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The Specialty System Replaces a Homegrown System, Provides a Better Fit

German Mutual Insurance was founded in 1867, making it one of the oldest property and casualty insurance companies in the state of Ohio. The company wanted to replace outdated legacy system and integrate information enterprise-wide. The company also wanted to improve company response to changing situations. The company implemented IBM...

Tags: Fiserv Insurance Solutions, Specialty System, Hardware Upgrade, Insurance, Linux, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Operating Systems, Software

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Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration

Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 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

Ten key differences between Linux and Windows

Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License

News items 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

Live Webcast: Top Ten Challenges with On-Premise Email Management

For most organizations, the costs and management burdens of ever more sophisticated email continuity and archiving systems is now a serious problem. To manage increasing data stores, complex retention policies, fast search and recovery of messages and disaster recovery, companies have many choices for on-premise or on-demand services. While...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, On-demand, MessageOne, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-09-04

HR Software - HR Business Intelligence eBook (zip)

An HR Software - HR Business Intelligence eBook, containing research provided by Webster Buchanan Research. HR Software - HR Business Intelligence eBook has been a collaborative effort, with the goal of educating people on the problems & solutions raised by HR Business Intelligence. This version is the first release on...

Tags: Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-09-04

PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager (zip)

PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager 4.0 print management software has simplified and automated print administration for print server and non-print server environment i.e. direct IP printing atmosphere or workstation connected printer. The software provides centralized control of print manager that helps to administer printer monitor and counter. This software is printer...

Tags: Job, PrinterAdmin Software, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-09-04

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...

Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Can Drop.io coexist with the FRCP?

Can Drop.io coexist with the FRCP?We use moodleWe have a Moodle server setup for this very reason. We create a Moodle course for each teacher course and give the teacher the ability to administer their own course. Students can log in from home and download assignments, syllabus, etc...

Tags: Directory services, Drop.io, FRCP, Moodle, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end

Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endMicrosoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endIf Google wasn't already crapping their pants about IE8 and the web then this should give them more than enough reason to fill their shorts. A final product that is released, not some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Channel management, Microsoft Office, Branding, Microsoft Corp., Google Docs Competitor, Google Inc., Google Docs

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Where WiFi succeeds

Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Dell repair adventure, day 4

Dell repair adventure, day 4Litigation"The expectation is that a person will arrive on site the next day having 1) the skills to diagnose and repair the problem, 2) the parts necessary to repair problem and 3) the tools necessary to do the work."1. Litigate: misleading advertising.2. Where is ZDNET's legal...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case

Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Xen engine 3.3 released

On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...

Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-03

PlateSpin Pledges Extended Support for Citrix XenSever Customers

PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, today reaffirmed its commitment to support Citrix XenServer across the PlateSpin product line. XenServer support is a key element of PlateSpin's multiplatform strategy, which aims to offer enterprises a unified suite of solutions for managing heterogeneous data center environments and making physical and virtual infrastructures...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2008-09-03

Citrix Business Solutions: Powered by Datacore Software

DataCore Software provides storage virtualisation solutions that make storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. DataCore Storage Virtualisation is the foundation for the Total Enterprise Virtualisation - the combination of proven virtualisation solutions into comprehensive, enterprise-wide, virtual infrastructures, comprising desktops, servers and storage. ...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., DataCore Software, DataCore Storage Virtualisation, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-03

Datawasp Database Manager (zip)

A very-easy-to-use, networked, database manager. All the power of a regular database but presented in the style of a spreadsheet. Little or no training is required to create solutions using the spread sheet style interface. Solutions can be created quickly and the database design altered on the fly or locked....

Tags: Significant Data Systems, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-09-03

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?? What is SOA and Howc can I buy it?That's the problem.The "how" is importantThe "how" has been neglected from day one with SOA. Yes business focus is absolutely necessary as with all IT solutions but...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-09-02