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- Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise
- Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...
- Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack
- Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- DataSynapse and application virtualization
- I was offered the opportunity to speak with Kelly Vizzini, CMO of DataSynapse, the other day. She introduced me to a new member of her staff, Shayne Higdon, VP of Marketing. Kelly and I have been part of panel discussions at several conferences on virtualization, grid computing and the like...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Cassatt - moving virtualization up a notch
- Ive been following Cassatt for a number of years and have always thought that the company has taken a fresh, different view of the concept of virtualization in the implementation of its product "Collage". In an attempt to catch up with what the company is doing now, I spoke with...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat
- It appears that this Blog has caught the attention of many companies offering various products for both software and hardware virtualization. Cassatt and Marathon Technologies are among the companies that contacted me. Im going to speak with representatives of both companies over the coming days. Ill post my thoughts...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
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- Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?
- Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Dashboard, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Google, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-08-28
- Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale
- Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Miscioscia, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Datacore - nothing but storage
- Angie Gonzalez, of Datacore, and I had a conversation about how virtual storage complements any type of virtual processing solution. Nearly all virtual server-based solutions gain a great deal of benefit when a supporting virtual storage strategy is also deployed. Why is that? ...
- Tags: Datacore, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about that ongoing Apple-Psystar legal showdown, Cisco and Microsoft's collision course, the Democratic National Convention and Dell's plans for the cloud. On Wednesday Psystar--that little Mac clone maker in Florida--sued Apple for antitrust violations. The big question:...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
- Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...
- Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., TechMeme, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, 3G, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Suddenly, Android is hot again
- After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again. Earlier this month Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch was wondering if anybody cared about Android any more. Now TC is practically gushing over the mobile platform. What happened? Two things:...
- Tags: Phone, SDK, Shout-out, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...
- Tags: Software, Dumb Terminal, Virtualization, Network, Information Technology, IT Cost, Virus, Computer, Virtualization Software, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Keeping the brand - and verb - alive
- photoshop (v.) "to edit an image using a computer program," 1992, originally in ref. to Photoshop, a bitmap graphics editor trademarked and published by Adobe, released in 1990. --- Dictionary.com There aren't many brand names that can take on verb status but Photoshop, a pioneer in digital imagery manipulation,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Web, Brand, Mobile, Photograph, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, WebEx Communications Inc., Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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