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VMware, Microsoft Raise VM Management Questions
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-05
Good management of datacenter virtualization is the key to cost savings and competitive advantage.
In 2012 there will be a new set of questions to ask about managing data center server
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Cisco Nexus 7009--Rise of the Little Giant Machine
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-30
I stopped in at the Cisco's main San Jose campus a couple times in 2011 to get a demonstration of the Nexus 7000 family of chassis and NX-OS software that runs these behemoths. The hardware is impressive and the software is strategic in that it seeks to unify datacenter operations
Microsoft Enables XMPP in Windows Live Messenger, but Questions Remain
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-30
A lot of things happened this year to make me wonder if it isn't time to stop covering technology for a living, but a couple of weeks ago, I was given a ray of hope, in the
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Software Security Still More Art than Science, Says Veracode
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-27
It's the time of the season where I clear my desk of press releases and whitepapers to make room for the year to come. Although I'm pretty good about herding stray paper into
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VMware View 5 Testing Notes
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-23
Here are some, "now you know" tidbits that I've gleaned from setting up and testing VMware View 5.
Cameron's Checklist of People You Need for a View Project:
View project lead
Desktop OS expert
Desktop Apps
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Last Minute Tech Gadget Gifts
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-21
Last year I got myself a pair of Isotoner SmartTouch gloves at Macy's. I love these gloves and would get them again in a second. This year I got pitched on a couple of related touchscreen gifts from Newer Technologies: NuTouch Gloves and the NuScribe 2-in-1 touch screen stylus and
AT&T's Purchase of T-Mobile Collapses; Let the Finger-Pointing Begin
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-20
There will be some unhappy people this Christmas now that the acquisition of T-Mobile from AT&T is off the table. But I won't be one of them, and I can say with a straight face that it has nothing at all to
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BMC Continues Discovery, Dependency Maps with ADDM 8.3
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-16
BMC is using a simple browser-based form to let data center application owners provide basic configuration information such as network protocol and port use so that the operations team
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Casual Attitude toward Corporate Data Brings Dangers, Study Finds
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-14
Newsflash: College kids are careless.
Okay, that's not exactly stop-the-presses material, but thanks to Cisco, one can now get an idea of how careless they actually are.
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Vendors Working to Add Manageability to Kindle Fire
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-12
So it seems that this year's hot technology gadget is the Kindle Fire. Although it seems to be dredging the ranks of potential customers for other devices such as the Apple iPad, the Amazon
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Penguin Computers, Assembled in Silicon Valley
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-09
I think Fremont, Calif. counts as being part of the Valley, so I was shocked to find out that Penguin Computing has an assembly line there. People actually assemble racks of high performance
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Apprenda - The Deploy Anywhere Platform as a Service (PaaS) Stack for .NET - YouTube
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-12-09
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/cQ3VuITxKig] Right now I'm working on a review of Apprenda's .NET PaaS. I'm struck by how much less convenient dependency-installation always is w/ the Microsoft stack, compared to Linux. I wonder how CoApp is faring these days...
HP to Set webOS Free: License and Timetable Unspecified
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-12-09
This morning, HP shared, in vague terms, its plans for the webOS mobile platform that the company picked up (before dropping, and then sort of picking up again) in its 2010 acquisition of Palm, Inc.
At this point, there isn't a whole lot to say about the announcement (not that that'll
New Means to Secure DNS Traffic Looks Promising
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-08
If I had to pick the most vulnerable part of the Internet, my choice would be DNS. It's far too easy to spoof, and the main stakeholders have been fairly resistant to making changes to it that
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Drive Interfaces: TNG
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-07
It's time to rethink drive interfaces again, if we're going to wring the most out of solid-state drives. As Chris Mellor pointed out today on The Register, PCI Express is currently unavailable as a means to directly
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