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DHS scraps virtual fence

DHS scraps virtual fenceVirtual Fence = Fail"The Border Patrol had little input in designing the prototype..."That one line speaks volumes about why the virtual fence prototype didn't do what was needed. I hope Boeing made some money on it, at least. Now, who do we punish?

Tags: virtual fence, fence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for use

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for useWhat does 16000 USD matter...When you're saving 45k USD annually, per illegal immigrant employed?Europe is allowed to have work camps for their detainees from africa, why is it we have to embrace people who are breaking our laws with open arms?$135 per...

Tags: Real estate, fence, virtual fence

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

Update: Boeing virtual fence "unusable"

Update: Boeing virtual fence "unusable"Don't need any stinking fence !What we need is a mine field a mile wide on the Mexico/U.S. border. No high tech gadgets to break or maintain. No agents required to chase anyone down just to waste more taxpayer money.Let the mines do their...

Tags: Construction, fence, virtual fence, Boeing Co.

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Boeing virtual fence: $30 billion failure

The Department of Homeland Security "virtual fence" project, being built by Boeing, is in big, big trouble. The virtual fence is a high-tech network of cameras, lighting, sensors, and technology designed to intercept illegal border crossings. According to the Wall Street Journal: Boeing Co. has changed the management of...

Tags: Government, Boeing Co., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fence, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Boeing virtual fence: $30 billion failure

Boeing virtual fence: $30 billion failure6,000 miles @ 30 billion dollars..That would be 5 million dollars a mile. I might be wrong, but I think you could build a really good REAL wall for that money. Maybe even put some freakin laser beams on it..land based monitoring is just wrongfor...

Tags: Government, Construction, NOW HERE, fence, virtual fence, Boeing Co.

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

virtual fence glitches show anti-immigration measure is pre-alpha

Virtual fence glitches show anti-immigration measure is pre-alphaSounds like......the only way you can get camera coverage in this country. Can you imagine a thousand protesters on the border trippin' over their sensors?

Tags: Virtual Fence, pre-alpha

Discussion threads 2007-06-25

virtual fence glitches show anti-immigration measure is pre-alpha

Can Congress secure U.S. borders with a high-tech virtual fence? If the fate of the hotly debated anti-immigration reform bill rested solely on the success of Arizona's high-tech virtual fence, supporters would be sorely disappointed. The high-tech experiment on a 28-mile stretch of Arizona's border with Mexico is having technical...

Tags: International, Homeland security, Contracting

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Additional Resources

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Virtualization and security

It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...

Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualisation available in the market today, the hypervisor architecture—in which virtual machines are managed by a software layer that is installed on bare metal—has gained the greatest market acceptance. This fact has translated into rapid growth and a large and expanding customer base...

Tags: Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-05-15

Putting Workday on SAP's radar

Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-14

HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service

Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Cloud computing

I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We're all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Supplier, Organization, Data Centers, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-14

MKN TaskExplorer 2008 (exe)

MKN TaskExplorer is an advanced process management tool that enables you to easily manage the tasks and applications running on your system. TaskExplorer shows detailed information about each process, including performance and memory graphs, DLLs loaded, threads, and access token. It also shows the information about the handles opened by...

Tags: Process, Process Management, Performance, MKN Software, MKN TaskExplorer, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Profiler for VMware (exe)

Profiler for VMware provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, with a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources...

Tags: VMware Inc., Tek-Tools Software, Profiler

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Sweet Home 3D (3-windows)

Sweet Home 3D helps people to design their interior quickly. The user may: draw the walls of his rooms upon the image of an existing plan, change the color or the texture of the walls, draw dimensions, drag and drop furniture in the plan from a catalog organized by categories...

Tags: 3D, eTeks, Sweet Home 3D

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...

Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...

Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues

The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continuesMaybe it is because OS X isn't a good OS?[i]I long ago gave up on Entourage for Exchange, and just use Outlook in a Parallels virtual machine.[/i]Funny how when bugs or lack of features in things like the Windows versions of iTunes, Quicktime,...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Groupware, Entourage, MS Office 2008, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?I think you're rightWhy else would the current stocks be dried up?Another Blow To Windows MobileI'm getting my next gen IPhone this fall and giving Windows Mobile the boot.I've had it with a second rate garbage OS....everyone I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, job, Apple iPhone, WWDC, mobile, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13