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Novell’s Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft Is Back

One would have thought that while Microsoft was busy facilitating Novell's acquisition by Attachmate at a price Novell found bearable Microsoft would have negotiated an end to Novell's lingering antitrust suit against it over WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. And maybe that shoe has yet to drop but meanwhile a federal appeals court in Virginia decided Tuesday that Novell didn't trade away its claims when it assigned the right to sue Microsoft to Caldera in 1996. Those rights, it decided, stemmed from Novell's purchase of what remained of Digital Research and the CP/M operating system. And Caldera, which was started by Novell's ex-CEO Ray Noorda after he left Novell, did sue Microsoft and the case settled on the courthouse steps years later for $285 million without being tried. Caldera of course went on to become the SCO Group but that's another story. Anyway, the appeal... (more)

Intel Redesigns the Transistor

Intel Wednesday disclosed that it has perfected - and will be able to mass produce - a new kind of transistor for the first time in the 50-odd years since the computer's basic building block was invented. It said the breakthrough, which basically puts a fin-like second story on the humble transistor, promises power reduction and performance improvement in everything from the smallest handheld to the biggest cloud-based servers. Intel is going to use the newfangled 3D transistors, dubbed Tri-Gate after the fin's three current-controlling gates, in making its 22nm Ivy Bridge chip, ... (more)

LinkedIn Accident Provides Tiny Telescope on HP Cloud

Scott McClellan, the CTO and interim VP of engineering of HP's new cloud services business, let slip a few details about HP's otherwise cloudy cloud plans when he updated his LinkedIn profile. The Register happened to capture them before they were removed. One of the things that wasn't there was any mention of Microsoft Azure, .NET or C# although HP was supposed to be one of three companies that were going to build Azure appliances that would run local instances of Azure. The other companies were Dell and Fujitsu. HP Léo Apotheker said nothing about Azure either when he sketched o... (more)

How to Manage the Complete Sales Funnel -- From Top to Bottom

In most organizations, there's a huge disconnect between Marketing & Sales. And, in today's business environment is a killer. Plain and simple.  That's why I want you to know about the upcoming DemandCon Conference in San Francisco on May 18-20. It's the first conference ever that's dedicated to managing the complete sales funnel. I'll be doing an opening keynotes at DemandCon. I hope you'll be able to join me. Here's what I'll be talking about. (Pretty cool video technology too! Check out VisibleGains to learn more!) Plus, there are tons of SNAPPY breakouts (20 minute sessions d... (more)

Kohl's Department Stores Celebrate "More Birthdays" in Second Year of American Cancer Society Partnership

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis., May 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of life, survival and a world with less breast cancer and "More Birthdays," Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) threw a birthday celebration yesterday at the 2011 American Cancer Society "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk on Milwaukee's lakefront. Decorated with thousands of pink cupcakes, balloons and stacks of presents, the celebration represented the company's greater commitment to the fight against breast cancer. In 2010, Kohl's philanthropic program, Kohl's Cares, announced a nearly $5 million donation ... (more)

Cloud Expo Breaking News
By Elizabeth White
Whether you’re an IT manager or a cloud provider, migrating existing applications into the cloud can be complicated, time-consuming, and costly. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Adiascar Cisneros, Professional Services Manager at Racemi, will cover migration strategies that enable you to move existing applications into the cloud without having to rebuild them, thereby minimizing risk, reducing costs, and streamlining delivery timelines. He will also discuss the migration of ...
May. 7, 2011 03:00 PM EDT  Reads: 806
By Elizabeth White
We are experiencing a massive period of change and consolidation in IT driven by increased financial pressure and efficiency demands. This has resulted in organizations reconsidering their approach to storage networking and application hosting. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Robert L Stevenson, an Enterprise Architect at Xiotech, will focus on emerging futures and proposed standards for storage networking that will help PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a ...
May. 6, 2011 01:45 PM EDT  Reads: 808
By Elizabeth White
Scaling an application in the cloud often hits the most common bottleneck – the database tier. Not only is database performance the number one cause of poor application performance, the issue is magnified in cloud environments where I/O is generally slower and less predictable than in dedicated data centers. Database Sharding is a highly effective method of removing the database scalability barrier, operating on top of proven RDBMS products such as MySQL and Postgres – as well as the new NoSQL d...
May. 6, 2011 01:15 PM EDT  Reads: 763
By Liz McMillan
Managing and securing how users connect and interact with cloud-based services increasingly hinges on how enterprise identities are propagated to the cloud. Standards like Secure Assertion Markup Language (SAML), X.509 and OAuth that were first solidified for federation are now coming into their own to tackle cloud security challenges. But how can we leverage these standards to solve real-world use cases? In their session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Patrick Harding, CTO at Ping Identi...
May. 6, 2011 12:00 PM EDT  Reads: 752
By Pat Romanski
You're convinced: cloud is it but now you need to start taking steps. You've sorted legal and security and now you need to take some technical decisions. What platform to run on? Whose cloud? Which tools to develop or move your software? How to manage that process? In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, will share real-world experiences with the audience. He has been involved with over a hundred companies that have moved from on premises to cloud computi...
May. 6, 2011 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 712
By Salvatore Genovese
While the Cloud is a common future for a majority of IT shops, we believe there are two principle cloud development concepts to examine before you develop or proceed too far with your cloud strategies. Should you take an evolutionary path and transform your existing IT environment to a cloud of service computing… or do you jump to the “head of the cloud” and revolutionize your approach with a comprehensive cloud solution… or both! CA Technologies is ready with solutions to advise, deliver and su...
May. 5, 2011 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 875
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Conference News & Updates
By Jeremy Geelan
What does the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of GoGrid and OpSource, the Co-Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Novell and the Director of HP Software's Global Cloud Practice? Answer: all are members of the distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo New York, due to take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. New speakers will continue to be announced every day from now for the next few weeks, and the Cloud Expo organizers can share the news that the high-octane technical sessions in New York City have been organized into seven parallel tracks, including Enterprise Cloud Computing, Telcos in the Cloud | The Cloud on Devices, and Cloud Security & Performance.
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By Jeremy Geelan
In this brand new SYS-CON.TV Power Panel, recorded in Times Square on the eve of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, which was held in Santa Clara, CA, November 1 -4, 2010, Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan discusses the State of the Nation with regard to Enterprise Cloud Computing with Unisys' Sam Gross & Jill T. Singer, CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office. Also on the panel is Internet security expert Patrick Hynds, Founder & President of DTS.
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By Liz McMillan
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell has been named "Diamond Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 8th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York, N.Y. Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology and business solutions they trust and value. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed.
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By Elizabeth White
Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT? Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering? Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit. Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2011 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy. The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 8th Cloud Expo, June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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By Fuat Kircaali
I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade. I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter." We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly. Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers. I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it." In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in.
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By Liz McMillan
With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate. CloudCamp, an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas, is being held on Tuesday, June 07, from 5:40 p.m. - 8:40 p.m. at the 8th Cloud Expo, June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CloudCamp will be led by Dave Nielsen of CloudCamp and Larry Carvalho of RobustCloud.
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By Jeremy Geelan
Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo. Here is an early sneak-peek at some of the many and varied themes and topics due to be discussed in the breakout technical sessions scheduled in the course of the jam-packed four days. Automation in the Cloud – In a session to be given at Cloud Expo in June by HP Software's Director, Cloud Global Practice, Marc Wilsonson, Wilkinson will provide best practices from IT experts to equip attendees with the knowledge to build automated, repeatable processes that provide control, manageability and assurance for cloud success. Cloud Integration – The Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, Rick Nucci, will be giving a session at Cloud Expo New York on "Cloud Integration: Best Practices for IT Managers" in which he will cover a set of business and technical "Best Practices" for cloud integration. Enterprise Cloud Computing – Having talked about Enterprise Cloud Computing as "The Infrastructure's Ultimate Revenge" in 2009, the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office, Jill Tummler Singer, will ask if government organizations and corporations are riding a real wave of IT change to the future...or whether both government and corporate IT is caught up in a water spout so far off the shore that no one will feel its impact?
By Pat Romanski
There is one constant in data centers: Application groups always need more. Until recently, apps have been at the mercy of IT operations to feed their need. In his Day Three Keynote at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Pete Malcolm will discuss how with the advent of public cloud offerings, apps can bypass ops entirely and get the resources they need with just a few clicks and a credit card. What does this mean for the future of IT ops? Pete Malcolm is CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions. Described by SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan as "a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing", Malcolm is the inventor of the term "Resource Cloud", a concept which provides complete separation between physical infrastructure providers and virtual enterprise consumers, with substantial benefits to both. Malcolm was previously founder and CTO of Orchestria, Benchmark Capital's first European Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and a Senior Vice President with CA, Inc.
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By Carmen Gonzalez
Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend.
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By Kevin Hartig
Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years. Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing. Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon.
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By Elizabeth White
Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
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By Jeremy Geelan
"New infrastructure and operations technologies such as cloud services and virtualization ... were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011," said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, as the results were announced of the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010 and represents CIO budget plans reported at that time. According to the results, CIOs expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected. Currently, 3% of CIOs have the majority of IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies, but over the next four years CIOs expect this number to increase to 43%.
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By Roger Strukhoff
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