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Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. This session will examine: The current state and industry adoption of Hadoop and cloud-based data processing; The programming model, capabilities, common patterns, and best-practices for Hadoop deployment and usage; The ecology of value-add technologies and services in the grid computing and data processing world; Models for using grid-based data processing alongside traditional technologies and techniques.

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"More than a half dozen conferences and events targeting Virtualization and Cloud Computing canceled in the past two months," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO of SYS-CON Media. "We predicted that this would be the outcome for many competing shows due to the current economic conditions," he adds. "We will serve the Cloud Computing industry, our sponsors, advertising partners, and delegates as the leading global event around the globe for the next decade," said Carmen Gonzalez, Sr. VP of sales and advertising at SYS-CON Media.

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"It's a chance for Cisco to participate on a bigger scale, helping to bring peace to the world. Is that too big a dream?...(long pause...Maybe." With that thought Cisco CEO John Chambers ends an interview published this week by BusinessWeek in which he reveals that Cisco's cloud computing ambitions are nothing compared to its terrestrial goal, which is "to become the best company in the world, and the best company for the world."

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Parallels announced that SoftLayer is presenting Parallels Virtuozzo Containers as part of its dedicated server offerings. SoftLayer provides servers for many small and medium-sized hosters, providing a cost-efficient means to offer services that enable them to move up the value chain. SoftLayer's new offering underpins this kind of "sticky" service, providing an end-to-end solution for infrastructure, hardware and applications to customers and service providers worldwide.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider LynuxWorks named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

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How do cloud platforms assure that your application will perform well and meet the high expectations for your end users? In this session, we will take these clouds on a test flight - by running an application on a cloud platform, and examining performance bottlenecks and their impact on functionality by looking at how various clouds make it easy or hard to monitor the reliability and availability of applications. Developers and IT managers will leave this session with a solid approach to answering the question "is it the cloud, the app, or just me?"

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HP has said it doesn’t want to be in the cloud business itself – merely sell gear to cloud makers – but it’s lined up with little Salesforce.com rival NetSuite – owned mostly by Larry Ellison – to offer NetSuite’s SaaS CRM and ERP applications to SMBs through its 15,000 US resellers. HP now has a referral program for its channel, which can offer their own value-added management and implementation services alongside the NetSuite widgetry as part of HP’s Total Care portfolio.

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XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) will offer a free Cloud Bootcamp on November 20, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, California. Being held for the first time at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, on November 20, 2008, the Cloud Computing Bootcamp will show you how to take advantage of the cloud. Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But moving to a cloud infrastructure is not necessarily as nice and clean as the providers would want you to think. With cloud infrastructures problems don't magically go away; they just shift: you don't have scalability or storage problems any more, but you need to constantly monitor the cloud and your application in it.

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Omni and Userful have announced that over 50 academic institutions from 29 US States and 10 countries worldwide have signed up to deploy Multi-station SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops through the "Free the Penguins" education initiative. Originally launched in September, "Free the Penguins" provides customers with a low-cost, high-performance alternative to stand-alone Windows desktops and thin clients for computer labs, classrooms and libraries. Omni, Userful and Novell have agreed to extend this initiative until the end of 2008 in response to extremely strong uptake from schools in the US, Canada, Australia, South America, Europe and Africa.

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AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise. User environment management enables the configuration and personalization of virtual, standard desktops by treating user specific data as a separate layer of the desktop. This user layer is applied as needed and is accessible in any environment. Keeping user data separate means it is no longer tied to a specific machine and so can be applied to any desktop environment when needed. In this way, the user experience remains consistent and predictable while the corporate desktop is standardized and delivery automated. Companies such as Citi, WellSpan, Bank of America, Clifford Chance and HP are using AppSense technology in their virtual environments today.

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"Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition is a terrific milestone that underlines the value in our twin track release strategy," said Jane Silber, COO of Canonical. "The server edition embraces cloud computing, virtualization, mail server enhancements, Java development and deployment as well as a range of services to help system admininstrators and developers. Our six-monthly release cycle allows us to get these features in front of users faster continuing to make Ubuntu the best option for innovative organisations."

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Aptana has announced the 1.0 release of Aptana Jaxer and the introduction of Jaxer Pro, both “AJAX servers” that let developers create entire web applications using the ubiquitous set of languages common to web browsers: JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML. To achieve this, Jaxer embeds the open source Mozilla Firefox browser engine within a server so that developers can have the same execution environment on the application server as they have in the web browser – a simplification of web technologies that reduces complexity in the development and management of web applications. Jaxer is free, open source software. Jaxer Pro provides the same technology under a commercial license with support from Aptana.

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The Tap In Systems consists of a team of engineers and software developers with many years of experience in network management, systems management, software and web application development. Its members have worked in large corporate environments as well as start up ventures. Tap In Systems was formed to provide IT management solutions that were previously only available from high cost enterprise software vendors. This is accomplished by leveraging the latest open-source technologies to build applications which use the latest web-enabled techniques. Our philosophy is to emphasize integration of existing and common tools rather than re-deploying new tools which have a disruptive effect on an IT orgnization.

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Aonix has announced the release of PERC Ultra SMP with support for Concurrent’s RedHawk real-time Linux and associated NightStar advanced Linux debugging and analysis tools. PERC Ultra, Aonix’s flagship product, targets the same time-critical applications such as simulation and training, data acquisition, imaging, and process control that RedHawk currently serves. PERC Ultra SMP, a variant of the Aonix family of deterministic and hard real-time virtual machines and Java development tools, provides new ability to execute real-time applications effectively in multi-processor and multi-core systems.

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Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winner? Will SaaS and open source ultimately turn against each other for dominance of the software business model – WWF Smack Down style – where the once united tag team, after conquering their opponent, starts to fight between themselves?

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I know, the economy is rough these days. Myself, I'm unwilling to look at my mutual funds until we're through this. However, when times are tough, markets normalize, and while the stock holders and venture capitalists out there are crying in their beers, now could be a great time to start something new for those innovative and resourceful few. The idea is that when it does not seem like a good time to start a company, typically that is the best time to start a company. In this case you’re looking to bring in second generation technology, or technology created out of the lessons learned in the first. Thus, you have a better understanding of the problems at hand, and how SOA technology can solve those problems. There are huge opportunities here, as long as you make the right moves.

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Centrify, the folks with Active Directory savvy clever at using it on non-Microsoft platforms, is moving out Centrify Suite 2008, an integrated family of Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management solutions that secure cross-platform environments and help address regulatory compliance. The widgetry in the suite – Centrify DirectControl, DirectAuthorize, and DirectAudit – are built on a common architecture. The suite comes in three editions: Standard, Enterprise and Application. The Standard Edition consists of DirectControl and DirectAuthorize.

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The Linux Foundation asked its people to wet their pencils and figure out the total value of Linux and the effect the open source platform was having on software economics. And so according to their calculations it would take $10.8 billion to build a Linux distribution like Fedora 9 these days from scratch and $1.4 billion just to develop the Linux kernel, but the ciphers are so weighed down with qualifiers they don’t seem worth the bother. The point of the exercise, aside from the obvious propaganda value, was to update David Wheeler’s 2002 study which claimed – based merely on its lines of code – that a typical Linux distribution was worth $1.2 billion.

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Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – it’s Linux-based one – has moved to production status after two years in beta and now offers a 99.5% Service Level Agreement (SLA) while a Windows one, running Windows Server and SQL, both 32- and 64-bit, has gone into public beta to meet customer demand. Amazon says EC2 can now be used to deploy ASP.NET web sites, high-performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions and other Windows-based applications. Pricing for the Windows cloud starts at 12-and-a-half cents a compute hour.

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