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 New Castle hedge fund co-founder Mark Kurland, 61, drew 27 months in a federal lock-up and the forfeit of $900,000 last Friday for his part in the Galleon insider trading scandal, the first of the admitted conspirators to be sentenced for securities fraud.
Kurland was Danielle C...May. 25, 2010 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,648 |
 IBM and AT&T on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. The acquisition of the Dublin, OH-based company will expand IBM's ability to help organizations create more intelligent ...May. 24, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,871 |
 Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times.
Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing abou...May. 20, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,530 |
 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...May. 17, 2010 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,705 |
 The role of cloud management solutions in the enterprise world is becoming increasingly important. With the interest and adoption of cloud in the enterprise steadily rising, solutions that help an organization to effectively harness, orchestrate, and govern their use of the cloud are f...May. 17, 2010 03:31 PM EDT Reads: 5,876 |
 I spent last week at the annual IBM IMPACT event, and had a lot of great conversation with enterprise users about some of the transformations taking place in the IT industry. Most of my conversations focused on virtualization and the broader cloud computing architectural shift, and man...May. 10, 2010 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,261 |
 iTKO, a provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, on Thursday announced it is teaming with IBM on a new service to help businesses more easily develop, test and deploy applications either on-premise or in a cloud. The new service combines iT...May. 9, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,118 |
 When we encounter a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, we often find that Java heap dumps, along with other artifacts, are generated by the Java Virtual Machine. If you feel like jumping right into a Java heap dump when you get a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, don’t worry, it’s a normal thought....May. 8, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 77,483 |
 IBM Corp., has acquired Mountain View, Calif-based Cast Iron Systems Inc. to bolster its cloud product in anticipation for a massive explosion in cloud computing market which it says is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion ...May. 6, 2010 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,823 |
 Cloud computing is filled with innovation. One of the crucial aspects that makes cloud computing initiatives successful is integration. And there are companies developing innovative solutions in cloud-based integration. During my ecosystem presentation at Clloud Expo's Cloud Computi...May. 6, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,152 |
 IBM on Tuesday announced the opening of a cloud computing laboratory in Singapore to help businesses, government and research institutions and institutes of higher learning to design, adopt and reap benefits of cloud technologies. The new lab housed at Changi Business Park is part of I...May. 4, 2010 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,547 |
 Akamai Technologies, a provider of powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, has announced a multi-phase collaboration with IBM to enable optimal technology configurations and integrations between Akamai's Web application acceleration services and IBM Web...May. 4, 2010 12:09 PM EDT Reads: 2,569 |
 IBM on Tuesday announced it will provide its authorized business partners with direct access to technical and industry leaders across 70 IBM Software Labs worldwide. The initiative is designed to help partners enhance their knowledge of IBM software and strategy and more quickly create...May. 4, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,656 |
 SOA Software, a SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced on Tuesday a new SOA Planning Governance product that augments the SOA Governance capabilities of IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR).
Portfolio Manager for WSRR helps to maximize the efficiency of ...May. 4, 2010 03:05 AM EDT Reads: 3,513 |
 IBM, which has eleven cloud computing labs around the world including one that is due to open in Singapore later this week, has already unveiled - last November - the world's largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics, an internal cloud called BlueInsight. Today...May. 3, 2010 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,833 |
 Swiss police arrested two men and women believed to be intent on bombing an IBM facility near Zurich according to press reports.
The arrests were made on April 15 near the small town of Rueschlikon six miles south of Zurich where IBM has a nanotechnology research lab.
Officials hav...Apr. 26, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,480 |
 HP's Russian headquarters in Moscow were tossed Wednesday by the investigative arm of the Prosecutor General's Office at the request of German authorities according to reports by both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.
It appears from the story the Journal has managed to piece tog...Apr. 14, 2010 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,555 |
 Zeus Technology, a software-based application traffic management (application delivery controller) company, announced on Monday that it is participating in the Waters Power 2010 conference on April 13 at the Helmsley Hotel in New York City, through its partner Joyent, a provider of pub...Apr. 13, 2010 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,600 |
 SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Novell, a provider of integrated IT management software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in ...Apr. 9, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,728 |
 SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen...Apr. 8, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 21,357 |
 IBM and Verizon are going into the private cloud storage business together; IBM’s supplying the infrastructure and Verizon’s supplying the pipe, a secure high-speed private network based on – customers’ choice – Private IP (MPLS), Ethernet or Sonat Optical Ring.
The backup-and-restor...Apr. 1, 2010 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,274 |
 It seems that cloud computing conversations are slowly beginning to march up the stack. Much of the initial focus in the space has been on cloud-based infrastructures such as servers, storage, networks, etc. To some degree, cloud-based approaches to this layer of IT are becoming more o...Apr. 1, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,105 |
 Robert Moffat, who headed both IBM’s server unit and IBM Microelectronics until he was arrested last October, pleaded guilty to twin counts of securities fraud and conspiracy Monday morning in a Manhattan courtroom.
He was one of the highest-ranking industry executives that the Gal...Mar. 30, 2010 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,326 |
 This session will draw on IBM’s experience working with customers and operating 13 cloud centers world wide to review the conditions under which cloud computing can deliver its promise of flexibility and cost savings in the delivery of IT services to the enterprise. The session will co...Mar. 24, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,575 |
 Robert Moffat, the former head of both IBM's server and chips units, who was arrested in October in the first dragnet of culprits connected with the now infamous Galleon Group hedge fund and its alleged insider trading ring, is expected to wave indictment and plead guilty, according to...Mar. 23, 2010 05:05 PM EDT Reads: 3,848 |
 IBM has launched a new service that lets outside enterprises indulge in software development and testing on its Cloud Platform. IBM currently hosts services on the web like Lotus Live along with a Private cloud option that it launched in 2009. Since then it has steadily expanded its cl...Mar. 23, 2010 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,214 |
 Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade.
Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New ...Mar. 18, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 24,504 |
 Navajo Systems announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with IBM to support the commercial launch of Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. Navajo Systems' unique technology addresses the data security and regulatory concerns of using the cloud.
Many enterprises have ...Mar. 18, 2010 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,010 |
 You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...Mar. 5, 2010 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,604 Replies: 1 |
 Oracle co-president Charles Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA - for all its muddied skirts still one of the world's largest software companies - and then those "soul mates forever" billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coa...Mar. 2, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 17,046 |
 This paper will attempt to discuss the usage scenario and demonstrate the use of WXS as a separate in memory data grid to store http sessions. This paper will discuss history and existing technology and introduces WXS as a technology that differentiates itself, by addressing existing s...Feb. 26, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 11,733 |
 Determined to be a cloud player, CA said Wednesday morning that it's buying privately held 3Tera whose browser-based AppLogic software is used to rapidly deploy and scale enterprise-class applications on public and private clouds and to build cloud services.
Terms were not disclosed...Feb. 24, 2010 11:30 AM EST Reads: 3,991 |
 Lack of engagement is endemic, and is causing large and small organizations all over the world to incur excess costs, under perform on critical tasks, and create widespread customer dissatisfaction. The annual financial loss in the US due to disengagement of managers and employees is a...Feb. 22, 2010 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,350 |
 The agenda for cloud camps being held in Las Vegas as part of IBM's Pulse conference includes presentations by IBM VP Sandy Carter and by Judith Hurwitz, president of the Hurwitz and Associates analyst firm and author of "Cloud Computing for Dummies." Carter said the camps are the firs...Feb. 21, 2010 12:15 PM EST Reads: 6,808 |
 IBM has acquired 10-year-old privately held Intelliden Inc, whose network automation software enables organizations such as telecom companies configure, manage and scale their networks.
It’s positioned as a safeguard against the manual configuration errors responsible for upwards of ...Feb. 19, 2010 09:30 PM EST Reads: 4,554 |
 IBM is pushing its Lotus software onto the iPhone, iPod Touch and Macintosh. A beta Lotus Symphony 3.0, IBM’s free OpenOffice-based suite of spreadsheet, presentation and documents software, is now available for the Mac as an alternative to Microsoft Office. And IBM’s offering Lotus Co...Feb. 12, 2010 10:45 PM EST Reads: 4,708 |
 Frankly I’ve grown weary of the debates over the security of cloud computing. It’s not that I don’t appreciate that there are technical hurdles in front of us, but we have reached a point that a security vulnerability in a single offering, whether that offering is in the public or priv...Feb. 8, 2010 10:30 AM EST Reads: 7,891 |
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There are many different types of command line options that programs need to recognize. Many languages (e.g.: bash and perl) has built-in processing of command line options; Java does not. The Java Command Line Options (JCLO) package performs this task for a variety of o...Feb. 7, 2010 09:15 PM EST Reads: 20,956 |
 IBM is buying privately held Chicago-based Initiate Systems, whose data integrity software is used for information sharing in healthcare and government organizations. Financial details were not disclosed. The deal should close this quarter and Initiate will become part of IBM’s Informa...Feb. 7, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,600 |
 Market conditions are in a constant state of flux. The economy is, well, the economy. The regulatory environment shifts based on the latest business scandal and which political party holds sway. Plus, there is always a new management strategy to solve world hunger or something. As user...Feb. 7, 2010 09:15 AM EST Reads: 7,782 Replies: 2 |
