Abiquo, a leading Cloud management software vendor, on Tuesday announced that CRN/ChannelWeb has named Abiquo one of the “Top Ten Startups of 2010”. CRN/ChannelWeb acknowledged that while larger vendors are adding the word “Cloud” to their marketing materials, it is the startups and ea...

Having great application software and fast hardware are only half the battle. A scalable deployment architecture is equally necessary to achieve the economic and operational advantages of mainstream cloud services. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Vincent DiMemmo, ...

Monitoring requirements have fundamentally changed as a result of cloud-based services and offerings. Essentially, cloud-based solutions have become an extension of your business-critical environment, and to keep business services running smoothly requires a new approach to monitoring....

EMC Corporation, a provider information infrastructure solutions, on Monday announced support for the new IBM zEnterprise System and unveiled a range of new information management and protection capabilities for IBM System z environments to help customers accelerate their journey to th...

SYS-CON Events announced today that VMware, the global leader in cloud infrastructure, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. VMware, the global lead...

If it was up to AMD, the SEC’s complaint against Dell would be required reading especially pages 10–28 where the agency explains in gory detail how Intel paid Dell $4.3 billion between 2001 and 2006 so it wouldn’t sell any AMD-based machines and how Dell needed the money to meet Wall S...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of highly scalable data management and large-scale graph computing solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, whic...

IBM is buying Storwize, an Israeli start-up that does real-time data compression software that can reportedly cut physical storage requirements by up to 80%. That facility in turn is supposed to lower the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. It can scan...

Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people. In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Neela Jacques, Group Manager, Pr...

Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through "pay for what you use," there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer ...

Building on its open source software offering, Convirture has introduced ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition with add-ons of specific interest to enterprises like advanced automation and scalability features for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments. It brings ne...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Stoneware, a leader in private cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Headquartered in Indiana...

SYS-CON Events announced today that NComputing, the global leader in desktop virtualization will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. NComputing, Inc. is the fastest gro...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus, leaders in Technology R&D and Software Product Engineering, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Imp...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Zetta, a provider of enterprise storage on demand, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Award-winning Zetta Enterprise Storage S...

VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, on Tuesday announced a new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP). VMware VPP is designed to provide customers worldwide with consistent, accumulative software license discounting t...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Oxygen Cloud, an enterprise cloud storage broker and collaboration player, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA...

Hasan Rizvi, SVP Product Development at Oracle, will present the opening keynote on extreme performance for your cloud platform at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Hasan Rizvi ...

Leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today. In his keynote at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Tony Bishop, the CEO of Adaptivity, will showcase multiple c...

The Planet, a global hosting provider, on Monday announced that one of its largest reseller partners – SiteGround – has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its cloud offering. According to SiteGround, The Planet Server Cloud uses the best virtualization technolo...

zEnterprise it is then. That’s the name of the new hybridized cross-platform IBM mainframe system that arrived like we said it would on Thursday to be described as the most significant change in the mainframe platform in 20 years. It’s supposed to the fastest, most powerful, scalab...

SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS, a global technology solutions provider, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CSS, a global technology so...

Most people cite security as their primary concern about adopting cloud computing. But most don't realize that cloud computing will actually improve their organization's computing security. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will ...

Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc.) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that...

It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" – that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be? Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing ...

Actifio, a provider of Data Management Virtualization (DMV), has announced $8 million in Series A financing. The funds will be used to market Actifio's patent-pending technology which transforms individual data management application silos into a unified, virtualized, highly efficient ...

Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhe...

VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, on Tuesday announced financial results for the second quarter 2010. Revenues for the second quarter were $674 million, an increase of 48% from the second quarter of 2009. GAAP operat...

Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key component in these cloud architectures will...

VMware, which makes the stuff of clouds, turned up Tuesday with Q2 revenues up 48% to $673.9 million, exceeding predictions. It earned $75 million, or 18 cents a share, more than double a year ago. It said US revenues were up 43% to $334 million and international revenues up 53% to ...

Coyote Point Systems, a provider of application acceleration and load balancing solutions for the small-to-medium size enterprise, on Tuesday announced the release of Equalizer OnDemand, a full-featured, virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Equalizer OnDemand can be installed...

Certeon, a provider of virtualized wide area network optimization (WAN) and application acceleration, on Monday announced a restructuring of its global Channel Partner Program to help resellers deliver high-performance and cost-effective WAN optimization solutions to the virtualization...

CA Technologies on Monday announced the general availability of five products in the CA Virtual portfolio, which offer comprehensive management capabilities designed to help increase business agility by providing a better way to provision, control, assure, secure and optimize virtual e...

F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has announced enhanced application delivery capabilities to help Microsoft customers implement dynamic infrastructures that can quickly respond to changing business needs and variables. With F5 solutions optimized ...

Xsigo Systems, a provider of data center I/O virtualization, on Monday announced that Supplies Network Inc., a provider of technology and services to an independent dealer channel that sells computer and imaging supplies, has deployed Xsigo's I/O virtualization technology to create a p...

AMD did better than people thought it would in Q2. Even so it barely looks like number two in a two-horse race. Revenues were up 40% year-over-year to a record $1.65 billion when it was expected to come in with $1.55 billion and it would have earned 11 cents a share, better than the ...

Citrix’s got a little problem. The Patent and Trademark Office has upheld 25 of the claims that Citrix challenged when the Canadian company 01 Communique Laboratory Inc sued Citrix and its cloudy GoToMyPC product for patent infringement in early 2006. That gives Communique the right to...

With desktop virtualization rapidly becoming a means to empowering the next generation workforce, Dell Services on Thursday announced a strategic agreement with Liquidware Labs to enable simplified and accelerated customer migrations to virtualized desktops within customer environments...

Virtuon announced on Thursday it has unveiled a Virtual Desktop service based on cloud computing and virtualization technology. The desktops are accessible from any web browser and deliver full functionality of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Starting at $39.95 per month, the d...

VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, on Tuesday announced VMware vSphere 4.1, the latest version of the award-winning VMware virtualization platform, as well as an expanded portfolio of virtualization management soluti...