Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

In a recently published paper, Virtual Machines - You have to see them to manage them, I explored a few of the challenges administrators face when they attempt to deal with virtual systems. As virtual systems become a standard way to deploy solutions on industry standard systems, lifecycle management is...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=267

Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The Leopard has landed: The Mac OS X 10.5 upgrade process. Gallery: Installing Leopard. Robin Harris: Back up before Leopard upgrade! David Morgenstern: Mac OS X Leopard installation as a spiritual practice. Dana Gardner: I got bitten by the Apple Leopard blue screen...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6783

Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Spoke last week with Ben Stewart, senior vice president of facility engineering for uber colocation provider Terremark Worldwide, which is building a mammoth data center campus on a new site in Culpepper, Va. The campus will eventually include five 50,000-square-foot data center structures that can act as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=448

Date: 10/27/07     Keywords: database, google

A new Google Patent application entitled Ranking and Clustering of Geo-Located Objects appears to describe a method in which geographical location objects of the type seen in Google Earth and Google Maps would be more efficiently classified in a database. This is potentially...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2677

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: database

Here at Interop in NYC, while wandering the show floor, I encountered Geoage. Coming from a very database-driven background, I've never been a big fan of the many forms-based tools that were out there for PCs -- ones where the data being gathered might need to be reconciled...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=858

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

VMware's first quarter as a public company was an impressive one. The company on Wednesday reported third quarter earnings of $65 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $358 million. Revenue was up 90 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, VMware reported net income...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6744

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: software, yahoo, microsoft, google

The universe might be expanding but the tech universe is shrinking. Just as Oracle and SAP are dividing up what's left of value in enterprise software, Google and Microsoft are in competition to dominate the advertising and social networking spaces, with Yahoo trailing behind. The path to domination, or at...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6735

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

One of the biggest unmet challenges of this decade has been linking computing, entertainment, mobile, and and home automation systems in a single network. Many people wonder whether it should be done at all. It should be done, because many functions cross these product...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1591

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: microsoft

After 100 days in the job of leading Microsoft's business systems division, Kirill Tatarinov is getting his feet firmly under the table. I caught up with him at this year's EMEA Convergence, Microsoft's customer conference with eight questions: 1. When does the 10-year application support clock start...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=214

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: web

James Lee Sorenson oversees a social-networking genealogy Web site, tapping into what he calls the most viral network today--the family. Ask James Lee Sorenson where he's from and you're apt to get more than a simple, "from Utah." Sorenson, vice chairman of Sorenson Companies, which makes the...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2008-9595_22-6214906.html

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: google

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Attack of the PDFs. Zero-day flaw in Macrovision DRM app under attack. Robin Harris: Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer. Images: Tracking California's wildfires (right). Qualcomm shuts headquarters amid Calif. fires. Heather Clancy: Green Grid tech...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6729

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Want a recipe for a more efficient data center? Well, if you're a member of Green Grid, the consortium is releasing several white papers from its technical committee that outline certain configurations that could helpl and provide guidelines/benchmarks for efficiency metrics. The three papers are: -...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=426

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: google

My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy What does it take to power the world's most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google's new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google's tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=213

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Under the entrepreneur in residence program, the agency will invite executives to set up shop inside select labs to assess technologies. The Department of Energy is going to open its doors to Silicon Valley in hopes of turning some of its research projects into commercial projects. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6214871.html

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: software

Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk shares his thoughts on green innovations in the datacenter and creating eco-friendly software that will help measure energy consumption in buildings. by Andrew Mager

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=208

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: software

Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk describes the company's datacenter strategy and how he's incorporating new technologies such as cloud computing and software-as-a-service. by Andrew Mager

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=209

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: software

Dan Farber: Billy, thanks for joining me. Billy Hinners: I'm happy to be here Dan. Dan Farber: Autodesk is a large company, $1.5 billion in revenue last year, and certainly well known for its engineering and architectural software, but you're also...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=206

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: microsoft

When I saw the demo last summer it was impressive. Sybase used its Information Anywhere suite as a go-between to allow such corporate email stalwarts as IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange to integrate with a mobile Apple iPhone for email and PIM. Now the demo is...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2563

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: asp

IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=989

Date: 10/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2562