Given all the cacophony around JeOS, and the vigorous (and probably correct) assertions that virtual appliances are the future model for application delivery and deployment, you could be excused for tolling the death knell for server operating systems. After all, should you desire to deploy an application in this alleged future, you would just ...

2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality today is bleak. Aprilis is gone. Optware has gone into hibernation. Only InPhase is still ...

It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest and greatest route to eye-popping cost savings. Not that there isn’t an element of truth in ...

One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual machines via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly, an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism and co-founder Reuven Cohen, its primary use today is as an Enomalism feature that allows large ...

Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V. I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently served by their partners. This is primarily because their investors have their feet to the ...

  Twinfield International N.V. HOEVELAKEN, NETHERLANDSwww.twinfield.com     Accounting firms typically support a wide range of software solutions used by their clients. This can require the accounting firms to constantly switch between applications, deal with multiple versions of software, and ...

  Bradon Technologies, Ltd MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA www.bradontechnologies.com   What if you could really conduct meetings online? Meaning, what if you could share documents, images, presentations and talk with your audience via 100% VoIP in real-time with exceptional audio and video quality? And what if you could have ...

  Accellos, Inc. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO www.accellos.com   What if you could dramatically increase productivity, efficiency, and visibility of activities that take place in your warehouse or distribution center, or empower logistics providers to meet the needs of individual clients dynamically and cost-effectively? ...

  Level Platforms, Inc. OTTAWA, CANADA www.levelplatforms.com   ‘You break it, you get it fixed—and you pay time and materials.’ This has been the traditional service model used by VARs. Yet faced with service commoditization, price competition, and high service provisioning costs, solutions providers and IT service ...

  Criteo PARIS, FRANCE www.criteo.com   AlloCine, the leading European portal for movie information, relies on accurately driving the right content to the right person, whether it’s a customized newsletter, a movie review, or a recommendation on the latest DVD release. The company needed a solution that ...