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Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V

In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...

Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Transitive QuickTransit - Hardware Virtualization that Takes the Pain Out of Migrations

Bob Weiderhold, CEO of Transitive, and I fought off intermittent telephone problems to discuss a technology that is often overlooked when analysts put together their taxonomy of virtual processing software. Transitive calls this "Hardware Virtualization" and offers a product family, "QuickTransit" that implements this concept in a number of ways....

Tags: virtual processing software

Blog posts 2007-07-18

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Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?

There is a great deal of activity in the virtual machine software market part of the virtual processing layer of the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology. My colleague, Paula Rooney, published Next XenServer — code named Orlando — now in beta* testing. A while back...

Tags: Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Technology, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters

Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filtersRE: Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filtersSpammers are increasingly getting more sophisticated in their attacks. Even spam mails are getting more and more dificult to decipher now adays. It seems the guys are stepping up their attacks verey time we think we have...

Tags: Spam, spammer, Google Inc., Google Sites, e-mail, PGP Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild

UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...

Tags: Query, DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates

Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...

Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-06-28

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft

Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-08

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX

Once upon a time I did a few articles for searchenterpriselinux at techtarget.com, but we parted ways very quickly over their commitment to Red Hat's anti-Sun marketing strategy. Ken Milberg, a guy I think I first ran into in the context of my original 2002...

Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Duck, IBM Corp., Attack, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Transitive virtual processing magic

Transitive virtual processing magicMissed a coupleRight after the launch of Windows NT, Digital Equipment also came out with a program that would not only translate, but would also optimize and store that translated code on-the-fly, for 32-bit x86 apps to run on the Alpha platform. The award-winning program...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Processors, Alpha, virtual processing magic, processing magic, FX!32, Digital Equipment Corp., Transitive

Discussion threads 2008-03-15

Transitive virtual processing magic

What would it be like if it was possible to take an executable image that was built for one operating system and processor family, wave a software wand over that software and then simply run it on another platform? Wouldn't that make life for an organization's IT staff quite a...

Tags: Computer, Generation Datacenter, Productivity, Data Centers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Bush wants FISA controls relaxed, updated for new technology

Bush wants FISA controls relaxed, updated for new technologyIn other words...King D'uh'bya wants FISA rewritten to make the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional activities legal. Like his "presidency."What do you mean by that?I don't think they flaunted it since they were eager to keep it secret. How about flouted?Websters:transitive verb...

Tags: Bush wants FISA

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact

Novell to detail Microsoft patent pactReason is obvious...Novell did this to stay alive. They, and the rest of the Open Source world, are well aware that Microsoft owns patents to everything in the computing world. Microsoft all but invented the GUI so by transitive thinking, anyone who develops a GUI...

Tags: Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., patent

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

The TJX data breach: Why loss estimates are overblown

The TJX data breach: Why loss estimates are overblownA gibe at your jiveThe word is jibe, unless you mean the data aren't dancing together 1940s style.Who carries the real costs?The issue is that TJX won't recompense people who have to clean their credit reports, check the statements for illegal charges...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Who/what, TJX, credit card, bank, Sears Roebuck & Co.

Discussion threads 2007-05-08

Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the wrong reasons

Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the wrong reasonsI agree with the risks for RedHat, but, killing RedHat does NOT help MS, itwould hurt them. A new RedHat with a different name would form out of the ashes of RedHat, with all infringing code removed...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Marbux, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Practical Integrity Measurement and Remote Verification for Linux Platform

There are various problems in Trusted Computing adaptation in Common Off The Shelf COTS operating environment, like Linux. Although a TPM security chip is beginning to spread widely, retrofitting a COTS component with Transitive Trust and a remote platform integrity verification still does not work well, especially the verification performed...

Tags: IBM Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2006-11-05

Was HP's traceable "PattyMail" spyware? You decide

Was HP's traceable "PattyMail" spyware? You decidenot a really big fan of regulation myself. is it the government'sresponsibility to protect every individual from the immoral and unscrupulous acts of their neighbor?or does the individual need to take responsibility for his own protection when trapsing around the public spaces?we don't put...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, information technology, spyware, PattyMail, Hewlett-Packard Co., e-mail, verb

Discussion threads 2006-09-29

Google joins Xerox as a verb

Google joins Xerox as a verbBut the company s part of the point...When people talk about "googling" something or someone, they're [i]not[/i] talking about using Ask or Yahoo or Excite. They're specifically talking about using Google. Have you ever heard of someone googling something and [i]not[/i] using Google?The...

Tags: SEARCH, Xerox Corp., Google Inc., search engine

Discussion threads 2006-07-06

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Threat Modeling (Level 300)

The process of threat modeling is built on a simple principle: To build a feasibly secure system, one must understand all the threats in that system. The challenge, however, is in making threat modeling more accessible to non-specialists. Microsoft has developed a process through which minimal input can produce a...

Tags: Webcast, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Microsoft TechNet, Threat Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations

Webcasts 2006-04-11

Partnership set to run RISC software on Intel chips

Partnership set to run RISC software on Intel chipsSo it's software emulation?Details are sketchy... sounds to me like this is supposed to be highly optimized software emulation for Itanium chips, and the whole selling point is that it's so optimized and the Itanium is so powerful, that software emulation will...

Tags: Processors, Performance management, partnership, RISC-CISC thing, RISC, chip, software emulation, Intel Corp., performance, software, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2006-03-06