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Gin Rummy 2.1 (Mobile)

Originally known as "poker gin", Gin Rummy started in Hollywood in the 30's where its fast play, luck and skill made it an excellent wagering game. The rules are easy to learn, and the game play is rich and rewarding. It's no wonder that Gin Rummy is one of the...

Tags: Gin, Mobile, Elastic Software, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-05-10

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What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine

Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...

Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Siemens cans SAP support

I still believe that hiring your own IT...staff to provide service like this could be a better alternative for a lot of companies. SAP is overpriced and they are wanting to get pricier. In todays economy, outsourcing pricing is becoming less elastic. The only way to completely control these prices...

Tags: Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP AG, Siemens AG, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

BMC to link up with Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud deployments

BMC Software on Wednesday will detail plans to collaborate with Amazon Web Services to ease hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments. Despite a lot of chatter about cloud computing most enterprises will take a hybrid approach to their data center and link so called private clouds---also known as your...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Data Centers, It Management, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Cloud Computing for the Enterprise

Cloud Computing is a set of IT/Business application services that companies provide for a pay-per use or rental basis. Storage, servers, and applications also fall in this realm of Cloud Computing and are available on-demand basis. Therefore procuring hardware, software and applications can just be done in hours unlike the...

Tags: Clerisoft, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-17

Cloud computing and open source face-off

Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...

Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Fight Windows tax with a penguin stick

Fight Windows tax with a penguin stickWho needs LinSux?Only poor, jobless and ignorant guys who think they are pros like Linux Geek need LinSux. If that small amount of money feels like tax then you need to work harder and get a better job. By the way am about to...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

AMC Text Effects 4 Plugin 2.0a.04 (Windows)

Create special-effects text that is difficult to ignore. These are the perfect graphic elements for your web page, PowerPoint presentation, screen saver, Presentation Wizard document or hard copy. The Text Effects plugin offers 21 high-quality text effects that will work with any alphabetic TrueType font in your system. Sophisticated antialiasing...

Tags: Alchemy, Microsoft Windows, Plug-in, Alchemy Mindworks, Text Effects Plugin

Software downloads 2009-06-09

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds

Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., PaaS, TIBCO Silver, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud

Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key characteristics that have led to the popularity of the public cloud. To these ends, the Amazon Elastic...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Amazon.com Inc., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Management, Hardware, Software

White papers 2009-05-20

Jive Introduce 'Software as a Service' Social Business Express

Jive Software are launching a free for 90 days cloud version of their 'Social Business Software' SBS today - a lighter weight hosted solution for those who are grappling with internal infrastructure and resources challenges but need to get up and running with a collaboration environment. ...

Tags: Tenant, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Software-as-a-service, Marketing, Information Technology, Environment, Use Case, Collaboration Environment, Jive SBS, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Ubuntu 9.04 to be available for download Thursday

  Canonical will make its much anticipated Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade available for download on Thursday. The platform --which includes a desktop, server and netbook edition -- offers faster bootups (as fast as 25 seconds, its developers say), cloud support, OpenOffice 3.0, support for Skype...

Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, Linux, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, OpenOffice, Open Source, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service

Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data.  The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching statement. Hadoop, which is used by...

Tags: Apache Hadoop, Amazon.com Inc., MapReduce Programming Model, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Novell delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company's expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. ...

Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, High Availability Extension, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Deploying Database Appliances in the Cloud

Cloud computing is an increasingly popular paradigm for accessing computing resources. A popular class of computing clouds is Infrastructure as a Service IaaS clouds, exemplified by Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). In these clouds, users are given access to virtual machines on which they can install and run arbitrary software,...

Tags: Cloud, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-03-10

Puppet Animation 1.0 (Mobile)

You can use any image drawn by hand or with computer software. You can also run a camera directly from this application and take a picture. The application doesn't contain a graffiti function. Decide how to move your Puppet. There are six tools: "Swing", "Elastic", "Shake", "Scaling", "Handle" and "Bound"....

Tags: Mobile, Animation, Apple iTunes, Daisuke Nogami, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-27