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- Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained
- Since the announcement of Windows Azure, codenamed "Red Dog" as discovered by my colleague Mary-Jo Foley, at PDC 2008, I have felt an element of doubt hanging over the service, simply because I didn't know enough about it. This post will explain everything you need to know about Azure -...
- Tags: Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Azure, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Turtles vs. Hares
- In Aesop's version of the story a bragging rabbit challenges a turtle to a race, and then loses because he shoots so far ahead he becomes overconfident enough to take a nap, only to find on waking that the turtle has made it over the finish line. ...
- Tags: Job, Stored Procedure, Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?
- Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?Obviously, Microsoft has a lot of money to invest, and they have nowdecided it is time. Will be interesting to see what they actually create.New tricks for an old dog?No. Just recycling an old one. I see they've retrieved...
- Tags: Data centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Obviously Microsoft, Red Dog, old-Windows, new trick, Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'
- Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'yes, MS should leave Yahoo infrasture as isA waste of time, money, stability to port to Windows. Will even further alienate the few Yahoo engineers who will remain after the acquisition.No way will they leave it LinuxAnd there simply is no reason to. Everyone...
- Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SERVER 2008 64-BIT, AutoPilot, Microsoft-run, Server 2008, Unix, data center, virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile99.999% Uptime = 100% chance of failureIt's pretty simple:If it can be hit...it will beIf it can be cut...it will beIf it can be burned...it will beIf it can be flooded...it will beIf it can be damaged, destroyed, or affected...it will be.Are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Internet is Fragile, bad 36-hour, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Another new Window Live buzzword is born
- Another new Window Live buzzword is bornWould you please translate all this......into something I could care about?Microsoft needs a distortion field that gets them back to reality. They are WAY overboard into developer gobbledygook "cloud" stuff and not enough into things that really matter or even make sense to the...
- Tags: Servers, Now Microsoft, developer, Sol, server, Microsoft Corp., PC, window, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- News to know: Ask3D; AMD; Smart watches; Browser holes
- Notable headlines:Intel readies new chipsets. AMD hopes Barcelona demos whet IT's appetite.Matthew Miller: Are you sure there’s not a place for a smart watch on your wrist? Gallery left.HTC beats Apple to the touch.Dan Farber: Ask3D brings a fresh look to search below. Ask launches new Web search site. ...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Microsoft assembles its All Star team to tackle its Cloud OS
- The Windows-Live watchers over on LiveSide.Net started drawing up the roster of whos on the Windows Live Core team. It looks like Microsoft is putting a lot of its All Stars on the Live Core team. On the Microsoft org chart, development and engineering for both Windows and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Live Core, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, team, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Will Web 2.0 ultimately kill Windows?
- In Part 2 of “My Dinner with Allchin” (OK, so it was just a cup of tea), Microsoft Platforms and Services Co-president Jim Allchin touched on a few subjects about which he doesn’t often opine. Allchin shared his thoughts on Windows Live (which, along with Windows and developer...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-10-29
- Linux boots on Sun's Niagara chip
- Linux boots on Sun's Niagara chipVery coolI look forward to this code becoming production quality. The ability to run 32 threads concurrently would be awesome, even if only due to the reduction in overhead from less task switchesWouldn't it be funny...If Microsoft released a version of Windows Server that ran...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., CPU, Microsoft Windows, Intel x86, Linux, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Sun says it will help develop Opteron
- Sun says it will help develop OpteronThis will not help AMD....AMD needs to be afraid, VERY AFRAID. My rep and I were discussing this over coffee today at Tully's. We change from Starbucks every now and then just to make sure we are not too predictable. After bantering about...
- Tags: Linux, Data centers, UNIX, Operating systems, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., rep, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-22
- Anatomy of a server-room meltdown
- Anatomy of a server-room meltdownwow, he got f'd in the AROUGH, you left out the two weeks of USERS SCREAMING at him the entire time!Got the T-ShirtYep, if you haven't walked into a Monday morning sauna, you probably will. The day I did made me wish I had set...
- Tags: server
- Discussion threads 2004-08-03
- Commodization: the double-edged sword
- Commodization: the double-edged swordWhy would this be necessary?"But I thought it was telling that Rod [Smith] from IBM is willing to admit there's no binary compatibility across Linux and that's a bit of a fantasy; that's not the layer at which you expect to find interoperability."Which only means that it...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Schwartz
- Discussion threads 2004-07-20
- When standards don't apply
- When standards don't applyWelcome to Linux.... uh no standards periodThe world of Linux is one of no standards, buggy junk programming and about a thousand useless applications. ;)At least with Windows the apps are actually used, not promoted by some cult of re-treads.:)When standards don't applyI hope this guy realizes...
- Tags: Quality, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows NT, doc, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Windows, standards
- Discussion threads 2004-06-29
- New vulnerabilities in Microsoft software
- New vulnerabilities in Microsoft software50 billion can not stop the negative security news.They have created such a hair ball that even 50 billion dollars can not fix it. And, with Linux improving faster than Windows, it looks like the "Windows" of oportunity are closing. We will not cry.All the kings...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, MSN Messenger, Linux, MSN, operating system
- Discussion threads 2004-03-09
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