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Podcast: AlwaysOn Summit, virtual worlds, green data centers and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Utility computing, Telecommunications, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, Second Life, SaaS, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Facebook, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Dell acquires ASAP Software: Dell said Thursday that it has acquired ASAP Software, which provides applications to manage software licenses and renewals, for $340 million. ASAP is currently a subsidiary of Corporate Express, an office supplies vendor. In a statement, Dell said the acquisition, which will close during the fiscal third quarter, will help...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dell; Blog posts 2007-08-02
HP's expanding software portfolio: Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP's software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...; Tags: IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter; Blog posts 2007-08-01
365 Main details SF outage problems: 365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...; Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Business Continuity; Blog posts 2007-08-01
IBM gives mainframes a green IT wrapper: TechRepublic's Jason Hiner reports that IBM plans to consolidate 4,000 small servers into 30 Linux mainframes.According to Jason, each mainframe is the size of a refrigerator. The benefit: IBM can save more than $250 million over five years and cut floor space 85 percent.Jason also notes that IBM is showing...; Tags: IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31

Why the FCC's 700Mhz auction matters: The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 700 Mhz wireless spectrum can easily be portrayed as a he said, she said fiasco. But the bigger picture is worth watching. Google dangles $4.6 billion to prod the FCC to opening up wireless spectrum. Verizon agrees sort of. AT&T doesn't. Everyone wonders what...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, Google, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Can Sun's product roadmap convert the skeptics?: Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have considered the company's fourth quarter a great one, but his take seems to be a tough sell among analysts. Sun last night reported fourth quarter earnings of 9 cents a share, or four pennies better than Wall Street expectations. You'd think that this...; Tags: Sun, Storage, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Xerox rolls out 'green' paper; Will you buy it?: Xerox on Monday announced a 'green' paper that promises to cut costs and environmental impact. The paper, dubbed the Xerox High Yield Business Paper, is designed for high-volume commercial printing (think bills and newspaper). But chances are good that it could be marketed to consumers at some point. The benefits...; Tags: Personal Technology, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Kernel hacking, politics, and computer hardware: A recent interview with Con Kolivas, former Linux kernel hacker, makes for an interesting read. Mr. Kolivas became well known for some of his performance-related patches, and oddly enough, he did all this as a HOBBY, without any previous experience in computer programming. His day job is as an anaesthetist...; Tags: Programming, Open Source, Hardware Infrastructure, Economic Policy; Blog posts 2007-07-27
The $150 laptop saga: Checking out 2Checkout: On Wednesday, I ordered a Fedora laptop for $150. On Thursday, I called the reseller of this item to get a feel for customer service and figure out whether my buyer's remorse was justified. As background, a Swedish company called Medison unveiled a laptop called the Celebrity, which is dirt...; Tags: Personal Technology, Open Source, Linux, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150: Would you try a $150 laptop powered by Fedora? Sure you would. And apparently so are a lot of other folks.A Swedish company called Medison has unveiled a laptop called the Celebrity. Medison's laptop is the latest in a race to the bottom of the pricing barrel. Nicholas Negroponte OLPC...; Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2007-07-25
SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking: When a power outage that affects a mere 30,000 to 50,000 customers knocks out some of the more popular sites on the Web you know disaster recovery plans have some holes. On Tuesday afternoon a host of sites such as Craigslist, Red Envelope, Yelp Technorati and ZDNet had trouble delivering...; Tags: Business Continuity, Datacenter, Disaster Recovery, General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Offshore outsourcing rates headed higher: India's currency is gaining on the U.S. dollar. Workers at Indian outsourcing firms still garner double-digit raises. And demand shows no sign of slowing. Add it up and it spells price increases for companies outsourcing technology work offshore to India. At this point it's unlikely that demand will diminish, but...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Outsourcing, General, Offshore outsourcing, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Apple's third quarter: All eyes on the iPhone: Apple reports its fiscal third quarter results on Wednesday and all eyes will be on the iPhone and its sales to date. Apple is expected to deliver third quarter earnings of 72 cents a share on revenue of $5.3 billion, but most analysts expect the company to exceed that figure....; Tags: Hardware Infrastructure, Apple, Personal Technology, General, iPhone; Blog posts 2007-07-24
3G: Are we there yet?: Ericsson and Texas Instruments said Monday that they are teaming up to develop custom technology and chips for 3G devices. My reaction--other than I'm overwhelmed with the acronyms in the statement--is this: How long do we have to hear about 3G? So far the answer seems to be at...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Telecommunications, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Two Lapworks' Futura Laptop Desks go to the ZDNet readers who....: ZDNet's Deputy Tester of the Week Program has officially been going on so long that we've lost count of what week this is. We were out-of-business last week due to a camera failure. For more information on how the program works and how you can participate, see the announcement...; Tags: Video, Product Giveaways, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-23
By 2010, will Windows 'Seven' (or any desktop OS) really matter?: There's probably no better example of how Microsoft seems to be sweeping left while the rest of the computing world sweeps right than today's edition of ZDNet Tech Update Today (the newsletter that we send out daily to those who've subscribed to it).The lead story in that newsletter (which, as...; Tags: Hardware Infrastructure, General, Apple, Web technology, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Salesforce: David - When there's only 5 systems left in the world, be sure to take a PaaS: Last week, I posted a video interview, podcast, and blog about Sun's Redshift computing theory-cum-marketing push. Redshift computing is about the sort of scale that servers will one day reach -- so much so that, as Sun's execs put it, there may only be five computers left in the world...; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-23
HP takes out Opsware for $1.6 billion: Hewlett-Packard beefed up its data center software business with a $1.6 billion acquisition of Opsware. Opsware makes automation software that puts many data center operations on autopilot. HP, looking to become a big player in the area, said it is paying $14.25 a share for Opsware, which closed Friday at...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Switching from Windows to Mac: The ROI case: Auto Warehousing Co. CIO Dale Frantz says his decision to go from a Windows shop to one powered by Apple is based on time and labor spent maintaining Windows. A week ago, I noted that Auto Warehousing Co. was switching to the Mac platform. The move, first chronicled by Computerworld,...; Tags: Vista, Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-23