Malih Abdulhayoglu, in a column for SecurityFocus.com, urges readers to move away from traditional detection-based software and toward a prevention-based technology

MeriTalk announced the results of its Do It Yourself (DIY) Federal IT Bailout Report, identifying billions of dollars in potential Federal IT savings. Examining a three-year spending snapshot, the report identifies potential savings from Open Source, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing...

A nice spike in traffic to the CCIF today thanks to our friends at F5 (Lori MacVittie) and Slashdot. In MacVittie's post she asks "Who owns application delivery meta-data in the cloud?" I found this statement particularly interesting, in it she says "There is a very real danger, howeve...

A nice spike in traffic to the CCIF today thanks to our friends at F5 (Lori MacVittie) and Slashdot. In MacVittie's post she asks "Who owns application delivery meta-data in the cloud?" I found this statement particularly interesting, in it she says "There is a very real danger, howeve...

Agilysys has announced that Snoqualmie Casino has selected Eatec Solutions and InfoGenesis POS by Agilysys to provide increased efficiency and control costs related to inventory and procurement for this upscale casino and entertainment venue. Eatec Solutions by Agilysys is a Microsoft...

Actuate Corporation has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008. Financial and Operational Highlights: Repurchased $60 million of Actuate common stock in a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer; Entered into a revolving credit agreement with Wells Fa...

The industry is buzzing about the promise of Rich Internet Applications and cloud computing. Although these new applications and methods for implementing technology offer many advantages, they also compound underlying complexity, presenting new challenges for Web and application develo...

In this session at SOA World Conference and Expo 2008 West, Rob Steward described how data services are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. SOA is becoming a standard enterprise architecture and WOA is enabling organizations ...

When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin...

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...

The future of cloud computing is all about lowering costs and getting the ability to easily move between service providers. At the Cloud Power Panel on Friday at the 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, the power panelists – Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platfor...

Increasingly, a businesses competitive advantage is gained by processing large flows of raw data into insights. With a growth in both the volume of data and number of users, traditional tools for data analytics struggle to keep pace. Large Internet services such as Yahoo!, who face a t...

"The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the Cloud can unleash fear in many of us," concedes EMC's Cloud supremo Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of the storage giant's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Cloud technologies nonetheless offer many benef...

The DataServices World conference in Silicon Valley provides an opportunity on November 20, 2008 to put data services under a microscope. The conference is co-located with Cloud Computing Expo, SOAWorld and Virtualization Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San, Jose, California. The e...

Nexaweb has announced the Nexaweb Reference Framework, a new addition to its flagship Enterprise Web Suite, engineered to reduce the time, costs, and architectural decisions associated with modernizing business applications and bringing them to the Web. The Nexaweb Reference Framework ...

Symbian Limited has announced Symbian Analysis Workbench (SAW), a new tool to make development easier and faster by reducing the time and effort needed to fix defects and optimize code. SAW is a prepackaged set of Eclipse-based tools that make life easier for developers by optimizing S...

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging, eff...

This morning as I was reading the newswire feeds flashing across my screen, I saw one and clicked on it, "Web Experience Forum 2008 Opens in Boston." The opening paragraph of the press release continues: "Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty…" which translates to "no one showed u...

SYS-CON's 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo will take place October 20-22, 2009, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, California. The computing forecast calls for continuing heavy clouds. What are the technical issues for building AJAX applications in the cloud? What is...

From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year! So why not write your own and join the crowd? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning! A nice resource is theipho...

There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year. Programmers can choose to create optimized web applications using web languages or to write native programs using the iPhone SDK. Rather than seeing this as an either-or proposition...

Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b...

Axon today announced strong customer momentum for the SAP for Utilities solutions in the utilities mid-market as Mobile Gas Service Corporation, City of Dallas, and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) join the more than 1,100 global utilities customers using SAP software solutions. The...

Most passenger with early arrival requirement on international travel have been stranded at Delta Terminal 3 at JFK for more than 9 hours and at the time of this report there was still no certain departure time announced by the airline. Delta gate personnel also thretened a female pass...

The purpose of this blog is not to discourage people from flying Turkish Airlines, which is a fine company and generally provides fine service, but rather share constructive criticism with the airline and give them a chance to improve their services in a very competitive global industr...

Appistry's flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, simplifies the process of developing, deploying and managing highly scalable and reliable applications. With Appistry EAF, data- and CPU-intensive software developed using technologies like Java, Spring, .NET or C/C++...

Mule is an open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Designed to support high-performance, multi-protocol transactions between heterogeneous systems and services, Mule provides the basis for service oriented architecture (SOA). With a standards-based, zero intrusion approach to existin...

So how does this relate to MobileMe? MobileMe is, according to Phil Schiller's keynote, 'Exchange for the rest of us'. What this means is that using MobileMe, you will receive push contacts, push e-mail, and push calendar notifications. This will work with any MobileMe-aware applicatio...

'Those of us in the business of writing rich Internet applications have seen the focus swing from how to add richness to how to manage richness and the resources it demands in the browser,' says Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts on 'advanced JavaScript utilities and wid...

Up to this point, the iPhone has been a device for gadget fanatics and big spenders, while shortcomings like the price and lack of 3G have limited the addressable market considerably. By adding 3G, GPS and enterprise support and lowering the starting price, Apple has just dramatically ...

The continuing success of SOA World Conference & Expo, now in its 13th successive iteration - this time in June, on the East Coast, in the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City - has led SYS-CON Events to expand its reach by adding a co-located parallel event, DataServices World. T...

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...

Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ...

Babya announced the upcoming release of Virtual Application Platinum. Babya Virtual Application Platinum is a software virtualization solution designed for applications-such as small utilities. It can handle the virtualization of multiple applications.

Dell announced its broadest lineup of dedicated virtualization solutions ever. More than a dozen new servers, tools, and services simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size.

Apple has finally bought PA Semi, the fab-less low-power PowerPC start-up that supposedly swooned when Apple switched from the PowerPC Intel. What Apple's going to do with it now become fodder for the speculators. The iPhone uses an 32-bit ARM-derived chip that Intel would love to disp...

Motorola, which needs all the help it can get, has invested some undisclosed amount of money in VirtualLogic, the company that can put multiple operating systems concurrently in embedded devices like cell phones and infrastructure equipment complements of real-time virtualization. Cisc...

Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex...

Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th...

Rumor has it that in the next few weeks Adobe is going to 'reorganize' its Mobile and Device business unit where its Jobs-criticized Flash Lite lives and send the engineers to go work with the larger platform effort and Flash proper, which Jobs has also criticized. Presumably, Adobe is...