SproutCore is about to get a new release on February 29, 2012 and we want to kick it off with an important sprint over the last weekend of the month.  As an open-source project, the success of SproutCore depends on you and others like you, so please consider setting aside some time to get involved.  Thanks! Name:  SproutCore 1.8 Release Sprint Dates:  Friday, Feb. 24 through Monday, Feb. 27, free-form style Topics:  Will include both code and doc tasks. Please follow the wiki page:  https://github.com/sproutcore/sproutcore/wiki/1.8-Release-Sprint   Aside:  We’ve decided that the next release of SproutCore will be titled 1.8.  It’s simply an indication that the code base has changed enough since the 1.7 beta, which should have been finalized some time ago but was missed during the rocky period when SproutCore 2.0 was determined no longer to present the future of Sp... (more)

Sourcefire Named to DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List

COLUMBIA, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 08/13/12 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) have been named to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Unified Capability Approved Products List (UC APL). The UC APL purpose is to maintain a single consolidated list of products that have completed Interoperability (IO) and Information Assurance (IA) certification. Use of the DoD UC APL allows DoD Components to purchase and operate UC systems over all DoD network infrastructures. Inclusion of the Sourcefire NGIPS on the UC APL enables DoD customers to deploy the solution with even greater confidence and ease. "Sourcefire remains committed to meeting the DoD's standards for information assurance and interoperability and we are pleased to add UC APL to our list o... (more)

Iomega Announces Availability of New Flagship Network Storage Array for Small and Medium Business, Remote Office/Branch Offices and Distributed Enterprises

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News Highlights: First EMC® network storage array utilizing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v2 Product Family for increased performance with reduced power consumption  Designed for advanced business computing functions, including deduplication, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and storage-based applications 12-bay, 2U network storage array ready for use today with 4TB* disk drives McAfee VirusScan Enterprise included, provides industry-leading anti-virus protection New EMC® LifeLine™ software technology with integrated Cloud capabilities powers new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-450r Network Storage Array Full Story: Iomega®, a global leader in data protection, today announced the worldwide availability this month of the new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-450r Network Storage Array, multi-protocol networked data sto... (more)

Tobii Releases Powerful New Analytics SDK with Free MATLAB Bindings

Tobii Technology, the global leader in eye tracking and gaze interaction, today announced the release of Tobii Analytics Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.0, providing developers with a comprehensive toolbox for building eye-tracking software to support analysis applications on multiple platforms using a wide range of programming languages. Available through free download, Tobii Analytics SDK 3.0 ships with MATLAB® bindings for Windows and Mac OS X and supports the entire range of Tobii analytics products, including the new line of Tobii X2 Eye Trackers powered by the latest generation of Tobii’s award-winning eye-tracking technology. Tobii Analytics SDK 3.0 greatly expands opportunities for developers to create different kinds of eye-tracking applications—from custom research paradigms for scientific research to commercial applications. "The new MATLAB binding in th... (more)

Fortinet(R) Collaborates With VMware to Deliver Advanced Security Services for Unified Virtual and Physical Networks

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/26/13 -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a world leader in high-performance network security, today announced a proof of concept designed to secure traffic traversing virtual networks at the hypervisor level. With this approach, the security enforcement point is no longer required to be directly in the flow of traffic on the physical network and allows for injecting security controls before the traffic traverses the virtual network layer. Specifically, the proof of concept will show secured traffic flow in a VMware virtualized network environment that highlights security policy enforcement of communication across and between physical and logical workloads. This proof of concept will debut at VMworld® 2013 in San Francisco, August 25-29 in Fortinet's booth (#642). "Historically, security controls were required to be directly in the path... (more)

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL TODAY! The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! "Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘soft... (more)

Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing

Behind every cloud service or cloud-based solution, there are real people... A robust ecosystem of solutions providers has emerged around cloud computing. But who are the CEOs & CTOs behind those providers, who are the internal and external entrepreneurs driving companies involved in the Cloud, who are the leading engineers, developers, analysts, researchers, marketing professionals, authors...who, in short, are the people behind the cloud? This list will be updated weekly between now and November 4-7, 2013, when 13th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley opens its doors in the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Here are some highly prominent "Cloud People" to kick off with... RANDY BIAS | @randybias "Randy Bias is visionary. He sees things others don't." [Emphasis added.] That is how Mårten Mickos puts it, as succinctly as ever.... (more)

OneLogin Raises $13M to Power Expansion

OneLogin, the innovator in enterprise identity management, today announced it has secured a $13 million round of Series B venture capital from lead investor The Social+Capital Partnership alongside returning investor Charles River Ventures. OneLogin will use the funds to continue its expansion in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific and to accelerate talent acquisition in these markets. OneLogin provides a modern identity and access management (IAM) solution, which enables enterprises to easily manage employee and external user identities and control their access to applications in the cloud and behind the firewall. OneLogin’s comprehensive turnkey solution includes strong authentication, single sign-on, federation, directory integration, user provisioning and reporting. OneLogin has seen rapid adoption among companies, ranging from fast-growing start-ups li... (more)

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo

Red Hat is a  trusted open source provider.  Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training, and consulting services worldwide to help enterprises take full advantage of the value of open source technology. For more information, please visit www.redhat.com/                   Red Hat CTO Delivers Virtualization Keynote Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote entitled "The Future of the Virtual Enterprise" at SYS-CON's  Virtualization Conferenc... (more)

An Introduction to Ant

Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process. But My Build and Deploy Process is Fine.... Maybe your build and deploy process for your latest application is fine - you type a single command and your build process automatically retrieves your application from the source control system, configures the application appropriately for the target environment, and copies all the necessary files to the production servers while you head to the coffee shop for your morning cup of caffeine and the newspaper. But I know that the reality for the vast majority of projects I've seen (including many of my own applications!) are built and deployed using a written multistep checklist - some ... (more)