Wasn’t it curious how the European Commission up and managed to get a kinda expurgated “provisional” copy of its 500-odd page antitrust decision against Intel, which has been sitting around since May 13, the one that Intel has appealed, out and about right before Intel’s Developer Foru...

The recently reconstituted SGI Monday wheeled out the Octane III, its first personal supercomputer, basically a high-performance deskside cluster for office environments that supports distributed technical computing applications. Your typical workstation has only eight cores and a mode...

Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in...

In a group test of industry-leading consumer and corporate security products' effectiveness against socially engineered malware, Trend Micro scored the best, proving again that the cloud-client layered-protection approach powered by the Trend Micro(TM) Smart Protection Network(TM) infr...

Intel is pushing Atom out of netbooks and into embedded applications like Daimler and BMW infotainment systems, cell phones and other devices in search of what it calls a $15 billion opportunity. It wants its OEMs and other friends to take a page out of Apple's book and create app stor...

SYS-CON Events announced today that SOASTA, a leading provider of cloud testing, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The ev...

At its long-running "SOA World Conference & Expo" event, held twice a year ever since the year 2000, SYS-CON Events prides itself on inviting knowledgeable and articulate industry executives to participate in its Power Panels - simulcast at every show direct from the keynote hall. In t...

Yahoo has evidently been rummaging through its closet looking for stuff it can sell off, especially now that it’s decided it’s a consumer company and will put $100 million into promoting that image starting Tuesday. Anyway, that business construction reportedly means it doesn’t nee...

SYS-CON Events announced today that M/Gateway, a provider of cloud database and advanced web application technologies, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa C...

Dell this morning said it would buy Texas-based Perot Systems for $3.9 billion cash, a 68% premium. The money for the $30-a-share tender offer will come out of Dell’s savings, which this summer amounted to $11.7 billion. IBM turned into a services company years ago; HP bought EDS for $...

In a transaction expected to close - subject to all the usual approvals - in its November-January fiscal quarter, Dell announced this morning that it's entered a definitive agreement to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion. Terms of the agreement ...

NetSuite, the Larry Ellison-owned cloud ERP house, has dreamt up something called the Crossroads Initiative to move SAP R/3 users facing end-of-life scenarios to its cloud. It says the poaching operation is supported by integration partners CastIron, Pervasive and Boomi and includes Ne...

Within a few short months, we have seen a whirlwind of change across the government IT industry landscape. The appropriation of $7.2B for broadband Internet access nationwide, the launching of USASpending.gov, the appointment of Mr. Vivek Kundra as the nation’s first ever Federal Chief...

Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...

Citrix has added two new mid-range appliances to its Intel-based NetScaler MPX line of application networking systems, the 10500 and the 12500 that begin at $42,000. Citrix claims “unparalleled” price/performance. It brags that they are fully functional, lower cost and run on half ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mark Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for the US Department of Defense, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. The session will be entitled...

CA said first thing Monday morning that it’s going to buy privately held NetQoS Inc for $200 million cash, its biggest acquisition since it took over Wily Technology more than three years ago. CA figures the purchase, which should close by the end of December, will dilute its fiscal 20...

Today's enterprise environment is rapidly changing. The disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases for business and organizations is part of a rapidly evolving technological dynamic - made even more complicated by the emergence of cloud computing. As Enterprise Soft...

EMC has poached Pat Gelsinger, the head of Intel’s enterprise chip business, and made him president and COO of its storage products. It’s also promoted Howard Elias to president and COO of storage and cloud services, touching off a two-man race to succeed incumbent CEO Joe Tucci. G...

Intel not only lost Pat Gelsinger to EMC Monday, its general counsel Bruce Sewell is also off to someplace else six months before AMD’s antitrust case against Intel goes to trial. Sewell’s departure was reportedly a surprise to Intel and under the circumstances observers are curious to...

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...

A CRM solution can have an enormously positive effect on your business's bottom line, but a lot can go wrong during a rollout if you haven't planned properly. Follow these 10 steps to help ensure that your CRM implementation is a success, from the planning stages to post-deployment imp...

The right SFA solution can be an enormous benefit to your company's sales reps, as it can help them automate operations, eliminate errors, and forecast revenues. But, as is the case with any technology, you need to consider several important factors to make sure you end up with a solut...

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Intel’s Lynnfield chips, the widgets meant to drive its newfangled Nehalem architecture into the mainstream, arrived on Tuesday. The new dumbed-down 45nm arrivals include three quad-core desktop devices officially designated the Core i5 750, i7 860 and i7 870 clocking 2.66GHz, 2.8GH...

Managed Methods Inc., a provider of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance, has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for applications running on IBM WebSphere ESB, MQ, WSRR and environ...

Cast Iron Systems, a provider of SaaS and Cloud Integration company, has announced that Cast Iron is leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer customers a faster way to move enterprise applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The Cast Iron Cloud, now also on A...

CA CEO John Swainson, the IBMer brought in five years ago in the aftermath of the $2 billion stock fraud that ultimately sent one of his predecessors to a federal pokey for a 12-year hitch, wants to retire by the end of year, if not before. CA’s board is now looking for a replacement. ...

Salesforce.com has poached Cisco mandarin Doug Dennerline, the head of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group, the repository of its WebEx widgetry and its cloud and SaaS ambitions – like the idea of taking on Microsoft’s $60 billion Office franchise with some Google Apps-like mojo that ...

Atlassian, the Aussie ISV, has released Bamboo 2.3, the latest take on its cloud-supporting continuous integration (CI) server. Bamboo automatically builds and tests code changes as they’re committed so bugs don’t pile up. Bamboo 2.3 improves the widgetry’s support for running “elastic...

Intel has acquired a little five-year-old Canadian number called RapidMind that specializes in parallel programming for multi-core processors and accelerators. It was originally founded to commercialize a programming system called Sh and now has a C++ development platform to create sin...

SYS-CON Media announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for its first annual Government IT Readers' Choice Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Voting will begin September 7, 2009, and...

SYS-CON’s SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Voting will begin on September 7 ...

Iomega, an EMC company and a global provider of data protection, has announced the next generation of its quad-drive desktop NAS appliance with the worldwide launch of the new Iomega(R) StorCenter(TM) ix4-200d. Based on industry-leading enterprise-class EMC(R) storage technologies, the...

SYS-CON’s SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "...

SYS-CON Events announced today that JP Morgenthal, Senior Principal Analyst for QinetiQ North America, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. His session will be entitled “Protect Your Government...

Mimecast, the UK company that does SaaS e-mail archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has upgraded its flagship Unified Email Management platform to provide the advanced features of on-premise e-mail solutions in its SaaS delivery model. The new functionality addresses the...