Converge+UK is a new series of events to bring together designers, developers, entrepreneurs and investors. The events are being toured around the various startup incubators in London over the course of 2012 and 2013. Converge+UK is being run on a non-profit basis and tickets are usually five pounds. The next event is on 3 October at the Innovation Warehouse. Innovation happens when people from different backgrounds are thrown together. So 31 August 2012 saw 50 designers, developers and entrepreneurs converge on the Google startup incubator in Shoreditch. The event was the launch of Converge+UK, which is a community forum to bring together people from different backgrounds and encourage healthy debate. The event was co-founded by a diverse group of London professionals including David Clare, Sallie Bale, Dan George, Klaus Bravenboer, Tim McCready and Peter Thomson. ... (more)

The Open Group Announces Formation of Cloud Work Group

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced the formation of The Open Group Cloud Work Group. Based on the work that The Open Group and its members have done over the last year related to end-user requirements for cloud computing and the vendor lock-in issue, the Group is being established to ensure the effective and secure use of cloud computing within enterprise architectures, based on open standards. The Open Group Cloud Work Group prioritizes collaboration on standard models and frameworks, aimed at enterprises looking to benefit from cloud products and services. The Open Group Cloud Work Group was created to develop a common understanding between buyers and suppliers of how enterprises, regardless of si... (more)

REMINDER: Tanner EDA and MOSIS Exhibit at GSA Expo, Focus on How to Quickly Take A/MS Designs From Concept to Silicon

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/01/09 -- Who/What: Tanner EDA, the world leader in PC-based analog, mixed-signal (A/MS) and MEMS circuit design software, is exhibiting with MOSIS, an IC fabrication service provider, during the Global Semiconductor Alliance's (GSA) GSA Emerging Opportunities Expo & Conference. Tanner EDA is demonstrating its A/MS design software and along with MOSIS will show innovators how to take their A/MS design concepts to silicon faster. The Tanner EDA design platform combined with MOSIS' portfolio of foundry technologies offers A/MS designers a complete solution from concept to IC prototyping and volume production. When/Where: Thursday, October 1, 2009 8:30am-5pm, followed by a networking reception Booth 303 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California More Information: For more information about Tanner EDA, please visit www.... (more)

Core Subversion Contributor and CollabNet Senior Software Engineer C. Michael Pilato to Present Keynote Session at SubConf 2009

BRISBANE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/20/09 -- CollabNet, the leader in distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that C. Michael Pilato, a core Subversion contributor and a senior software engineer on CollabNet's Version Control team, will present the keynote session, "The Subversion Legacy (So Far...)," at SubConf 2009, the annual conference for Subversion developers. Subversion is the leading version control and software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams. CollabNet founded the Subversion open source project in 2000 and has since been its primary corporate sponsor. More information about Subversion is available at http://www.open.collab.net/products/subversion/. WHO: C. Michael Pilato, Core Subversion Contributor and CollabNet Senior Software Engineer WHAT: In his keynote, Pilato will discuss how Subvers... (more)

Mitrionics Presents Early Scaling Results for Portable Parallel Code on FPGAs, Multi-Cores and Clusters at SC09

PORTLAND, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- SUPERCOMPUTING 2009, SC09 Booth #1006 -- Mitrionics, Inc., the technology leader in FPGA-based hybrid computing, today announced its experimental work on a new proof-of-concept compiler for portable parallel programming. Early scalability results will be presented in a talk at SC09 by Mitrionics' Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer Stefan Möhl. The proof-of-concept compiler is a test-bench to prove that a Mitrion-C program will automatically scale, not only on FPGAs, but also on multi-core systems and clusters, without changing the source code between the radically diverse architectures. Mitrion-C as a commercial product has already been proven to give high performance on FPGAs. The proof-of-concept compiler shows that this performance is translatable to other architectures as well. Mitrionics will be demonstrating the fi... (more)

Pentaho Names Eddie White EVP of Business Development

ORLANDO, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 02/27/12 -- Pentaho Corporation, delivering the future of business analytics, today announced that Eddie White has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Business Development. Eddie White is responsible for developing strategic relationships with big data vendors and commercializing Pentaho Business Analytics for major cloud/SaaS hardware and software vendors. An execution-oriented executive business and sales leader, White has more than 20 years of experience helping businesses meet and exceed their sales revenue and growth targets through business development, strategic alliances partnerships, and acquisitions. Career highlights include: Directed global sales and business development as CRO, SVP of Global Sales and Business Development for leading Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) startup Sentilla Inc.; Led stra... (more)

Vedere il mondo con gli occhi di Wikipedia

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), leader riconosciuto nel settore della tecnologia dell'informazione, ha stretto un accordo di collaborazione con Kalev H. Leetaru dell'Università dell'Illinois per l'effettuazione della prima esplorazione e mappatura storica spazio-temporale mai realizzata di tutti i contenuti testuali dell'edizione inglese di Wikipedia. I risultati comprendono visualizzazioni di fatti storici dell'era moderna acquisite in meno di un giorno utilizzando le tecniche di data mining in ambiente in-memory. Caricando l'intera edizione in lingua inglese di Wikipedia in SGI® UV™ 2000, Leetaru è riuscito a mostrare come si è sviluppata nel corso degli ultimi due secoli la visione del mondo di Wikipedia. Ubicazione, anno e sentimenti positivi o negativi sono stati associati ai riferimenti in questione. Se diversi progetti precedenti avevano già mappato le voci di Wikipedia ... (more)

Zyrion Adds Support for Citrix CloudStack in Its Cloud Monitoring Solution

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/20/12 -- Zyrion Inc., a leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, announced support for Citrix CloudStack in its Traverse monitoring software, providing unified health metrics for the CloudStack platform. Citrix CloudStack is a free and open source cloud infrastructure management platform to help deploy and manage hybrid cloud environments. In addition to monitoring the health of the CloudStack application and its resource usage, the cloud hierarchy in CloudStack can be replicated in Zyrion Traverse by using nested Service Containers. Zyrion's Service Container technology is widely acclaimed by industry analysts for their flexibility in correlating multiple data sources related to an IT application or service and isolating application performance problems. "Our customers are deploying large, hybrid cloud envi... (more)

Rackspace Hosting Reports Nine in Ten IT Decision Makers in National Survey Have Positive View of Cloud Computing

Nine in ten (91%) of IT decision makers have a positive opinion of cloud computing according to a national survey commissioned by Rackspace Hosting. IT decision makers view customer service and technical support as important considerations when choosing a cloud computing provider. By a three to one ratio (75% to 25%), the IT decision makers surveyed prefer a cloud provider with strong customer service and technical support even if that provider has higher prices. This view was consistent by IT decision makers regardless of organization size and type. IT decision makers also ranked the ability to add computing power, the ability to move data easily between cloud providers and concerns over vendor lock-in as important considerations when choosing a cloud provider. “The world is in the midst of a tectonic shift toward cloud computing that is revolutionizing the way comp... (more)

Juniper Networks Selects Typesafe Stack

MENLO PARK, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/25/12 -- Typesafe today announced that Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, has selected the Typesafe Stack, including both the Scala language and Akka middleware, for use in future Juniper software technologies. The agreement includes a multi-year contract for software licenses (including the Typesafe Console), support, maintenance, training, and consulting. The Typesafe Stack was chosen because it allows Juniper to: Efficiently utilize today and tomorrow's multi-core hardware Boost productivity of software developers at Juniper Create highly available distributed software based on Akka middleware "The Typesafe Stack, including the Scala programming language and Akka middleware, represents a fresh approach to software development," said Will Eatherton, vice president of Engineering, Core Routing Business Un... (more)

SkySQL Sponsors Inaugural MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/25/12 -- SkySQL Ab, the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® and MariaDB® databases in the enterprise and the cloud, announces it is sponsoring the first ever MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference in Argentina, the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Latin American Conference, to be held here beginning today at the Hilton Buenos Aires. Hosted by Binlogic, the conference runs through Thursday, June 28, and will bring together key members of the open source database community for two intense days of technical talks and tutorials on popular open source databases. Focusing on popular open source technologies such as the MySQL database, MariaDB, and Drizzle; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB; and related technologies such as Soir and Sphinx search engines, the event features keynotes from industry leaders and numerous... (more)