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Microsoft is on the brink of buying Skype for better than $7 billion, according to an unconfirmed report in the Wall Street Journal Monday night. Speculation last week centered on Facebook or Google doing a deal with the Internet phone company that eBay regretted buying a few years ago after it paid $3.1 billion in cash and stock for the joint. Reuters thought Facebook might pay $3 billion-$4 billion for the company, but it seemed both Facebook and Google would have preferred some kind of joint venture. Skype has issues with the legitimacy of the VP7 video compression/decompression IP that it licensed from Google property On2 Technology and seemed to be shying away from the supposedly billion-dollar IPO it signed up for last year, especially after it brought in a new CEO from Cisco, Tony Bates. While conceding that the Microsoft deal could still fall apart, the Jour... (more)

MIPS Technologies Adopts Myriad’s Dalvik Turbo VM Engine for its Android™ on MIPS® Distribution

Myriad's Proven, Commercially-Supported Solution Accelerates Android Application Performance up to 5x SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 9, 2011 - MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Myriad Group AG (SIX: MYRN), through which MIPS will make Myriad's Dalvik Turbo Virtual Machine (VM) available to its licensees as part of its standard distribution of Android™ for the MIPS® architecture. Myriad's Dalvik... (more)

Sitecore Powers Colliers International's New Digital Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/11 -- Sitecore today announced that Colliers International, a global leader in integrated real estate services representing property investors, developers and occupiers, launched a new website on Sitecore's Web platform. The new website offers an enhanced experience for customers and has generated increased traffic and online inquiries. "We went through an extensive vendor selection process and Sitecore proved to be the only product that truly filled all the boxes, tackling real issues faced by our business," said David Finnimore, natio... (more)

Stockholm Public Transport Deploys Gemalto End-to-End Solution for World’s First Customized Travel Card

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces that Stockholm Public Transport (“Storstockholms Lokaltrafik”, SL) is deploying AllAboutMe, a turnkey solution to design customized travel cards online. SL is the public transport operator in Stockholm County with around 700,000 commuters using their services every day. Gemalto is prime contractor for this project and provides SL with a comprehensive card issuance service. SL is the first transport operator in the world to launch a picture card program. The full-service solution includes online ... (more)

Time to Act: Delegates at eHealth Week 2011 Call on Member States to Implement eHealth Solutions

BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth Week 2011, the largest annual gathering of the European eHealth communities, today opened its gates in Budapest, Hungary, with the motto "Investing in the healthcare systems of the future". Experts from across Europe have come to Budapest to deliver a powerful message to healthcare providers, governments and patients across the European Union: eHealth is a key element in sustaining world-class healthcare; the time to implement is now! Miklós Szócska, Hungarian Minister of State for Health said: "The Ministerial eHealth Conf... (more)

Conference News & Updates
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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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