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Breaking News: EMC Turns Spoiler; Will Outbid NetApp

EMC is proposing to outbid NetApp for Data Domain, the dedupe house that NetApp agreed to buy the week before last for $25 a share in cash and stock, a price valued at $1.5 billion. EMC is offering $30 a share, all cash, a total of $1.8 billion, more than it’s ever paid for anything. And it’s not waiting on ceremony it’s starting a tender offer. The NetApp-Data Domain alliance is the second time EMC has been surprised lately. David Donatelli, the president of its storage unit, where the bulk of ~$15 billion in revenues lives, surprised EMC when he up and resigned a few weeks a... (more)

AMD Pushes Out Six-Core Chip

MD has a 45nm six-core chip now just like Intel that will appear in HP, Cray, Dell, SGI, IBM and Sun systems this month. How the Istanbul chip and its adopters fare in a lousy make-do market remains to be seen. AMD pushed the doohickey out Monday five months early in an effort to compete with the next Intel generation, the hyper-threaded quad-core Nehalem. HE, SE and EE versions of the thi... (more)

Gartner Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open Source Software Model

The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open source is evolving the software industry in numerous ways. Click Here to Download This White Paper Now! ... (more)

SOA & Cloud Computing Intersect at SOA World Conference & Expo in New York

Federal IT organizations across the DoD and IC are facing costly data storage and data processing challenges stemming from the vast amount of information they collect and analyze as a part of their mission. To effectively organize and utilize these growing information stores, enterprise applications must be capable of performing large-scale, data-intensive processing. Federal enterprise ... (more)

Conference News & Updates
By RIA News Desk
Adobe Air, AJAX and AJAX Push, BlazeDS, Browser Issues, Cloud Computing, Comet, Developer Productivity, DotNetNuke, EC2, Enterprise RIA, Flex, HTML5, IE8, Information Dashboards, JavaScript 2, Java Servlet 3.0, Mashups, Rich Clients, Ruby on Rails, Silverlight, Thin Clients - a round-up of the Themes & Topics due to be discussed at the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, being held June 22-23, 2009 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.
By Cloud News Desk
With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength. The Call for Papers for the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, on November 2- 4, 2009, is now open.
By Virtualization News
Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors.
SYS-CON Events announced that Software AG was named "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East. The 15th International SOA World Conference will take place June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. This June's SOA World, which is the world's number one longest-running SOA event, will feature parallel content-rich tracks reflecting the worldwide adoption of the distributed computing paradigm, in which web services are deployed through specific service-oriented architectures.
SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being held October 5-6, 2009 in Washington, DC, builds on the success of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, the fastest-growing conference anywhere in the world devoted to the delivery of massively scalable IT as a service using Internet technologies.
By Pat Romanski
SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,300 delegates, a record attendance, up from the last Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA. Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many interpreters just now - and many interpretations. The next event, Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe will take place, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing. Enjoy the photo album of the show, which is updated daily.
By Cloud News Desk
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe, held on May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, is the first major cloud event in Europe and is co-located with SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009. The next event is the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA, November 2-4, 2009, co-located with the the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
By SOA News Desk
SYS-CON Events announced that Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect of Collaborative Consulting, will be presenting at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East, June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. His session, entitled "Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus," will review the key concepts of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Resource-Oriented Architecture. Then, a Resource-Oriented ESB, and several service examples will be presented using 1060 Research's NetKernel.