• SYS-CON's Virtualization Expo Was Larger Than Any Gartner Event in Two Years
    Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT. The two content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of virtualization.

  • Microsoft's Virtualization Chief Mike Neil To Keynote SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
    Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the technical enablement of Microsoft's broader vision for virtualization, to include virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mike was responsible for Microsoft's server and PC virtualization efforts since 2003.

  • The Next Cloud Computing Company To Be Acquired
    Yesterday we read the news of B-hive's acquisition by VMware. Also this week Microsoft closed the Kidaro acquisition, which had been announced earlier in the year. Both of these companies participated in SYS-CON's second international Virtualization Conference & Expo last November in San Francisco. This event was also the last conference BEA Systems sponsored, days before their Oracle acquisition news hit the press. PlateSpin is one of the Gold Sponsors of the upcoming 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City. Novell bought the company before this event has even taken place. In the past six months, four out of nine Virtualization Conference sponsors were acquired.

  • Nirvanix CEO To Present at SYS-CON's "Cloud Computing Expo" November 20-21, 2008, San Jose, California
    The demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Patrick Harr, CEO of Nirvanix, will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (November 20-21, 2008) - a brand new adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

  • Intrinsyc Becomes an Accredited Symbian Competence Center
    Intrinsyc was appointed a Symbian Competence Center by Symbian Limited. Symbian recognized Intrinsyc's expertise in mobile device software development, as well as Intrinsyc's contribution to the successful development of Symbian OS handsets. As one of only ten Symbian Competence Centers worldwide, and the only center based in North America, Intrinsyc helps handset manufacturers, operators, partners and silicon vendors reduce product development time and cost while improving time-to-market and quality.

  • QSound Labs mQFX and QSurroundMobile Software Chosen As Reference Components to Ship With Symbian OS
    QSound Labs announced that its mQFX and QSurroundMobile technologies will be made available on Symbian OS as a reference component. mQFX, for 3D stereo audio enhancement effects, and QSurroundMobile, the multichannel audio virtualization technology, will be available in Symbian OS developer and customer kits and can be used for test and demonstration purposes. QSound's mQFX and QSurroundMobile will provide extended functionality for Symbian OS mobile phones, delivering a superior listening experience for all types of multimedia content.

  • The PC Web Still Rules...But the Mobile Web Is Catching Up
    Search Brands Still Offer Stronger Reach on PCs According to inaugural results from the MobileWeb Metrix service, The Weather Channel, Yahoo! Weather and AccuWeather achieved mobile reach that outpaced their PC reach. All three sites had mobile-to-PC reach index scores above 120, pointing to significantly stronger reach among mobile Web users than among PC Web users (see Table 1). With an index of 190, ESPN also has stronger reach among mobile Web users.

  • Wireless News: TMTsoftware's TRANSMAN and QUALCOMM's Fleet Management Systems Integrate
    QUALCOMM, a provider of business-to-business wireless enterprise applications and services, and TMTsoftware, the provider of fleet maintenance software, have announced the full integration of TMT's TRANSMAN, a best-in-class maintenance management solution, with QUALCOMM's GlobalTRACS equipment management system and OmniTRACS mobile communications system, creating a complete and automatic maintenance management solution that helps to manage the entire fleet maintenance process.

  • Symbian Welcomes the Availability of Nokia's N72
    Symbian welcomed the availability of Nokia's N72, a sleek addition to Nokia's N series range of phones with high-performance multimedia functionality at its core. The Nokia N72, based on Symbian OS v.8.1 and S60 software, has started shipments to key markets worldwide, including the Middle East and Africa.