Big Week This Week for Cloud Computing - Starting Today
News - 49 days ago
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo will take place in San Jose. Seems like everyone is coming in to the Bay Area for this one, so I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the folks active in cloud computing at this event. There is also talk of another Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum get together
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The Soul of the Web - Why AJAX Standards Matter
News - 49 days ago
I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of the web, so I thought I would expand on that theme. Just because the web has been open so far doesn't mean tha
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Cloud Computing Journal: Approaching Cloudsizing
News - 49 days ago
You’ve heard of downsizing and rightsizing, so how about Cloudsizing? As properly defined, Cloudsizing is: The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the selective use of computing resources that are delivered over the Internet. Simple but powerful, and fairly obviou
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New ILOG JViews 8.5 Offers Eclipse Integration and Support for RIA
News - 50 days ago
ILOG has announced ILOG JViews 8.5, the latest version of ILOG’s Java-based visualization suite, with new features that enhance the creation of Rich Internet Applications as well as desktop applications. ILOG JViews 8.5 adds support for the Eclipse platform including the new ILOG JViews Graph Layou
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News - 50 days ago
Symantec CEO John Thompson, 59, the ex-IBMer who bit off more than he could chew when Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion three years ago, is going to retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year in March. He will however remain chairman.
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MAX is One of the Best Places to Improve Your Technical Flex Skills
News - 51 days ago
I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them already started wor
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Emulex FCoE CNAs Compatible with IBM System x Servers
News - 51 days ago
Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(7979), x3655(7943) and x3755(7163) series servers. Emulex CNAs enable the consolidation of serve
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News - 51 days ago
Was having fun today with idiff.php - a PHP shell script to tell you if two images are visually different by comparing them pixel by pixel. If there's a difference, the script creates a third image - black background with the different pixels in green. Only after writing the script I found that the
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New SVG Editor? written in Flash
News - 52 days ago
There is something ironic about an SVG editor written in Flash, but this preview by Tiago Cardoso, written using the inEvo SVG engine is fun to check out. It uses SVG natively and has some cool features like gesture recognition and shape recognition.
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The Convergence of Endpoint Security and Endpoint Management
News - 53 days ago
While the concept of consolidation is certainly not new to IT organizations, its application is gradually expanding. This convergence of endpoint security and endpoint management has grown to include not just servers and other hardware, but also IT operations and tools. Evidence of this trend can b
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