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V-Kernel Capacity and chargeback Virtual Appliance: The folks from V-Kernel contacted me and asked if I was interested in learning more about their product. I, of course, said yes. I know, it's a disease. I can't help myself. I'm really interested in learning more about virtualization technology. Quick rundown of V-Kernel ...; Tags: Appliance, Chargeback, V-Kernel Here, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Change Management, Hardware, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Cybercrime costs UK $4.7 bln a year: Cybercrime costs UK $4.7 bln a yearpreCharge Certified Paymet Program - CyberCrime's Worst EnemypreCharge Certified Payments is a program designed for online, MOTO and retail merchants. Unlike any other industry solution out there, we offer 100% coverage for all your transactions. Therefore in addition to our fraud screening solution, we...; Tags: Litigation, chargeback, UK $4.7; Discussion threads 2005-06-02

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Oracle developing grid management, chargeback features for Oracle VM: Oracle is integrating virtualization management into its grid control product, the company's chief corporate architect said. Oracle VM, a server virtualization product based on the Xen open source virtualization hypervisor, made its debut last November. The VM software supports Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle's databases, middleware and...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Endeavors Technologies Application Jukebox: An interesting spin on application virtualization: Endeavors Technologies just launched its Application Jukebox, an application virtualization and delivery product. It appears to me that this product takes the concepts of application encapsulation and application streaming to a new level. Here's how Endeavors describes their technology Endeavors Technologies, the...; Tags: Application, Jukebox, Application Virtualization, Application Jukebox, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-04

The future of SaaS billing: In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Egenera: New pals for PAN Manager: I've spoken about Egenera several times in the past and pointed out that it was one of the very earliest players offering blade computers and the related management software. Egenera called this software PAN (Processing Area Network) manager. PAN manager, at first, was a tool that allowed organizations to orchestrate...; Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., PAN Manager, Bluetooth, Blade Servers, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-25
The ZEN of PlateSpin: Fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Kusnetzsky this morning addresses the organizational challenges of Novell integrating virtualization ISV PlateSpin into its culture. While I agree any acquisition of any type has organizational challenges, I think Novell has already shown it can take a company with a radically different corporate culture, SuSE, and...; Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., VMware Inc., PowerRecon, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID: Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my IDJustifiable policy in my book!Did I miss something ? The guy is ticked because he was asked for some extra ID to show he's indeed the card owner before making a purchase? If some one...; Tags: Sales channel, Retail, Ignacio, Apple Inc., Apple Retail Store shopper, Apple Retail Store, credit card, Steve Jobs; Discussion threads 2008-02-20
A challenge on the horizon - accounting for virtual environments: A challenge on the horizon - accounting for virtual environmentsChargebackI am working in an a helth care organization for the goverment in Sweden.60 tusend of users, 3000 Applikations, 12000 Systems.That will be consolidated to fore different sitebased on communication redudans gates in the region.There we will hold central backup, Virtual...; Tags: hardware, accounting, environment; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?: The makers of anti-spam solutions (be they stand-alone or ones that are built-in to existing e-mail solutions) would have you believe that their solutions are worthy of battling spam and merit your attention if ridding your inbox (or inboxes) of spam is important to you. They're full of it. The...; Tags: Inbox, Solution, Sender, E-mail, JamSpam, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-09-17
A challenge on the horizon - accounting for virtual environments: I read an insightful post The case for chargeback and virtual appliance that was posted by Alex Barrett yesterday. He brings up several interesting points about accounting for virtual environments. Thanks, Alex, for calling our attention to this issue.As with other posts I've seen, this one seems to equate...; Tags: virtualization, Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-08-03
Attaining Real Cost Tracking When Going Virtual: Gaining the Value of chargeback Data: Virtualization is a proven strategy for reducing IT expenses - but can deprive organizations of the ability to accurately track costs because it becomes difficult to measure utilization by specific users of virtualized shared resources. Traditional chargeback and utilization reporting tools developed for physical environments do not necessarily transition well...; Tags: Environment, Vizioncore, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-08-01
Let market forces drive SOA adoption: A report out of ComputerWeekly notes that in its latest survey of 100 top IT executives, 77% now "believe it is getting easier to demonstrate the business value of IT" -- up from 66% in February.Statistical margin of error (10%) aside, what happened over the last five months to make...; Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Sun sets on SunRocket: Sun sets on SunRocketIf Only They Had Listened!Maybe if SunRocket listened to what you've been saying all along with creating strategic partnerships with Cricket Wireless or Metro PCS they might not be closing their doors tonight. ViaTalk and other providers should take note.--RHhttp://www.CheapCellPhoneWireless.comWhat???? Am I SOL?I just paid...; Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., OneSuite, Lingo, SunRocket; Discussion threads 2007-07-16
A Simple chargeback System for SAS Applications Running on UNIX and Linux Servers: Organizations that run SAS on UNIX and Linux servers often have a need to measure overall SAS usage and to charge the projects and users who utilize the servers. This allows an organization to pay for the hardware, software, and labor necessary to maintain and run these types of shared...; Tags: Linux Server, SAS Institute, Unix, Linux, Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-14
Is SOA too much for the IT department?: Are vendors asking IT to carry too much of a load when it comes to selling the business benefits of SOA? If SOA is about the business, why hasnt it ever been mentioned in Fortune magazine? The catch-phrase of SOA these days -- coming out of every...; Tags: General, SOA; Blog posts 2007-01-16
Google extends free transaction promotion to 2008: At risk of sounding like a really bad furniture commercial on the radio, do not pay till 2008 for all Google Checkout transactions. I had to do a double take when I read an article on the official Google Checkout blog saying their free transaction promotion (ending December 31,...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Checkout; Blog posts 2006-12-05
FUDGE: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt about Governance in the Enterprise: Should project teams be rewarded for using shared SOA-compliant services? Or is it more effective to punish those who dont? I had the opportunity to sit in on InfoWorlds SOA Executive Forum, taking place in New York this week. An interesting thread of discussion coming from the conference was concern...; Tags: General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2006-11-08
Why SprintNextel's COO got the boot: Why SprintNextel's COO got the bootGary Forsee is Sabotaging NextelThis is a serious claim I am well aware. Yet there is no other excuse for what is going on behind the scenes. As an Exclusive Dealer of SprintNextel with two retail storefronts we have suffered significant post-merger problems as have...; Tags: Sales force management, Wi-Fi, Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, SprintNextel; Discussion threads 2006-08-28