On Monday Serena Software announced new features for its Orchestrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite that manages application development from the requirements stage, through building and testing an app to its deployment. New to Orchestrated ALM, Serena says, is a dashboard that lets people involved in a project view the whole project from end to end.
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Serena Software Beefs Up ALM Suite To Improve App Development
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EMC Struck By Lightning
While as I discussed in “The Elephant, The Blind Men and Fusion IO” the jury may be out on Fusion IO as a company it’s indisputable that putting flash right on the server’s PCIe bus keeps latency to a minimum and therefore maximizes application performance. Till now the problem has been that PCIe flash is usually used to emulate wicked fast direct attached storage and that means you have to choose between speed and the flexibility that VMware’s vMotion provides. In addition to acting as DAS EMC’s new Project Lighting will also act as a cache to shared storage enabling vMotion.
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Day 17: Uploading Folders of Data to Google Docs
I need access to my files. 17 days into the 30 Days With…Google Docs process may seem a bit late, but with each passing day I am finding more and more that I need all of the files I normally work with in my Documents folder in Windows 7 on my local computer to be available to me in Google Docs.
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Secrets to Mastering the Apple Rumor Mill
Have you ever marveled at how it is that the local weatherman can be wrong more often than not, and yet still get to keep his job? Well, being a TV weatherperson requires great hair and a winning smile…or at least some knowledge of meteorology, but fear not! You can be an Apple analyst instead and be wrong just as often–maybe more.
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Veeam Adds Hyper-V Support To Its Backup And Replication Software
Following industry expectations, Veeam Software is announcing its intention to have its family of virtualization backup and replication software support Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor by the fourth quarter of this year. Up until now, the company’s product line has supported only the VMware virtualization system. While not all the details of how Hyper-V support will be implemented and priced, or exactly which features it will have compared with VMware, the company expects that both hypervisors will be supported in a single download and installation.
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Survey: Half Of Enterprise Software Will Be Open Source Within Five Years
A survey being released today at an open source conference in San Francisco shows that 56 percent of respondents predict that more than half of the software purchases made by businesses and other enterprises over the next five years will be of open source software. The organizers of the Open Source Business Conference 2011 say that this is because customers have overcome their reluctance towards using open source, such as concerns about licenses, and are embracing its virtues, such as flexibility, lower cost and avoiding vendor lock-in. The survey also identifies growth opportunities for open source in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing and mobile markets, which are growth areas for IT in general.
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EMC-Box Alliance Provides Needed Cloud Safety Net
EMC and Box.net announced a deeper partnership that gives customers a stepping stone to embrace the benefits of the cloud without risking it all. The hybrid approach of EMC Documentum combined with Box.net in the cloud delivers both peace of mind and flexibility at the same time.
Recent cloud debacles like those experienced at Amazon, or the outage of Microsoft BPOS services last week, are poignant examples of how businesses that rely on the cloud are affected when the cloud is not available.
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Cisco Intros Branch Solution Amid Restructuring, Financial News
Sandwiched between announcing a major restructuring and reporting its latest quarterly financial results, Cisco unveiled new cloud initiatives at Interop that were originally scheduled to debut a month earlier as part of a major Borderless Networks update on April 19th. The Cisco Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller is a scalable branch controller for multi-site wireless deployments that enables central management and control of up to 500 branch locations, 2,000 access points and over 20,000 clients from a single data center, while enabling remote policy configuration, management and security. Also new is the Cisco ISR Cloud Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe, which extends ScanSafe Cloud Web Security to branch offices by providing scalable, centralized Web protection and malware detection on the ISR G2 branch router.
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