Monthly Archives: July 2007
SonicWall Unveils Aventail SSL VPN Platform
SonicWall is releasing the latest version of its newly acquired Aventail Secure Sockets Layer VPN remote access platform to help businesses manage security threats...
Microsoft Releases IronRuby
Microsoft is ready for community feedback on its implementation of the Ruby language.
At the OReilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., Microsoft on July...
New MBS Chief: Partners Need Stability
Microsoft partners anxious about the new MBS (Microsoft Business Solutions) chief got their chance to meet him at the vendors Worldwide Partner Conference July...
VMware Develops Virtualization Benchmarks
Virtual environments are about to get a benchmark to call their own.
VMware is leading the effort to offer a new benchmark that will measure...
App Performance: Orenstein Puts it in Gear6
Mike Vizard: Today were are going to talk about storage and application performance. Gear 6 has a special device that focuses on caching and...
HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B
Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware, a software vendor best known as a provider of data center automation products, for $1.6 billion, the two companies announced...
HP Buys Neoware, Eyes Virtualized Client Computing
Hewlett-Packard on July 23 announced plans to acquire Linux thin client specialist Neoware, in a deal valued at $214 million. HP said the deal...
Canonical Launches Web-Based Systems Management for Ubuntu
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on July 22 at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Ore., the availability of Landscape,...
The Problem with One-Size-Fits-All
The one-size-fits-all approach is very hard to resist. It sings of convenience and a hassle-free shopping effort. But in retail, its more often just...
Castro Condemns U.S. H-1B Policy
Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, issued a missive July 17 condemning the U.S. and other wealthy nations for causing Latin American "brain drain" and...