Platform Computing Journal

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

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)

Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Prettiest Cloud of All?

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)

Samsung Securities Picks Big Data Analytics from SAS

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)

RIM Playbook to Run Android Apps: Bloomberg

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)