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Conversation with John, Engetes, Rackspace's CTO

Rackspaces PR firm contacted me and asked if I would be interested in speaking with Rackspaces CTO, John Engetes, to get a technology consumers view of the state of virtualization technology today. I, of course, jumped at the chance since I usually speak with vendors representatives. ...

Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack

Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Novell's Orchestrator

As I mentioned in my post, Overview of Novells views on virtualization and again in my post, Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat, Novell appears to be focusing a great deal of attention on managing virtualized environments not just the tools of virtualization themselves. Along...

Tags: virtualization, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Additional Resources

FolderMatch (exe)

FolderMatch compares and synchronizes any two folder trees or two files. Winner at the 2002,2003 and 2004 Shareware Industry Awards, it's a MUST-HAVE tool for keeping files and folders in sync as well as powerful insurance against loss of valuable data. Who can benefit from FolderMatch?Everyone who maintains multiple copies...

Tags: File, Salty Brine Software, FolderMatch, Productivity, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Insurance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Software downloads 2008-07-04

BackPage Reader (zip)

A free tool to search www.backpage.com based on multiple locations and categories. Enter your search term and choose your options to narrow down your search result. Set notifications to alert you, or send you an email when new posts meeting your criteria appear on back page. Fast searches are performed...

Tags: Search Result, Motion Technologies, Search

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

I have to stop using Gmail :(

I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Apple caught neglecting iPhone security

If you're waiting on iPhone 2 to standardize your business on the awesome new device (yeah, I'll be on line to buy one), you might want to pay attention to the conspicuous absence of iPhone security patches over the last four months. As WaPo's Brian Krebs reports,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Krebs, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Hyperic CloudStatus

Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...

Tags: Performance, Service, Tool, CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Almeza MultiSet Automatic Software Installer (exe)

A tool for creating a bootable disk with the Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. You can quickly install an operating system on a computer from such a disk. While creating it, MultiSet also allows you to integrate some service packs and, if necessary, remove some components from the operating system (Media...

Tags: Disk, Operating System, Unattended Installation Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-03

D-Softs DB Compare (exe)

DBC ensuring your applications don't fail due to a missing database structure object.DBC Database Compare is a fast, comprehensive database structure and data comparison tool.DBC can compares the schema of two Microsoft SQL Server databases and quickly locates the differences in tables, views, stored procedures or any other object in...

Tags: D-Softs, DBC, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-03

SecureRequest (zip)

If you have a classic asp application that is not secured against SQL injection attacks then SecureRequest is the way to go! By replacing the native ASP request-object you'll be in full control of all the data that is passed by your Web sites's visitors before it can do any...

Tags: SQL, CadCoordinator AB, SecureRequest, Programming Languages, Web Site Development, Productivity, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Remote Control Manager (rar)

Remote Control Manager is a complete solution for storing all IT devices in one centrally managed database that is accessible by anyone in your technical support help desk. The Remote Control Manager system does not replace existing methods of managing devices but instead uses the existing tools available to open...

Tags: Device, Carl Green, Firewalls, Channel Management, Help Desk, Productivity, Routers & Switches, Web Browsers, Network Technology, Network Security, Networking, Marketing, It Operations, Internet

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Email Extractor (zip)

Email extractor is a very powerful and reliable tool to extract e-mail addresses from all kind of files. It retrieves absolutely all valid e-mail addresses and generates an output file with de-duped emails. Just point the program to a folder or drive containing email address and the program will do...

Tags: E-mail Address, St. Andrews Software, Email Extractor, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Make your next hire based on past behaviors not personality

When you're interviewing job applicants, do you search for traits such as hardworking, confident, and dependable? In this brief introductory chapter from The Truth About Managing People, 2nd Edition, author Stephen P. Robbins explains that traits aren't necessarily good predictors of future job performance -- but past behavior is. ...

Tags: Trait, FT Press, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Book chapters 2008-07-03

Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet

Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheetMissing Advances"Inevitably, the spreadsheet came up ... that statement touched off a minor storm of comment. Spreadsheets were immediately taken to task as being far too error prone."Same ol', same ol': I've had a few comments in these forums recently for suggesting...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Office, spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference

Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada.  The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track.  Topics...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software

Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security softwarenot suprisedI ran across this also during our research, can only imagine how many browsers visited Sony's site and became infected...If Sony or anyone else running old ASP websites read this, please inspect your code with the tool MS released: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954476Thanks...

Tags: Game players, Programming languages, Sony Corp., SQL Injected, Sony Playstation, SQL, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-02