By Yeshim Deniz  Evans Data Corp announced that use of the Python scripting language has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according to the most recent North American Development Survey to be released this week to subscribers. Only 13% of developers used Python before Google announced its App Engine p... Nov. 12, 2009 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,333 |
By Liz McMillan  Netlist, Inc. launches HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank (vRank) memory module for servers. A double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud maximizes server utilization to improve datacenter application performance. HyperCloud a... Nov. 11, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 831 |
By Maureen O'Gara  According to Aster Data, applications need to go to “Big Data,” not the other way around. And to do that the company’s got a massively parallel data-application server that can embed applications inside a massively scalable MPP data warehouse and analyze petabytes of data – or terabyte... Nov. 6, 2009 02:20 PM EST Reads: 1,218 Replies: 1 |
By Pat Romanski  TechWeb's Internet Evolution social network unveiled its Midmarket Clan, the latest in a series of specialty user groups designed to serve unique technology and industry segments. The Midmarket Clan is intended for IT professionals and executive management from companies with revenues ... Oct. 14, 2009 02:55 PM EDT Reads: 645 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t... Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,831 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that the developer of application traffic management software Zeus Technology was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expe... Mar. 18, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,393 |
By John Ashenfelter  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. Dec. 1, 2008 12:15 PM EST Reads: 22,641 Replies: 2 |
By RIA News Desk  SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Appcelerator named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, ... Oct. 17, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,130 |
By Yeshim Deniz  As a speaker at the upcoming AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, I just received an email from Lindsay over at SYS-CON Events. She just informed me about the coupon code "spkrguestbootcamp" (lower case) that I can use to invite three guests with. I am not planning to bring anyone with me... Oct. 15, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,222 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com... Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 34,198 Replies: 2 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b... Sep. 11, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,679 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan  From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ... Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,472 Replies: 2 |
By Richard Monson-Haefel  The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li... Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,043 Replies: 6 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur... Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 17,041 Replies: 2 |
By JDJ News Perforce Software announced the availability of the SDK for the Perforce Defect Tracking Gateway. Using the SDK, customers and vendors can develop improved integrations to commercial and in-house issue tracking systems, strengthening project management capabilities throughout the devel... Dec. 25, 2007 02:15 PM EST Reads: 7,579 |
By Maureen O'Gara Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I... Dec. 17, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 9,843 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,607 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossu... Nov. 29, 2007 11:30 AM EST Reads: 10,825 Replies: 2 |
By Maureen O'Gara The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 29,880 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 16,600 Replies: 1 |