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- My new daughter is a lot like Linux
- OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...
- Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- 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.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Scaring yourself and others
- Scary Halloween ghostshosts come in many guises -and the scariest ones in IT, at least for for non AIX users where ghost processes are still common, are the OS ghosts invoked through virtualization and the ghostly shadows cast by your boss's belief that he knows something about technology...
- Tags: Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, UNIX, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Software, Storage, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- My Top Scary Technology Trends
- The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Future cloud apps won???t need humans
- So it's magic, eh?A dream.I think he's confusing "provisioning" with magic.-Humans are always in the loop. We still write the software. They don't develop a mind of their own just because we design them to be scalable.-Virtualization doesn't do anything special that would make it scary. It just allows the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Upgrading older systems
- Upgrading older systemseBay "support"At FORD, we had many legacy machines in differing states of "decay". One was a NVH (Noice/Vehicle Harmonics) platform - which consisted of a specialty input card (ISA bus?) that connected hundreds of different sensors on a vehicle to check noise levels. A new card was pretty...
- Tags: T5440, P550, Sun Microsystems Inc., P690, older system, Upgrading, Ford Motor Co., eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on it
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on itAs long as IE Supports Web StandardsWhy should they turn to WebKit? Imagine a software world where everything was open source? That to me is scary. Where is the innovation in open source? Where is the competition that drives innovation...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., WebKit, Microsoft Internet Explorer, open source, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Scary virtualization dream for Halloween
- I was thinking about what would be scary about virtualization technology. A number of things came immediately to mind. An organization would embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment without a plan, based soley on a single technology, such as virtual machine software An...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?
- Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?I was disappointed.I was counting on not having to go to work. :-)The destructive fantasy of Freedom*Stultify* has no intransitive sense; Dr. Hawking appears not to know what the word means. Although this could be considered niggling, it...
- Tags: fantasy, Hawking
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.
- You could almost hear the singing of the I.T. Blues coming from the audience at the afternoon keynote speech at Moscone Center. These servers run hot. (ba-dum-ba-dum); Power costs a lot. (ba-dum-ba-dum) The boss wants more space. (ba-dum-ba-dum) Finance says no way. (ba-dum-ba-dum) ...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, I.T. Environment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Citrix versus the Xen community
- As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...
- Tags: Community, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Platespin Forge - A new spin on disaster recovery
- I had a chance to speak with Stephen Pollack, Founder, CEO of PlateSpin, the other day. Since it has been a while since we had a chance to chat, I looked forward to his refreshing, rather pragmatic, approach to virtualization technology. For those of you keeping score, PlateSpin - An...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- VMware takes an unjustified hammering
- VMware takes an unjustified hammeringMessage has been deleted.VMware Rocks the CasbahJust the other day I was looking for a way to resize one a VM image file's virtual ntfs primary partition. After resizing the image file with the vmware-vdiskmanager, you still need to tell the VM's O/S to claim...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Investment, Microsoft Windows XP, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., unjustified hammering, Knoppix Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- VMware: Sales light; shares much lighter afterhours
- Updated below: VMware reported strong fourth quarter earnings and revenue growth but sales fell short of estimates. When the dealing was done VMware shares were down roughly $20 from a close of $83. Were the numbers really that bad? VMware all resources and statement...
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Sales Strategy, Virtualization, Operational Accounting, Storage Management, Sales, Hardware, Finance, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- AGL Energy CIO: Cesare Tizi
- Cesare Tizi: AGL was -- how’s a nice way of putting it? Quite a challenge! AGL’s an organization that … was growing at an amazing rate. When I joined AGL, we had pretty much every technology you could shake a stick at: we had mainframes; mid-range, Wintel-type platforms; we had...
- Tags: Phone, Data Center, Information Technology, Environment, Business, Unit, CPU, Technology, Encryption, CRM, AGL, Data Centers, RFID, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Orkut rolling out much needed update
- Orkut rolling out much needed updateGobbling The InternetIs Google just going to digest every web 2.0 trend that pops up its head with some "Google This-Or-That" thing?It's getting really tedious...they're worse than Microsoft.Here's the scary thing about them...they control a lot of big information sites, yet they're completely unaccountable when...
- Tags: Social networking, INTERNET, Google Inc., Orkut.com
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- Dune Technologies Orchestration for VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server
- Stefan Hochuli Paychère, Founder & CTO, of Dunes Technologies, spent a few moments speaking with my colleague, Roger Sakowski, and I to help us understand his company's products, VS-O and VD-O. Dunes appears to be working from the point of view that a revolutionary change is occurring in the industry...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Why I won't be pointing to Slashdot (at least for now)
- Why I won't be pointing to Slashdot at least for nowCould you not remote or proxy from home...Or that other ZDnet proxy?I'm not sure how virtualization would help anymore than just going thru a different route/proxy? Or if possible, actually have Cnet/ZDnet address the issue, seems just a touch...
- Tags: VPNs, NETWORKING, Network security, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VPN, network, Slashdot
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
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