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- Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems
- Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundation™is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
- Tags: Tideway Systems, Richard, Productivity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available
- Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...
- Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?
- Another high-profile departure from Sun, this time MySQL's David Axmark is taking wing -- citing a dislike for working in a large organization: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?PortabilityNo matter where you are, there you are.Sit down at a workstation and light up your working environment. No need to drag the hardware with you, which ranges from annoying to hazardous, what with laptops being popular targets for confiscation at airports. Especially since...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, desktop, English Language, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
- CIOs not taking a shine to ChromeHalf of Google is in betaIncluding Gmail, which has been beta for 5 years now. I think it's their way of avoiding having to support the products in any real and meaningful way.Which is whyyou are down here, and they are up there making...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome Browser, Chrome, Google Inc., shine, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Appistry targets cloud computing
- If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments....
- Tags: Appistry, Supplier, Defintion, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with...
- Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Sybase moves to spur process modeling agility with latest PowerDesigner
- The main goal, according to Sybase, is to create greater agility by breaking down the silos that currently wall off the various IT elements from each other and from the business goals. See my thoughts on my CEP is stepping up to the plate on similar values. And we've seen...
- Tags: Sybase PowerDesigner, Sybase Inc., Modeling, PowerDesigner 15, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets
- At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Brett Winterford ZDNet Australia, VMware, Microsoft, virtualization, hypervisor
- News items 2008-09-22
- Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air
- Intel's secret weapon: Fresh airThermal is betterThere is a better way. Use the ground to cool the system there won't be any dust or a possibility of faulty equipment with this type of air conditioning. The warmer air is piped into the ground returning as cool air. ...
- Tags: Fresh Air, Intel Corp., secret weapon, chip
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air
- Outside air blows hot, cold and dusty, but it cools just as well in datacenters as expensive air conditioning, according to Intel. Fresh air could save millions in datacenter cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, datacenter, cooling, energy
- News items 2008-09-19
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- What is virtualization?
- As I'm preparing to leave VMworld, I find myself thinking about a question I heard at the event. That question is "what is virtualization?". Living in the virtual world a great deal of the time, it's hard for me to remember when I first came across the term. It was...
- Tags: Function, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competitionQuite right...Windows isn't the competitionXen is! :DRE: VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competitionMicrosoft is a nobody in the VM space and a nobody in Cloud computing. The only thing cool from MS the past couple of years was Xbox360. Nothing since then.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Datacenter OS, VMware Inc., data center, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS
- VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OSA masterstrokeShould remove the believability of that .mesh nonsense too.Plug it in and off you go.They might do well to build-in some frameworks, like RoR and Django, if they can find a way to play mutually nice with...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Operating systems, Storage, VMware Inc., Virtual Datacenter OS, Linux server, server, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
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