Data center administrators are faced with the challenge of what to do with in-house versus cloud services. Following two years of lean spending on IT infrastructure, the hype over cloud services has caught the attention of everyone - from the C-suite to the functional leadership in organizations as diverse as finance, marketing, logistics and operations. Providers like Salesforce.com are tailoring their message not to the IT department but to the CEO and CFO, promising cost savings, improved reliability and greater business agility. IT leaders are presented with concepts of "indoor" or "private" clouds. Over those same two years, existing data center equipment is ripe for replacement. Innovations in areas like virtualization, power optimization, and multi-core processors coupled with increasing maintenance expenses are providing an incentive for many enterprise org... (more)

Objectivity Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of highly scalable data management and large-scale graph computing solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Objectivity, Inc. provides highly scalable, distributed data management solutions for government, ... (more)

No RAC, No RISC, No Problem

Having fended off challenges from Linux for several years now, the RISC-Unix platform is now under siege on another front - x86 servers. Long dismissed as workgroup and departmental servers, or as platforms for low-level enterprise applications, x86 servers are making serious inroads into corporate data centers. Earlier this year, analyst firms Gartner and IDC issued studies showing that sales of and revenue from RISC-Unix servers were continuing their slide against x86 boxes. The Gartner study showed a 28.5 percent decline in the number of units shipped and a 26.9 percent drop i... (more)

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: How Can Cloud Computing Improve Your Security?

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! Most people cite security as their primary concern about adopting cloud computing. But most don't realize that cloud computing will actually improve their organization's computing security. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus, will demonstrate how delegates can learn: Who is responsible for security in cloud computing Why you don't measure up to cloud provider security practices The single greatest security vulnerability in cloud computing The six best practices for cloud application ... (more)

CA Technologies to Provide Same-Day Support for IBM zEnterprise System

CA Technologies, an IBM development partner, on Thursday announced that it is working closely with IBM with the intent of providing same-day support across its mainframe software portfolio for the upcoming release of the IBM zEnterprise System including the new IBM zEnterprise 196 mainframe. As part of this commitment, CA Technologies is designing its innovative new CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) and CA Mainframe Chorus products to operate in the zNext environment. The new zEnterprise 196 hardware and supporting operating systems are perfectly aligned with CA Technologie... (more)