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codeFutures dbShards
Cory Isaacson, CEO, of codeFutures, and I spoke about how today's distributed applications often are more highly scalable than the database infrastructure …
CloudPassage Halo-SVM and Firewall
If the number of companies coming forward to brief me on their new products is a guide, security is finally becoming a top priority for cloud computing …
Membase practical evolution to No-SQL
Membase's James Phillips introduced me to the organization and to Membase. Since I was familiar with Memcached, the key value, memory resident database, …
Penguin Computing Scyld ClusterWare for Novell SUSE Linux
LTom Coull, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Products and Engineering, of Penguin Computing and I had a chance to catch up a few days ago. …
FalconStor Service Oriented Data Protection
Jim McNiel, CEO and President of FalsonStor, and I had a rather lively conversation about virtualized environments, the progression some organizations …
Virtual Computer's NxTop supports Intel's next generation microprocessors
The folks at Virtual Computer recently announced that they have enhanced their NxTop® desktop virtualization solution to support Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor …
Conversation with Virtual Instruments' Len Rosenthal
I had the opportunity to speak with Len Rosenthal, VP of Marketing for Virtual Instruments the other day. Although the original intent was to discuss …
Comments on 99.999% Reliable? Don’t Hold Your Breath
I can't believe that I missed an article Randall Stross published in the NY Times on January 9th titled 99.999% Reliable? Don’t Hold Your Breath. It …
Bitzer Mobile - Enterprise Application Platform
Ali Ahmed, CTO and Founder of Bitzer Mobile, and I had an opportunity to discuss his company's enterprise application platform for mobile devices. The …
Kaminaro K2 accelerates storage or database applications
One of my Kusnetzky Group clients, Kaminaro, spent some time helping me understand a new storage appliance that can accelerate storage or database intensive …
Embotics manages virtual infrastructure
The new V-Commander 3.7 provides an end-to-end solution to manage virtual infrastructures (VIs) and private clouds efficiently and cost-effectively. …
Xeround MySQL in the Cloud
Xeround is addressing issues organizations have had when deploying database-based applications in cloud computing environments — locality of data and …
Conversation with OPNET
After I reviewed OPNET's AppMapper Xpert (see OPNET launches AppMapper Xpert™ for more information), I got a message from Susan Cole, VP of marketing …
Pano Logic's Pano System 4 stretches Thin Client capabilities
I had a wonderful conversation with Aly Orady, CTO of Pano Logic, and his colleague, Dana Loof, EVP Marketing, about the release of both new software …
OPNET AppMapper Xpert - a new service offering
OPNET Technologies reached out to me to introduce a new product, AppMapper Xpert. They're suggesting that a new approach, offering the capability as …
HP's Eric Croswhite discusses Thin Client Solutions
Eric Croswhite, worldwide product marketing manager of thin client solutions at HP, and I had a lovely conversation recently. Eric helped me make sense …
Axceleon CloudFuzion taking technical computing to the clouds
My long-time friend, Michael Duffy of Axceleon introduced me to a new product, CloudFuzion, which is a new use of the company's EnFuzion product. It …
Virtualization's potential impact on mobile computing
I recently received a request to discuss the "mobile virtualization space" with a potential Kusnetzky Group client. Since virtualization is made up …
Commenting on Ed Bott's "The 2010 OS scorecard"
My ZDnet colleague, Ed Bott, just published The 2010 OS scorecard: Microsoft loses a little, Apple wins a lot and I'd like to comment on his post. I've …