Applications
Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden. Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC shipments fell 8 percent. It's the steepest drop since 2001. While it's clear that use of new form factors such as smartphones and tablets has been skyrocketing over the past few years, this study is the first that indicates that this growth, far from incremental, is taking share from the previously dominant form factor. Of course, some may not accept the study's findings, feeling that rumors of the death of the PC have been overstated. It may be the case, too, that the total number of PCs sold in 2012 won't really shrink but may, instead, end up showing modest growth... |
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Grazed from Penguin Computing. Author: PR Announcement.
The UDX1 brings new levels of efficiency and scale to Internet datacenters. With a five Watt power envelope per server the UDX1 is ideal for I/O bound workloads including “Big Data” applications, scalable analytics and cloud storage. The UDX1 offers a drastic reduction of TCO for high-density, low power computing environments. Workloads that have been processed by racks of conventional systems can now be handled by a group of servers in a single physical unit. The UDX1 features a modular architecture that can be configured with up to 48 Calxeda EnergyCore server nodes, with four cores per node. The system includes an internal 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch fabric for node-to-node connectivity and provides up to 144TB of hard drive capacity... |
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Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of its Ultimate Data X1 (UDX1) system. The UDX1 is the first server platform offered by a North American system vendor that is built on the ARM-based EnergyCore System on Chip (SoC) from Calxeda.
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2X ApplicationServer XG is an award-winning virtual desktop and application delivery software package supporting major hypervisors including Citrix Xen, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. Features include integrated thin client management, universal printing & scanning functionality and high-capacity resource-based load balancing. 2X also offers customers secure remote access to ApplicationServer XG with the free 2X Client RDP/Remote Desktop for Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Facebook and more... |
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2X Software, a global leader in corporate mobility and cloud computing, announced its partnership with Intel to deliver 2X ApplicationServer XG as a Hybrid Cloud solution through Intel's AppUp SMB Service.
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"We are honored to receive this award from CRN," said AC Chakrabarti, CEO of AnyPresence. "The AnyPresence platform is already in use by large technology integrators, and we are excited about the potential to help our customers accelerate their mobile development projects without the typical concern of platform lock-in."... |
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AnyPresence, a leading enterprise mobile platform-as-a-service, today announced that it was named a CRN 2012 Emerging Vendor. The company was recognized as one of the key players that are significantly impacting the cloud computing industry.
Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Editorial Staff. The growth of diverse mobile devices in the enterprise is forcing IT managers to become more platform-agnostic in the way they manage their mobile applications and platforms, with web apps and cloud computing also driving this change. This growth has major management implications, says Gartner analyst Phillip Redman. “As smartphones proliferate in the enterprise, companies are struggling to manage policy, security and support. However, enterprise mobile device management software is evolving to offer smartphone (and other device) support across a variety of platforms.” He adds, “Although some of the vendors and products have been around for a long time, mobile device management (MDM) is a nascent market, and the vendors' offerings have little consistency. Many come from mobile messaging and security to support MDM, and, worldwide, there are more than 60 companies in this space.”... |
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Grazed from Technorati. Author: Geoff Simon.
Looking around the Guld Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Cyril V. Bethala, DoctorsElite co-founder who rode the storm out at the Hospital he was working in at the time, saw doctors leaving town and patients fleeing to refuges nationwide. "It was impossible in that devastation for millions of patients to access records, much less connect with doctors" said Dr. Bethala in a company statement. It was solving this problem that was the catalyst and inspiration behind DoctorsElite, co-founded by Dr. Bethala and his two physician brothers, Vivian Bethala and Vasanth Bethala, both practicing physicians who are now the Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer, respectively... |
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Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard. Application testing has never received the level of attention it should have. But with the advent of mobile computing application development, it quickly becomes apparent who put in the quality control time in and who didn’t. As a result of the wave of mobile applications being built today that face external customers, IT organizations are under more pressure than ever to make sure those applications are fully vetted. Realistically, however, most IT organizations don’t have the infrastructure in place that is needed to test mobile applications at scale. As a result, the spike in application testing taking place in the cloud using services such as SOASTA is mainly driven by the need make sure mobile applications meet end-user expectations in terms of both performance and quality... |
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Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Richard Minney. Business management and ERP have undergone huge technological, social and economic shifts. The explosion of cloud computing, mobility of business users, Big Data demands and microscopic focus on cost cutting are changing the pace and direction of every company's IT strategy. Five years ago cloud computing was more expensive than on-premise, analytical data was difficult to curate and the benchmark in usability, especially on mobile devices, was set extremely low. Today's advances in these areas create massive opportunities for large and small businesses to take advantage of the best tools, infrastructure and user interfaces modern technology has to offer... |
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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Sprint's comprehensive approach to the cloud includes teaming with leaders in software and cloud computing while enhancing the services with seamless integration of mobility for anytime, anywhere access from any device. With reliable, secure connectivity over Sprint's 3G, 4G, and all-IP Global MPLS networks, businesses of all sizes can confidently embrace a variety of hosted services to improve their productivity and cost structures. Expansion of Sprint's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio will be announced later... |
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Sprint today announced an exclusive relationship with CSC to deliver cloud computing, cloud-based email, managed hosting and colocation services within the United States to potential commercial customers. Sprint's ability to deliver CSC's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions joins Sprint Complete Collaboration, a Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution launched earlier this year, in an expanding portfolio of Sprint cloud-based solutions that are planned for launch in the second half of 2012.
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
"PiCloud is a cloud computing platform dedicated to giving every developer, scientist, and engineer in the world a supercomputer at their fingertips," stated PiCloud co-Founder Ken Elkabany. The partnership will align the two companies' development goals. D-Wave's development library will be integrated with PiCloud's cloud platform to give developers easy remote access to both quantum and conventional computing power from within the same framework. With the thousands of cores that can be leveraged on-demand with PiCloud, developers will be able to access a new type of supercomputing / quantum computing hybrid capability from anywhere with Internet access... |
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PiCloud, the leader in providing easy access to conventional computing power on the cloud, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in commercial quantum computing technology, have announced a formal development partnership. Projects are underway to integrate the two companies' technologies.