Prolifics Technology Journal

Cloud technologies offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments. But when does it make sense to adopt cloud technologies and migrate a set of your IT services to the cloud? The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the cloud can unleash fear in many of us. Trusting that your information is secure, accessible and protected is important, and deciding what information remains inside and outside of the cloud can be critical to the success of your business. In this session, Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division will discuss how to optimize the deployment of cloud technologies and the options that exist for migrating information to the cloud. Sponsor Virtualization Conference & Expo Regis... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo - Elastic Computing vs. Cloud Computing: What's the Difference and When Do You Use Them?

Cloud Computing, in its current incarnation, falls short on its promise to make computing as a whole as simple as plugging an application into a utility service. The “cloud” model initially has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, complete application infrastructure needs to be easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled and managed in these virtualized hardware environments. Thus "Elastic Computing" enters and enhances the cloud computing... (more)

Prolifics Focuses on SOA Web Services and J2EE Migrations to IBM WebSphere

Prolifics has a dedicated practice around technology migrations to IBM WebSphere from other J2EE application servers, such as BEA WebLogic, Oracle Application Server, Sun iPlanet, or JBoss. Prolifics can also adapt applications to support multiple application servers from the same code base., the company says. Having conducted dozens of migrations, the company has also built a knowledgebase of compatibility and functional differences, as well as best practices around migration techniques. The company says it leverages its expert consultants with experience, tools and a methodolog... (more)

Will VMware Still Exist in Five Years?

Brian Madden's Blog VMware deserves a lot of credit. Even though hardware virtualization has been around for decades in one form or another, we wouldn't have it in the x86 space without VMware. The hardware and OS vendors would have been happy to keep selling hardware that was only 20% utilized. VMware turned this industry on its head. But it has awoken the slumbering giant that is Microsoft... [Note from the author: This wasn't an article I intended to write right now. But after Alex Barrett blogged about a conversation I had with her last week on this very topic, my inbox has be... (more)

Xsigo Systems to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Xsigo Systems is the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, a solution that reduces IT expense by changing the way that servers are connected to networks and storage. The Xsigo I/O Director delivers the following benefits and more: 70% fewer cables, cards, switch ports50% less capital cost100x greater agilityCentralized, remote control of I/O resourcesFor more information, please visit http://xsigo.com. SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers Virtualization, the hottest subject in all IT right n... (more)