Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Intel is working on a solution in its China Research Center, called "From Air to Access Cloud." It is a solution aimed at making a whole enterprise IT domain as a service, provided by WIMAX operators. The domain thus provided contains private network and all subscribed services. The key value to the enterprise is that enterprise users can access the services from anywhere covered by the operator's WIMAX without needing to use a VPN, and access also becomes possible to different SaaS services with Single Sign On. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Leo Yi, senior software engineer and project manager an Intel's China Research Center, will show how, in order to prove this concept, Intel uses Tashi and Xen to build an IaaS cl... (more)

Conditional Table Filters

Just ran across this and it is a nice technique for those situations where you are limited to table based filtering of data. Typically, I focus on data filtering as far up stream as possible. It is better to filter data at the source (in the where clause for JDBC). Next, I use DataSet based filtering. But sometimes you can't filter at the Source or the DataSet, which is where table based filtering comes in. The issue with table based filters is that there is no good way in the UI to implement conditional filtering. For instance, imagine you have a data driven parameter multi-select... (more)

Google's Economic Report Is Self-Serving Hype -Consumer Watchdog

Google, the self-proclaimed "don't-be-evil" company, is following the classic corporate evil-doer's playbook as it attempts to quell worldwide outrage over the WiSpy scandal, Consumer Watchdog said today. The Internet giant's new report claiming that it generated $54 billion in economic activity last year in the United States, is an an example of classic corporate PR spin to divert justified criticism, Consumer Watchdog said.   "This is what every big corporation does when they are under fire," said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with the nonpartisan, nonprofit group. "They div... (more)

FalconStor Announces HyperFS™ File System for Media and Entertainment Market

Delivers High-Performance, Massively Scalable File System - Early Partners Include SeaChange and Rorke Data MELVILLE, N.Y. -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced the FalconStor® HyperFS™ file system, a high-performance, massively scalable solution for data-intensive applications that generate very large numbers of files. The HyperFS solution is an innovative file system that simplifies the management of large files, providing high-speed, low-latency file access to heterogeneous clients across a global... (more)

IT Fears Change...and Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer One of the stumbling blocks toward a complete adoption of cloud computing is certainly around ensuring the stability of the underlying network for it is the enabling factor in all IT efforts. We have a brittle system underpinning the data center: the network. It’s brittle, yes. But it works. Thanks to years of tweaking and tuning and troubleshooting, it works. We know where everything is, and how everything interacts, and it works. It works well, in fact, now that we’ve got it all figured out. Is it any surprise then that we might be resistant to change ... (more)