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In this interview with Janos Koppany, the CEO of Intland Software, learn how codeBeamer, which is fully integrated with the NetBeans IDE, is changing the way distributed teams work together.

Watch Oracle executives Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, give an informative briefing on how the addition of BEA products to Oracle Fusion Middleware creates a best-in-class combination, advances a common vision, and reinforces Oracle's middleware strategy.

Ivory Service Architect is the centerpiece of the Ivory mainframe SOA solution, instantly turning mainframe developers into service developers for rapid mainframe SOA development. With Ivory Service Architect, developers can create and publish Web services, developing right-sized composite business services from existing mainframe assets with little or no training, and no consulting required.

FusionVm SaaS from Critical Watch enables organizations to reduce risk and sustain compliance by automating Vulnerability Management and Security Configuration Policy Compliance through an on-demand service.

Citrix Systems announced European language and telephone system support for the Citrix EasyCall feature in Citrix XenDesktop. EasyCall, which is also available as a feature of Citrix XenApp and Citrix NetScaler, provides a way of seamlessly integrating communications into any application.

Catbird is a pioneer in security and compliance for virtual environments. Via Catbird V-Security and the Catbird V-Agent virtual appliance, Catbird has full visibility and enforcement of the virtual network. Catbird compliance functionality includes enforcement of separation of duties; backup and secondary controls; and monitoring of VMs with corporate and regulatory policies.

Continuity Software is a provider of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions. Its RecoverGuard software mitigates disaster recovery (DR) risks by detecting data protection gaps and vulnerabilities between customers' primary production and disaster recovery sites and/or localized DR solution.

Virtual Foresight is a policy-based virtualization management product that delivers out-of-the box best practices for enforcing IT Operations and Security policies. Acting as a critical control point, Virtual Foresight ensures policy enforcement throughout the lifecycle of a virtual machine regardless of location or state.

InMage Systems announced a partnership with Marathon Technologies. Marathon will offer InMage's flagship DR-Scout solution to its customer base. Marathon representatives will be fully trained in sales, service and support for DR-Scout.

MuleSource announced general availability of Mule Galaxy Enterprise, a new production-ready solution for storing and managing SOA artifacts offering new enterprise-class features such as clustering for high availability, an extensible query engine, and more.

VLX for Network Infrastructure 3.0 is VirtualLogix's Real-Time Virtualization software, designed to address the demanding environments of communications equipment.

DataCore announced that Alchemy Plus is using DataCore's SANmelody solution to provide a hosted server virtualization farm environment for small businesses under a 'Pay as You Use' utility computing framework. Alchemy Plus' data center is located in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands.

Altor Networks announced that its Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is now a VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and available through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions, composed of one or more virtual machines, which are packaged, maintained, updated and deployed as a unit.

Health care organizations -- faced with a staggering influx of information from patient medical records and billing and claims to data on medical discoveries -- are turning to Dell and virtualization to help cure their data storage and management challenges.

Parallels announced that ProServe has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable Online Backup solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides the virtualization technology for ProServe's Virtual Online Backup Server (VOBS) offering.

BDNA announced BDNA Insight 5.0, adding several new features, support for virtual environments, and a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model.

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The Guardian published a piece by Charles Arthur titled, "Artificial
intelligence: God help us if machines ever think like people", in
which he questions the idea that Humans are a good model on which to
base machine consciousness. Why? "We don't build skyscrapers based on
the same principles as the human spine; if we did, then they'd be

A great summary of Public Resources about Mobile OSGi (courtesy of Jo Ritter, Mobile OSGi Blog).
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AmberPoint announced a new program to recruit and support leading systems integrators. The AmberPoint Systems Integrator Alliance Program provides the tools systems integrators need in order to implement reliable and manageable SOA-enabled systems with AmberPoint's runtime SOA governance solutions.