Liz McMillan

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows. Documents in 2012 are read, written, collaborated on, and distributed anywhere an Internet-enabled device can reach - which is to say, everywhere. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Christopher Kenneally, Director of Business Development at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), will discuss how among research institutions and other knowledge-intensive enterprises (e.g., R&D units, medical research teams), widespread adoption of this new cloud functionality will bring dramatic changes in the ecology and characteristics of content use and re-use. Repertory-style licensing is al... (more)

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Achieves Security Certification

Red Hat on Thursday announced that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 have been awarded Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) under the Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS). Common Criteria is a set of internationally approved criteria for evaluating and certifying the information security of IT products and information systems, and EAL4+ is the highest assurance level that is recognized globally by all signatories under the Common Criteria Recognition Agreement for this category of solutions. This certificat... (more)

Compuware Supports IBM WebSphere Environments with dynaTrace 4.1

Compuware on Monday released Compuware dynaTrace 4.1, an application performance management (APM) solution to provide full support for IBM WebSphere Message Broker. dynaTrace 4.1 also adds to its User Experience Management (UEM) capabilities, enhances visualization and integrates with Compuware Gomez Real-User Monitoring - Data Center. dynaTrace 4.1 provides broad support of IBM WebSphere and brings cutting-edge APM to IBM WebSphere environments including WebSphere Message Broker, Application Servers and Portal Servers. dynaTrace advanced end-to-end transaction tracing and UEM c... (more)

Cloud Expo New York: The Compliant Cloud

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing - speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many - but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume responsibility for securing the environment? What about the data? Which type of cloud deployment offers superior security benefits? In her session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Kristin Lovejoy, Vice President of Information Technology Risk for IBM, will examine clou... (more)

SoftLayer Introduces Searchable Object Storage

SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced the immediate worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage, a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to easily store, search and retrieve data across the Internet, with optional CDN connectivity, or across SoftLayer's global private network. According to Marc Jones, director of product innovation for SoftLayer, "Object Storage gives our users an easy, scalable way to store and retrieve data. With our search functionality, SoftLayer Object Storage customers can efficiently find and retrieve objects f... (more)