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Is VMware looking to purchase Red Hat? Maybe so according to an MSNBC article posted yesterday. At least for Red Hat, time for turnaround may be of... Read more at VMblog.com. ... (more)

Sending a SOAP message onto JMS using the "SOAP over Java Message Service" proposal, or as a TextMessage

Did you know that you can use Vordel SOAPbox to send a SOAP message onto a JMS message queue? You can choose to send it as a normal TextMessage, or an ObjectMessage. But you can also choose to use the "SOAP over JMS Message Service" proposal to place the message. Just choose Design mode instead of Classic mode in the tabs in the top-right, and then drag in a "Messaging System" filter onto the canvas. You might notice that the "drag and join" configuration of SOAPbox is very similar to how the Vordel Gateway is configured. So you can test the JMS service in exactly the same way as you configure the connection to the JMS service. ... (more)

Review of TomTom® GO 630 GPS Receiver

Radio Shack Always find your way with the GO 630 by your side. TomTom® GO 630 GPS Receiver TomTom GO 630 Great! BillRoth King Of Prussia, PA 4/2/2009     4 5 Pros: Compact, Large Screen, Easy To Set Up, Reliable Performance, Easy To Read, Easy Menus, Acquires Satellites Quickly Cons: Short Battery Life Best Uses: Urban Navigation, Faster Routes Describe Yourself: Power User How are you with directions: Bad w/Directions I recently moved from San Jose, California, to a suburb of Philadelphia. As a result, I do not know where to find anything, and I get lost a lot. I had been using Google Maps on my phone, but holding the phone and driving caused too many near accidents. So I bought a in-car GPS Navigator from RadioShack.com. I got a TomTom GO 630. I picked that one, since it has all the features I was looking for (and some I did not know I wanted) and it had good revi... (more)

Operator 3UK Is First To Launch Flexion Discovery In The UK

LONDON, 10 November 2009 - Accumulate UK Limited, the company that provides flexible pricing and retailing solutions for mobile retailers, today launches it latest release of Flexion with 3UK. The operator has successfully been using Flexion for its Try'n'Buy and preload programmes and will now extend the use to all its new games and top titles on Planet 3. This release of Flexion will not only provide flexible pricing but also includes a fully dynamic store front with every wrapped game. This new feature - Flexion Discovery - will let the operator distribute its games shop with every downloaded or preloaded game. The idea with Discovery is to make it easier for consumers to access new games directly on their devices and to increase the retailer's reach through maximised distribution of the store. This drives increased uptake and penetration of games and reduces the... (more)

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk goes Polyglot with its PHP Support

Almost every PaaS vendor has gone polyglot and Amazon Web Services is not an exception. Last week AWS has announced PHP and Git deployment for Elastic Beanstalk. Having been launched with Java support almost a year ago, Beanstalk has got another language in the form of PHP. Technically, Amazon Beanstalk has been designed to run any language / platform from day one. Since AWS is an IaaS, many developers felt it was complex to choose the instance types, adding persistent storage, enabling monitoring and other tasks. Other PaaS providers like Microsoft and Google have good integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse that offer single click deployment. This forced AWS to assemble all its assets across compute, storage, networking and databases and offer an abstraction layer in the form of Amazon Beanstalk. I tried deploying WordPress, a popular CMS built on PHP to Amazo... (more)

Innovation and Partnership Drives SpeechStorm Growth and 2013 Recruitment Plans

Belfast, 7th December 2012 - Leader in phone and mobile customer service, SpeechStorm, has announced plans to expand its development and sales teams on the back of recent customer wins and the success of its partnership-based approach. Founded in 2010, the company grew its revenue to £2.2 million in just its second full year of operation, with SpeechStorm software now used by more than 20 customers, including: BSkyB, Dixons, eircom and the UK Government's Northern Ireland Department for Finance & Personnel, enabling them to deploy new customer service applications faster and more effectively using Interactive Voice Response (IVR), speech recognition and mobile applications. An upbeat Oliver Lennon, SpeechStorm CEO, attributes the company's early success to its focus on innovation and its partnership with Genesys (www.genesyslab.com), a global leader in customer serv... (more)

Innovative New ActiveBatch(R) Version 5 Addresses Emerging Real-Time Batch Processing Needs

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI), a leading provider of system software solutions that enhance Windows(TM), UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS systems, today announced it has begun shipping ActiveBatch(R) Version 5, the most advanced release yet of the company's leading job scheduling and management system. Designed to meet the fast-growing need for immediate, or near-immediate, information processing, in addition to its already powerful Date/Time scheduling, ActiveBatch Version 5 assists in interrogating enterprise data in real time, allowing businesses to experience benefits ranging from improved cash flows and better allocation and/or protection of assets to faster real-time business intelligence. In addition to its business-enabling advantages, ActiveBatch Version 5 also improves integration, training, and manageability curves ... (more)

VMware to Acquire SpringSource

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/10/09 -- VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced a major step forward in its journey to help simplify IT by entering into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management. VMware and SpringSource plan to deliver compelling new solutions that enable companies to more efficiently build, run and manage applications within both internal and external cloud architectures. "Today's modern computing environments are moving to an application and data-centric world powered by state of the art virtualized and cloud computing platforms," said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware. "The combination of SpringSource and VMware capitaliz... (more)

QNAP Adds 2.5 Inch Hard Disk Support to Its Turbo NAS Lineup of High Performance NAS Servers

POMONA, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR video surveillance systems, and network-based video players for business and consumer markets, today announced the support for 2.5" hard drives in the company's Intel-based Turbo NAS lineup of high performance NAS servers. At present, QNAP is the pioneering NAS server enclosure manufacturer to support both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard drives. The addition of 2.5" drive support gives users more drive choices at a time when there is a plethora of 2.5" hard drives available due to the softness in the notebook PC market. 2.5" hard drives designed for notebook PCs offer solid performance coupled with much lower power consumption and outstanding reliability. The new 2.5" hard drive support is designed into most of QNAP's Intel x86 CPU based models, including... (more)

Emulex Publishes Second Edition of Convergenomics – The Guide to Network Convergence Solutions with Contributions from Six New Collaborators

Today, Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) published the second edition of Convergenomics™ – The Guide to Network Convergence Solutions, which is a comprehensive introduction to network convergence. The book offers IT managers a resource to help them craft their next-generation network strategy and explains how to converge protocols, such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI, onto a 10Gb/s Enhanced Ethernet backbone. The latest edition includes new contributions from key ecosystem participants, including BLADE Network Technologies, Brocade, Fulcrum, Juniper Networks, Novell and Oracle, in addition to previous contributions from Cisco, EMC, Panduit, Scalent Systems and VMware. Convergenomics™ – The Guide to Network Convergence Solutions provides an assessment of the challenges facing the data center, the business case for network convergence, use cases and applications, an overview... (more)

HyperTransport Consortium Sponsors Inaugural Linley Tech Processor Conference

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/15/09 -- What: As an industry sponsor of the Linley Tech Processor Conference, the HyperTransport Consortium (HTC) will be exhibiting at the event. Joining the HTC will be member company, DRC Computer Corporation, the leading innovator in ultra-high performance FPGA-based coprocessors. DRC will demonstrate the following products and applications: -- The DRC Accelium(TM) AC2020 socketed, streaming coprocessor in a 2-way 2U appliance configuration -- Simultaneous high bandwidth, dual HyperTransport(TM) bus support between the DRC coprocessor and the CPU -- Appliance running Linux and Windows applications -- 30 times acceleration of an advanced data security application based on the patented Security First Corp. information dispersal algorithm -- 1,000 times acceleration of an image processing system versus software only -- Advance... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner's latest report on the hype cycle of emerging technologies, blockchain has just passed the peak of their hype cycle curve. If you read the news articles about it, one would think it has taken over the technology world. No disruptive technology is without its challenges and potential impediments t...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also receive...
If a machine can invent, does this mean the end of the patent system as we know it? The patent system, both in the US and Europe, allows companies to protect their inventions and helps foster innovation. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be set to disrupt the patent system as we know it. This talk will examine how AI may change the patent landscape in the years to come. Furthermore, ways in which companies can best protect their AI related inventions will be examined from both a US and...
The deluge of IoT sensor data collected from connected devices and the powerful AI required to make that data actionable are giving rise to a hybrid ecosystem in which cloud, on-prem and edge processes become interweaved. Attendees will learn how emerging composable infrastructure solutions deliver the adaptive architecture needed to manage this new data reality. Machine learning algorithms can better anticipate data storms and automate resources to support surges, including fully scalable GPU-c...
Chris Matthieu is the President & CEO of Computes, inc. He brings 30 years of experience in development and launches of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. His most recent venture was Octoblu, a cross-protocol Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network platform, acquired by Citrix. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and ...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
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IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...