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- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service
- Cisco just announced a new hosted email offer, WebEx Mail. at its collaboration summit. This isn't the first time that Cisco has entered the email business, but it does come at time when Cisco is moving to challenge Microsoft and IBM in broader collaboration space. Similar to...
- Tags: Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Semantic Inbox, Outlook Experience, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- 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
- Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.
- fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...
- Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple 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
- Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?
- Windows 7 looks like a genuinely good OS. Reasonable system requirements, high levels of usability and stability...What's not to like? Well, the price, of course. Volume educational licensing runs around $70 a seat for Windows 7 Professional upgrades. Then there's the actual upgrade process. Major rollouts...
- Tags: Ubuntu, IBM Corp., Ubuntu 9.10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Roi/Tco, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yahoo Hack day
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Government, Management
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability
- IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user. Google Apps Premier runs $50 per user a year. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Accelerate Your Cloud Implementation with IBM CloudBurst and Intel Xeon Processors
- Do you need to determine where to start your cloud deployment and provide immediate ROI? IBM CloudBursttm is a pre-integrated solution that allows you to rapidly create and manage your private internal cloud environment while lowering your TCO. Come listen to industry experts from IBM and Intel talk about how...
- Tags: Environment, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., IBM CloudBurst, Roi/Tco, Servers, Processors, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Webcasts 2009-10-01
- Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure
- As the world becomes more instrumented, intelligent, and interconnected, the demands on your infrastructure continue to grow. IBM continues to chart a strategy to help you deliver a new kind of infrastructure. One that helps you reduce costs, manage risks and improve service. A dynamic infrastructure — designed for a...
- Tags: Infrastructure, IBM Corp.
- Webcasts 2009-10-01
- Missing what open source cannot afford
- FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...
- Tags: open source, OpenNMS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM
- Applicance VendorWhile setting up Oracle RAC or the rest of their software stack isn't too difficult, it is beyond the skill set of many in house IT departments. If Larry who is no Watson may want to remake his software product into a stack of hardware, storage and software...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Oracle Corp., software, IBM Corp., hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- HP gives EDS new moniker, HP Enterprise Services
- Hewlett-Packard has given EDS a new name a year after acquiring the company. The new moniker: HP Enterprise Services. The acquisition has delivered handsome returns to HP as the key hardware businesses were whacked by the recession. HP said the name change comes following a year of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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