Archives: 2008February

With the introduction of Dynamic IT for Workplaces, Fujitsu Siemens Computers heralds a new era of computing: hosted desktops running on remote virtual machines. Leveraging VMware Virtual Desktop Solutions, Dynamic IT for Workplaces allows customers to reduce costs, and helps them to provide new services as well as increase overall service quality.
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Wyse Technology announced the availability of two mobile thin clients — the Wyse X90L and X90Le. Designed to be flexible user devices in a desktop virtualization strategy, these mobile thin clients deliver a combination of performance, flexibility and capabilities including:Gigabit Ethernet for access to the fastest corporate networks, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN connectivity and Cisco CCX […]

Avenda Systems announced two software releases that will enhance the adoption of Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP). The Avenda NAP Agent for Linux extends NAP to network endpoints running the Linux operating system. Network Access Protection (NAP) technology from Microsoft is a comprehensive infrastructure that allows system administrators to monitor and control end-point access to […]

ILOG announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG also announced that the product will be made available to Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for OEM use through ILOG’s sales and support organization. ILOG Elixir 1.0 enables creation of advanced, business-critical and engaging Rich […]

DataCore announced that it has brought to market a Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) package that will be marketed and sold as Virtual Infrastructure Foundation PLUS (VIF+). Like the original, VIF+ includes thin provisioning, iSCSI support, SANmotion data migration technology and performance caching. However, VIF+ adds support for thin provisioning storage pools up to 4TBs, includes […]

Adobe announced the availability of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the capabilities […]

Trumpeting it as the filling of ‘a key last hole in the Google Apps suite,’ Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, heralded the arrival of Google Sites - exclusively available in Google Apps - but early reactions have included industry bloggers who are not overly impressed with Google’s use of AJAX despite its […]

‘The Web needs fixing’ says Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford bluntly, pointing out that the standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. In his keynote in March at AJAXWorld 2008 East in New York City, Crockford intends to argue that, since the Web has now grown from a document retrieval system […]

Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will ‘win’ in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I’m tired of seeing blog posts keeping this debate alive. It’s a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try, or investigate, each technology and find one easier than […]

Adobe greased up Monday for its wrestling match with Microsoft over who gets to call the shots in the all-important rich Internet apps (RIA) department, that blurry future where web applications and desktop applications start looking and acting like each other. It finally released its free, highly anticipated Adobe Integrated Runtime 1.0 (AIR) cross-platform software […]