Oct 31
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) reported results today for its first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended September 28, 2008. Revenues for the… Read more at VMblog.com.
Oct 31
PacketTrap Networks ( www.PacketTrap.com ) today announced that its network troubleshooting and remediation solution, Perspective, now includes… Read more at VMblog.com.
Oct 31
Windows Azure’s concepts of Web Role and Worker Role is absolutely, totally, and unequivocably a game-changer in the world of cloud computing. The best thing we’ve had prior to this were cloud-hosted VMs that had a predefined stack (e.g. ASP.NET or J2EE or PHP or Cold Fusion, etc) to which we could upload our code and hope it all worked. There are always problems in managing configuration files of hosted apps and your hosted app NEVER behaves the same way while hosted as it does on your home PC. With Windows Azure, they’re saying - quit worrying about the physical logistics - build your app, write your logic, use (cloud) data, and fahgeddaboudit. If the price is comparable - where are you going to host your back-end services? Amazon’s EC2 or Azure, especially if you want to write your back-end services in .NET?
Oct 30
From the first days of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, many enthusiasts found an analogy between RIA and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Some of them talked about the benefits of a would-be-wonderful use of SOA in RIA; others saw RIA as a SOA face. Nonetheless, there are experts who see a discrepancy between RIA and SOA concepts.
Oct 30
The newly reconstituted AMD is looking for a new CFO. Its current CFO Bob Rivet has been named chief operations and administrative officer, basically replacing Dirk Meyer, now CEO, who used to be COO before his apotheosis. In his new role, Rivet, 54, will be responsible for the company’s supply chain, HR and IT. Until AMD finds a new CFO, Rivet will hold down both jobs. Meanwhile, Emilio Ghilardi, general manager of sales for EMEA, will be chief sales officer starting next year. His predecessor Gustavo Arenas will transition into a role focused exclusively on strengthening AMD’s global customer and strategic relationships.
Oct 30
Sun wouldn’t give any guidance and wouldn’t say whether more layoffs were in the works when it reported late Thursday that it wrote off $1.44 billion worth of its business in the September quarter – its forced answer to the “new economic reality.” All together it lost $1.67 billion ($2.24 a share) in what is for Sun its first fiscal quarter and a bad beginning for the year. The company did not explain which units suffered the goodwill impairment. It said last week that it would write down the value of one or more of its reporting units but didn’t indicate how much that would amount to. It put losses at 25 cents-35 cents a share.
Oct 30
CNET - It’s been a year since Citrix bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and integrated the business into its lineup of products delivering applications to desktops.
Oct 30
Ian Pratt, vice president of special products, discusses the competitiveness of Xen and about the prospects for virtualization in a recession.
Oct 30
Silicon Valley and IT weathered the third quarter better than other industries, but not without casualties. While VMware, Google, Apple, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, EMC, Symantec and others made good speed, AMD faltered and Yahoo floundered.
- For IT and Silicon Valley, the early part of the financial nosedive hasn’t
been so much a crash as a dent.
The following is a quick look at the some of the key IT companies and their financial results reported in the third quarter.
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VMware: Revenue growth climbed 32 percent from the third …
Oct 30
SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal, founded in July 2008 as the world’s first publication devoted exclusively to the issues involved in the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using Internet technologies, has announced the appointment of Cloud Computing expert Alan Williamson as Editor-in-Chief. Williamson, widely recognized as an early Cloud expert, is a Sun Java Champion and creator of OpenBlueDragon (an open source Java CFML runtime engine). With many books, articles and speaking engagements under his belt, Williamson was also the natural choice as Instructor of SYS-CON’s upcoming “Cloud Computing Bootcamp” in November (San Jose, CA).