Monthly Archives: July 2009
Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers
Cisco Systems and VMware are developing ways that enterprises can use VMware's VMotion technology to move live virtual machines from one data center to...
How to Improve IT Cyber-Security with Visual Analytics – 1
Data visualization has been around for decades, but modern desktop computers finally possess the power to turn raw data into interactive displays for analysis,...
Month of Twitter Bugs Arrives
It's heeeeeerrrrre.The Month of Twitter Bugs kicked off July 1 with news of four cross-site scripting bugs affecting bit.ly, a popular URL shortening service...
Google: Spam Slows, Then Surges After Fall of 3FN
For anyone who thought the spam slowdown that followed the shutdown of rogue ISP 3FN was still going on, Google has some bad news...
Report: Some Technology Managers See Salary Increases
Management consulting company Janco Associates has recently released its 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey. The results are what you'd expect: Wages, in salary...
Google Moves Gmail Labels Up, Jettisons Right-Side Labels
Google's Gmail team has altered its labels feature in a major way, moving them to the left of the in-box, and adding drag and...
ClackPoint Enables Chat via Google Friend Connect
Programmers continue to leverage Google's Friend Connect social application in new ways. Now, Websites that use Friend Connect can better communicate with their visitors...
Digital Fuel: Web-Based Insight into Data Center Efficiency
As IT systems get more and more intricately interconnected and virtualized (check out Cisco Systems' new UCS, a peek into the future), the need...
IBM Offers Financing for Servers Bundled with VMware vSphere 4
IBM is offering special financing for its System x family of servers that are bundled with VMware's vSphere 4 virtualization platform in a move...
Why Is Microsoft Windows 7 Pricing So Confusing?
Microsoft is at it again. The software giant announced more details about its launch of Windows 7, which is slated for release on Oct....