Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

Are you ready for the "one-stop shop" of nationwide local, state and federal criminal records? Cops around the country are salivating for the Justice Department's National Data Exchange or N-DEx, says the Washington Post. Federal authorities have high hopes for the N-DEx system, which is to begin...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3694

Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1248

Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: database, sql, microsoft

Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), a forthcoming service that will allow customers and developers to host their data in a Microsoft-hosted database. Microsoft officials were reticent to compare SQL Server Data Services to offerings from any competitors. But Gartner Vice...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1245

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: web, microsoft

Microsoft is making available as of March 5 the first beta for developers of Internet Explorer (IE) 8, as well as the first beta release of Silverlight 2.0. IE 8 includes a number of new features, including WebSlices, Activities, a new phishing filter and improved standards support....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1244

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enterprise wares. And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen (as they have for years) but not offering any kind of delivery timetable. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1234

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: no keywords

Heard today that the Dataupia Satori Server 12000 data warehouse appliance uses about 10 percent of the energy needed by a regular server designed for similar data warehousing applications. Likewise, it uses about half the energy that a SAN would need to store similar types of data. Or at least...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=848

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: no keywords

There are so many good reasons to modernize legacy and 3GL/4GL applications that enterprises are moving wholesale to modernization activities, changing entire classes of applications, and aligning them with SOA, SaaS, data center consolidation, ITIL, and energy-conservation/green initiatives. Oh, and modernization allows you to gracefully get out...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2615

Date: 03/02/08     Keywords: software, technology, microsoft

The blogosphere is on fire with the anticipated announcement that Microsoft will be entering the Software as a Service (SaaS) market this or next week. Just how they'll enter the market is still uncertain. My guess is that they'll in part blend SaaS with desktop technology much the way we've...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=207

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

It appears that my recent post, IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?, must have touched on something that had an impact on quite a number of people. I received quite a number of messages from people who either thought that I was on to something or thought...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=353

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

Last night I wrote a piece about the use of 802.11n, asking for opinions on whether it was worth it (or even a good idea) to roll out Draft-N routers (the response was mixed, but the general consensus seemed to be to stick with cheap 802.11g access points for now)....

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1548

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

SAP has been hinting and mentioning and otherwise suggesting that it is taking away customers from Oracle's much vaunted Hyperion product line, and now it has issued a formal press release to that effect. While the press release talks about over 100 Oracle customers choosing SAP products over Hyperion, the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=155

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

Sun announced today that it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL and plans to continue making open source acquisitions as opportunities arise. "Open source is really in Sun's DNA," said Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, (to the right in...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2061

Date: 02/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

VMware is demonstrating four virtual machine management offerings designed to automate the data center. On Monday, VMware announced four products to better manage and automate the IT department to coincide with its VMworld Europe conference. Among the offerings: VMware Lifecycle Manager is designed to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8078

Date: 02/23/08     Keywords: technology

Small and medium businesses in Singapore are set to invest $3 bln in 2008 to strengthen their information communication technology infrastructure, up 6% over in 2007's level. Telecom will contribute up to $1 bln to the 2008 total, according to Access Markets International Partners. by AM

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13986

Date: 02/22/08     Keywords: technology

The other day, I mentioned the Technology CEO Council and the various things the group has started lobbying for when it comes to support the advance of green technology. Another collaboration that will inform the future of green tech, at least as far as legislation goes, is the working relationship...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=826

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: database

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8055

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is sharing more details about its small- and mid-size servers due out later this year that will be built around Windows Server 2008. Both of these servers are part of the newly-christened Essential Server Solutions Family. At the low end (for users with 50 PCs or...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1203

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: technology, sql, microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out on February 19 a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of SQL Server 2008. The new build, which Microsoft is labeling as "feature-complete," will be available for download by any of the 100,000 testers who are registered to participate in the CTP...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1200

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: software

Apple on Tuesday released its Xsan 2 package, a major revision to its Storage Area Networking software package. The update revamps administration tools, adds support for third-party storage and features Spotlight/Leopard Server optimizations. The new Xsan 2 tools let storage managers easily tune the Xsan 2 for...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1322

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Every cloud computing vendor I meet makes a point of telling me how long it takes the average enterprise these days to provision a new server (for the record, they tell me anything from 2 weeks to 3 months). Last week I met a vendor that made precisely the same...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=461