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- T-Systems Austria: Confident of VMware on Blades
- T-Systems Austria is one of the leading service providers of information and communications technology in Austria. The company wanted to achieve high resource utilization on x86 hardware. In order to provide the systems with the necessary performance capabilities, T-Systems chose the VMware ESX server as the virtualization solution. The T-Systems...
- Tags: T-Systems, Blade, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, T-Systems Austria, Virtualization, Mainframes, Servers, Utility Computing, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri
- Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...
- Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers
- It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...
- Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Open source protectionism?
- I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...
- Tags: Open Source, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101
- Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...
- Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad
- Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...
- Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
- Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Nehalem, Server Processor, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Making the giant health database work for you
- It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work as well as paper. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Health Database, Vertical Industries, Storage, Benefits, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator)
- The Apple II is baaaaccckk via emulatorAt last! Now I can finally get rid of my Apple IIc. nt..RE: The Apple II is baaaaccckk via emulatorI think I will still use my Apple IIc. Theres something about putting that 5.25" disk in that external drive and pushing down the lever,...
- Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., emulator
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available
- Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...
- Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixedRE: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixedInstalled this on one 10.5.5 and three 10.4.11 systems and experienced no problems yet.I see that you missed several other fixes:Finder CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3643 ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X Patch Day, Mac OS X patch, Finder, Apple Inc., security flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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