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Companies invest a great deal to create apps. Is this the reason they try to force them on every visitor, every time they visit?
Companies invest a great deal to create apps. Is this the reason they try to force them on every visitor, every time they visit?
Hadoop has become a central tool for Big Data applications. RainStor has added SQL access, better compression and the ability to reduce the number of systems in a Hadoop cluster to improve performance and reduce overall costs of using Hadoop.
Splashtop's Cliff Miller offers more detail on the companies packaging and distribution model in response to last week's post.
While at Parallels Summit, I finally had the chance to meet a fellow ZDnet blogger, Adrian Bridgwater. Adrian is culpable for the software application development blog on zdnet.
One of the three pillars of Paul Maritz's VMworld Keynote address (see Notes from VMworld and Maritz: VMware’s Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V) focused on virtualizing the user desktop computing experience. He spoke of this like it was a new idea and yet there are a host of vendors who have been offering components of this vision for quite some time.
Although the Citrix analyst bash was interesting, informative and a wonderful opportunity to re-connect with old friends both at Citrix and in the analyst community at large, getting back to my office became quite a challenge. Continental Airlines, in preparation for Hurricane Ike, canceled our flights and did little to nothing to help my wife and I get home.
I just completed a fascinating conversation with Neil Gardner, VP of Marketing, and Jan Tarzia, Director of Corporate Communications, of Endeavors Technologies concerning the roll application virtualization and streaming has in a future "cloud computing" based environment. It appears that the catch phrase du jour is cloud or mesh computing.
Endeavors Technologies just launched its Application Jukebox, an application virtualization and delivery product. It appears to me that this product takes the concepts of application encapsulation and application streaming to a new level.
In the past few weeks, I've spoken with representatives of JBoss and TIBCO.
As organizational application portfolios become ever more complex and interdependent, it can be quite a challenge for IT administrators to keep current on what applications work with what other applications, what data sources are used by what applications, and, of course, where various IT resources reside at the moment. Tideway Systems just launched a virtual applications to take on that task.