Genuitec announced the general availability of Pulse 2.2, a way to obtain, manage and configure Eclipse Ganymede and plugins. Genuitec is pleased to offer this product to Pulse users on the day of the Ganymede release. As of today, Pulse 2.2 will support full Ganymede tool stacks.
Now that Microsoft is ready to ship its Hyper-V virtualization platform to market, there has been a lot of talk around the water cooler as to what this really means for the industry and its current players. As an example, the big question being asked is, “What effect will it have on the current virtualization giant, VMware?” VMware seems to be using its poker face while Microsoft has its day in the sun. It appears to be acting as though nothing has changed since Microsoft’s announcement. Acting as though it isn’t fazed one bit by the early release of Hyper-V,… READ MORE
Following the private Beta release last month, DreamFace Interactive announced the general availability of the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex. As promised, DreamFace-Fx is the first Mashup Kit to reach developers in a comprehensive roadmap which will extend the DreamFace Open Source Web 2.0 Framework to include complementary technologies. Olivier Poupeney, DreamFace Interactive CEO explains the choice of Adobe Flex for the first Mashup Kit, ‘There is a need today for RIA technologies in SOA applications, and Flex is getting attraction from the Java community thanks to its smooth integration with J2EE, however, using Flex usually means abandoning AJAX with the risk of being linked to a single technology. With DreamFace-Fx, developers can easily integrate Flex and AJAX, leveraging the combined technologies and resulting in functionality greater than the sum of its parts.’
Egenera announced three new members to the Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program: Axeda, Micron Technology and Transitive. The Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program leverages a technical assurance process designed to optimize the interoperability of third-party software solutions with Egenera virtualization solutions. The relationships forged between Egenera’s support organization and each member’s support team create highly integrated, seamless service standards for joint-customer engagements.
Egenera announced it has named Christine Crandell executive vice president and Chief Marketing Officer. A technology veteran with over two decades of marketing and strategy experience, Ms. Crandell will spearhead the company’s efforts to build its high standing position in the fast growing global market of data center virtualization solutions.
ParAccel and Pentaho announced a partnership to deliver a high performance, integrated database platform and BI environment for analytic applications. The integration of the ParAccel Analytic Database and Pentaho’s comprehensive BI suite will provide organizations with a cost-effective, end-to-end solution for analyzing and reporting on business-critical information at record-breaking speeds, leading to faster and more optimized decision-making.
Protecode announced the general availability of its software development tool for governance and Intellectual Property (IP) management. The latest release enables commercial software developers and open source creators to accelerate managed adoption of open source code in a simple, painless process. Additionally, the software is now available to the Eclipse community for anyone working on an active Eclipse project. Protecode automatically generates records of software content, identifies and reports associated pedigree and licensing information by checking its properties and compliance against an organization’s policies, establishing IP ownership and creating a software Bill of Materials (BOM).
Lifeboat Distribution announced the availability of Sybase’s iAnywhere Mobile Office to its worldwide network of solution providers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, corporate resellers and consultants. iAnywhere Mobile Office, a component of the Information Anywhere Suite, is a flexible and powerful solution that lets enterprises securely extend Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange email and PIM data, as well as business processes, to mobile workers.
Open source applications provider Red Hat has introduced three applications targeting enterprise-wide adoption of next-generation virtualization. It has introduced embedded Linux Hypervisor for hosting virtualized Linux and Windows environments, which provide virtualization with improved security, high performance, and a wide range of hardware.
Parallels announced that ProServe has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable Online Backup solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides the virtualization technology for ProServe’s Virtual Online Backup Server (VOBS) offering. By using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, ProServe is able to deliver an on-line backup solution with the necessary performance, cost-efficiency, scalability and isolation required for their VOBS offered in a SaaS delivery model.