Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D' Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7892

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP's Business Intelligence Group. The former general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend--Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7881

Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: security

The White House unveiled its fiscal 2009 budget proposal and the $3.1 trillion monstrosity throws the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team $242 million to boost its malware and intrusion detection capabilities. According to the proposed budget released on Monday, "a more robust US-CERT will increase the cyber security posture...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=851

Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

A short while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Hyperic once again. The conversation originally centered on the topic of their new release, Hyperic HQ 3.2, but then went off on a very important tangent, managing resource by exception. Let's start with a quick...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=335

Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

The Green Grid Technical Committee is getting set to release more technical information this week aimed at helping IT managers get a better handle on their energy use. The information will be debated during the Green Technical Forum and members' meeting Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 in San Francisco. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=761

Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: security

If we look at the investment in enterprise IT security infrastructure over the past decade, companies have invested heavily in their perimeters while ignoring the inside, says Sentrigo's Slavik Markovich. Commentary--We begin with a story: A wealthy man decides to protect...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-186769.html

Date: 02/03/08     Keywords: no keywords

Map courtesy NASA and AAAS. Researchers are telling the western U.S. to prepare for water shortages. Does that mean fewer golf courses in Phoenix? Shorter showers in Vegas casino-hotels? Oh no, the world will grind to a halt, like China after a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=758

Date: 02/03/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

I've had perhaps a dozen emails over the last several days asking what I think of Microsoft's offer to buy out Yahoo's shareholders. So here's what I think - first on motivation and prospects. Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1059

Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo looks pretty compelling on paper. The deal even makes for a nice PowerPoint slide on synergies, but putting these two behemoths together could be difficult. Why? There's a lot of overlap. First let's get the slides out of the way. On Microsoft's...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7855

Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: software

I am on the conference call with Steve Ballmer (CEO), Chris Liddell (CFO), Kevin Johnson (President PSD), and Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect). Chairman Bill Gates is sitting this one out, a sign of his pending departure from the day-to-day grind in Redmond. We have...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7850

Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: technology

I had a chance to speak with Stephen Pollack, Founder, CEO of PlateSpin, the other day. Since it has been a while since we had a chance to chat, I looked forward to his refreshing, rather pragmatic, approach to virtualization technology. For those of you keeping score, PlateSpin - An...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=333

Date: 01/31/08     Keywords: security

Internet Attorney Sophia Cope says the new law will do more harm than good and the better idea is for Congress to revisit a fundamentally flawed law. The government claims that driver's license "reform" will help combat illegal immigration and generally protect national security, but it fails to...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9588_22-6228491.html

Date: 01/31/08     Keywords: no keywords

Notable headlines: George Ou: Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked Robin Harris: The data center on your desktop Janice Chen@PMA: Live from Las Vegas: Sony announces two more DSLRs under $900 David Morgenstern: Is Apple under attack from...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7817

Date: 01/30/08     Keywords: no keywords

Corporate desktops average single-digit CPU utilization and less than 20% storage utilization. Can this unused capacity be put to work for the data center? Revstor says "yes!" I spoke to Russ Felker, the founder and CEO of RevStor to learn more about the product. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=277

Date: 01/30/08     Keywords: technology

Sterna Technologies was one of the few enterprise products to present at Demo 08. The company introduced its Business Positioning System (BPS), which is another name for Business Performance Management (BPM) or any other variety of acronym for dashboards the improve corporate performance. Sterna's technology goes...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7790

Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

Sun's Blackbox, the data center in a shipping container, has gained customers and earned a less compelling new name, the Sun Modular Datacenter S20 or Sun MD. Starting at $559,000, the container can be deployed in about three weeks and can hit 18 TFlops and provide up to 3 petabytes...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7757

Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1947

Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: browser

 While I am not at the DEMO conference in Indian Wells, Calif., I am present virtually. Among the many interesting new product announcements I have received concerns a new mobile browser from a company called Skyfire. Skyfire's announcement at DEMO is not an...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3124

Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

Alliance would be yet another aimed at more-efficient production and distribution of LCD televisions. Japanese consumer electronics makers Victor Co. of Japan and Funai Electric will jointly develop and supply LCD television sets, an industry source said on Tuesday. The news pushed up shares of both companies,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6228199.html

Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: technology

I've been meaning to post something about my conversation with Sun's Steve Wilson about xVM  for a while but, other things kept getting in the way. Steve and I have spoken often in the past and I've always enjoyed his insight into virtualization technology as a whole, how organizations could...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=330