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Twitter is the Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Seen in My Life

On December 30, 2008 I was in Prague spending the New Year's Eve. That morning I found a copy of the Financial Times outside my hotel room and read this story during my breakfast, entitled Companies use Twitter to pack PR punch. The story was intriguing and I was curious. When I returned home I opened up a Twitter account, almost two months ago by now. Here is my review and experience with Twitter for the past two months. It is a useless, stupid nightmare. This idiotic Web 2.0 nonsense is crammed with spammers and crazy people who have too much time in their hands, not to mentio... (more)

Penguin Builds Scyld Management Framework

Penguin Computing has built a Scyld Integrated Management Framework (IMF) that's supposed to make it easier to monitor and manage what are usually quite elaborate HPC Beowolf clusters. It aggregates functionality in a single web interface and is extensible so users can add custom functionality whenever they like. Penguin thinks it's the first to provide this kind of management extensibili... (more)

Verizon Takes to the Cloud

Verizon has been talking about launching an on-demand Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) utility for two years now. It didn't know then that it was talking about a cloud but it did Wednesday when it finally launched the thing, a few months after its rival AT&T; introduced its cloud. Verizon's playing to the enterprise crowd, which distinguishes it from, say, Amazon. It promises "stringent secu... (more)

Cisco Needs to Buy EMC to Own VMware

Cisco's January sales were down 20% from a year ago. Its customers are holding off their purchasing decisions under the current economic climate. The only growth potential the company has today is in the virtualization market, which is expected to increase by more than 40% in 2009. Cisco is not exactly a software company. Like Dell they need to come up with a sustainable proposition for th... (more)

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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.