Date: 02/26/09     Keywords: sql, microsoft

Whether you call it a "mid-course correction" or a reset, Microsoft is rethinking its "SQL Server Services in the cloud" strategy. by Mary Jo Foley

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2162

Date: 02/25/09     Keywords: no keywords

Dan Darling, CIO of Turner Broadcasting System, talks to me about overseeing IT operations for many different brands across a global organization. Darling also discusses how the company is getting results while reducing costs, from new a telepresence implementation, to going green inside the data center. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=13399

Date: 02/25/09     Keywords: no keywords

Hewlett-Packard and Sun will announce details of "their newly expanded partnership agreement" Wednesday morning. Might this be a step towards a merger? I've long been a proponent of a HP/Sun combination, there are some strong synergies such as: +Both have strong and green datacenter...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=386

Date: 02/24/09     Keywords: no keywords

Storage provider Iomega today announced two VMware Ready Certified networks attached storage products designed to give small businesses the same virtualization flexibility as their enterprise-level counterparts. A small business running Exchange on one server and another application on another server could run both apps on a single...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=13392

Date: 03/27/08     Keywords: google

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors Larry Dignan: Google paid click growth sluggish in February; More worries emerge. Techmeme. Oracle new license revenue raises IT spending worries Dennis Howlett: Nuospace: enterprise collaboration for the rest...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8313

Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

I interrupt your light reading about green office equipment to point to this terrific information update about the Energy Star data center initiative that I hinted about a couple of weeks ago. More from me before weekend when I have a chance to do my own reading, but this is...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=908

Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

Is open source now the right way to bring truly innovative ideas to market? Terracotta CEO Amit Pankey thinks so. Pankey told ZDNet  "In the last year we've seen our market penetration go up by more than an order of magnitude.We attribute a lot...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2175

Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

News that IBM is among the new investors in EnterpriseDB has already been remarked upon by our own Matt Asay. I know it gives employees a warm feeling to know that the VC money is flowing and Big Blue believes in them. But what...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2163

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: software

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=344

Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Sybase has now released the iAnywhere solution for bringing enterprise emails to the Apple iPhone. We blogged on this just a few days ago. Based on the reaction, Sybase will get a lot more evaluation for their mobile messaging solution, even though it's designed to work with...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2624

Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: technology, java, microsoft

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8244

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8241

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: technology

Hewlett-Packard must be thrilled with Forrester Research's report a couple of weeks ago, showing an enormous opportunity in assessment and design services around making technology infrastructure more energy-efficient and just generally greener. I'll send you to my blog for reference, but to excerpt the data: It estimates the typical assessment...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=885

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to launch an effort to offer data center as a service to large enterprise customers. The move is notable for the following reasons: Cloud infrastructure has been primarily focused on small- to mid-sized businesses that have been leveraging companies like...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8231

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: software

Today HP is announcing its salvo in the battle for the next generation datacenter (NGDC). HP wants to be the winner in the battle for the universal hardware platform for virtualized applications, the battle for management and orchestration software for that datacenter and the battle to provide key global services...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=365

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is getting into the platform as a service (PaaS) market, and doing so in a rather major, though stealthy way. It's no secret that the company's Software+Services strategy has a lot of PaaS capabilities, but putting together information from announcements and briefings at this week's Dynamics Convergence conference, as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=158

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: software

What would it be like if it was possible to take an executable image that was built for one operating system and processor family, wave a software wand over that software and then simply run it on another platform? Wouldn't that make life for an organization's IT staff quite a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=364

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Take a look at this Flash demo of an Apple iPhone running corporate email mainstay Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange using Sybase technology. And this is without the benefits of the recently delivered SDK. Not sure when this will be available (I expect quite soon). But it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2621

Date: 03/12/08     Keywords: no keywords

As anyone covering green tech knows, Europe often gets held up as the serious older sibling who is wiser than those of us stateside about matters related to green tech. Certainly, the restrictions on hazardous substances legislation was driven hard out of the continent and concerns...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=870

Date: 03/11/08     Keywords: technology, database, web

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com describes how the company is using technology to process millions of new property records into an electronic database and then post on the company's web site in a user-friendly format. by Administrator

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=263