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Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, on Tuesday announced the availability of Ehcache 2.1, an upgrade to its distributed caching solution. Since Terracotta acquired Ehcache in August, 2009, its adoption rate has accelerated, driven by the c...
VMware and Google are aligning with each other to make it easier for applications deployment and to allow interoperability between their respective platforms. Much of the collaboration seems to be centered around VMware's Springsource division that develops and supports Java based ente...
Google and VMware have never been particularly chummy but now they’re suddenly each other’s new best friend and a little cloud brought them together.
As a result Google is going to support some of the Java tools VMware got with its acquisition of SpringSource, enough so users can mov...
Managing an application release and its distribution is a complex piece of the development process. A release may pass every test in QA, then quickly go haywire when in production. Components can get left behind, destination targets are missed or files get installed in the wrong locati...
SYS-CON announced today that Jeremy Geelan was named President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud Expo, Inc." was spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company which produces and presents Cloud Expo (TM) events worldwide. Jeremy Geelan served as Sr. Vice-Preside...
What if all that tap dancing, posturing, bargaining and political in-fighting Oracle had to do to get clearance to pick up MySQL along with Sun Microsystems was an utter waste of time and money. What if MySQL was suddenly shown to be one of Mr. Darwin’s fabled evolutionary dead ends.
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Fresh from its acquisition of Rabbit Technologies – and not all that very long after its own acquisition by VMware – SpringSource, the open source Java application framework commercializer, has gone and bought Gemstone Systems and its distributed caching technology.
The buy is suppose...
As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...
So VMware and Salesforce’s heralded little secret is a joint Java cloud for developers. A little off the beaten tract for Salesforce whose own widgetry is based on a proprietary Apex language and who isn’t exactly in the developer-catering business but a sensible, non-competitive infra...
Salesforce.com and VMware on Tuesday announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. VMforce will bring together the technologies, expertise and communities of these two cloud computing companies, driving the tectonic shifts in t...
“Even though the poll respondents clearly see the value of cloud computing, the results indicate that they remain reluctant to relinquish control of complex enterprise applications using sensitive information,” said Colin Lacey, vice president, Solutions and Services, Unisys. “Those re...
Java papa James Gosling, who left Oracle on Good Friday slamming the door behind him, has dropped another provocative hint about the circumstances of his departure from Sun's new master.
When he blogged that he'd quit, he wrote "As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about...
To reassure an uneasy and dubious MySQL community about Oracle’s administration of the open source database, Oracle’s chief corporate architect Edward Screven, a Larry Ellison direct report, said at a MySQL conference Tuesday that Oracle would be increasing investment in the thing “on ...
The Sun VP once responsible for key Sun open source products like MySQL, GlassFish, Identity Management and SOA – and who headed the technology and engineering integration of MySQL into Sun – has gone to work for Oracle’s closest open source rival EnterpriseDB as vice-president of prod...
Oracle reported its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 ended in February, and sales of Oracle's products sans Sun rose by 7 percent. Including one month of sales attributable to Sun, Oracle's revenues were up 17 percent, to $6.4 billion. Sun has brought in $273 mil...
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, on Wednesday announced the beta release of Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) – a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate and send notifications from the cloud. Amazon SNS provides developers with a highly scala...
Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday released updated Java and Web-based development tools for the BlackBerry platform. The BlackBerry Java Plug-In for Eclipse v1.1 and the BlackBerry Web Plug-in v2.0 offer new capabilities that make it even easier to create feature-rich applications. T...
Apple says it had sold upwards of 300,000 of its newfangled $499-$699 Wi-Fi-only iPads by Saturday midnight, the widget’s first day out, around half what some people thought but on par with the iPhone.
The number includes pre-orders and the Wall Street Journal says the stores didn’...
It appears the Solaris free ride is over. Oracle is clamping down on the freeloading riffraff.
No more perpetual use of the operating system without coughing up some dough. Oracle says any downloads of Solaris 10, the stable version of the Sun operating system, are only good for a 90-...
As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did?
As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programati...
"In re-launching as a U.S.-based commercial company, we recognize the high-value opportunity to have a platinum-level presence at the biggest and best Cloud computing event in the industry,” said Pete Malcolm, CEO of Cloud management innovators Abiquo, as Abiquo today announced that it...
Abiquo, a leading developer of Cloud infrastructure management software, today announced that it is a Platinum Plus sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Computing Expo, April 19-21 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. CEO Pete Malcolm also will deliver the conference key...
ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced record-breaking benchmarking results for x86-based systems using the company’s vSMP Foundation software. An Intel-based system running vSMP Foundation claimed the top result for x86-based systems on...
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. Cloud Expo's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully im...
The latest Special Event to be announced in conjunction with next month's Cloud Expo in New York, of the several that are being held in conjunction with the main Conference & Expo, is CloudStorm - an event that is well known in Europe but has not yet held an event across the Atlantic.
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Oracle – on which as many fortunes hang these days as depended on its ancient namesakes – came in with fiscal Q3 earnings down 10% year-over-year at $1.2 billion, or 23 cents a share, Thursday on revenues up 17% to $6.47 billion.
The revenues beat Wall Street estimates of $6.34 billi...
Objectivity, Inc., a provider of distributed, scalable data management solutions, has announced the availability of their Eclipse Connected Data Objects (CDO) Model Repository store plug-in, to be distributed through Eclipse.org starting March 22. The CDO Objectivity store gives the Ec...
Novell broke its 18-day silence late Saturday morning and rejected the unsolicited $5.75-a-share offer to take the company private that Elliott Associates plunked on the table March 2.
Novell wants more money.
Bearing in mind that Novell currently has close to a billion dollars i...
D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, today announced the launch of its mobile company portal. The mobile site was developed in-house by D-Link staff programmers using Netbiscuits, the leading cloud-based development and publishing platform fo...
Sonatype, caretaker of the Maven project and leading provider of enterprise software development infrastructure, today announced Sonatype Maven Studio for Eclipse. The Studio is the only Eclipse Integrated Development Environment specifically optimized for Maven, the de facto standard ...
I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests.
I asked a provocative question: do developers really want...
SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. and a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has unveiled a new website, TomcatExpert.com, a professionally managed Apache Tomcat resource library and community. Developers, system administrators and web operations professio...
Combining security, performance and energy efficiency, Intel Corporation on Tuesday launched the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series. The new processors deliver two new security features -- Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel AES-NI), and Intel Trusted Execution Tec...
Rackspace has picked up the Drizzle team that Oracle cast off when it acquired Sun.
In case you don’t know, Drizzle is a cloud-directed, Linux-leaning, stripped-down, hitherto for unsupported, GPL 2 MySQL 6.0 fork that Rackspace is betting will infinitely scale, or at least scale bet...
VeriSign, a provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, continues to gain traction with customers in driving the adoption of mobile phone-based security for online access. The VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service is a cloud-based authentication ser...
JackBe enterprise mashup software company, on Thursday announced that its award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform is now running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ‘Presto Cloud (Community Edition)’ is immediately available at no cost to all members of JackBe’s Mashup Developer C...
