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Over the turkey virtualization discussions

Describing virtualization technology to everyday folks is challenging. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-27

Gmail Checker 1.9 (Windows)

Adds a button to the menu bar which notifies when a new mail has arrived to Gmail. When logging in to Gmail, make sure to enable the "Stay logged in"-feature. Includes an option to check all folders for unread mail.

Tags: Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows, destructoBOT, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-27

Twitter Client for Android (Mobile)

Twitter Client for Android is a client for the Twitter web service, which allows you to send a new tweet and view incoming tweets from friends.

Tags: Mobile, Twitter Inc., Davanum Srinivas, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

Discussion - does virtualization equal cloud computing? I think not. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-25

SaaS and cloud computing: A look at the due diligence

CIO Scott Lowe walks through the buy vs. build analysis for software as a service and cloud computing. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Parse.ly: better feeds with less garnish

I haven't figured out a way to manage Google Reader. I tried using Fever, but it doesn't find news that matters to me... and it cost $30. Techmeme is my home page, but I think it needs an upgrade. I would like a feed...

Tags: E-mail Providers, Engineering, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-11-24

EuroCloud UK and a lesson in SaaS marketing

Short of time, short of cash, unwilling to make big upfront commitments: how do such customers make their buying decisions? I've seen the process from the inside the past few weeks, signing up for several services in preparation for the launch of EuroCloud UK. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-11-24

The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...

Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

This year has been one of relatively grand alliances between emerging cloud computing vendors as they fill holes in their capabilities and try to create appealing one-stop enterprise cloud services. We’ve seen major announcements so far from IBM and Juniper, Cisco/EMC/VMware, and most recently BMC and Salesforce....

Tags: Cloud Computing Battleground, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Trial Download: Rational® AppScan® Standard Edition V7.9

To improve the security of web applications, it starts by building software securely. IBM Rational AppScan is a suite of Web application vulnerability scanners that include dynamic and static analysis capabilities. Now you can engage more testers earlier in the development cycle. Try it for yourself. Download and evaluation copy...

Tags: IBM Corp., IBM Rational AppScan, Scanners, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals

Download resources 2009-11-24

Komodo IDE 5.2.3 (Mac)

Komodo IDE is the first unified workspace for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. A rich feature set for client-side Ajax languages such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, enables developers to quickly and easily...

Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Ruby, Komodo IDE, Scripting Languages, Ruby On Rails, AJAX, CSS, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Web 2.0, Management, Software Development

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Meet Pearltrees: Bookmarks with a social twist

Pearltrees is a new web service that brings a social twist to bookmarking by Sam Diaz

Tags: Twist, Pearltrees, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Roku becomes cloud-enabled with new Roku Channel Store and Developer SDK

The new Roku Channel Store, which is being rolled out to all Roku devices, will greatly expand the capabilities of the $99 set-top on-demand streaming device. Late Sunday night, Roku announced that its players would now have a "Channel...

Tags: Developer, SDK, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-22

Educating IT decision makers

When you tell a user decision maker that thing X will work better for some job than thing Y, are you an educator or an advocate? Think you know? try it with specifics: "Linux is better than Windows for web services." Education or advocacy? that is indeed the question...

Tags: Information Technology, Linux, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

A public cloud provider, private cloud operator, consultant, network provider, and venture capitalist were all put in the same room. Here's what they had to say about cloud's business value. by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Venture Capital, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Networking, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-20

YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil

Earlier this week I noted that YouTube's partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. Now, Google has introduced some more useful YouTube technology: automatic captioning. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

TechWriter for Web Services 2009 (Windows)

Complete and Accurate Documentation of your Web Services is finally achievable. TechWriter for Web Services is a Windows desktop application that generates documentation for web services. TechWriter automatically generates the documentation for your web service. By collecting information about the methods, elements, attributes and types directly from the WSDL that...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Microsoft Windows, Documentation, Adivo, TechWriter, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-20

How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+

My presentation to the Florida Council of Independent Schools went well, both from a content and a technical perspective, since I was able to do it remotely, all with Google Apps. Here is the presentations, as well as a few takeaways from the question/answer session. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Web, Presentation, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-19