Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: database

Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His most recent creation is Vertica, which just launched version 2.o of its database. The claims...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8044

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: microsoft

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: What your disk drive isn't telling you. Toshiba: We're done with HD DVD Report: Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout Tuesday. Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360 Mary Jo Foley:...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8036

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8023

Date: 02/18/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Microsoft isn't sitting around waiting for its Yahoo acquisition to get the nod. It is continuing to roll out new Windows Live and Live Search technologies and programs. Here are just a few of the Live-related announcements from the past few days that caught my eye: ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1195

Date: 02/17/08     Keywords: google

Harper's has published a blueprint drawing for Google's new Oregon data center. Dan Farber points out that, "the 68,680 square-foot facility...is expected to demand 103-megawatts of electricity, which would power about 80,000 homes." Meanwhile, AFP says, "Google was looking at Malaysia, India or...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=606

Date: 02/17/08     Keywords: google

The March issue of "Harper's" has a spread with a blueprint for Google's The Dalles data center on the banks of Oregon's Columbia River. According to the article, the 68,680 square-foot facility (with only two of the three buildings completed) is expected to demand 103-megawatts of electricity, which would...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8016

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: google

Update below: Cloud services sound great. A company can host their infrastructure with a large player like Amazon and Google, spend little and grow the business. Data center investment? Why would you do something like that? Those theories are being tested today as Michael Krigsman is on...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8004

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

You've gotta love a company that calls one of its products the "Beast," SATABeast that is. (As opposed to the SATABoy, another one of its lines.) But the real reason that I'm writing about Nexsan this morning is because the storage company last month claimed a first...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=807

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: web, microsoft, google

Microsoft won't be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs. But it's practically a given that Microsoft will add more online collaboration/sharing capabilities to the individual point products that will comprise the client-based Office 14. Microsoft execs are beginning to drop...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1178

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has chosen Amalga as the name for its hospital IT system and will launch the product at HIMSS in Orlando later this month. A key selling point for Amalga will be its integration, spanning clinical, operational and financial functions.The company calls this kind of software a...

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=710

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: software

I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=341

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: technology

Attention shoppers, er, data center managers! For a mere $24,499, you can invest in the latest modular cooling technology from Hewlett-Packard. (Keep in mind at the price doesn't include a hook-up kit, which costs another $2,499.) The company has introduced its second-generation liquid cooling rack, the HP...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=798

Date: 02/12/08     Keywords: no keywords

Business Objects, which was just brought into SAP's orbit, announced BusinessObjects™ XI 3.0, which the company said "breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence (BI)." Every BI company makes a similar claim--promising to provide the key to making better business decisions and more profit. According to the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7967

Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

Notable headlines: All you need to know about Vista SP1 (and then some). Ed Bott: A Vista SP1 FAQ. Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' ongoing test drive: Vista SP1, making it (a little) harder for users to forget their...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7944

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

I try to make a point of keeping promises, even though I may not always keep them right away. So, in response to a gentle e-mail earlier today from a kind reader, this is the first of a couple columns about using direct current (DC) as an energy option in...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=784

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

For those of you who couldn't attend the Green Grid Technical Forum this week in San Francisco, here's a useful link to some of the presentations and white papers that were debated on the opening day of the conference. I already know that some of this stuff...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=775

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: web

That is the title of my keynote Thursday during the Data Protection Virtual Trade Show. Click here to sign up for this free webinar. It is 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific today, Thursday, February 7th. by Richard Stiennon

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=529

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: hosting

Say you're a fast-growing IT hosting service company adding 60 to 80 employees per month. You're maxing out your existing office space and need some new digs. Stat. How do you expand your company's physical footprint to accommodate more than 1,400 employees at your headquarters without completely contradicting your corporate...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=768

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

I just happened to be reading Breakpoint by Richard Clarke last week. The premise for the book is that the US finds itself undergoing a series of attacks on its infrastructure starting with simultaneous bombings of several beach heads for the main trans-Atlantic fiber cables as well as undersea cuttings...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=528

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: microsoft

With all eyes on what Microsoft is doing in the online-advertising space, it's easy to give short shrift to the datacenter and back-end infrastructure that is powering not just adCenter, but all of Microsoft's various Live services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reminded Wall Street analysts earlier this...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1160