Register for CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Follow @CloudExpo on Twitter Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th International Cloud Expo being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, on November 1-4, 2010, announced today that the event will also feature - on November 2nd, 2010 - a CloudCamp unconference. CloudCamp @Cloud Expo Silicon Valley is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies. "With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions," said CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen, who will personally be facilitating the process on site at the Santa Clara Convention Center. "At CloudCamp," Nielsen continued, "participants will be encouraged to share their th... (more)

Elance Reveals August Hiring Trends: Graphic Design, Programming and Internet Marketing

Elance, where companies find, hire, manage and pay contractors online, today released its August edition of the “Elance Work Index”, ranking the top 100 skills in today’s online labor market. Derived from data from more than 100,000 jobs posted on Elance in recent months, the Elance Work Index is a leading market indicator for online work tracking the hiring trends of the 60,000-plus companies that actively hire contractors on Elance to get work done. This month’s Elance Work Index reinforces the insatiable need for IT and marketing expertise with graphic design, open source technologies, and online marketing skills topping the charts. Notable trends from this month’s Index include: Design of the Times. Graphic Design (#1) has regained the top spot in the Index trumping PHP (#2) which had held the pole position the past four consecutive months. Tech Still Trumps. ... (more)

Equinox Egypt Establishes "EquiTrain", Division for its Training Business and Achieves Cisco Learning Partner Associate Status

Equinox Egypt, the Middle East’s leading Technology Consulting and Solutions group, has launched its “EquiTrain” training division and simultaneously announced its partnership with Synergy Global Professional Services (A Division of Global Knowledge –the worldwide leader in providing IT and Business training). The new partnership appoints Equinox Egypt as a Cisco Learning Partner Associate to deliver official Cisco training courses, sponsored by Global Knowledge, in Egypt. As a Cisco Certified Learning Partner Associate, Equinox is qualified to provide authorized training for the latest Cisco technologies, either at its own locations or on-site with its own Certified Cisco Systems Instructors (CCSITM) sponsored by Global Knowledge, the leading Cisco Learning Solutions Partner. “The Cisco Learning Partner Associate certification and our partnership with Global Know... (more)

QNX and OpenClovis Deliver Carrier-Grade High Availability Platform

OTTAWA and SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- QNX Software Systems and OpenClovis today announced that the OpenClovis Application Service Platform (ASP) middleware is now available for the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS. The OpenClovis ASP is ideally suited for the networking, defense, and aerospace markets, and it provides standard-based high availability (HA), distributed application infrastructure, and system and platform management. The OpenClovis ASP provides a high-throughput, low-latency communication infrastructure based on the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) standard and optimized for the QNX Neutrino RTOS. Customers seeking to mix Linux and the QNX Neutrino RTOS on multi-core processors can leverage this implementation to manage IPC between distributed cores. Deployed in the world's highest-capacity Internet routers, the QNX Neutrino RTOS ... (more)

Epson-Technologie unterstützt Druckanwendungen für iPhone und Android-Telefone

Seiko Epson Corporation („Epson")(TOKYO:6724) kündigte heute den weltweiten Support seines Open-Source-Entwicklerkits in Form der ESC/P-R-Bibliothek an, das Produktdesigner bei der Entwicklung von Druckanwendungen für elektronische Geräte unterstützt. Mit diesem Kit müssen Entwickler nur einen Treiber entwickeln, um mit allen Epson-Tintenstrahldruckern, die ESC/P-R unterstützen, kommunizieren zu können. ESC/P-R ist eine mächtige Befehlssprache für ausgewählte Epson Tintenstrahldrucker. Sie unterstützt alle für diese Drucker verfügbaren Medien, Papiergrößen und dazugehörigen Druckmodi. ESC/P-R ermöglicht zudem ganz unterschiedlichen Gerätetypen die Ansteuerung und Kommunikation mit Epson-Druckern, was deren Einsatzmöglichkeiten zum Beispiel mit medizinischen Instrumenten, Messgeräten oder elektronischen Whiteboards und Spielkonsolen erweitert. Drucken mobil mit m... (more)

CSOFT Delivers Cloud-Based Solution for Terminology Management

CSOFT International Ltd., a leading provider of multilingual localization, testing, and customized software development for the global market, announced today the worldwide release of TermWiki, the localization industry’s first collaborative and wiki-based multilingual terminology management system. For a free trial of TermWiki, please visit: http://www.csoftintl.com/termwiki.php. “Effective terminology management is an essential step toward achieving linguistic consistency across a wide array of business documents, which in turn leads to better customer satisfaction, improved product quality, uniform branding, and reduced support costs for all organizations doing business in the global market,” explained Uwe Muegge, Director of CSOFT’s MedL10N division and a member of the U.S. delegation to ISO on terminology. TermWiki simplifies the traditional approach to termino... (more)

CSC Appoints Mike Lawrie President and Chief Executive Officer

CSC (NYSE: CSC), a leading global IT services company, announced today that Mike Lawrie, 58, has been appointed president and chief executive officer, and will join the company no later than March 31, 2012. Lawrie succeeds Michael W. Laphen, 61, who previously announced his plan to retire as the Company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. The CSC board of directors also announced today that Rodney F. Chase, a current director on the company’s board, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the board of directors, effective upon Lawrie’s start as president and CEO. Lawrie has also been appointed to CSC’s board, effective immediately. Lawrie is currently chief executive officer of UK-based Misys plc, a global leader of IT solutions for the financial services industry publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange. Mike Lawrie (Photo: CSC) Lawrie has... (more)

Sophos, Kinamik and StrongAuth Give Live Demos of Cloud Security at RSA Conference 2012

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA 2012 Conference, February 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sophos Group and its HSM experts invite visitors at the 2012 RSA Conference to booth #1817, where they can experience two live demos of cloud security solutions. Software companies, Kinamik and StrongAuth will demonstrate their software integrated along with Sophos' SafeGuard CryptoServer HSMs to deliver innovative applications for securing data in the cloud. While public, private and hybrid clouds offer many compelling business benefits, a lack of data transparency has been a key concern and inhibitor to their growth and acceptance. At the Sophos Group booth, Kinamik will show visitors how their advanced Data SafeSeale technology allows users to set policies and controls for each data stream in the cloud based on data sensitivity, ensuring complete transparency, irrefutability and end-to-en... (more)

Vello Uses SDN to Enable Remote Data Replication as a Service

LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 05/08/12 -- With enterprise and service provider customers paying ever more attention to the operational and financial benefits that software-defined networking offers, Vello Systems unveils a Remote Data Replication Manager that programs an OpenFlow enabled Vello network via extensions to OpenStack. A demonstration of this innovative solution is on display this week at Interop Las Vegas, at Vello's booth, number 2305. Vello's Remote Data Replication Manager is an SDN application that allows cloud users to subscribe to replication on demand for large volumes of data within and between data centers via Vello's networking systems and the VellOS network operating system. The use of Vello's OpenFlow-enabled SDN automates the process of providing network resources for storage replication, delivering better network optimization, and rapid ... (more)

Rackspace Launches Product Certification for Private Cloud Partners

Today, Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, announced product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud partners. “We have seen great demand from companies to certify their products, hardware or software, against Rackspace Private Cloud,” said Scott Sanchez, director of strategy, Rackspace Private Cloud. “We want to continue to foster adoption of open clouds and make it easier for our customers and partners to deploy Rackspace Private Cloud in their data centers.“ Rackspace makes deploying and managing private clouds easy. In less than an hour, a Rackspace Private Cloud, dubbed “Alamo,” can be downloaded and deployed in a customer’s data center and supported by the open cloud experts at Rackspace. Thousands of companies, organizations and individuals from around the world have downloaded the Rackspace Private Cloud software and are using it today... (more)

QLogic Reports Third Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2013

QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced its third quarter financial results for the period ended December 30, 2012. Third Quarter Highlights Net revenue: $119.4 million GAAP income from continuing operations: $13.7 million or $0.15 per diluted share Non-GAAP income from continuing operations: $18.3 million or $0.20 per diluted share Operating margin: 12.1% GAAP, 18.1% non-GAAP Cash and marketable securities: $495.2 million as of December 30, 2012 Cash generated from operations: $32.7 million Financial Results Net revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 was $119.4 million compared to $142.8 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Host Products was $89.8 million during the third quarter of fiscal 2013 compared to $111.8 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Netwo... (more)