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- Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient
- RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase
- That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- How to know when to send your email to the cloud
- Email will ultimately move to the cloud/software as a service model, but the math may not add up for larger companies. How do you know when to make the jump? Gartner analysts Matthew Cain and James Lundy went through the cloud vs. on-premise email conundrum, but what...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?
- Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...
- Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?
- NoNo I would not buy from them again, I don't need a scare of all my info being deleted.http://gizmoelectronics.blogspot.com/http://www.stophighcosts.comI will never trust the cloud.I will use the cloud but not if it means I have to forgo a local copy and not if the data is private. I like Office...
- Tags: Marketing research, mushroom cloud, SideKick, Buy Cloud Services, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data
- I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?
- Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- When will Microsoft's Live Mesh matter?
- I consider live Mesh to be one of the killer apps...... on my Windows Mobile phone. That explains a lot there. If Microsoft can't get Windows Mobile straight, what hope is there for ancillary services?it is oddIt's bizarre that they haven't used it in other ways. I love it...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Mesh matter, Microsoft Live Mesh
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)
- Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...
- Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- The disruptive nature of cloud computing
- Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Egnyte raises $6 million in venture funding
- Egnyte, a startup focused on on-demand file servers, said Monday that it raised $6 million in funding from Polaris Venture Partners and Maples Investments. The series A round will be used to boost distribution for its service (statement, Techmeme). I saw Egnyte present at...
- Tags: On-demand, Egnyte, Managed Hosting, File Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Microsoft submits Hyper-V compatibility code for Linux kernel
- Microsoft recently announced that it had contributed source code allowing a Linux system to happily exist in a virtualized environment hosted by Hyper-V. While this code may not make it into the Linux kernel for a number of reasons, it is significant that Microsoft chose to develop this code, protect...
- Tags: Linux Kernel, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- Office 2010 to hit networks and the web in style
- The Office 2010 web applications throw online productivity into a new dimension by porting four of the most popular and most useful Office applications onto the web: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The online office-suite business - business, if you can call it that, since the main...
- Tags: Web, Network, Web Application, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- RNA Networks launches RNAcache
- RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...
- Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Interview with HP user group president Nina Buik
- The advent of social media has made a big difference at Connect -- the independent user organization representing 50,000 professionals using Hewlett-Packard technology products and services. "We used to conduct a worldwide survey of our members and have to wait until all the data was compiled and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Social Media, Connect, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- IBM's CloudBurst is a credible step forward
- About six months ago, I accused IBM of “cloud-washing†its solutions and services when it launched its Project Blue Cloud marketing campaign. Its aim with this effort was to lure customer conversations about cloud computing in its direction so it could learn what enterprises wanted from this new technology. IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Portals, Storage Management, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Internet, Storage, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
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