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- Images: Mars is getting a new visitor
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...
- Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
- What open source teaches publishers
- I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...
- Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?
- Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Business PCs are going nowhere fast
- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....
- Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- 10 ways to develop customer self-sufficiency
- Helping your customers become more technically capable frees you up to spend more time giving them higher-value services -- which could ultimately benefit your career. Calvin Sun offers some advice for helping your customers become a bit more self-reliant.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things...
- Tags: Customer, Calvin Sun, Professional Development, Blogging, Benefits, Career, Internet, Human Resources
- Download resources 2008-05-14
- That Florida beach isn't just sand, it could be a lot of crap
- Now that you've read the headline, here's the brutal research result: fecal bacteria are likely lurking in that sunny beach where you've lain in the sun. Seems those micro-organisms can find the damp sand about as comfortable a medium as, say, some human's lower intestine.The research also indicates that...
- Tags: Bacteria, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making
- As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?
- With the completion of its deal to buy EDS for $13.9 billion, Hewlett-Packard is about to become just as key to Microsoft's fate as IBM is to the fate of open source. How will Microsoft react? While Sun, Red Hat and a host of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Still ranting about interfaces
- Still ranting about interfaces[b]Mr. Murphy, You are such an idiot...[b]The real reason WordPerfect lost is simple.[b]WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get [/b]You are such a biased moron that you can't get your ego out of the way to see the truth. WordPerfect lost the battle because...
- Tags: Word processors, Corel WordPerfect, software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Accurately Measuring Datacenter Power Efficiency Timely and accurate measurements with SunSM Eco Services
- Corporate attention spans can be short, and the best way to get attention and motivate efficiency improvements is to be able to generate accurate, up-to-date power statistics on a moment's notice.Taking accurate measurements takes time, however, and a statistical model built from a set of baseline measurements provides a means...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Sun Achieves >80% reduction in space, power and cooling costs by Consolidating European Datacenters
- This compelling case study looks at how, in November of 2005, Sun's IT Operations ITOPS group faced lease expirations that drove the consolidation of multiple European datacenters into a single state-of-the-art facility in their Guillemont Park, U.K campus.This consolidation was in support of their strategy to reduce their mission critical...
- Tags: Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- In a global economy it pays to protect your greatest asset
- Datacenters are a drain on resources - yours and the planet's. After al, the average datacenter's power consumption doubled between 2000 and 2005. Powering the network consumes 100 billion kilowatts of electricity and costs around $7.2 billion every year.And soon, the cost of running a server could be more that...
- Tags: Asset, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
- Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can...
- Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter : Consolidate with Sun technology
- Consolidation and hardware technology refreshes enable datacenters to provide more applications and services in less space and at less cost.This in-depth report shows how by moving to high-performance, energy-efficient Sun servers and storage systems, IT organisation can take advantage of the latest advancements while saving on power and cooling.
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation
- The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server consolidation.As virtualisation is being used more and more to increase utilisation within production workloads, server vendors are responding with platforms, management technologies, and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-05-13
- The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage
- This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and the types of data that must be stored as part of regulatory and compliance standards encompass more formats than ever before. Video images, medical images, document images, audio files, and large data sets generated by...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Workload, Server, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
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