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- Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?
- My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...
- Tags: Operating systems, MSF, OS Installed, operating system, Ubuntu, Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan:Â VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick:Â Panel: too...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management
- What will BMC do with MQSoftware?Will BMC use it to bolster its aging middleware line?Or will they use it strategically in the BTM area? To sell Business Transaction Mgmt BTM software they will need to sell to the app side of the house. But, BMC usually sells to...
- Tags: IT Management, BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., middleware
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management
- BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., Middleware, It Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- BMC to link up with Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud deployments
- BMC Software on Wednesday will detail plans to collaborate with Amazon Web Services to ease hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments. Despite a lot of chatter about cloud computing most enterprises will take a hybrid approach to their data center and link so called private clouds---also known as your...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Data Centers, It Management, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools
- Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs, Â which has evolved from the same named consulting firm founded in 2003, will provide training, service and support for Puppet, the next...
- Tags: Open Source, Configuration Management, Tool, Reductive, Puppet 0.25, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Intelligent IMS Database Management
- Still managing IMS databases the old fashioned way? BMC Software provides exclusive technology that helps to manage all of the IMS databases automatically through a Windows-based interface. BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS notifies, which databases need to be reorganized - and when - so that one can avoid outages...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Database Management, IBM IMS, It Management, Databases, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-24
- Managing Iron With BMC Software and Sentry Software
- Systems, applications and virtual systems all rely on healthy hardware components. The attendee of this webcast will learn more about how BMC and Sentry can detect and isolate hardware failures in the servers and in the Storage Area Network SAN. The presenter will discover also which servers, switches or disk...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-18
- CA picks up Cassatt assets; Bolsters cloud portfolio
- CA said Tuesday that it has acquired the key assets from Cassatt, which makes software that automates data centes. Cassatt had been a hot start-up based in San Jose, but recently collapsed. Â In a statement, CA said the deal will allow it to bolster its cloud...
- Tags: Asset, Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Computer Associates International Inc., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping Explained
- IT organizations need to identify assets and how they are configured. Today's number of IT components, their configurations, relationships among them, and the constant changes introduced by business and technology needs make manual tracking difficult. It is impractical and costly to conduct manual audits and maintain IT service relationship and...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, It Management, Strategy, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2009-05-29
- This Isn't Your Father's IMS Environment
- Ever get the feeling that management does not understand just how difficult problem determination can be in an IMS TM environment? New technology complicates things and makes isolating the root cause even more challenging. This webcast will discuss several real world problem case scenarios and explain how BMC Software IMS...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Environment, IBM IMS, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-05-27
- How Planning With BMC Capacity Trending Advisor Can Reduce Over-Provisioning
- According to recent surveys conducted by BMC Software and feedback from market analysts, the majority of IT organizations still forecast capacity utilization using spreadsheets. This requires a significant amount of time-consuming manual tasks to collect and analyze performance data. The data is then input into countless spreadsheets for trend analysis...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Advisor, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2009-05-19
- What's New in BMC Remedy Asset Management 7.5
- Reduce the total software license costs by 10 percent or more and lower compliance risk with BMC Remedy Asset Management. This webcast will focus on new capabilities in BMC Remedy Asset Management 7.5 including significant advancements in Software License Management that improve the flexibility and ease of tracking license inventory,...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Remedy Corp., It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-05-06
- HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata
- Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers. ...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice
- Whenever a company changes the name of their major product you often have to wonder what level of change they are trying to signal. In the case of VMware which changed ESX to vSphere yesterday, the signal is one of intent. They could have called it vWorldDomination but that might...
- Tags: Fault-tolerance, Data Center, Network, Operating System, Network Operating System, VMware Inc., vSphere, VM, Fault-tolerance Feature, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Cisco picks up Tidal Software
- Cisco picks up Tidal Softwareits amazing how a money shortage bring sanity back to businessno more 500+ million dollar deals for over blown companies.RE: Cisco picks up Tidal SoftwareI find this acquisition very odd. Cisco is making a play into the data center by purchasing a job scheduling software vendor....
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tidal Software, Job Scheduling
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rack
- Cisco on Monday rolled out its long-awaited vision of data center architecture, including multiple partners, a wire-once approach to link computing, virtualization, storage and networking and a call to lower costs. Let's assess the winners and losers of this rack-by-rack data center battle. As background, Cisco's Unified...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Set-up, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco launches bid to capture the data center
- Cisco Systems has just launched what it considers a "critical step" in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, promising an ecosystem of partners which include chipmaker Intel, tech consultancy Accenture, virtualization software provider VMWare, Microsoft, the labs unit of enterprise software firm SAP, storage maker EMC and...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco's expected Unified Computing System splash raises a data center ruckus
- Cisco Systems on Monday is widely expected to launch network servers in a move that will put it in the virtualization business and potentially at odds with players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Cisco says it's merely doing what it has always done---investing in "market adjacencies during times that may cause...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Racemi and BMC take on disaster recovery and datacenter consolidation
- Racemi and BMC Software are presenting a different take on how to go about the task of making virtual servers more highly available and more manageable. They're combining a physical/virtual management product BladeLogic Operations Manager with a powerful disaster recovery/backup/system portability product DynaCenter to create a reliable, agile computing environment....
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Virtual Server, Provisioning, Server, Data Center Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Racemi, It Management, It service Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
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