Cloud Expo 2011 New York $800 Savings here! The NYTimes.com has been migrating many new applications and platforms onto Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. By moving toward a service-oriented approach to communication between platforms and systems, they have been able to accelerate this migration process. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Paul Robbins, Software Manager from NYTimes.com, will cover the hurdles of moving to a service-based approach and will discuss how this reduces many other infrastructure concerns and provides flexibility when determining a server environment. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Paul Robbins is a Software Manager from NYTimes.com focusing on front-end applications, specially on the cloud. As a software engineer, he helped move NYTimes.com to a service-oriented approach to platform communic... (more)

The Cloud Computing Kettle Heats Right Up

4th International Cloud Expo Photo Album on Ulitzer The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A; moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for yourself, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal brings you a timeline of the trajectory of the Cloud so far. NOVEMBER 13, 2006 Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet - BusinessWeek publishes a cover article on Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud" (EC2) - a totally new on-demand, pay-as-you-go storage and computing service launched earlier that year, in August 2006. [From the article: "Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online ... (more)

Epicor Wins Two Prestigious European Awards for Next-Generation ERP

IRVINE, Calif. — December 10, 2009 — Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that its next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution Epicor 9 has garnered recent industry award honors in Germany and Poland. The Center for Enterprise Research (CER) and ERP Management magazine in Germany named Epicor 9 “ERP System of the Year.” Award entries were judged by a committee comprised of impartial consultants and representatives from science and the trade press; under the chairmanship of Professor Norbert Gronau, judges chose the winners after a two-stage selection process. Epicor 9 was deemed particularly innovative, as according to Gronau, “of the 27 companies participating in the competition, the judges considered Epicor’... (more)

Strategies for Collaboration in the Cloud at Cloud Expo 2011 New York

Cloud Expo 2011 New York $800 Savings here! How are collaboration tools and cloud trends coming together? Is cloud the right deployment strategy for collaboration systems? How can your organization harness the potential of collaboration in the cloud? In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Ken Muir, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer and VP Product Management, Collaboration at Novell, will examine a secure on-premise and cloud deployment mix, challenges organizations should anticipate when shifting to the cloud, and key things to consider when building out a cloud collaboration strategy. In addition, attendees will be provided with tips for designing a next-generation collaboration deployment model that connects IT professionals to tools in the cloud, enabling progress and increased productivity. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities !... (more)

GeoEye and Rolta Form Strategic Partnership to Develop Advanced Geospatial Solutions for Global Markets

AMSTERDAM, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner with Rolta, a global, leading provider of innovative IT solutions. With this new partnership, Rolta gains access to GeoEye's high-resolution satellite imagery, services and expertise to develop innovative geospatial products and services. Rolta plans to offer these GeoEye-enabled solutions to its customers across high-growth global markets, beginning with India. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080625/LAW528LOGO) Today's military commanders working in digital battlefield environments need intelligent maps derived from geospatial data and map-accurate imagery to make effective command and control decisions in the field. Rolta is exploring opportunities to leverage... (more)

New software solution offers integrated case management to justice departments

CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- State, local and federal justice organizations must track the status and progress of each of their cases, but many are doing so with outdated technology. Existing systems often don't provide the ability to share information among the involved parties, creating inefficiencies in case management and potential public safety issues. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090902/CL69632LOGO) To help these organizations manage caseloads more efficiently, Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., has teamed with Integrated Software Specialists (ISS) to be the exclusive provider of ISS's iJustice® Enterprise Case Management Solution Suite (iJustice). To introduce iJustice, Crowe and ISS are accepting grant applications until Oct. 31 from those who would like to try the system free ... (more)

AdvanTel Networks Now Offers Radvision Scopia(R) Video Solutions

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/11/12 -- AdvanTel Networks, a leading communications integrator, announced today they are authorized to sell Avaya's Radvision Scopia® video solutions to their clients as a partner in the Avaya Connect Channel program -- a reseller community encompassing approximately 10,000 companies around the globe. This expands AdvanTel Networks' unified communications (UC) portfolio with the capabilities and competencies driven by the Scopia line of innovative video communications solutions. The suite of Avaya and Radvision video solutions offers businesses instantaneous and interoperable desktop and mobile video capabilities, connecting separate islands of video for improved business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) communications. By including Scopia video solutions in the Avaya portfolio -- made possible through Avaya's acq... (more)

TomTom and DAKO Enter into Strategic Partnership

TomTom Business Solutions, Europe’s leading provider of fleet management solutions, has entered into a strategic partnership with DAKO, a European provider of solutions for regulatory worktime and driving time compliance based on the use of tachographs. This move reinforces TomTom’s position in the transportation industry by broadening the services it offers. In the near future, the ability to download data remotely from a tachograph will be included in TomTom Business Solutions’ WEBFLEET offerings, using the standard in vehicle on-board unit TomTom LINK 510. “We foresee the European regulations concerning working time and drivers’ hours taking on greater importance and possibly moving to the light commercial vehicle market,” said Thomas Schmidt, Managing Director of TomTom Business Solutions. “Our aim is to help businesses be compliant in the most cost-efficient w... (more)

The i-Technology Right Stuff

Related Links: Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?" Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!   In alphabetical order the nominees are:   Tim Berner... (more)

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for themselves. (Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)