IBM on Monday announced it has completed the acquisition of Platform
Computing, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. Financial terms were not disclosed.
On October 11, 2011, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive
agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a global leader in cluster, grid and
cloud management software for distributed computing environments.
Platform Computing's focused technical and distributed computing management
software helps clients create, integrate and manage shared computing
environments that are used in compute- and data-intensive applications such
as simulations, computer modeling and analytics. These technical and high
performance computing (HPC) applications fuel product development, critical
business decisions and breakthrough science in financial services,
manufacturing, digital media, oil and g... (more)
RentTheCloud.com Debuts to Help CIOs Adopt Cloud Computing
Real Estate-Inspired Methodology Matches Buyers with Cloud Properties
RentTheCloud.com Debuts to Help CIOs Adopt Cloud
A-Frame Technology Services on Thursday announced the availability of
RentTheCloud.com, a brokerage service that matches companies seeking cloud
services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) with cloud vendors. Unlike the uncertainties and
risks of conventional approaches to evaluating, selecting, and implementing a
cloud service, RentTheCloud.com is 100% success-based, like a realtor. Fees
are based on a "cloud brokerage a... (more)
Forrester Research has run up a study of private cloud vendors and rated them
on 10 criteria: self-service portal or service catalog; dynamic workload
management; resource management; service management; integration and control
APIs; image library; RBAC administration; virtualization layer; physical
compute & storage; and last but not least application services.
Against these yardsticks it measured 15 companies. In descending order they
are Platform Computing, HP, IBM, VMware, Abiquo, BMC, Dell, CA, TIBCO,
newScale, Cloud.com, Eucalyptus, Hexagrid, Microsoft and Enomaly.
Among t... (more)
Korean businesses like Samsung Securities are wielding big analytics to lower
risk and increase performance speed during critical periods. They’re doing
it with SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, and
Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management
software.
By applying SAS Grid Manager to its SAS for Enterprise Risk Management
system, Samsung Securities expects to increase overall risk calculation
throughput by 30 percent while also improving the accuracy of the analysis.
Part of the SAS High-Performance Computing portfolio, SAS Gri... (more)
Research in Motion is working on getting its yet-to-hit-market QNX-based
Blackberry Playbook tablet to run Android apps so it won't be app-starved,
according to a Bloomberg piece quoting "three people familiar with the
matter."
Two people reportedly told it RIM is developing the widgetry internally,
having looked outside, and could materialize it in the second half.
RIM is reportedly concocting a non-Dalvik approach to avoid Google's patent
problems with Oracle.
QNX and Android are both Unix-y derivatives and bow to the Posix standard.
If RIM looked outside then presumably it lo... (more)