The world's first Open Storage appliances, the Sun Storage 7000 family features three products in its initial release: Sun Storage 7110, 7210 and 7410 - each is the first in a new and broad family of Unified Storage Systems. In conjunction with today's launch, Sun also announced a new Open Storage Partner Specialty Program and a series of new professional services to help customers take advantage of Open Storage technologies.

Code maintenance is an important aspect of application development, one that is often ignored in favour of a faster time-to-market. For some applications, this may not pose a significant problem, since the life span of those applications is short or the application is deployed and never touched again. However, embedded systems applications may have life spans that are measured in decades, which means some early mistakes can result in significant costs later.

Microsoft showed off new Windows 7 innovations at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week. The focus was how the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship product will make it easier for hardware partners to create new experiences for Windows PC customers.

Windows senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan rallied hardware partners, encouraging them to begin testing their current products and building new products on the application programming interface (API).

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Don’t miss SQL Server Magazine Connections Conference, the premier event for Microsoft developers and DBAs, in Las Vegas, November 10-13. Every attendee will receive a copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition with one CAL.

Virtualization.info, the most popular and trusted news source about virtualization technologies since 2003, invites you to attend its premiere conference: the Virtualization Congress. On a truly independent stage, you’ll see the top technical speakers from the biggest industry players presenting real products, side by side with newest startups, who will be announcing for the first time breakthrough technologies. Join the entire virtualization ecosystem for three days and meet the people that are changing forever the way we deliver IT infrastructures.

View this web seminar to see how you can virtualize the connections between servers and storage creating a shared pool of resources, and is a flexible and highly available platform for consolidating SQL Server infrastructure. Thus seeing no degradation in performance and management is streamlined making this an ideal solution for mission-critical SQL Server databases running SAP applications.

Join Microsoft for the 2nd Annual Microsoft BI Conference from October 6-8th in Seattle, Washington. You’ll gain insight from industry thought leaders; learn about how other Microsoft BI customers are having success; discover best practices and gain product insight from Microsoft’s product experts. Visit www.msbiconference.com for more information.

IndyTechFest is the premier Developer/DBA conference in Indianapolis. Hosted by IndyPASS and IndyNDA, this years' conference includes over 30 sessions to fill your day with training from product experts and Microsoft MVPs. Admission is free!

This two-day course will be most valuable to medical device software engineers, engineering managers, scientists, and quality engineers (particularly in product development). This course will also be beneficial to quality assurance and regulatory affairs personnel who are new to the industry or their current position and do not have an in-depth knowledge of Medical Device Software requirements.
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David Wolfe of Lupine Partners talks about who is the best person to lead your software implementation project.

Recent market turmoil has led to significant challenges for the pricing and risk management of synthetic CDOs. Widening and more volatile spreads have caused some simple Gaussian copula models to fail, leaving market participants unable to price or hedge accurately.

Tectura Corporation's Applied Engineering Solutions division is pleased to announce they have entered into a licensing agreement with The Boeing Company to develop custom applications for aircraft operators.

Pak Kuwait Takaful Limited (PKTCL) and Plexus has entered into a software maintenance agreement after plexus successfully implemented its General Islamic Insurance Software at Pak Kuwait Takaful Limited. To formalise the event, a signing ceremony was held at PKTCL headquarters in Karachi. An annual maintenance and support agreement was signed between Abdul Rahman, Chief Operating Officer, Plexus and Zubair Ahmed, Chief Financial Officer, Pak Kuwait Takaful Limited.

Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, today announced that in addition to supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, Omniture SiteCatalyst now supports Web site metrics originating from the newly announced Google Chrome browser.

Hyderabad, Sept. 8 Multi-tenancy computing is expected to make inroads into India soon with large enterprises such as Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and scores of small and medium businesses already adapting it, according to Salesforce.com. A pioneer in multi-tenant computing (also referred to as software as a service), Salesforce.com, with revenue rate of $1 billion, is amongst the fast growing technology companies. It is seeking to replicate its success in India.