Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft's release of its commercial cloud platform Azure. Visual Studio is Microsoft's a development environment that can be used to develop web applications, sites and services based on Microsoft's technology platforms. Visual Studio 2010 will have additional testing options for developers to ensure quality code. Microsoft has included built-in tools for Windows 7 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and new drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. This is the first time that Microsoft has offered specific tools for building applications off of SharePoint. And with Visual Studio, developers can also build applications that cut across both Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure and on-premises databases.

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IBM Upgrades Software To Manage Data Centers And Virtualization

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IBM is enhancing its VMControl software for managing data centers to give enterprise users a single point of control across multiple types of IT systems and virtualization technologies. Combined with IBM’s Tivoli software, VMControl allows for combinations of physical and virtual IBM servers to be managed as a single entity, called “system pooling.”

IBM says this approach optimizes virtualization by helping corporate data centers simplify management functions and better share and prioritize use of critical resources such as CPU, memory and storage. Having centralized control over virtualized environments lets companies manage large amounts of information and processing resources and then parcel them out to applications when and where they’re needed.

And this efficiency also brings with it lower capital, operational and energy costs for businesses. IBM also claims that the new and improved VMControl will help with the deployment of cloud computing applications. To compliment VMControl, there’s a new version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager that is being released that provides enhanced automation of the manual tasks of provisioning and configuring servers, operating systems, middleware, software applications, storage and network devices.

The combination of Tivoli and VMControl allows for speedier deployments, gives users the ability to downsize management tools into an efficient platform, and provides for additional monitoring and management features. IBM’s vice president of technical sales for systems and technology group, David Gelardi, tells us that the upgrade of these software represents the company’s larger strategy of investment on systems software for the enterprise vs. hardware. In fact, IBM’s recent strong earnings reflects this shift in focus.

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LinkedIn Flying High With 50 Million Business Users

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.3] LinkedIn has hit 50 million users, according to a blog post today, growing from 45 million users two months ago. And according to the latest comScore data, LinkedIn is steadily growing in terms of unique visitors. For September, LinkedIn had 9 million unique visitors in the U.S. compared to 8.7 million unique visitors in August. But it appears that LinkedIn's growth is mainly attributed to a burgeoning international user base. Worldwide, LinkedIn grew from 18 million unique visitors in July to 20 million unique visitors in August. The network's CEO, Jeff Weiner, said in the post that half of LinkedIn's membership is international, with 11 million users in Europe and 3 million users in India, which is seeing the fastest rate of adoption of LinkedIn. Weiner added that it took just 12 days for the network to accumulate the latest million users.

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Nuxeo Releases ECM Product With OpenSocial Capabilities

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Nuxeo, an Enterprise Content Management company founded in 2000, announced today the release of their newest product, Nuxeo Document Management 5.3. This product comes replete with integration of OpenSocial initiatives, Windows Sharepoint Support services, improved search functions, and CMIS support.

Nuxeo’s newest release aims to please the demands of customers who need an all-inclusive solution to the management of digital content while simultaneously incorporating social business applications. The introduction of OpenSocial support to Nuxeo DM 5.3 allows users to create gadgets to use within enterprise applications. Nuxeo DM 5.3 can be used as an OpenSocial container, allowing for enterprise mashups with products such as Atlassian’s Jira, as well as being a publisher of gadgets.

Another new feature to Nuxeo DM 5.3 is deeper integration with Microsoft Sharepoint for document collaboration. Users can see information regarding their content via the Document Panel in Microsoft Office and files can be opened and saved directly through Nuxeo DM. Additionally, integration with Internet Explorer allows users to access content from Nuxeo while performing familiar browsing operations.

Nuxeo DM 5.3 has added support for draft 0.62 of the CMIS initiative. The inclusion of this, via an add-on component, will ensure interoperability for users who are supporting multiple content repositories.

Search functionality has also been improved in this version. Users are now able to search granularly for metadata and can search for information in multiple fields.

Nuxeo faces stiff competition from the likes of IBM, EMC, OpenText, and Oracle; all of whom are proponents of the CMIS platform. However, the price point of Nuxeo, through developer and production support subscriptions (Nuxeo DM is freely available under the standard LGPL), is lower than many of their bigger competitors.

Screencasts of the product can be found here.

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Good Data Raises $2.5 Million For Cloud-Based Analytics

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] Czech startup Good Data has raised $2.5 million in Series C funding from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and other undisclosed investors. This brings the startup's total financing to $7 million. in addition, Tim O'Reilly, who is an investor in Good Data, has joined the startup's board. Good Data, which raised $2.5 million earlier this year from Marc Andreessen and others, was founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek. Good Data offers a cloud-based data analytics solution that is more cost-effective than similar products offered by IBM, SAP and Oracle. The startup launched a beta program earlier this year which drew over 2,000 customers.

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IBM Q3 Profits Rise 14 Percent

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.1] IBM is reporting a 14 percent growth in year over year net income, posting a third-quarter profit of $3.2 billion, or $2.40 a share, on revenue of $23.6 billion. IBM has been shifting its focus towards software and services from hardware and it appears to be paying off. Chairman, president and CEO, Samuel Palmisano said in a statement that IBM's "strategic shift to higher-value businesses" contributed to the growth and the company saw "improved revenue trends in business and share gains in software and hardware.” IBM expects increased full-year 2009 earnings of at least $9.85 per share compared with its previous expectation of at least $9.70 per share. IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said in the earnings call that revenue was boosted by increased sales of software and services. He added that IBM gained share in software areas, specifically mentioning competitor Oracle.

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Good Data Raises $2.5 Million For Cloud-Based Analytics

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.3] Czech startup Good Data has raised $2.5 million in Series C funding from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and other undisclosed investors. This brings the startup's total financing to $7 million. in addition, Tim O'Reilly, who is an investor in Good Data, has joined the startup's board. Good Data, which raised $2.5 million earlier this year from Marc Andreessen and others, was founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek. Good Data offers a cloud-based data analytics solution that is more cost-effective than similar products offered by IBM, SAP and Oracle. The startup launched a beta program earlier this year which drew over 2,000 customers.

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