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- Velocity 2010 Call for Participation: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations Conference – O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 – 24, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
If you're IT Management you should consider going to and/or attending this. Esp. if you're an IT management vendor.
- Eclipse – Enterprise Modules Project (Gemini) Proposal
"This proposal recommends the creation of a new project called 'Enterprise Modules', nicknamed Gemini, to provide a home for subprojects that integrate existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms, and/or that implement enterprise specifications on module-based platforms." Mapping existing, enterprise Java stuff into OSGi.
- IBM Tivoli Live – new monitoring services
SaaS-hosted monitoring from Tivoli.
- Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding – Network World
- BMC takes service desk to the cloud via Salesforce.com
Looks like BMC is hooking it's hosted, Magic offering to Salesforce, not Remedy? Nice mud-in-yer-eye quotes from Service-now.com too.
- Microsoft flashes cloud management system
"Scott Ottaway, senior product manager for Windows Server said, Microsoft would have a 'unified console for managing on-premises and cloud assets in the same way.'" Also, some notes on PowerShell (used as "glue" for Cloud System Center) and Service Manager (still not out).
- Intel: All-in-one devices can't be expert at anything
Yeah, those "computers" will never do enough. Better to have a bunch of devices, each with at least one Intel chip in them than just one.
- COM automation in Silverlight 4 is not an “edge case”
"I see it as evolving into the inverse of Sun’s aim with Java. Sun tried strenuously to guide developers towards cross-platform, but provided a way out – via Java Native Interface – if absolutely necessary. Microsoft will provide cross-platform where we really need it, but make it easy to slip into Windows-only development in order to get some nice feature like a location API, or Office integration."
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
"Some day — Microsoft won’t say exactly when — Silverlight and WPF are going to merge into one Web programming and app delivery model that, most likely, will be known as Silverlight, Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Microsoft’s Rich Client Platforms."
- Capital Markets to Broaden Use of Hosted Software in 2010
"SaaS for a while was still slideware," notes David Reilly, CIO of enterprise infrastructure at Morgan. "Now it is real." But Reilly's not planning to put hosted software everywhere. "There's always going to be a need for proprietary software that we feel is a competitive differentiator or that we need to provide a service to a particular client," he explains.
- New Regulatory Requirements Require Data On-Demand by Wall Street & Technology
No "On-Demand" as in cloud, but more "getting good data quickly." Interesting hook to sell mashup, database, and ESB-driven SOA here: help banks and financial co.'s meet pressures and regulations to provide up-to-data data in standard(ish) formats instantly.
- Social Networking Is Here to Stay
"'There is no money to be made at this point,' says Marc DeCastro, research manager at advisory firm Financial Insights. 'Firms are still trying to figure out if social networking is about marketing, client support, customer support or something else.'" My credit union has a Twitter account (@ucfu), and I've actually gotten some useful info out of it – like when branches are closes for computer upgrades and such.
- China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i
- Dear Twitter: Really? Seriously? [Infochimps] « The SiliconANGLE
Who was it that said "owning your data is dead"?
- Facebook | Ignite Austin I – Jan 13th, 2010
"If you had 5 minutes and 20 slides to say anything you wanted to Austin, what would it be? At Ignite Austin, 16 artists, technologists and personalities will take the stage to answer this challenge. And we want you to be a part of this awesome night. There will be drinks, food and an incredible mix of Austin's most interesting folks. What is this, you ask? Ignite was started by Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O'Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Etsy.com, formerly of MAKE Magazine. Ignite was inspired by Pecha Kucha Nights, where speakers are given 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds, giving each speaker 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame. The first Ignite took place in Seattle in 2006, and since then the event has become an international phenomenon, with gatherings in Helsinki, Finland; Paris, France; New York, New York; and many other locations. In 2010, Austin will be joining the ranks."
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