Date: 12/10/07     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Microsoft made available for download on December 9 a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of "Astoria," the technology now officially known as ADO.Net Data Services. Pablo Castro, Technical Lead on ADO.Net, has taken to describing Astoria as "a REST interface for data." Astoria is designed to enable applications...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1033

Date: 12/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

I just had the opportunity to chat with Joseph Cohen, CTO, and Autumn Radtke, Director of Business Development, of Aqua Connect about the company's product, Aqua Connect Terminal Server. At this point, this product is the only access virtualization product for Apple's Mac OS X of which I'm aware. (I...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=296

Date: 12/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Richard Thomas, head of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK, told Parliament that CEOs should be responsible for the protection of confidential data in their firm's possession, and should face criminal charges in the event of data loss. This recommendation comes...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=522

Date: 12/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

A boutique analyst firm based in New York City called The 451 Group has released a report and survey information along with suggestions about how corporate IT managers can evaluate and manage energy usage. The study is called Eco-Efficient IT: The eco-imperative and its impact on suppliers...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=572

Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: software

Software as a service company NetSuite moved closer to an IPO as it shared more details about its public market debut. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, NetSuite said it will offer 6.2 million shares with the option for underwriters to buy an additional 930,000 shares....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7260

Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: programming, microsoft

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Want to test Vista SP1? Wait til next week. Microsoft delivers test build of cloud-programming toolset. Simple Sharing Extensions get a new lease on life. IE team shares ... a version number...Microsoft moves a step closer toward getting Windows...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7256

Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: google

Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google's massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7254

Date: 12/05/07     Keywords: database, java

OpenOffice.org has patched a highly critical code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of a system. Every OpenOffice release prior to 2.3.1 is affected. According to OpenOffice, "users opening specially crafted database documents may allow attackers to execute arbitrary static Java code." ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=718

Date: 12/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

I was chastised this week by an attendee at a panel I was moderating in San Francisco for using the term "green" to describe strategies intended to better manage energy usage within a data center. Data centers cannot be green because they aren't meant to be,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=564

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: java

Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7231

Date: 12/03/07     Keywords: microsoft

SAP and Microsoft are rumored to be an item again, according to Reuters. Let's hear it for European traders looking to get a little volume moving. This report, citing market talk, is as flimsy as they come. But hey Microsoft and SAP were talking way back when but anything...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7221

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2780

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is a segment of a recently published Kusnetzky Group paper. I thought you might enjoy reading it here. The appearance of virtual systems and virtual resources in the industry standard part of the data center has offered the hope of increased flexibility and reduced costs. It...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=290

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: database, web

A little while ago Mark Hendrickson posted about Blist [Screenshot Gallery] on TechCrunch. He described it as a web-based database application and gave it a pretty good review. The Blist team is up here in Seattle and they are one of my favorite startups. As a result, when I saw...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=648

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Virtualization has the potential of offering tremendous advantages over physical environments, but in the move to virtual, the organization often lost some things it took for granted. One of those things is clarity of what is going on, where, and with whom. What's WHAT? ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=288

Date: 11/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

By factoring route, time of day, age of driver, and so on, Norwich Union promises to reward the best drivers with lower premiums. As far back as 2003, word got out that U.K. insurer Norwich Union was working on a pay-as-you-drive, in-car "black box" device. Early suppliers...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6220304.html

Date: 11/27/07     Keywords: microsoft, google

Google has announced that it plans to spend "tens of millions" of dollars in R&D to help discover new renewable energy sources -- based on wind, solar-thermal, geothermal and other "potential breakthrough technologies." Will Microsoft follow suit? I hope not. I'm not anti-environment; far...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=980

Date: 11/26/07     Keywords: microsoft

Add Russia to the list of locales for future Microsoft datacenters powering the company's growing family of Live services and supporting back-end infrastructure. Microsoft already announced its datacenter plans for Chicago, Dublin, San Antonio, Santa Clara and Quincy, Wash. Data Center Knowledge is reporting...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=976

Date: 11/26/07     Keywords: software

I just heard the news that HPis going to offer Scalent Systems' V/OE as part of the HP BladeSystem c-Class Solution Builder Program. This is obviously good news for Scalent. Here's how Scalent would describe V/OE: Scalent V/OE infrastructure virtualization software enables data center managers to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=286

Date: 11/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Would you pay $80 (USD) for a data center with unlimited scalability and capacity? Or hold out for something a little more affordable? Cloud Computing at the tipping point Is pay-as-you-go cloud computing the flavor of the month, or is it a major disruption...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1004