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Stepping Out of the Sandbox

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet can then access the client system resources by way of the security manager.

SYS-CON Webcast - AJAX and Social Computing for the Enterprise

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the task? This webcast explores the challenges, practices, and futures for AJAX collaboration techniques. Beginning with a review of existing open source AJAX technologies, covering deployment infrastructure, application development, and supporting libraries, we will continue with several examples of what is possible today. This webcast will give you an understanding of where social computing can go and what AJAX technologies will take it there.

SYS-CON Webcast - DreamFace: The Ultimate Framework for Creating Personalized Web 2.0 Mashups

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

You’ve heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you’ve seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing “Outsider”, version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source AJAX Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Find out how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashups by combining internal company data with public data from the web.

ExaGrid Functionality Streamlines Backup for VMware Virtualization Environments

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

ExaGrid Systems announced support for Vizioncore’s backup and recovery solution, vRanger Pro. Both ExaGrid and Vizioncore offer products and solutions that streamline the management of data backup and recovery processes for VMware users.

The Role of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Applications

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI, ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a proven paradigm in system-level programs, war and military simulator applications, gaming, and other areas. EDA has started to shape how general-purpose business applications are architected.

SYS-CON Webcast - Think Fast: Accelerate AJAX Development with Appcelerator

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Jeff Haynie will introduce you to Appcelerator’s open-source RIA platform. You will learn how Appcelerator has been able to help developers create AJAX-based RIAs in less than 1/3 of the time, with up to 90 percent less code, and with no Javascript or third-party toolkits.

SYS-CON Webcast - jMaki as an AJAX Mashup Framework

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

jMaki has evolved from giving developers the ability to sprinkle AJAX into their web apps easily to be a full AJAX framework. jMaki has evolved once again with the jMaki Webtop which lets you quickly create mashups using jMaki widgets that can interact with each other. The jMaki Webtop is based on a container widget that lets you drag and drop your favorite widgets and easily map them to your services or have them work together without having to write web pages. The jMaki Webtop also has a management service for configuring deploy widgets and mapping those widgets to your services. Also included is the ability to manage users and share a jMaki Webtop with everyone.

SYS-CON Webcast - Now Playing: Desktop Apps in the Browser!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration and replicating the business processes?

AT&T Launches Cloud Computing Based Synaptic Hosting Solution

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:00 EDT

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "What’s News?: AT&T Launches Synaptic Hosting" report to their offering. This aDRD (Announcement-based Data-Rich Deliverable) is part of the Business Managed & Hosted Services, Business IT, Business Applications and Competitive Profiles subscriptions.

Optimizing Virtualization Success in a Time of Virtual Sprawl

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EDT

"Go forth and multiply" has a new interpretation in the IT world: "Go forth and virtualize." It is no surprise that enterprises today are adopting virtualization technologies in droves, not only because of the cost reduction and efficiency it delivers, but for the flexibility the technology delivers as well.

Blog-City.com Founder Alan Williamson to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EDT

As a solution provider it is vitally important you don't get locked into a specific vendor’s solution. This couldn't be truer in the world of on-demand or cloud computing. The way Amazon works is vastly different from Google, and different from Flexiscale. So how do you utilize the strengths of them all without compromising your own requirements? This session will take a look at a real world application, which spans across a number of different cloud hosts, providing redundancy, self-healing and self-scaling solutions without the fear of dancing to one vendors tune.

SYS-CON Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:38:00 EDT

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business? This webcast will clarify the definition of real-time in the context of Web 2.0 and what impact new emerging real-time Web 2.0 technologies will have on your enterprise over the next coming years.

DataCore Incorporates Emulex HBAs Into Storage Virtualization Solutions

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:00 EDT

DataCore announced that it has integrated the latest generation of Emulex high speed 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) into its SANmelody and SANsymphony products. These new HBAs provide the I/O scalability necessary to handle growing numbers of simultaneous applications hosted on virtualized servers. Additionally, Emulex LightPulse LPe12000 and LPe12002 8Gb/s HBAs provide the increased I/O processing speed and throughput needed by large business-critical databases and transaction processing applications. Emulex 2Gb/s and 4Gb/s HBAs have been previously qualified for use with DataCore’s solutions.

QTRAX Leverages Cloud Computing

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:28:00 EDT

SOASTA and QTRAX announced a breakthrough in the load testing of web applications in the Cloud. SOASTA CloudTest Lab, running in Amazon EC2, simulated 100,000 virtual users against QTRAX's soon to be launched digital music service. The test required approximately 100 test servers that were located in SOASTA CloudTest Lab. SOASTA CloudTest Lab produced a complete set of performance analytics that provided QTRAX with metrics on how their web application responded under heavy load -- allowing them to optimize their application configuration far in advance of their public launch.

The American Ed Baird Super Star of the Trophée Clairefontaine de Valencia

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:26:00 EDT

The nineteenth edition of the Trophée Clairefontaine of Sailing Champions is being prepared at Valencia (Spain) in the Marina Real Juan Carlos 1st, i.e. inside the harbor which hosted the competitors of the 2007 America’s Cup and more recently the F1 European Grand Prix. The Trophée Clairefontaine de Valencia will be raced on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September on this world-famous and natural nautical stadium. Eight great champions will be racing.

Who is Technology's Highest Paid CEO?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:35:00 EDT

Technology's highest paid CEO currently is also America's highest paid CEO, namely Larry Ellison of Oracle - who with a fiscal 2008 pay package of $84.6M is the top earner at any of the Standard & Poor's 500 companies. Noting that annual pay totals are "based on salary, bonuses, incentives and perks," the Associated Press reports that Ellison's pay in 2008 was 38% higher than the $61.2M pay package he received in 2007.

Virtualization, SOA, and the Rise of Social Media

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:55:00 EDT

At Hummer Winblad we often joke that we focus on the "boring side of software." By this we mean that many of our companies tend to be described with words like core, infrastructure, B2B, backend, etc. We believe that these companies provide the infrastructure under which the next generations of software are built. They will be interesting and successful companies but it is unlikely your mom will ever know their names.

Themes & Topics at SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:35:00 EDT

From Composable Services and Facelifting SOA to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing, this is a round-up of the many themes and topic of interest to architects, developers and managers featuring at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:10:00 EDT

There's been a good deal of confusion of late between the general concept of cloud computing, which I define as "Internet ('Cloud') based development and use of computer technology ('Computing')", and its various components (autonomic, grid & utility computing, SaaS etc.). Some of this confusion is understandable given issues get complex quickly when you start peeling off the layers, however much of it comes from the very same opportunistic hardware & software vendors who somehow convinced us years ago that clusters had become grids. These same people are now trying to convince us that grids have become clouds in order to sell us their version of a 'private cloud' (which is apparently any large, intelligent and/or reliable cluster).

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East: Call for Papers Now Open

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:05:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events, producer of Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East, to be held March 22-24, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies. Merrill Lynch analysts estimate that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising. Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking proposal today!

President & CTO of 3Tera to Speak at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:40:00 EDT

Achieving an effective disaster recovery solution has always been difficult and expensive. Often companies backup and/or mirror their data and software only to find that when forced to run them on hardware and network configurations altered by disaster, they don't always work. "Moving applications, data and infrastructure in the cloud can actually make disaster recovery easier and much more affordable," contends Peter Nickolov, President & CTO of 3Tera. He will be giving a session on 'Solutions for Instant Disaster Recovery in the Cloud' at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo (November 19-21, 2008) - a pathbreaking adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

Amazon VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels to Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:40:00 EDT

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo in November, a groundbreaking adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (19-21 November). "This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch," Vogels stresses.

VMware ESX August 12 Surprise: Implications for Cloud Computing

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:30:00 EDT

How should enterprises or Cloud Providers react to the VMware "August 12th surprise"? To those who may not have heard - the latest versions of VMware's ESX hypervisor started shutting down as the hypervisor clock hit the date of August 12th. This was due to what amounts to a hardcoded shutdown being left in the server from its evaluation days.

SYS-CON Webcast - The Art & Science of SOA: How Governance Enables Adoption

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Melding a stable enterprise architecture with the right level of technical and organization transparency involves two different perspectives. An architect can lay a SOA foundation that enables development teams to build new functionality leveraging Web Services. However, without a librarian’s perspective, the interaction between service providers and consumers sharing SOA assets can lead to your SOA projects stagnating. In this session, you’ll learn how Volvofinans brought together these two perspectives to accelerate SOA adoption.

SYS-CON Webcast - Introducing Automated Business Process Discovery: Step #1 To Process Improvement

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:45:00 EDT

In a recent study, CIOs ranked "improving business processes" as their #1 priority for 2008. But the big question has always been - How does one get started with a BPM initiative? The traditional approach has been to engage external consultants and to dedicate significant time and resources to map out how a company does business. Very often, the outcome is delayed and riddled with inaccuracies.

Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire PostPath

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:38:00 EDT

Building upon its commitment to provide a comprehensive collaboration portfolio, Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held PostPath. Based in Mountain View, Calif. with additional development operations in Sofia, Bulgaria, PostPath will enhance the existing email and calendaring capabilities of Cisco's WebEx Connect collaboration platform.

SYS-CON Webcast - The "Practical SOA" Approach

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:00 EDT

In this webcast you will see some examples of leveraging JBoss product suite in Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture implementations. You will examine real-life case studies to clearly understand the full lifecycle of an Enterprise SOA, as well as what it takes to have the “Practical SOA” approach.

SYS-CON Webcast - Workspace Virtualization: A low-cost, High-performance Approach to Deploying Enterprise Computing

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Desktop and application virtualization technologies are increasingly being used throughout the enterprise to improve manageability and ease deployment of corporate environments on PCs. While application virtualization solutions are typically limited to a single application, desktop virtualization solutions enable deployment of a full desktop environment. The inclusion of a full operating system in the virtualized desktop image creates solutions with high licensing costs, large footprint and deteriorated performance on end users’ PCs.

SYS-CON Webcast - Effective Planning for Virtual Infrastructure Growth

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:11:00 EDT

As the adoption of virtualization technology in the data center increases, organizations are encountering new challenges associated with planning and managing rapid growth in virtual infrastructure. Without effective planning and forecasting, organizations often fail to realize the full benefits of virtualization and achieve a sub par return on investment. After investing in virtualization, some organizations learn the hard way that they have merely replaced their physical server sprawl with a virtual sprawl. This session will discuss the important role of ongoing capacity and workload planning, forecasting and reporting in helping organizations successfully manage future growth.

On-Demand Resource Provisioning - The Fundamental Principle that Defines Cloud Computing

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:55:00 EDT

I’ve noticed people lately have been saying things like "I am cloud computing because my mail is now on gmail ZOMG" - but storing your mails on the internets is not cloud computing, it’s just online storage. Uploading pics from your phone directly to the web is not cloud computing. Google Docs is not cloud computing. Just storing something on the Intraweb does not mean you’re "using cloud computing."

Converting a PowerBuilder 10.5 Client/Server Application to PB 11 Web Forms

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:36:00 EDT

As a long-time PB developer, I have successfully created or maintained many PB applications for clients and for myself. Since day one, I was impressed with the ease with which applications can be created using PowerBuilder. Although I had been exposed to Visual Studio and other client/server tools, I have always felt PB was the better product.

SYS-CON Webcast - IT Security in a Hostile World

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:00 EDT

Computer systems manage and protect increasingly high value information and assets across the enterprise. Meanwhile, hackers grow in number and resourcefulness. Commercial virtualization solutions add to the already fertile attack surface of enterprise operating systems. Green Hills discusses the state of enterprise security threats and presents a secure operating environment that can guarantee the security of the world’s critical infrastructure, financial systems, medical records, and corporate intellectual property. This solution uses technology adopted in the military and intelligence community to protect sensitive national secrets.

Successful Open Source Security Is Knowing What to Secure

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:23:00 EDT

Imagine the CIO of a consumer bank who thinks he is running 50 Oracle databases, but now finds out that in fact he has 100 databases installed behind his firewall. He doesn't have any idea where the other 50 came from. He doesn’t know the name of the vendor(s) supporting them. And he doesn’t have anyone on his IT team assigned to managing them. This scenario would be totally unacceptable to anyone.

SYS-CON Webcast: Virtualization - Path to Predictive Enterprise

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:18:00 EDT

Success in business increasingly relies on proactively harnessing the power of advanced technologies to manage processes, information, and relationships. Today’s IT intensive enterprise must always be on the lookout for the latest in innovation that allow businesses to run with fewer resources while providing the infrastructure to meet today and future customer needs. Virtualization technologies are driving a top to bottom overhaul of the computing industry. The growing awareness of the advantages provided by agile virtualized environments is brought about by economic factors of scarce resources, government regulation, and more competition. Many leading corporations are embarking on virtualization initiatives on their path to predictive enterprise.

A State of Xen: Virtualization from PDAs to Super Computers

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:55:00 EDT

Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen project, has announced the release of Xen 3.3 engine, the latest version of the open source hypervisor. The release is now available for download from the Xen.org community site and is the product of a distributed development effort by senior engineers from more than 50 leading hardware, software, and security vendors. Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry’s broadest range of server and PC chipsets - from super computers to PDAs.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Now Available

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Furthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. This release marks the first free Eclipse 3.4 environment to support Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.

SYS-CON Webcast - The Opening of Virtualization

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:13:00 EDT

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization.

Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 Mobile Phones Based On Symbian OS

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Symbian welcomed the announcement of the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 multimedia computers. These latest mobile phones are based on S60 and Symbian OS v9.3, the latest shipped version of Symbian OS. Symbian OS v9.3 is optimized for convergence with performance and feature enhancements which bring the highest level of power efficiency and platform security to a mobile phone.

SYS-CON Webcast - Data Direct The Coming Wave in Data Services

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EDT

"Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier," explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A in the run-up to the inuaugural DataServices World on June 24th in New York City, of which Data Direct is the Diamond Sponsor. "Data services," Goodson continues, "provide a level of abstraction that frees developers from concerning themselves with the physical location or format of the underlying data."

Exploring Governance in the World of Open Source

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:10:00 EDT

I was shocked. We were in the brainstorming phase of developing a new collaboration portal and the possibilities were flying. It was exciting to see people from many disciplines enthusiastic about working together more effectively through improved communication, document management, and tools for capturing business processes.

TFS Timesheet Application for Microsoft's Visual Studio Foundation Server

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:25:00 EDT

TeamExpand, a developer of products complimentary to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), announced the commercial version of its TX Chrono, a timesheet tracking application targeted at software development organizations standardizing on the Visual Studio .NET environment. Besides a number of bug fixes, the commercial version of TX Chrono features new workflow functionality and complete TSF compatibility to make software development activities more visible and predictable. A trial version of the product will also be available for free download.

Symantec Virtualization Survey

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:52:00 EDT

Symantec announced the global results of its fourth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates a decline in executive involvement in disaster recovery planning and an increase in the number of organizations reevaluating their disaster recovery (DR) plans due to virtualization. As more applications and data are managed in a virtual environment, organizations are evaluating the most efficient ways to manage applications and data in both physical and virtual environments.

Twenty-One Experts Define Cloud Computing

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

It is the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world, but how is it best defined? I refer of course to 'Cloud Computing' - the phenomenon that has as many definitions as there are squares on a chess-board. To try and narrow it down we bring here a round-up of some recent attempts to bring welcome precision where there risks being unnecessary vagueness.

VDIworks Desktop Virtualization to Provide Management and Connection Brokering for HP RGS

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:27:00 EDT

VDIworks announced that the latest release of VDIworks' Virtual Desktop Platform (VDP), version 1.2, will provide connection brokering and management for the HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) protocol to deliver a high performance virtualized desktop solution to the industry. This integrated offering will allow customers to leverage VDIworks' sophisticated virtual desktop management capabilities and HP's RGS protocol to enable a high grade visual experience in a virtualized environment.

Asite and OpSource Announce Partnership to Deliver SaaS Platform

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:16:00 EDT

OpSource announced a strategic partnership with Asite Solutions. Asite will use OpSource On-Demand to support the delivery of their SaaS platform to an increasingly global audience. Asite joins a growing list of international companies selecting OpSource as their Web operations provider.

Persystent Technologies Introduces Desktop Virtualization Solution

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:06:00 EDT

Persystent Technologies introduced Persystent Virtualization. Persystent Virtualization is a powerful new solution that eases deployment, maintenance and control over virtual desktop environments, while providing end users with greater personalization of their virtual desktops.

Aternity Announces Virtualization Partnership with Ness Technologies

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:58:00 EDT

Aternity announced an exclusive partnership agreement in Israel with Ness Technologies, a global provider of information technology services and solutions and Israel's leading IT services company. The agreement signals the rising global demand for real end user experience and Aternity's Frontline Performance Intelligence solutions. Ness Technologies will sell, implement, train and support the Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform in Israel, enabling enterprises to dramatically reduce business disruption, increase user productivity, and optimize hardware and software expenses.

Cloud Computing Journal: An A to Z of Cloud Computing

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:55:00 EDT

From Amazon EC2 and App Engine from Google to Utility Computing, Virtualization, and Walled Gardens - there's no aspect of Cloud Computing that hasn't already been addressed at some level of detail in SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Journal (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com). Here's a round-up of the world of Delivering Scalable IT as a Service, seen through the lens of the many contributors whose thoughts and ideas have already appeared there since it first appeared in June 2008 as the world's first journal devoted exclusively to the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using Internet technologies.

Ingram Micro Named VMware Authorized Training Center

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:45:00 EDT

Ingram Micro announced it has been named a VMware Authorized Training Center (VATC). The distributor also announced it is increasing its VMware-certified technical, sales and marketing support and introducing a new partner program called Smart Enablement for VMware Partners, which helps solution providers offset the costs of training and education, further strengthening its role as a value-added partner for mid-market IT Solutions.

Cloud Computing Terminology

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:00 EDT

While the debate on the actual definition of cloud computing rages on, it seems that a whole new cloud computing vocabulary is rapidly emerging. I thought I'd list some of the new terms I'm seeing with brief definitions, examples of usage and references to discussions related to these terms. Hope this is useful.