Nastel Technologies, a leading provider of performance monitoring and management software for integrated applications and an HP Platinum Partner, announced that its Nastel AutoPilot WebSphere MQ (APWMQ) Smart Plug-in (SPI) for HP Software is available through HP, effective immediately....

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (SYS-CON Media) and they showed me our Flex book with the correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, 'Yakov your book is ready, stop by and pick it up'. The guys from prod...

There's no question that Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will continue to lead the IT and business agenda. After all, an SOA offers a flexible, extensible, and composable approach to reusing and extending existing applications and services, as well as constructing new ones.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has opened its 'Innovation Factory,' a Web 2.0 solution that manufactures ideas and new products and services for business growth. The first industry-specific version of Innovation Factory is being demonstrated simultaneously in Boston and Orlando today and was develope...

IBM and Intel are holding hands now over an initiative to push virtualization on multiprocessors, saying larger, more expandable MP servers deliver the best return on investment. To prove their point, they've come up with a new virtualization benchmarking methodology called vConsolida...

Kapow Technologies (http://www.kapowtech.com/), the leading provider of mashup solutions for the enterprise, today announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan. Macaraeg, an industry veteran who successfully established several U.S.-based enterprise software companies in Asia ...

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) describe what the software development community aims to do; break out of primitive Web delivery to deliver robust functionality, exciting data visualization and 'thicker,' role-based and process-oriented user interfaces. These types of RIAs are now pos...

Organizations are scrambling to drive costs out of their IT infrastructure, while making it more flexible. They're looking for ways to avoid upgrades, and to use what they already have to meet new and demanding information processing requirements. In addition, enterprises are working t...

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Extra clue: it also anno...

Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file virtualization solutions, today announced that it has appointed Thomas Wong as vice president of engineering. Wong joins Attune Systems with more 25 years of industry experience in both early-stage and established technology com...

Seagull Software, a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business re...

across the multiple applications and serversthat are often involved in composite SOA applications. Intersperse 6.0delivers a readily customizable user interface to provide a visual,role-based display of the wide range of information needed for managing SOAdeployments. And with this r...

Today at Lotusphere 2007, emoze, a subsidiary of the Emblaze Group , announced the introduction of the industry's most secure and comprehensive solution that enables corporate and personal users to send and receive emails to and from a mobile phone or other mobile device. emoze pushes ...

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com)announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East(www.ajaxworld.com), which will take place on March 19-21, 2007, will attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in N...

B2B marketplaces facilitate efficient search and transactions by offering services such as buyer/supplier and product/services searches and transactions such as procurement and asset disposal.

BMC Software announced today that two of its executives will speak at the SHARE User Event, February 11-16 in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Convention Center.

IBM announced plans to create a Product Development Integration Framework to better link the design and development of products with core business processes, elevating product lifecycle management and development from an engineering-centric function to a strategic business process that...

to IBM's manufacturing execution systems (MES) customers, among others.

willinclude real-time point-to-point video for expanded communicationcapabilities. This release will also include integration with MicrosoftOutlook and Office applications and support for Linux servers and Macintoshclients.

At Lotusphere today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announcedthe planned availability of the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 publicBeta starting this February. This is the final beta phase before theproduct's target ship date of mid-2007, concluding the most collaborativesoftware review program in...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released details of asignificant project with EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largestbuilding societies. The agreement, part of EBS' IT upgrade strategy, is toenhance its business flexibility by implementing a Service OrientatedArchitecture (SOA) which will ...

The struggle to integrate business assets across the .NET - J2EE technology divide is legendary. So it should come as no surprise that the emergence of portal applications as an enabler of Service Oriented Architecture is forcing enterprises to revisit interoperability challenges in ...

A new, independent research report on serviceoriented architecture found that 'IBM (NYSE: IBM) leads in overallEurope/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) offerings.' The Forrester Wave(TM): EMEASOA Integration, Q4 2006, December 2006, examined IBM Global Services'current SOA offerings, SOA stra...

Even though I write for SYS-CON, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit. SYS-CON will present the AJAXWorld 2007 Conference & Expo 2007 East in March. Usually, attendees have very limited access to speakers during conferences, and SYS-CON Even...

Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su...

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that itsdeveloper community has grown at an unprecedented rate this year, withnearly 1,700 worldwide developers joining its growing community per day.Throughout the year, developerWorks noted several trends, as illustrated bythe high demand for content a...

Does this sound familiar? You have a domain object, perhaps for reporting purposes, that's built from a ton of JDBC queries and it takes too long to load. Nothing else happens until this object is built, so it's become a bottleneck. Even worse, each of the queries is actually well tun...

In response to the whopping great suit that IBM filed against Amazon.com in October, the one that lays claim to God knows how many hundreds of millions in damages for alleged infringing a handful of utterly fundamental e-commerce business methods patents it now holds - like on online a...

IBM announced that it has developed software interfaces that will make it easier for assistive technologies to provide those with disabilities access to advanced features in software programs -- such as editing functions, hyperlinks, charts and menus. Many browser-based Rich Internet A...

such as editing functions, hyperlinks, charts andmenus. These features can be found in rich browser applications based onDHTML, AJAX, and WAI-ARIA, and desktop applications based on theOpenDocument Format.

Centric announced their full support for the IBM Product Development Integration Framework and the release of Centric InSight, Centric MultiSight, and Centric Decision Center Product Intelligence applications certified by IBM as 'SOA connected.' Executives and multi-disciplinary teams ...

IBM has announced new provisioning software that will help accelerate the deployment time for Microsoft Windows Vista customers. The new IBM software reduces the time it takes to manually deploy or upgrade a computer, including an operating system deployment, to less than a minute.

According to Evans Data Corporation, in a single year WebSphere Application Server Community Edition gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss.

IBM has announced that its BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than HP BladeSystem. As energy prices rise to nearly 15 cents per kilowatt hour in New York City, 21 cents per kilowatt hour in Tokyo and up to 23 cents per kilowatt hour in London, businesses can save hund...

IBM announced that more than 600 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators have joined IBM?s WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition partner initiative since it was launched just six months ago. WAS Community Edition, based on technology from Apache Geron...

IBM has announced Lotus Expeditor, a development platform for creating Eclipse-based and Web 2.0 applications. Lotus Expeditor's open standards-based programming model enables enterprises to integrate existing and new applications and deliver them to a variety of connected and disconne...

For the third time in a row, Neoware, the thin client house and heir to IBM's thin client business, said Monday that revenues for the September quarter would fall short of expectations and come in somewhere around $21.5 million, down from the $23.5 million it saw in the June quarter an...

Early Monday morning IBM, the plaster saint of the open source movement and lately a high-profile critic of software patents given to open sourcing or foreswearing the litigious use of its patents, filed suit against Amazon claiming that Amazon 'has built its business model on the use ...

With software architecture evolving toward SOA, many projects in this space have encountered challenges associated with accessing data. As has been said, 'The way an organization thinks about applications and data must evolve - it must stop thinking about data as a second-class citizen...