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By Roger Strukhoff
Vertro, which provides millions of home pages and / or toolbars to Internet users, selected NetSuite OneWorld to replace its SAP BusinessOne installation. In the old environment, subsidiary rollup had to be managed by a cumbersome bolt-on interface, data entry for transactions was tedi...
Mar. 1, 2010 11:45 AM EST  Reads: 5,369
By Timothy Fisher
Over the past year or so I’ve been working on an application that serves as a framework for building a feature rich social networking site. I’ve called this project EngineY. EngineY is a Ruby application that uses the Ruby on Rails framework as its base.  As I was building ...
Nov. 9, 2009 01:00 PM EST  Reads: 5,913
By Roger Strukhoff
CyberMedia is headquartered in Gurgaon in the National Capital Region centered around New Delhi in northern India. The company has additional offices throughout India, in Singapore, and in three subsidiary locations in the US.
Feb. 9, 2010 08:45 PM EST  Reads: 2,810
By Roger Strukhoff
The vibrant success of Makati over the past two decades or so has created a number of improvements in education and social services for its half a million residents--many of whom live the very difficult life common to so many millions in the Philippines and other countries throughout S...
Jan. 19, 2010 11:34 PM EST  Reads: 3,883
By Roger Strukhoff
The Philippines has recently been rated as the world's top outsourcing destination by the UK's National Outsourcing Association (NOA). This was, in fact, the second time the country has won this award, winning the award over other finalists Russia, Egypt, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. The i...
Jan. 19, 2010 10:26 PM EST  Reads: 3,248
By Ernest de Leon
I received an email letting me know about a new company, Indicee, that will be publicly launching within the next few weeks. The Indicee story includes a few key elements: a notable team, an innovative product and impressive financing. Indicee is a new arrival on a very competitive lan...
Dec. 26, 2009 10:45 PM EST  Reads: 4,415
By Ellen Rubin
The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of it...
Dec. 15, 2009 10:15 PM EST  Reads: 17,988
By Christopher Keene
Until today, web developers creating SaaS apps have been faced with an ugly choice: use proprietary development platforms like Force.com or build an open solution from scratch. WaveMaker released the first open cloud development platform. WaveMaker 6.0 is a visual development platform ...
Nov. 19, 2009 01:00 PM EST  Reads: 4,001
By Don Nelson
You might have already seen the announcement regarding the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE). We believe this is wonderful news for our customers and partners; and represents an unprecedented collaboration between three highly regarded leaders in the IT industry: Cisco, EMC with VMwa...
Nov. 19, 2009 10:45 AM EST  Reads: 3,805
By John Treadway
I was surprised to find an Amazon Web Services booth at the Microsoft PDC yesterday. They had nothing specific to say regarding additional Windows support or capabilities - at least not officially. What I did get was a wink-wink, nudge, nudge when I commented on Azure's integration wit...
Nov. 19, 2009 10:45 AM EST  Reads: 3,534
By Don Nelson
This is the first of multiple-part series of interviews with David where we’ll look into buyer personnas, marketing tools-to-use and ask the question of whether social media is simply a fad.
Nov. 19, 2009 10:45 AM EST  Reads: 3,293
By Don MacVittie
If you’re an OEM user and an F5 customer, we’ve got an updated version of the OEM Grid Control Plug-in for BIG-IP in beta testing right now. It’s been in limited beta for a while, but we wanted to make certain that both TMOS 9.x and 10.x were supported before we talked about it publicl...
Nov. 19, 2009 10:45 AM EST  Reads: 4,180
By Dave Haynes
I have not seen the stores in person, but from a distance I really, really like what Microsoft has done with its retail presence. Sure it looks vaguely familiar to Apple's stores, but big whoop. The wall to wall screens are brilliant. However, I am now second-guessing whether I'd actua...
Nov. 19, 2009 09:30 AM EST  Reads: 3,992
By Brandon Watson
About two weeks ago I had the good fortune to spend some time at an offsite where I met Gary Flake.  I remember reading the Wired Magazine cover piece on Gary a few years back, but didn’t didn’t have any idea who he was when I was introduced to him at the offsite.  As [...]...
Nov. 18, 2009 05:09 PM EST  Reads: 3,860
By Don Nelson
I had the opportunity to sit down with TMC’s Rich Tehrani recently, where we covered a wide range of topics, from recent announcements on the ASR 9000 and Visual Networking Index to what trends we see as being big for 2010 (read:  IPv6).  Plus, it allowed me to experien...
Nov. 18, 2009 04:30 PM EST  Reads: 740
By Alin Irimie
Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here Los Angeles, Microsoft announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that they are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license, which is already ...
Nov. 18, 2009 12:45 PM EST  Reads: 3,720
By Deborah Strickland
Cisco’s Kittur Nagesh was a guest on “M2M” radio Tuesday (Nov. 10) hosted by Peggy Smedley, editorial director of M2M Magazine.  During the radio interview, Nagesh described the M-to-M ecosystem more as an “internet of things” that will drive producti...
Nov. 18, 2009 10:59 AM EST  Reads: 800
By David Strom
Paul Gillin and I have restarted our ever-popular series of podcasts called MediaBlather. This week we interview Adam Christensen, the head of social media communications for IBM. Just get a look at some of these stats: Internal blogs: 17,000 Members of the Beehive social network: 60,...
Nov. 18, 2009 09:03 AM EST  Reads: 1,329
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy
I thought IE 8.0 was work in progress! It looks like Microsoft will be talking about IE 9.0 soon. If that is the case, what about IE 8.0? The frequent hanging of the browser driving you crazy is one of the most exasperating experiences I have ever had. The funny thing is, if you click...
Nov. 18, 2009 08:04 AM EST  Reads: 1,172
By John Treadway
Setting aside the shameless cloud-washing that’s going on from some vendors, there are a lot of cloud service providers (CSPs – providers of cloud) today.  Many of those listed in Sys-Con’s Top 150 report are CSPs, while others are providing extensions, tools or servi...
Nov. 18, 2009 07:30 AM EST  Reads: 4,043
By Alin Irimie
OK, OK … maybe not (just) for Windows Azure, but Microsoft just released a Facebook client library to help make it easier for everyone to create some interesting applications. Clarity Consulting Inc. developed the original Facebook Developer Toolkit for the Microsoft Visual Stud...
Nov. 18, 2009 01:30 AM EST  Reads: 5,024
By Alin Irimie
Microsoft just released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2. What’s New? Service Model UI: A redesigned and significantly more complete interface for mani...
Nov. 17, 2009 11:15 PM EST  Reads: 2,391
By Roman Stanek
Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post caused a lot of angry replies from people who work for COSS companies. “The emperor is not naked” they argued. I believe tha...
Nov. 17, 2009 08:45 PM EST  Reads: 4,030
By Dmitry Sotnikov
Systems Management as a Service (is there an acronym for this yet?) is finally becoming a reality. Today at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference we have announced beta launch of Quest OnDemand our online IT management services. This is one of the projects which have been consum...
Nov. 17, 2009 06:23 PM EST  Reads: 2,904
By David Deans
European business leaders believe their companies are more vulnerable to IT-enabled market disruptions than companies in other parts of the world, according to a new market study by McKinsey & Company.McKinsey found that 74 percent of European business leaders believed their compan...
Nov. 17, 2009 02:26 PM EST  Reads: 483
By Alin Irimie
Microsoft released today at PDC Pinpoint - the fast, easy way for business customers to find experts, applications, and professional services to meet their specific business needs—and build on the software they already have. At the same time, Pinpoint helps developers and technology se...
Nov. 17, 2009 12:14 PM EST  Reads: 2,052
By Michael Sheehan
Just in time for the Microsoft PDC 2009, GoGrid is excited to showcase an integrated solution for Windows Azure™ developers, using the GoGrid Cloud for seamlessly building and deploying applications for Windows Azure. Our solution interoperates with the existing GoGrid infrastructure a...
Nov. 17, 2009 08:54 AM EST  Reads: 3,447
By RealWire News Distribution
ICAEW upgrades to Unified Communications platform [Lichfield] - 17th November, 2009. NextiraOne, Europe's leading expert in communications services, has provided a new Unified Communications platform for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). Completed ear...
Nov. 17, 2009 04:51 AM EST  Reads: 466
By RealWire News Distribution
NHS BI specialists, 21C, leverages existing Microsoft software infrastructure to liberate information silos in just two monthsLondon, 17 November 2009 - NHS business intelligence (BI) specialists, 21C, today announced that NHS Nottinghamshire County has deployed its BI Accelerator to i...
Nov. 17, 2009 04:00 AM EST  Reads: 438
By Reuven Cohen
(I'm currently in Tokyo, so I'll leave my insights into this news for another time)Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that they are open sourcing the produc...
Nov. 17, 2009 12:30 AM EST  Reads: 3,492
By Kevin Hoffman
If you've been working with Azure for a while then you've probably spent some time using the StorageClient sample that came with previous versions of the SDK. With the November 2009 release of the SDK (the one they'll be using at PDC 2009), they have wrapped that sample up ...
Nov. 17, 2009 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 6,896
By Lori MacVittie
The question is whether that impact is positive (a reduction) or negative (an increase). One of the biggest threats to data integrity is the introduction of malicious content via SQLi (SQL Injection) attacks. Traditional database access methods don’t provide a lot in the way of valid...
Nov. 17, 2009 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 3,674
By RealWire News Distribution
Oracle to Demonstrate Smart Strategies in Human Resources, Customer Relationship Management, Performance Management and the Public Sector London, UK - 16th November, 2009News Facts• Oracle today invited its partners and customers from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EM...
Nov. 16, 2009 05:23 AM EST  Reads: 1,539
By RealWire News Distribution
Meru's reliability, ease of deployment, and ability to support a high density of users made for peaceful and secure wireless diplomacyLondon, Nov. 16, 2009 - Over 5,000 world leaders, foreign ambassadors and international journalists at this year's NATO summit in Strasbourg communicate...
Nov. 16, 2009 04:00 AM EST  Reads: 896
By Louis Nauges
(Remarque : texte plus long qu’à l’habitude) Après la conférence de SIIA, dont j’ai parlé récemment, j’étais aussi invité comme conférencier à la conférence organisée par Sys-Con sur le Cloud Computing. C’était la quatrième conférence que Sys-Con organisait sur ce......
Nov. 15, 2009 06:28 PM EST  Reads: 3,675
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy
There is a wealth of information (tons of it) in New York Times and  the micro-blogging leader Twitter and it will be very useful and could be even remunerative to access data on them. In this article, I look at two APIs, the Twitter API and the New York Times API and see how we ...
Nov. 14, 2009 05:07 PM EST  Reads: 893
By Aditya Banerjee
Social Networking Websites Review 2009 – TopTenREVIEWS Facebook comes out on top followed by MySpace & Bebo. Orkut's at no. 6. Odd to see that Yahoo 360 is still on the list. (tags: socialnetworking web2.0 statistics review ratings) Expanding Your Professional Network &...
Nov. 14, 2009 03:03 PM EST  Reads: 1,460
By Deborah Strickland
Apart from all the Google news lately that has major relevance (like the new programming language 'Go'), there were two news of major significance that I think went through a bit quiet. #1 Huawei signs a €170M deal with Telenor for LTE rollout#2 Huawei will demonstrate TD-LT...
Nov. 13, 2009 09:21 PM EST  Reads: 2,804
By Jim Driscoll
In a recent blog, commenters took me to task for a perceived IE 6 memory leak. It wasn't actually there (they were wrong), but in attempting to prove myself right, I found a couple of memory leaks under IE in JSF's Ajax support. Since I just spent a week learning how all this functio...
Nov. 13, 2009 03:59 PM EST  Reads: 1,068
By Lori MacVittie
These three things have a lot more in common than you might think and all three tend to evoke similar levels of frustration. A very real problem women face when shopping is this: no two brands define a size the same. If you usually wear a size 8 in “Brand X” you might actually wear a...
Nov. 13, 2009 02:30 PM EST  Reads: 2,301