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Platform Computing VM Orchestrator: Although I've tracked Platform Computing for well over a decade, I don't get the chance to speak with them all that much. A short while ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Dye, Product Manager of VM Orcestrator VMO. Although our discussion ranged from Platform's history, where it...; Tags: Product, Platform Computing Inc., Productivity, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-01-28
Adaptec Taps Platform Professional Services to Boost Return on IT Assets Through Consolidation: Adaptec is the world's leading provider of data storage access solutions. Adaptec needed to reduce spending on costly software licenses and hardware resources without negatively impacting the productivity of the engineers who used them. The challenge was to spend less on redundant resources without sacrificing service levels or resource availability...; Tags: Adaptec Inc., Platform Computing Inc., software license, hardware, data storage, decision-making, storage, software, information technology; Case studies 2006-05-04
Platform Technology Helps the Sanger Institute Accelerate Discovery for the Human Genome Project: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is the focus for the UK sequencing effort of the Human Genome Project. The challenge was to improve researchers' efficiency and time-to-results for the Human Genome Project and increase computing power to 400 nodes to run up to half a million sequence matching jobs per...; Tags: Biotechnology, Human Genome Project, Platform Computing Inc., researcher; Case studies 2006-05-04
U.S. Navy Relies on SGI and Platform LSF to Execute Complex Weather Prediction Models: FNMOC is recognized internationally as one of the world's premier Numerical Weather Prediction centers. To support U.S. Naval operations, FNMOC needed to provide quicker, more accurate and more detailed information and maps predicting weather and ocean conditions. The challenge was to implement a new high performance computing environment that can...; Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., high-performance, high-performance computing, supercomputer, operating system, security, software; Case studies 2006-05-04
ENEA Builds Computational Grid With Platform and IBM: The Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment ENEA is a public organization that conducts research and development. To maximize the utilization of its widespread computing resource, ENEA required a solution that would connect all systems across local and remote locations and organizational boundaries. With Platform's Grid...; Tags: Platform Computing Inc., grid computing, R&D, hardware, software; Case studies 2006-05-04

Aligning IT in Real Time With the Speed of Changing Business Demands: Using a Grid Platform to Orchestrate Your Enterprise IT Resources: Nowadays, grid computing is helping individual High Performance Computing HPC applications improve agility and lower costs through the virtualization of IT resources such as processors, memory, storage and network. While these grid silos offer individual instances of ROI and business value, enterprise-wide improvements remain elusive. What is needed is the...; Tags: Information Technology, Grid Computing, Platform Computing Inc., Strategy, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Management, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2005-08-01
Migration From Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility to Sun N1 Grid Engine Software: This paper presents a case study covering Transmeta's migration process from Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility (LSF 4.0.1) to Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 software (N1GE6). Transmeta initially started experimenting with the open source version of Grid Engine (SGE5.3.x) for a period of time and subsequently decided to upgrade to...; Tags: Software, Sun N1, Transmeta Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Migration, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2005-06-01
Platform Computing: Grid as a Catalyst for Change: This webcast explains how the grid and Oracle 10g enables a virtualized view for managing all of your computing resources.; Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Oracle Corp., Platform Computing Inc., Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts

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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
Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version: Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform: Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...; Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated): It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated): Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today. Although RIM hasn't said...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 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
Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments: As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...; Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky; 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
Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15