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Oracle Launches OLTP Machine Exadata 2 in India
OLTP is a widely accepted technology known to deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing. Oracle has launched Oracle Exadata Version 2 in the Indian market, which it says is the world’s fastest and only online transaction processing machine. The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors. In order to cater to the ever increasing demands of the growing data centers in India, Oracle intends to use Exadata to leverage itself with respect to its key competitors in the area, specifically IBM.

Nordic Edge Turns Google NexusOne, Windows Mobile and Jave ME phones into Security Devices
Companies and organizations want to find an economical, secure and user-friendly security solutions that employees or customers can use to connect without requiring hardware tokens can now turn to Nordic Edge. The Swedish firm has developed a mobile client, Pledge, which turns phones like Google Nexus One and Windows Mobile into a security token.

Indians Most Trust its IT Sector and India Headquartered Companies
India-based companies have emerged as the most trusted ones, with the technology sector being ranked the highest in terms of transparency and credibility, according to the recently released report from Edelman Trust Barometer. India-headquartered companies are trusted by a majority of people in the country. While US' trust in technology is 78 percent and China is 83 percent, in India it is 88 percent. Technology is the most trusted sector in India at 88%, followed by banks, automotive (79%), pharmaceuticals (75%), healthcare (73%), entertainment (70%) and media at a relatively low 58%.

Rackspace Offers SharePoint as a Cloud Service
IT hosting firm Rackspace has added Microsoft SharePoint to its cloud computing suite of services. The Rackspace offering includes a control panel to allow administrators initiate SharePoint, add/remove users and create SharePoint sites. Administrators can also use the control panel to manage Rackspace Email & Apps’ full suite of applications, including hosted Microsoft Exchange, Rackspace Email, Email Archiving, and Rackspace Cloud Drive and Server Backup, in one dashboard.

Oracle Snaps Up SOA Management Vendor AmberPoint
Oracle has acquired AmberPoint to strengthen the Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite and Oracle Enterprise Manager with top of the line SOA management capabilities.

Intel-powered Citrix XenDesktop Claims to Run 5000 Desktops from one Virtualisation Server
Citrix is lending a helping hand to companies looking at lowering their infrastructure costs. Its newly released XenDesktop 4 server with FlexCast technology can deliver up to 125 virtual-based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops and 5000 local streamed desktops from a single physical server. The company says the new desktop virtualisation solution was made possible with Intel's Xeon processor 5500 technology. With XenDesktop 4, desktop virtualisation can now possibly be implemented with 20 percent lower infrastructure costs.

LTech CloudMove Automates Moving Files from SharePoint to Google Apps
LTech releases a tool to automate migration of documents from SharePoint to Google Sites. Ed Laczynski says if organisations are migrating from the SharePoint platform to Google Apps, the new tool will save them time and money by allowing for automated uploads of vast amount of files to Google Sites. Therefore, administrators will be able to speed up the process of transferring files and documents to Google Apps Sites, which is the content collaboration platform for Google Apps.

BMC Software Acquires Phurnace Software
BMC Software has acquired Phurnace Software, a developer of Java-based automation software aimed at significantly reducing the cost, complexity and risk to deploy and configure Java-based applications on physical, virtual and cloud environments. The Houston-based supplier of systems management software did not disclose how much it shelled out for Phurnace.

VM6 Extends Internal Cloud Offerings with VMex Enterprise Edition
VM6 Software, a provider of software solutions to extend the benefits of virtualisation to Remote Office and Branch Office locations has released VM6 VMex Enterprise Edition. VM6 says VMex leverages Microsoft Hyper-V to create an internal cloud to provision, consolidate, manage and protect all of the ROBO workloads without the costs and complexity of traditional solutions.

Good News for CTOs - CFOs Keener to Invest in IT
A recent survey examining the link between finance and IT during the current economic downturn found a willingness from financial professionals to invest in existing IT systems. According to the survey, financial professionals view gains in efficiency and cost savings as the two most important measures of ROI for IT projects – areas that can be addressed by application modernization.

Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0 Released
Veeam Software, provider of systems management tools for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today announced version 4.0 of Veeam Backup & Replication, a backup solution for VMware environments.

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Security in a Virtualised Environment: The New Battleground

Virtualisation has established itself as the next significant dimensional change in enterprise computing. The cost benefit it offers by consolidating underutilised computing resources makes it a critical initiative for IT directors who are instructed to ‘do more with less’. Estimates are that the server virtualisation software market will be worth USD $6.2 billion by the year 2013 and that over 50% of all servers will be virtualised by 2012. With the rising popularity of virtualisation, heated debates regarding security and compliance have surfaced. As with any new technology, in order to achieve a secure implementation, existing practices and policies need to be augmented with a clear understanding of how virtualisation works.

Nordic Edge Turns Google NexusOne, Windows Mobile and Jave ME phones into Security Devices

Companies and organizations want to find an economical, secure and user-friendly security solutions that employees or customers can use to connect without requiring hardware tokens can now turn to Nordic Edge. The Swedish firm has developed a mobile client, Pledge, which turns phones like Google Nexus One and Windows Mobile into a security token.

Indians Most Trust its IT Sector and India Headquartered Companies

India-based companies have emerged as the most trusted ones, with the technology sector being ranked the highest in terms of transparency and credibility, according to the recently released report from Edelman Trust Barometer. India-headquartered companies are trusted by a majority of people in the country. While US' trust in technology is 78 percent and China is 83 percent, in India it is 88 percent. Technology is the most trusted sector in India at 88%, followed by banks, automotive (79%), pharmaceuticals (75%), healthcare (73%), entertainment (70%) and media at a relatively low 58%.

Indians Most Trust its IT Sector and India Headquartered Companies

Google Turning Broadband Internet Provider to Fuel Cloud Ambitions?

In 2006 Google said it had no plans to be an internet service provider. In the same year an Internet news portal had also reported, “Several sources have reported over the last year that Google has been quietly acquiring inactive or ‘unlit’ optical cable — otherwise known as dark fiber — a key ingredient used to build data networks.” Snapping back to February 2010, Google announces they are putting to use miles of dark fiber -- the underground cable left unused since the Internet bubble -- in an experimental project to build an ultra-fast fiber-optic broadband network. So you cannot help but look at the small print in this particular initiative – Cloud Computing.

How to Achieve BPM Triumph

The benefits of BPM has been lauded and berated depending on the results the organisation in question recorded for its project. While some companies achieved the goals they had planned for and found BPM met, and even exceeded, their expectations, others found that projects took longer to complete and cost more than what they were initially budgeted for. This failure to meet basic goals led to the eventual disenchantment for BPM among companies. The distinguishing factors between the implementation methods of the successfull and failed projects will give us a better idea of the guidelines that should be followed to ensure a high rate of success in future BPM projects.

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Security in a Virtualised Environment: The New Battleground Virtualisation has established itself as the next significant dimensional change in enterprise computing. The cost benefit it offers by consolidating underutilised computing resources makes it a...

Google Turning Broadband Internet Provider to Fuel Cloud Ambitions? In 2006 Google said it had no plans to be an internet service provider. In the same year an Internet news portal had also reported, “Several sources have reported over the last year that Google has...

How to Achieve BPM Triumph The benefits of BPM has been lauded and berated depending on the results the organisation in question recorded for its project. While some companies achieved the goals they had planned for and...

What the Salesman Did Not Tell You: The Murky Side of Virtualisation Pundits are saying 2010 will be the year of virtualisation. It takes an unbiased opinion to make a wise decision about something of as high importance for an organisation as this. Read on to find...

Storage Trends in 2010 Show Significant Shift from Traditional Methodologies The IT world's need to store massive amounts of data is insatiable. The last time storage technology kept up with information growth was in 2002. And with the introduction of cloud storage users,...

Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions Take on Amazon and Google My challenge to everyone competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft is to remember that you are competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. These are strong technology companies, and if you’re...

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Best Practices for Enterprise SOA Deployment Bob Marcus, the leader for SOA and Distributed Virtualization standards at the Network Centric Operation Industry Consortium (NCOIC.org), discusses requirements and best practices for enterprise...

Business Transformation vs. SOA Transformation - Can I do Both? Corporations are transforming their business models in an attempt to increase revenue, operational efficiency and global competition by designing innovative business models and processes to be...

State of the Union - SOA Standards The author of the seminal book "Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies" discusses the current status of SOA-related standards and their applicability in this talk recorded at...

Virtualization 360 Increase your virtualization IQ: learn about Microsoft's virtualization roadmap, understand the technologies and get ready for the Virtualization from Ravi Sankar. This session, recorded at...

Software + Services: Fundamental Shifts in Platform Computing We are at the cusp of a big industry change. The way software is delivered and monetized is undergoing a fundamental shift. The multiple models for monetization are fundamentally shifting the...

Designing Reusable Service Interfaces One of the challenges of SOA is the development of services, which are reusable. Such services can participate in several different processes and orchestrations. Experienced architects are aware...

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