Category: News

Grazed from MarketWired.  Author: PR Announcement.

TIBCO Software Inc. TIBX -0.94% today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for On-Premise Integration Platforms."  "We are happy with our continued placement in the ‘leaders’ quadrant, especially in a market that is at the core of our strategy," said Lou Jordano, senior director of product marketing, TIBCO.

"In addition to helping our customers extract value from their applications, integration nowadays allows them to manage the increased volumes coming from their Cloud, Mobile, Social and Big Data initiatives in real time."…

Grazed from Mondaq.  Author: Jason Weinstein.

The International Association of Privacy Professionals has published my article on how US cloud providers and the US government can respond to the wave of hypocrisy from the EU over PRISM.  European cloud providers have tried for years to gain a competitive advantage in the European market over U.S.-based counterparts by claiming that content stored with European providers is more protected from government access than data stored with U.S. companies. These European providers have tried to instill fear in potential customers, claiming that the USA PATRIOT Act gives the U.S. government essentially unfettered access to content stored with U.S. companies.

As has been well-documented here and elsewhere, the truth is that the U.S. imposes tighter restrictions on the ability of its law enforcement and security agencies to get data stored in the U.S. than many EU governments face in accessing data stored in their home countries. Moreover, unlike in the U.S., providers in the EU can voluntarily provide content and customer data to the government, and EU providers are required to retain data for up to two years, helping ensure the data is there when the government comes looking for it…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Doug Henschen.

Statements about the death of the mainframe have been made for at least a couple of decades. But IBM keeps proving that with new technology and timely facelifts aimed at the latest market demands, mainframes can stay relevant.  The latest wrinkle remover for the System Z mainframe, spotlighted with this week’s release of the IBM zEnterprise BC12 (Business Class) entry-level mainframe, is extended support for growing use cases including big data analytics and cloud computing. The BC12 will start shipping in September, about one year after the release of vendor’s latest Enterprise Class machine, the zEnterprise EC12.

New capabilities inherited from the EC12 include an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator that IBM says provides significantly faster performance for workloads such as Cognos and SPSS analytics. That’s compared to BC12’s predecessor, the z114, and to alternative platforms, like highly distributed x86 server deployments. The BC12 also attaches to Netezza and newer PureData for Analytics appliances used for high-scale data warehousing…

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Will Kelly.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as a trend is touching enterprises of all sizes. The Small to Medium Business (SMB) can find a lot to love in BYOD, but to reap the benefits, they need to pay close attention to the basics and not be drawn into the hype.

BYOD policies of even a formal BYOD initiative may seem overkill for an SMB. There’s a lot of contradicting viewpoints about whether or not an SMB even needs to worry about BYOD. However, if an employee’s personal device is accessing your corporate network and being used to conduct corporate business on a regular basis, then your SMB needs at least a basic BYOD framework that covers device security, network security, and related policies. Here are some basics for SMBs to consider about BYOD…

Grazed from NewsFactor. Author: Editorial Staff.

EMC Relevant Products/Services’s second-quarter net income was driving higher by nearly 8 percent thanks to surging demand for data Relevant Products/Services storage Relevant Products/Services equipment. The company affirmed its full-year profit and revenue guidance, and its shares jumped more than 6 percent in early trading. For the quarter ended June 30, EMC earned $701 million, or 32 cents per share, compared with $650 million, or 29 cents per share, last year. Adjusted to exclude stock-based compensation expenses, amortization costs and other items, earnings were 42 cents per share.

Revenue rose 5.7 percent to $5.61 billion from $5.31 billion, with both product sales and services logging gains. U.S. revenue, which represents just over half of all revenue for the company, rose 4 percent. Revenue outside of the U.S. jumped 8 percent. The Asia Pacific and Japan and the Latin American regions both posted double-digit gains, EMC said…

Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Gary Hilson.

Extreme Networks is ramping up its efforts to expand into the converged data center by partnering with EMC. The company’s Open Fabric Ethernet switches are now validated for VSPEX, EMC’s architecture geared toward virtualized and cloud environments. Extreme’s switches support OpenStack and include its Summit X670 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.

The VSPEX validation places Extreme in the company of major vendors such as IBM, VMware, Dell and Cisco, and is a positive step for the company, said Bob Laliberte, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, because it gives it the opportunity to play in what ESG describes as the integrated computing platform (ICP) ecosystem. The validation could help drive incremental revenues for Extreme, he said. Combined with its recently announced reseller deal with Lenovo, “it’s a big foot in the ICP door," he added…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Rackspace President Lew Moorman is stepping down from leading the company, he announced in a blog post today, but will remain on the board of directors of the cloud computing and managed hosting company. Moorman has been with the company for 13 years. He has played an important role in developing OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform that Rackspace and NASA jointly founded three years ago. Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier will add president to his title once Moorman officially steps down in the coming weeks.

Cloud watcher Larry Carvalho, an analyst and consultant at Robust Cloud, says he’ll be interested to see what, if any impact, Moorman’s move has on OpenStack. Rackspace is an important member of the open source community, he says, hosting one of the few public cloud offerings based on OpenStack code, and being one of the chief contributors of code to the project…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Joe Bertolucci.

The proliferation of consumer devices and machine-to-machine sensors is ushering in a new era for IT: a cloud-computing age that enables services to be deployed more rapidly thereby attracting an ever-increasing number of users and devices. Intel has coined a name for this epoch, the "Virtuous Cycle of Computing," referring to a system of events that reinforces itself in a continuous loop.

The driver of this cycle: big data. In her Monday keynote at Intel’s "Reimagine the Datacenter" event in San Francisco, Diane Bryant, senior VP and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, said the dramatic upsurge in end-user and machine-to-machine devices — two areas commonly associated with big data — is good news for the IT industry…

Grazed from SolidFire. Author: PR Announcement.

SolidFire, a Colorado-based maker of data storage hardware, announced yesterday that it raised $31 million in venture capital. The Series C funding brings the four-year-old company’s total raised to $68 million. Samsung Ventures, NEA, Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Ventures Partners participated.

Of interest is the company’s flash memory storage devices, which are used in datacenters focused on cloud computing applications. The company’s proprietary technology promises to speed up the retrieval of data from shared servers, and positions it nicely as more enterprises replace on-premise tech with as-a-service applications…

Grazed from CXO. Author: Editorial Staff.

Organizations can’t stop singing praises of cloud computing. Many cite benefits like cost savings, flexibility, elasticity, scalability, load “bursting”, storage on demand. These are the advertised benefits of cloud computing, and they certainly help make for a solid business case for using either third-party services or a virtualized datacenter.

But after the agreements are signed, systems and processes are set up, and users are retrained, something unexpected happens. The initial use cases are realized, but then additional benefits begin to emerge—sort of like the icing on the cake, but often, these unforeseen benefits provide far more value to the business than initially planned. Joe McKendrick, a contributor for Forbes, writes that the unexpected benefits that emerge as cloud projects are immense. They include:…