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Gartner: Top Technology Predictions for 2010 and Beyond

Gartner: Top Technology Predictions for 2010 and Beyond

Ready for some more predictions? Gartner (news, site) got them. Looking at 2010 and beyond, the analysts put together a mighty list of trends and events that will shake the world of information technology.

IBM Focuses on Analytics as a Way of Better Content Management

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IBM (news, site) has been braving the strong winds of the analytics industry lately, trying to propose a better way of managing unstructured and structured content in combination with analytics used for business intelligence and more insight into web content.

Several new analytics offerings were released as a result, including IBM Cognos Content Analytics and IBM InfoSphere Content Assessment.

IBM Smart Analytics Cloud (and more investment) is the latest one to be released as part of the new service line -- IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services.

Amazon Challenges Microsoft Azure with Relational DB in the Cloud

Amazon, RDS, CloudAt the end of August, Microsoft released a preview of their Azure SQL database, a database rival to Amazon's Simple DB. But while Simple DB is non-relational and designed for fast querying, the Azure SQL would support relational queries. An Azure Team blog post at the time said, "we are leading the industry by offering a relational database service." Amazon Web Services (site, news) seems to have heard that loud and clear. Here's the response.

Ex-Red Hat Exec Finds the Right rPath

rPath Infrastructure Cloud Computing Tim Buckley

When it came time to find an Executive Chairman for up-and-coming cloud computing vendor rPath, founder and CTO Erik Troan only had to look back in time -- and his LinkedIn connections -- to find the right candidate.

Gartner: 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Top 10 Strategic Technologies in 2009

At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts presented their insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2009.

With emphasis on virtualization, organizations should also pay close attention to cloud computing, green IT, Business Intelligence (BI) and social software — among other strategic trends.

Nexsan Releases Energy-Efficient Assureon 6.0

Nexsan Technologies Green Digital Storage Archival Solutions

Nexsan, a storage solutions provider, has announced Assureon 6.0, the latest version of an energy-efficient and long-term storage solution.

This is the first green archive-as-a-service solution for the storage industry, and it will allow users to easily manage secure and efficient archives. Corporations interested in an external archive-as-a-service model might be interested in Nexsan’s offerings.

Shedding Light on Windows Cloud Computing OS

Microsoft Windows .NET Cloud Computing Platform

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wants more powerful software for the Web. Well, Ballmer also happens to have a corporate technological powerhouse under his direction — shouldn’t be too hard, right?

At the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008), Microsoft will be divulging information to the world about Windows 7, but the Windows cloud-based operating system is going to be the highlight of the conference.

Movable Type Goes Virtual

Movable Type 4.2 and MT Pro released

Six Apart, the creator of blogging platform Movable Type, and JumpBox, a developer of virtual appliances, announced the availability of Virtual Movable Type.

With Virtual Movable Type, users can get a quicker start with MT using its virtual version that promises to be a simple and powerful alternative to installing Movable Type on a web server.

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Microsoft's Next Generation of Virtualization

Windows Server 2008 Virtualization

Microsoft’s big next-generation virtualization beast has arrived and the speculation pours forth like wine. Redmond’s hypervisor based virtualization system for x64 systems, Microsoft Hyper-V, has released to manufacturing and is available for deployment into production environments. So far, the verdict is out in regards to Hyper-V’s actual performance, but what about its implications for the virtualization market?

Parallels Teams Up For SaaS-Based Online Backup

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The field of virtualization just keeps a-movin’. This time, desktop/server virtualization heavy-weight Parallels is taking server virtualization into the up-and-coming realm of SaaS. Their popular OS virtualization solution, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, has been chosen by ProServe, one of the leading ISPs in the Netherlands, to deliver a scalable, cost-efficient Online Backup solution through a SaaS model.

Win4Lin Revamps its Linux Virtualization Solution

Win4lin - The Best Way to Run Windows on Linux

Virtual Bridges, a leading provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, has launched version 5 of its Win4Lin Desktop virtualization system for running Windows on Linux. It includes performance increases it claims beats the likes of VMware Workstation and other competitors in the desktop virtualization market.

Virtualization - What Does the Next Generation Look Like?

Virtualization Conference and Expo

Virtualization has been taking the IT field by storm, but where is it headed? The theme of November’s 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo is “The Next Generation of Virtualization”. They are welcoming submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not just on how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is altering the way businesses run IT in a fundamental way.

CIOZone Study: Move to SaaS Model or Die

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SaaS and Virtualization have played a prominent role in the tech industry landscape for a while now, and the latest studies seem to show that they’re going stronger than ever. In a CIOZone.com study that ranked the top-60 fastest-growing public software companies of at least $150 million in revenue in 2007, VMware lead the pack and Red Hat came in 12th place boasting a 33.6 percent growth rate.

Even more interesting is the role that SaaS seems to be playing in the success of some of these companies.

JumpBox Delivers Virtual Appliance Subscriptions

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Virtual appliance wizard, JumpBox, Inc., has announced the launch of JumpBox Open, a service that will give users subscription access to their collection of easy-to-deploy virtual appliances for Open Source applications.

The announcement was made at the Under the Radar: The Business of Web Apps conference. JumpBox Open represents a departure for the firm who previously sold their applications and services individually.

Six New JumpBoxes for phpBB, TikiWiki and Chums

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JumpBox, provider of virtual appliances to simplify server software deployment, has just released six new appliances for open source products. The JumpBox library has been bolstered with new applications for Cacti networking graphing system, phpBB bulletin boards, ProjectPier project management, TikiWiki, PmWiki, and MoinMoin- another Wiki product.

The total number of JumpBox appliances now stands at twenty.

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