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Lack of enterprise appeal takes shine off Chrome OS
Published July 9, 2009, 10:12 pm, iTNews
Enterprise buyers unlikely to ditch Windows.
Bycast Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Expo
Published July 9, 2009, 4:35 pm, Linux
SYS-CON Events announced today that Bycast, the leading provider of storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives and storage clouds, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo ( www.CloudComputingExpo.com ), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. read more
Cloud Computing Journal Opens "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations
Published July 9, 2009, 1:39 pm, SYS-CON Media
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that nominations are now open for its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's cloud computing awards will be given in 19 categories and award-winning ...
Small Pieces Tightly Joined: Open Source in the Cloud
Published July 9, 2009, 10:20 am, Linux
The rise of open source is clearly linked to the rise of the web. Buy a commodity piece of hardware, download source code of any of the thousands of open source projects and start to “scratch your own itch”. My Linux box will communicate with your Linux box as long as we stick to some minimal set of protocols. The web is loosely coupled and software can be developed independently in a bazaar ...
Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic"
Published July 9, 2009, 6:19 am, ReadWriteWeb
Noted security guru Bruce Schneier , chief technologist at BT , has scoffed at Google's claims about its new OS, just announced yesterday. According to the Google blog post , Chrome OS represents a complete redesign of the underlying security architecture of the OS "so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware, and security updates." A bold statement to say the least...and apparently ...
Oracle SVP To Keynote Cloud Computing Expo
Published July 9, 2009, 4:35 am, Linux
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of public clouds. read more
Lack of enterprise appeal takes shine off Chrome OS
Published July 9, 2009, 3:25 am, vnunet.com
Martin Courtney, Computing , Thursday 9 July 2009 at 10:58:00 Enterprise buyers unlikely to ditch Windows for Chrome OS in the near term, say experts Google has upped the ante and challenged Microsoft’s dominance of the software industry by promising to develop its own streamlined operating system (OS). Google Chrome OS will be an open-source, "lightweight" OS, set to be available in the second ...
VMware Makes Play for ‘Abandoned’ Virtual Iron Users
Published July 8, 2009, 1:35 pm, Linux
Apparently willing to pick a fight with Oracle, VMware is offering customers of Oracle's Virtual Iron (VI) acquisition a 40% discount off the list price of its vSphere 4 and vCenter software and a 10% discount on service contracts. Oracle effectively killed the Virtual Iron product line on July 1 so it can suck up VI's Xen-based technology into its own Xen-based server virtualization and ...
iWireless Uses Transverse's OSS
Published July 8, 2009, 11:51 am, Unstrung.com
AUSTIN, Texas -- Transverse, a leader in providing low-cost, carrier-grade business support systems (BSS), today announced that Iowa Wireless Services dba iWireless has selected blee(p) On Demand, the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery option of the Company's open source BSS offering, the Business Logic Execution Environment Platform or blee(p). iWireless will replace its existing BSS ...
Google Is Already Working With PC Makers on New Chrome OS
Published July 8, 2009, 8:58 am, PC World
Google will reveal a list of PC makers its already working with on the new Chrome operating system within the next day or so, it said
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