some widgetry called vSMP Foundation for Cloud, currently in beta, to its vSMP Foundation line. It enables the dynamic, on-the...

Cisco’s having trouble herding Tandberg’s shareholder into its pen. Despite the deal it cut with management, it’s only gotten 9.37% of the shareholders to accept its $3 billion cash offer for the videoconferencing equipment maker. They figure it’s worth more than Cisco’s 38% premium; C...

Tucked away right now in a private beta is a versatile Cloud Service Broker that sounds like it could be a very handy thing to have around once it’s delivered sometime in the first quarter. Gartner predicted such things would turn up to negotiate relationships between providers of clou...

Cisco’s behaving a little like the Lord High Executioner in the Mikado. It’s got a little list and apparently figures nobody on it will be missed if it sent them to an early grave starting with Microsoft Exchange. See, as of Monday Cisco is in the hosted e-mail business up against Micr...

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Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been...

Learn what a Sales Force Automation system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Worried about locking yourself into a CRM solution that does not work as expected? It just takes 30 seconds to download our buyer's guide to get...

"As many as 85% of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools..." Gartner analyst Robert DeSisto Many large companies also underestimate how complex their business and customers are, which leads to an inadequate CRM program. Learn how to eas...

Every business today is looking to cut costs in these slowing economic times. Now, learn how to save costs by choosing the right IP office phone system. Many companies are transitioning from either a Centrex service or Key system / PBX product to a state-of-the-art Hosted IP or IP PBX ...

Learn what an Premise PBX system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Traditional business PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and TDM (time-division multiplexing) systems are fast becoming outdated and obsolete and oftentimes do ...

In this webcast, you will hear from Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, Esq, a legal expert specializing in Information Technology Law and from Don Bailey, a technology specialist at Mainline Information Systems who can help you sort through different solutions in the marketplace.

Get the critical information you need to transform your data center by implementing a solution based on the greatest possible computing power with the lowest possible energy expenditure. View our educational webcast, “Energy Efficiency: Leverage Dynamic Infrastructure for Cost Savings,...

In a time where companies and consumers rely on the internet for immediate results, we are seeing a shift in the amount of tolerance business leaders have for IT disruptions. Just one minute of downtime can have a negative impact on revenue. The very definition of a disruption has chan...

Whether running on Red Hat or Novell SUSE, Linux has earned the reputation for flexibility and cost effectiveness. Companies are benefiting from the openness of Linux that is supported by a large open source community.

The growing popularity of outsourced computing is no surprise. Together, with the now wide-availability of compact, commodity servers has fueled the demand for a wide range of cloud computing models. The promise? The ability to instantly acquire – and just as quickly dispose of – infra...

Gartner Data Center Conference, Dec 1-4 in Las Vegas delivers tactics and strategies on your hottest issues: next-stage virtualization, the impact of cloud computing, best practices in cost optimization, managing escalating energy costs, the aging infrastructure, and more.

Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, Dec 7-9 in Las Vegas. Learn the latest on Cloud computing, SOA, Event Processing, Agile, Application governance, Application development life cycle, Application and data integration, Application modernization, and more...

Deep Virtual Server Monitoring: CPU ready, Memory Balloon, Memory Zero, and many more granular Metrics, monitor Physical, Virtual, and Cloud: Services, applications, servers and more. Onsite/remote datacenters, hybrid environments, outsourced infrastructure, Real World Cast Savings: Pe...

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Explorer v1.7, a freeware application that allows users to manage files in Amazon S3 buckets just as they would on their local computers.

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance. It said software devel...