Intel is demonstrating a console for managing security and power management for OpenStack here at the Intel Developer Forum. We saw a demo of the management console yesterday. I did a quick interview with Intel’s Billy Cox, who runs the company’s Cloud Builder program. Services Angle The demo is not the most elegant I’ve seen. ...

Where will the new oil be discovered? What will be the impact on water resources with practices such as fracting, the process of extracting underground natural gas? These are the types of topics that are being explored in the world of high performance computing. I am live blogging a briefing at Intel Developer Forum on ...

The Facebook Open Compute story is a pretty clear effort to position itself as a leader in open data center design. But it also provides a way for it to show enterprise operators the way it manages data volumes that rival any data center operation in the world. Yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum, Facebook ...

The Ultrabook is Intel’s answer to the new mobile computing landscape. During his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini pushed heavily on the topic of mobility with a road map that shows how invested the company is in PC-style devices. The Ultrabook has been promoted since the summer. We are now ...

In a  briefing on Friday, I learned about Sybase new “SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition,” that in a press release the company says “provides cloud-specific tooling and features that allow ISVs to manage data for cloud applications that meet both their business needs and those of their customers.” But what became quickly apparent was the effort to ...

I’ve written a lot about activity streams over the past few years. Yesterday I, reported the news about Strides, the new service from VMware’s Socialcast that combines activity streams with task management. Strides shows tasks and the activity stream in a two-pane window, for group or individual conversations. This is new, something you would rarely ...

Microblogging received a lot of criticism in its early days as one-dimensional. Its value quickly caught on as new features were added by companies such as Yammer, Tibco Tibbr, Qontext and a host of others. Now comes the next phase of microblogging. And that’s the full integration into workflows. The latest incarnation comes from Socialcast, ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is loving this idea of crowdfunding. In tandem with the presidential address tonight, a post on the White House blog said that as part of the America Jobs Act,  Obama will seek more access to equity capital and the ability to more easily raise funds through crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter. Services ...

The talk about big data can be deafening. But what is it really? I was looking at a post by Wikibon Co-Founder David Floyer who did a comprehensive overview on the topic earlier this summer and thought it might be worth looking at definitions from various experts and executives to provide some perspective. Floyer writes: ...

RESTful APIs are becoming a standard for gluing apps in a Web oriented environment. Twitter, Google and a host of other Web properties have thrived by developing their own REST APIs. The use is so widespread that there are some developers who maintain that the API should be developed before anything else. Still, a steep learning ...