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Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization

On-demand computing is the name given to technology which enables an infrastructure where computing cycles are treated as a commodity, and where such a commodity can be accessed upon request. In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable...

Tags: University Of Illinois, On-demand, Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, On-demand Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Virtualization, It service Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-23

SimDesk Delivers on-demand computing Solutions to Government and Community Groups

SimDesk Technologies in association with HP jointly delivered the industry's first integrated open-source on-demand solution for population- and community-based computing. With this solution, governments and community organizations could offer cost-effective on-demand messaging, file, print, and groupware services to their constituents and community members to achieve their economic development goals. This...

Tags: On-demand, On-demand Computing, SimDesk, Government

White papers 2005-08-09

Expect to wait up to a decade for 'On-Demand' world, says report

Analyst Views published a report yesterday that rounds up what some analyst firms (i.e. IDC, Gartner, Saugatuck) are saying about on-demand computing and the other names it goes by to see if anything has changed since a previous study done last fall. The verdict is that although on demand is...

Tags: on-demand, on-demand computing

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Once More, with Feeling: We Demand On Demand

The age of on-demand and utility computing is upon us now. This time we really mean it. Okay, okay; we have been hearing about ASPs and other xSPs, and all forms of third-party application sourcing, for almost a decade now. I first heard IBM talk about the concept of computing...

Tags: on-demand computing, on-demand

Blog posts 2004-11-15

IBM: on-demand computing has arrived

IBM: On-demand computing has arrivedmy cablegives me 100's of channels on demand too, and to get the 4 I want, I pay for them allOn Demand - Yet another empty buzzwordIBM doesn't even know what their new marketing buzzword means.Is it ASP? Is it timesharing? No, it's e-Business? Wait,...

Tags: Utility computing, IT Management, on-demand, IBM Corp., on-demand computing

Discussion threads 2003-11-14

A Gold Medal Performance for NBCOlympics.com

With exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast television coverage of the 2004 Olympics, NBC decided to take advantage of increases in broadband adoption to deliver real-time, interactive, and media-rich coverage of the Olympics on the www.nbcolympics.com site. NBC wanted to build a premier Olympic Web site with multimedia integration and exclusive...

Tags: Olympic Games, Performance, Akamai Technologies Inc., On-demand Computing, IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, It Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, It service Management

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RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working

RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics

News items 2008-05-16

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China

Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...

Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Patent reform dead for 2008

The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...

Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board

Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...

Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-15

News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware

Blog posts 2008-05-15

What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Tiny Site Watcher (exe)

Tiny Site Watcher is a utility for monitoring the status of any Web site or computer on your network. It will alert you visually, audibly or by email whenever the site or machine fails to respond. Used principally by Web site administrators and Web developers, it can also be used...

Tags: Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Tiny Site Watcher, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Photos: Where the building is the network

The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...

Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-14