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Virtual Distro Dispatcher: A Costless Distributed Virtual Environment From Trashware

Obsolete hardware can be effectively reused through intelligent software optimization, which is possible only when source code is available. Virtual Distro Dispatcher VDD is a system that produces virtual machines on a central server and projects them on a number of costless physical terminals. VDD is the result of an...

Tags: Terminal, Environment, Virtual Distro Dispatcher, Memory Consumption, Tools & Techniques, Terminal Services, Linux, Desktops, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-18

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A Tour of Nortel's WebAlive Virtual World for Business

Nortel's new WebAlive world combines a virtual world with fantastic audio to make a business collaboration platform. Here's a preview of that world. by David Greenfield

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Virtual World, VoIP, Virtual Reality, Conferencing, David Greenfield

Image galleries 2008-12-04

WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business

The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...

Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-04

iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder

The 'funnest' iPod ever has kicked it up a notch. Bam! Thanks to a microphone adapter and some free software called Truphone, the second-generation iPod touch is now capable of courting consumers as a VoIP mobile phone, in the most literal of senses (just...

Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPod, Call, Apple iPod Touch, Truphone, Truphone Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features

IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...

Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-04

JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...

Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...

Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Let's be smart about patching databases

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...

Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains

In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...

Tags: Extranet, PBwiki, Thomson Reuters Messaging, Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Dimdim offers synchronized co-browsing in web conferencing upgrade

Dimdim has released an upgrade of its open source web conferencing software that features synchronized co-browsing, enhanced performance and greater scalability. The Boston-based company said the 4.5 version of its namesake software allows users to plug-in URLs and share web-based data and videos with other browser users...

Tags: Software, Web, Web Browser, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Novell updates PlateSpin and rebrands Orchestrator

Richard Whitehead, one of the interesting people from Novell I speak with on an irregular basis, contacted me to tell me about an update to the PlateSpin portfolio and how Novell the PlateSpin product family and the former ZenWorks Orchestrator have been rebranded. Novell's products in the area of virtualization...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Whassup with Netbooks?

Whassup with Netbooks?netbook problemI completely agree that netbooks would be better off being marketed as a phone, with the option of a significant discount with an ISP contract. The problem netbooks have is that they are almost a single commodity. All of the big name producers use the exact same...

Tags: Engineering, Chipsets, Netbooks, Whassup, netbook, Intel Atom, battery

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

VDIworks2Go

VDIworks has been working on how to better create, deploy, access and manage virtual desktops for years and often develops creative solutions to the challenges organizations have faced. Recently, the company launched VDIworks2Go as a way to overcome some of the impediments mobile staff members face. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Virtual Desktop, Virtual Machine, VDIworks, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Apple iPhone customers gain free VPN service

AnchorFree, the maker of the Hotspot Shield virtual private network VPN service for Mac and Windows laptops, recently released a service for the iPhone. by David Morgenstern

Tags: Apple iPhone, HotSpot, Apple Inc., VPNs, Network Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Security, Wireless, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?

Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...

Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Virtualization and Emulex

Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint.  How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...

Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-01

News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

How open should your open source business strategy be

How open should your open source business strategy beCreate your own network effect ...... and you can grow and shrink as necessary.There's a huge market out there of people who just want their computer to f***ing work.If you're prepared to stick a second hard drive in peoples machines and dual...

Tags: open-source business strategy, open source, strategy

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

The world's most powerful virtual telescope

Astronomers have successfully combined three telescopes located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to create the largest virtual telescope for short wavelengths. The Extended SubMillimeter Array eSMA connects the signals from the SubMillimeter Array SMA, consisting of eight dishes with 6-meter diameter, with those from the 15-meter James Clerk Maxwell Telescope...

Tags: Astronomer, Wavelength, Radio, Image, eSMA, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-28