SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & ...

SYS-CON's SOA World Magazine announced today that the 2009 voting in its annual SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the "SOA in the Cloud" track at the 4th Internationa...

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that the voting in its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009. To vote for your favorite Cloud products and service...

A recent poll shows more than 96% of Healthcare professionals have been following Obama’s Reform debate closely and with it finally being approved preparations are in full swing. The President’s new ideals for healthcare are clearly a major issue for the industry and many leading profe...

Oracle today announced Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5, the most extensive Oracle AIA release to date with 10 new cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIPs) and six new industry-specific PIPs, together with a growing library of more than 1,000 enterpr...

Photon Infotech, a next-generation Internet consulting firm accelerating innovation with Social Media and Mobile technologies, today announced enhancements to its Social Media Framework: Enterprise Edition. For the first time, Fortune 500 and SME organizations alike can rapidly in...

Attunity Ltd., introduces today a set of solutions based on a new concept coined 'Operational Data Replication' (ODR), which is designed to enable the large market of Oracle customers to replicate data in real-time to and from Oracle databases, at an affordable price point.

Dell will close its four-year-old 750,000-square-foot North Carolina desktop PC plant by January to help it trim $4 billion from its annual nut. The closure of its last factory in North America will cost 905 jobs. It still has to dicker with state and local governments over the $240 mi...

“There are risks when consuming the cloud, but solutions are available to mitigate this risk,” noted Kyle Gabhart, SOA Solutions Director for Web Age Solutions, during his general session at the 1st Government IT Conference & Expo held in Washington, D.C. You need to allocate bandwidth...

Tactical Cloud Computing refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. At the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo, this discussion panel explored how defense, homeland s...

Progress DataDirect, the data-infrastructure division of Progress Software Corporation, has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership withMainline Information Systems, a provider of IBM servers, storage and software solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Mainline will...

The Planet has announced that Todd Mitchell, general manager for the company’s Dedicated Hosting and Global Services businesses, will deliver an address at this week’s fourth-annual cPanel show in Houston. Titled ‘Disruptive Technologies: The Effects of the Cloud and Virtualization on ...

Now that the Obama administration has pegged cloud computing as the next evolution in government technology, it's important to understand the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum from storage to security. Scott Ryan, CEO of Asankya, will look at the technology behind cloud acce...

Is SOA dead? This question keeps popping up every now and then within the IT community and though we all seem to agree that SOA is far from dead something has indeed radically changed: our expectations. Just a few years ago, perhaps months, we considered SOA to be the solution to all ...

Do Cloud Standards exist? Can we trust them? Are we building our enterprise solutions on mere vapors? Kyle Gabhart of Web Age Solutions will explore these topics and many more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo).

How can federal agencies achieve security in a shared cloud computing environment? Eric Greenberg, VP of Security & Risk Solutions at Integralis, will clear up FISMA security compliance misconceptions and obstacles to cloud computing in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st A...

As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. In her keynote at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Exp...

The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS, but can also support multiple interfaces such as Google's AppEngine and the Sun Cloud open API. Rich Wolski, Ch...

Tactical Cloud Computing refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. This discussion panel at the 1st Annual Government IT Expo on October 6 in Washington, D.C., will explore...

TuneUp Utilities 2010 contains the new Turbo Mode to increase the performance of users' PCs. This allows consumers to switch off a large number of unnecessary background processes -- with a single click. The Live Optimization function is another addition to TuneUp Utilities. It helps i...

At SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO of 3Tera, will present a general session entitled “Cloud Computing - the Next Generation of IT: What, Why and How?” He will also present a breakout session where he will discuss “Public,...

An Open Source SOA Roadmap is a SOA governance stone that kills two items – spaghetti enterprise architectures and endless middleware license fees. Robert J. Williams Jr is Chief Enterprise Architect at Maxworks will demonstrate how in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st An...

How can public and private sector companies leverage the enumerable and quantifiable benefits of the cloud, while maintaining total control over their private and business sensitive data? Terry Woloszyn, CEO/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., will answer this question and more in a breakout sessi...

How can organizations adopt Cloud-based applications while maintaining total control of their private and sensitive data? John McGoldrick, Director of Sales and Marketing at PerspecSys, will discuss this and more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT C...

Tighter budgets and increased oversight are driving significant reporting requirements for IT compliance. From security and operations to software audits and virtualization, agencies are under increasing pressure to improve transparency into their IT environments across all technologie...

How can government organizations offer public data sets cost effectively? In his breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Omer Trajman, Director, Cloud & Virtualization at Vertica, will answer this question and more and show how ...

SOA may be a popular buzzword and talk of actively practicing SOA is spoken of in the same vein as teenage frivolity ("everyone is doing it"). JP Morgenthal, Sr. Principal Analyst with QinetiQ North America's Mission Systems Group, discusses how SOA is actually a delicate balancing act...

What are the linkages of SOA to Cloud, and what is best way to accelerate from SOA into Cloud? These questions will be answered by Eric Marks - founder, president, and CEO of AgilePath Corporation - in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Ex...

Government agencies must ensure they have a solid security foundation of back-end IT controls, and auditing is critical to an institution's overall security infrastructure. Philip Lieberman, founder and president of Lieberman Software, discusses how government agencies address these cr...

February 29, 2008, marked the start of change in the Department of Defense's management of its Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) portfolio. Mark Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Business Transformation, will speak about what this means for the DoD...

Continuity of Operations Planning has been a priority of governmental and non-governmental organizations for a number of years. What are best practices for managing users' personalized environments when VDI is used for continuing operations? Paul Hahn, Director of Technical Solutions a...

Threat and fraud was once the sole domain of men in trench coats. However, they are now found in areas including employee screening, benefit claims, and identity theft. Marne E. Gordan, a Regulatory Analyst for IBM’s Corporate Security Strategy Group, will explore these topics and brin...

This must have been what vaudeville was like when a none-too-successful act opened for the star. Dell unveiled a high-end anorexic laptop Tuesday that basically has Linux opening for Windows. Windows has a bit of a problem with this instantly gratifying instant-on booting busin...

OpTier has launched OpTier Experience Manager, a product that measures the volume, performance, service levels and availability of all business transactions, alerts IT in real time to developing issues and provides ongoing reporting and analysis of the user experience. With a real time...

To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite 7. With more than 170 million seats of earlier versions deployed, thi...

"For years, we've talked about how information technology enables companies to do more with less," writes Microsoft supremo Steve Ballmer in his latest "Executive Email" to Microsoft customers and analysts. "But during this economic reset," Ballmer continues, "IT provides business lead...

Talend, the open source data integration house, said Monday that it has acquired the rights to Amalto Technologies’ Master Data Management (MDM) widgetry, which will make it the first company to put out a commercial open source MDM product. It figures the stuff is as good as any pr...

Xerox, which squandered the chance to bring about the PC revolution itself, has needed a growth solution for quite a while. Monday it said it found one and would spend $6.4 billion in cash and stock buying Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), whose $6.5 billion in revenues reportedly ma...

A round-up of the problems, issues and opportunities due to be discussed October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC, at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com), a 1-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Fed...

Intel showed off a 300mm wafer with the company’s first working 22nm chip. It’s got 2.9 billion transistors in a space the size of a fingernail and the smallest SRAM cell ever devised. The company is still grinding out 45nm parts and will only move to 32nm Westmere widgets next quarter...