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- 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
- 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
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?Sooo.. wrong.Private clouds are exactly the same as the public cloud with the exception of its location. While a datacenter is part of the private cloud, the cloud itself is way more. It provides remote apps, services such as e-mail, web sires,...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Microsoft Outlook, Private Clouds, data center, private cloud, buzzword
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Metered computing: Another great argument for open source in 2009
- Metered computing, as outlined by Microsoft in a patent application, isn't the worst idea I've heard -- but it ranks up there with other spectacular failures like the original DivX, AOL dial-up, and the 2008 Detroit Lions. The idea, as outlined in this article by David Meyer,...
- Tags: Patent Application, PC, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Computer, Odds, Desktops, Hardware, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Time Warner Cable's metering plans: Why not?
- Time Warner Cable's metering plans: Why not?It's the Tip of the IcebergThis is just a new revenue stream for Time Warner. It's also a step back in time to the early days of the Internet when you had usage fees. And, if they decide to keep it, the other...
- Tags: Cable, Network technology, BluRay, Time Warner Cable Inc., wireless, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Opportunity computing?
- Do you believe in opportunity computing? Etelos is offering this as a new buzzword. It basically describes a collection of hardware and software resources which can be quickly deployed out to users, as opportunity arises. This is contrasted with utility computing,...
- Tags: Computing, Opportunity Computing, Etelos, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools
- Salesforce.com has added a per-login pricing option for consuming less frequently accessed applications built on its Force.com platform. "As people build a wide variety of apps on the Force.com platform, we have some high usage of some applications, such as recruiting," Ariel Kelman, Salesforce.com senior director of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Application, Development Tool, Pricing Strategy, Tool, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them
- Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...
- Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Building a data center circa 2007
- Jon Vander Hill has built two data centers since 2000 and is on his third for Berbee, the data center hosting unit of CDW. Since then the landscape has changed dramatically. Power costs matter more than ever, as does cooling design. CDW Berbee is currently building a...
- Tags: Data Center, Idea, kW, Utility, Jon Vander Hill, CDW Berbee, Vander Hill, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Inside Amazon's EC2
- Call it "utility computing" or "Web-scale computing" or "on-demand infrastructure." Whatever the case, Amazon is hoping that its new EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud--why not just S4?) Web service (in the larger sense, as both an interface and an on demand platform) will turn into a big business. In effect, Amazon...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., EC2
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Reviewing the mainframe
- Reviewing the mainframeThanksI think you have shown that you have done your homework on this article unlike many of your blogger peers.The mainframe cash cow is IBMs bread and butter. People run their 30 year old COBOL code on multi-million dollar mainframes - all the while with other machines gaining...
- Tags: Mainframes, Storage management, Utility computing, Servers, SAP AG, virtualization, mainframe, COBOL-on-a-chip, failover, VMware Inc., CPU, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- Sun Grid rising at network.com
- In his latest blog post, Jonathan Schwartz laments that the slow transformation toward multitenant grids behind corporate firewalls at the same time as he promotes Sun's forthcoming Grid service (starting with 5,000 CPU sockets, a mix of Ultrasparc and Opteron), which will live under the network.com URL (which came with...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., grid, Jonathan Schwartz
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Utility computing and private IT generators
- Deal Architect Vinnie Mirchandani notes that Nick Carr has posted the slides from his talk at the Open Source Business Conference about the coming age of utility computing. Like electricity, organizations will inevitably be powered by automated, centralized grids of metered computing power, Nick predicted.Vinnie excerpts from his post, Utility...
- Tags: information technology, Nick Carr, utility computing
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- A further look into utility computing and transparent pricing
- After a few days of immersion in Sun's orbit, you have to take a step back to access whether the well-crafted presentations about grids , Java, Solaris 10 , open source , subscription pricing and processor threads are the road to riches or a black hole in the making. I...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., pricing
- Blog posts 2005-02-03
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