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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 i...Jul. 23, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 76,565 Replies: 2 |
 Apple polished its reputation as a contrarian Tuesday when the news broke because of an SEC filing that it had hired Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch to be VP of technology and reportedly coordinate its hardware and software teams.
Adobe confirmed his departure effective Friday, March 22.
He ...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,536 |
 Apple claims six more Samsung products, including the Galaxy Note II, infringe eight of its patents and wants to add them to its other California suit against the Korean giant, the one that doesn’t go to trial until March of 2014.
Its first California suit against Samsung resulted in...Nov. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 6,950 |
 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien Monday that sales of the company’s iPad- and Android-challenging Surface tablet had a “modest” start because of limited availability confined to its online retail sites and the few Microsoft stores in the US. Surface tablets are...Nov. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 7,934 |
 Dropbox has doubled the size of its user base to 100 million from a year ago. It also says a billion files are saved in Dropbox every 24 hours. It may be close to $500 million in revenues but rival Workshare, which eschews the freemium model, sniffs that paying users are distinctly dif...Nov. 18, 2012 04:00 PM EST Reads: 6,624 |
 HP may have thrown what the English call a spanner and the Americans call a money wrench into Violin Memory’s anticipated IPO. Whatever you call it, it can be bruising.
See, as soon as Bloomberg reported that the SSD array start-up had quietly filed to go public under the newfangled ...Oct. 23, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,499 |
 The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up its year-or-more long antitrust investigation into Google’s search practices and it may sue.
Reuters said last Friday that four out of the five FTC commissioners believe Google illegally abused its power in search at the expense of competit...Oct. 22, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,992 |
 Only a fraction of organizations will migrate to Agile methods completely and for all projects. The reality is, many types of projects are not well suited for Agile approaches for a variety of reasons. Some organizations run multiple projects across many departments and corporate entit...Oct. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,051 |
 After Intel and IBM came up short this week, Google’s Q3 numbers were released early Thursday utterly surprising a market high on its business, an enthusiasm that had driven its stock to all-time highs.
It missed big on both the top and bottom line, instantly creating a big sell-off ...Oct. 19, 2012 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 6,449 |
 In the past I have had Photoshop loaded on my computer, but I rarely used it unless it was to use the autocorrection features. Each year I have a ton of vacation pictures to clean up every year and since I am a programmer I have the occasional need to create graphics. 85% of the time I...Oct. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,935 |
 If you are an IT manager, application owner, architect or developer in a corporation leveraging a mainframe, then today is a revolutionary day: Application Performance Management is now available end-to-end for the mainframe. Read about how this will drastically change the way we manag...Oct. 15, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,260 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that TBlox has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
TBlox is the new standard in cloud business software with embedde...Oct. 12, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,126 |
 BancVue creates the services that empower its customers to beat the giants in their field by better leveraging agile IT.
The first thing we wanted to do was to abstract the applications and the operating system from the hardware so that a hardware failure wouldn’t bring down our syste...Oct. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,020 |
 In a little over two years, OpenStack has shattered adoption benchmarks set by previous open source projects and gained acceptance as the future of the data center, but has your career kept up with its blistering pace?
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Niki Acosta,...Oct. 6, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,046 |
 Java players Azul and CumuLogic have teamed up to create what they say is the first integrated, truly elastic PaaS-enablement platform by combining CumuLogic’s Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with Azul’s memory-elastic Zing runtime (i.e., Java Virtual Machine).
The move is su...Sep. 30, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,828 |
 Consolidating data in an organized and highly accessible yet secure fashion is one concept many organizations are finding is helping increase productivity throughout the company. Unified storage, which is also referred to network unified storage (NUS), is a concept that the principles ...Sep. 29, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,449 |
 One does not typically draw associations between manufacturing, wilderness hikes, the theory of constraints, and the management of information technology solutions. In this discussion we take a look at how applying some of the long-held techniques for optimizing manufacturing processe...Sep. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,065 |
 The ability to conduct effective performance testing has become a highly desired skillset within the IT industry. Unfortunately, these highly sought-after skills are consistently in short supply. "Front-end testers" can work with a tool to create a realistic load and although this is a...Sep. 24, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,803 |
 The public and private cloud markets continue to experience growth, with the public cloud market expected to reach $100 billion by 2016, according to analysts.
With enterprises continuing to adopt cloud computing, analysts see continued growth in both public and private cloud investme...Sep. 22, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,196 |
 Heroku has announced Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new service for companies and IT organizations to build and run Java applications in the cloud.
Enterprise for Java is designed to enable quick creation and deployment of enterprise Java applications. It also greases the skids to move...Sep. 22, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,754 |
 SiSense, a provider of Big Data Analytics Software, recently announced Prism 3.0, the latest version of its end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) solution.
With over 100 new features, Prism 3.0 introduces breakthrough in data access. Prism 3.0 enables customers to work with more data ...Sep. 20, 2012 02:40 PM EDT Reads: 19,694 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated has reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2012 ended Aug. 31, 2012.
Adobe achieved revenue in Q3 FY2012 of $1.081 billion, within its targeted range of $1.075 billion to $1.125 billion. During the quarter, the Company drove faster...Sep. 19, 2012 04:03 PM EDT Reads: 6,826 |
 Load and performance testing web applications will allow you to determine whether or not your deployment will require a clustered environment. When the test results show that the current throughput is restricted by the capacity of the server but target workloads are not yet met, this i...Sep. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,543 |
 Let’s start with some acronym disambiguation.
The term CMS can be used to denote Content Management Systems, Content Management Services, Change Management Systems or Configuration Management Systems in IT alone. Let alone the Calcutta Mathematical Society (it does exist, we checked)...Sep. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,721 |
 Inktank, the only company to provide enterprise-level support for the Ceph Distributed Storage System, has gotten a million-dollar investment from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. It’s a personal investment made through a convertible note.
Ceph is the open source distributed stora...Sep. 12, 2012 02:06 PM EDT Reads: 6,048 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced new predictive marketing capabilities within the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, reducing the complexity of uncovering hidden behavioral patterns in big data. These advancements will help marketers more quickly sort through an increasing amount o...Apr. 11, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,576 |
 There's been a flurry of discussion this week among Internet and Web standards heavy-hitters around WebSocket, the new communications protocol supported in Chrome 4 and Safari 5. What was the main issue? Is there some kind of fundamental security vulnerability with the WS protocol? Web...Dec. 12, 2010 02:30 AM EST Reads: 28,348 |
 Adobe had an interesting afternoon Thursday.
That’s when the New York Times came out and blogged that it knew from employees and consultants who were involved or simply knew that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Flash-wielding, Apple-banned Adobe, met re...Oct. 8, 2010 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 15,835 |
 Adobe said Wednesday that’s it’s not going to put any more money into developing the Linux version of Flash Builder, once called Flex Builder, because there’s no money in it.
The move could be a harbinger of other companies re-evaluating their Linux investments given the still nasty ...Sep. 26, 2010 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 15,699 |
 As software developers, our mission is to deliver positive, technology-based solutions – software that provides both the means and the method for working faster, performing better, achieving more. There is little doubt that the technologies we create provide users with the control and ...Aug. 9, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,679 |
 Adobe now has a Creative and Interactive Solutions business unit headed by David Wadhwani, who ran its Platform business so the company can take a more integrated approach, and “deliver faster on our vision of multi-screen publishing and drive innovation and support for both Flash and ...Aug. 1, 2010 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,781 |
 Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...Jul. 29, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 35,672 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe should cut its losses with Apple and target its flagship Flash Player at telecoms carriers, independent analyst Ovum has claimed in a new report*.
With the spat over Apple's refusal to support the Adobe Flash technology on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices continuing to ...Jun. 29, 2010 09:11 AM EDT Reads: 11,622 |
 When a new version of a software is released, the old version lives for a while and its creators usually care about supporting it. Yesterday, after reading about the release of Cairngorm 3, it’s clear that Adobe Consulting ignores this rule. Why did they quietly burried Cairngorm 2?May. 20, 2010 05:50 AM EDT Reads: 11,709 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...May. 2, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,748 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product feature...Apr. 30, 2010 05:33 AM EDT Reads: 10,545 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...Apr. 29, 2010 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,849 |
 Adobe introduced its Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Monday, the thing on which nearly 60% of its revenues depends, the thing that’s got to sell better than recession-tossed CS4 did, in the middle of a hailstorm that drew more attention to it than it normally would have gotten.
Last Thursday ...Apr. 16, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 15,564 |
 Adobe has opened the first of three new geographically diverse data centers for its bought-in Business Catalyst service, a hosted services platform for professional web designers that’s supposed to save them the trouble of back-end coding.
The place is in North America and will be j...Apr. 2, 2010 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,611 |
 Focus Washington TechView recently sat down with Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president for Business Productivity Solutions at Adobe Systems Incorporated, to discuss Open Government and its application around the world. The two-part interview examines the role of technology in today's citi...Apr. 1, 2010 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,368 |
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