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Amazon invests in cloud deployment venture as Elastra raises another $12 million: Elastra's Cloud Server provides point-and-click configuration, push-button deployment and automated management and dynamic monitoring of application infrastructure software and systems. The company's elastic computing markup language ECML and elastic deployment markup language EDML allow for extensibility and portability of applications across public and private clouds. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Software, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Topic, Cloud Computing, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-08-05

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Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims: Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security; News items 2008-09-05
Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...; Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-05
XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?: XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?Mostly valid points Christopher, but, you should give OLPC more credit fortransforming the market. And, I would like to see more OLPC features in computers like the Dell Mini. I DO want a sunlight readable screen. I DO want a more durable laptop. I...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-09-05
Should political postings stay or go? A survey.: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...; Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey; Discussion threads 2008-09-05

VMworld is bringing out the vendors: Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...; Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-05
News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...; Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft: It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...; Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling: Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality rulingIs this Government megalomania?Or is Comcast grasping at straws in a sinking ship on a road to no return!The cable companies poor planningshouldn't hurt the users. There have been many suggestions of how they could improve the way their network runs with out...; Tags: Federal government, Cable, TVs, Broadband Internet, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Comcast Corp., FCC, Net Neutrality, Mbits/S, cable-tv service; Discussion threads 2008-09-04
Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome: At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, touts interface features for the company's Chrome browser. He also does a performance benchmark test comparing the new browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. More Office 2.0 coverage: Google's...; Tags: Google Inc., Video, Web Browser, Conference, Office 2.0, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?: There was an interesting discussion at Office 2.0 that dealt with the topic of online communities. There's a lot of noise on the Web today and it's easy for that to noise to get – for lack of a better phrase – out of control. So should a company try...; Tags: Community, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List: Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-04
What can we do better?: I'm collecting data from teachers across my district (using a Google Form, of course), trying to get a handle on issues we still haven't addressed, ways we can use technology more effectively, and what their wishlists might be for the coming year. Here's the questionnaire that went...; Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Telephony, Projectors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Components, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Office 2.0 Conference day one: David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...; Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-09-04
My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook: My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...; Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop; Discussion threads 2008-09-04
Red Hat acquires Qumranet: I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday): Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Cloud Studio (zip): Cloud Studio is a cross-platform visual tool designed to make the development of applications for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) more convenient. Developers or someone responsible for applications deployment can effortlessly create and destroy instances, manage security groups, keypairs, and allocate and assign IP addresses. Studio also supports Amazon Simple...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud, Cloud Studio, Productivity, Security; Software downloads 2008-09-04
A virus in our genes, think about that....: A virus in our genes, think about that....Not bad...You were doing good until about halfway through the post, when you might as well have pulled out your Barack Hussein Obama flag and waved it from the rooftops.Your gallop off into politics ruined what would otherwise have been a good read.RE:...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Obama, gene, virus, Creationists, Natural Selection, Sarah Palin; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidGo on Google, kill them off once and for alllet's rid the world of these sloppy fat liars and have technology once again !!!!RE: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidThe browser came about because IE 8 really scared the...; Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer; Discussion threads 2008-09-03