Computer Lab International has announced the appointment of Joe Ryan as the company's Director of Western U.S. and International Sales. Ryan will help guide Computer Lab's sales and marketing strategies in the virtualization, security, and cloud computing markets. Joe Ryan brings over ...

Aranxa has added the SaaS approach to their CuroERP Enterprise Resource Planning model. CuroERP Cloud aims to provide sizable economies of scale and vertical solutions to small and medium scale businesses. The-self service data import wizard provides online guidance to loading data suc...

VMware announced plans to release fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 financial results after market close on Monday, January 26, 2009. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review quarterly results and business outlook. A live web broadcast ...

With its CEO whisked off to VMware to be COO, Borland named CFO Erik Prusch acting president and CEO and then confessed that its Q4 results won’t be anything like it imagined. It looks like it’s suffered a $10 million-$30 million shortfall if, as it now says, it expects to report Q...

Artifact Software has added Project & Portfolio Management to its SaaS Lighthouse product. The new 5.0 release, code-named Vancouver, provides software professionals with new PPM capabilities that are integrated with Lighthouse's set of lifecycle management features. Both PPM and lifec...

Canesta announced its collaboration with Hitachi to create a television that can be controlled by open-air hand gestures, rather than by the familiar hand-held remote control. The prototype, which uses a tiny Canesta 3D sensor for gesture recognition and a Hitachi TV can be controlled ...

In normal web-based applications, it's easier to know where the performance challenges lie. There are always major web pages that get the focus of our attention. They might be landing pages, the first place every user goes on the web site, or for particular areas of the web site, like ...

VirtualLogix has announced the appointment of Glenda M. Dorchak as chief executive officer. With more than 15 years of executive experience in the technology industry, Ms. Dorchak will lead VirtualLogix in extending the benefits of real-time virtualization to a broad range of computing...

What are the benefits from using Cloud Computing services or platforms? Cost efficiency, shorter innovation cycles and scalability are frequently mentioned promises. However, the value proposition of Cloud Computing obviously depends on the corresponding business scenario. You cannot p...

The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division of Tech Data Corporation announced a partnership with DataCore Software to help value-added resellers (VARs) deploy the latest storage virtualization solutions. Through AIS, VARs have access to a broad array of DataCore software solu...

rPath and WANdisco today announced that WANdisco has selected the rPath rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its Subversion MultiSite solution as a manageable set of application images for delivery in virtualized and cloud-based environments. rPath see...

Callfinity has announced that they have been awarded a contract by Harris Corporation to provide contact center systems and hosted services in support of the 2010 Decennial Census. Callfinity's ContextIP contact center suite will be provided on a hosted basis as part of the Census Fiel...

IBM and Grundfos, a pump manufacturer, have announced an agreement for IBM to provide servers and storage infrastructure for Grundfos's two data centers in Denmark, and to deliver a new infrastructure for Grundfos’ SAP environment. With this new agreement, Grundfos has selected IBM�...

John Keagy, CEO of GoGrid & ServePath, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Keagy, an Internet infrastructure pioneer having built and sold several successful Internet service ...

Lexar Media announced the immediate availability of Crucial DDR3-1066 (PC3-8500) and DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600) three channel DDR3 RDIMM memory kits for next-generation server technology from Intel, based on the CoreTM i7 processors. Claiming faster memory speeds and higher memory densities...

Since their inception of stateful-inspection technology, Check Point has continued development with Application Intelligence, Malicious Code Protection, and modular security management plug-in architecture. Check Point's firewall security products are complemented by unified threat man...

Bracing for a worsening downturn, EMC late Wednesday said it’s going to can 2,400 of its people, roughly 7% of its workforce, to save about $350 million this year and $500 million next year. The move does not impact VMware, which EMC owns the lion’s share of. The news came ahead of...

Binfire, a new entry into SaaS market, has announced the release of the beta version of Binfire.com, a comprehensive suite of online software tools for file sharing, file management and group collaboration using WEB 2.0 features. Binfire.com offers online office tools for individuals a...

Meru Networks has introduced a security gateway appliance designed to meet the exacting demands of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 Level 3 security for U.S. and Canadian government agencies and other security-conscious organizations as they broadly adopt wireless L...

Etay Bogner, CTO and Co-Founder of Neocleus, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Bogner, who is responsible for executing against the company's product vision and for setting ...

CTERA Networks has introduced its Cloud Attached Storage technology. By bundling Network Attached Storage and cloud storage services into a single appliance, the new technology marries the performance and simplicity of a local NAS device with the scalability and reliability of cloud st...

Ken Berryman, Symantec's Vice President of Endpoint Virtualization, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Berryman, who is responsible for driving Symantec’s overall endpoint ...

Stratus Telecommunications announced that it has acquired the ENTICE telecommunications business from Stratus Technologies of Maynard, Massachusetts. The transaction closed on January 2, 2009. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition encompasses the entire Stratus Technologi...

Let’s face it - 2008 was a real slog. Even the most wide-eyed optimist would agree that this was one year whose end was long overdue. Of course, ringing in the New Year doesn’t somehow wash away what has become a fairly deep recession, but it does symbolize the fresh start that I t...

Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics Corporation, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Litkey, who before starting Embotics founded Symbium, a venture capital funded company focused on Autonomic C...

The "speeds and feeds" mantra of the networking industry is about to be replaced by a new "dynamic infrastructure" mantra; and Cisco, Infoblox, and F5 Networks are taking the lead in shaping this new vision of a more flexible, more available, and easier to manage network. New enterpris...

SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, announces that the submissions deadline for its Call for Papers is January 31st, 2009. Suitable topics include all aspects of providing or using mas...

EMC announced it is a gold-level VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC), expanding its global alliance with VMware to help enterprise customers around the world accelerate their business by virtualizing their information infrastructures and data centers. EMC’s Global Services helps custo...

VMware announced that TradeBeam has selected the VMware platform, including VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Lab Manager, as the foundation for its development and production IT environments. TradeBeam’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) model provides over 6,000 organizations with impo...

Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Certeon, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Cooney, who has over 25 years experience in information and network security, will be sp...

Peter Thawley, Senior Director & Architect at Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1. Thawley, a member of Sybase’s CTO Group where he brings over 22 years of experience in software arch...

"Q-layer's technology and expertise will enhance Sun's offerings, simplifying cloud management and speeding application deployment," said Sun's SVP of Cloud Computing and chief sustainability officer, David Douglas, as the company today announced that it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud c...

Hostway Corporation has launched its cloud computing infrastructure FlexCloud, adding cloud computing functionality to all its hosting packages. The new service includes automated allocation of CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth for individual websites. The company states that the firs...

Every year SYS-CON polls the Internet technologies community and asks them to share their thoughts on what's around the corner in the world of i-Technology and Web-based enterprise. The main themes were very clear. Cassatt Corporation's CEO Bill Coleman, for example - famous in a forme...

Here, SYS-CON's Web 2.0 Journal has asked a selection of the industry's brightest minds what their own advice would be in these troubled times, and assembled it into a ten-point guide for software vendors, entrepreneurs, and startups to riding out a recession.

VMware has imported another ex-Microsoft veteran to fight Microsoft, its worst enemy. This time it’s Tod Nielsen plucked out of Borland, where he’s been CEO for the last three years, to be VMware’s chief operating officer, a specially created job that reports to fellow Microsoft ...

Alisoft, the software subsidiary of Alibaba.com, the big Chinese B2B e-commerce portal that Yahoo owns a piece of, has cut a strategic cooperation deal with the municipal government of Nanjing to build China’s first “e-commerce cloud computing center.” It is expected to cost roug...

Salesforce.com has announced that Ingres Corporation is using Salesforce CRM to support its global business growth. Following a two week deployment, Ingres integrated Salesforce CRM with the Intacct financial management system from the Force.com AppExchange. Salesforce.com partner Dema...

Micro Focus International announced that it has completed the acquisition of Relativity Technologies. Completion of the transaction follows a meeting of Relativity Technologies shareholders held on 30 December 2008 at which its shareholders accepted the offer. As previously announced b...

If your data is on a European server, and you’re in the US, which country's laws does your data and activities fall under? The Economist addressed these and other questions in a Fall 2008 report on cloud computing, which they described as “the ultimate form of globalization.”