Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

Cisco is rolling out its Nexus 7000 family of data center-class switches that Jayshree Ullal, senior vice president of Data Center, Switching and Services at Cisco, said was the most significant announcement by the company in the last decade. The Nexus 7000 is a modular mega-switch that...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7715

Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

It might be trying to win the hearts and minds of consumers, but the company hasn't forgotten that its biggest customers still pay the bills. Cisco Systems might be trying to win the hearts and minds of consumers, but it hasn't forgotten that its large business customers still...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6227847.html

Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: software

Did you know that PCs and computer monitors account for roughly 13 percent of the total electricity used each year by commercial enterprises? That statistic from the Department of Energy, which actually is pretty outdated at this point, is just one of the arguments used by power management software company...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=732

Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: sql, microsoft

Visual Studio 2008 went to manufacturing at the end of 2007. Windows Server 2008 is expected to be RTM'd in February. But SQL Server 2008 -- the other of the three products Microsoft is slated to launch together on February 27, 2008, in a big corporate event in Los Angeles...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1133

Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: mysql, software, sql

Sun Microsystems has made a lot of progress in recent quarters: It has become more efficient, stabilized spending, transitioned to new products and made smart acquisitions like MySQL in a quest to offer a complete software stack. But there is one lingering question: Can the company grow? ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7714

Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: technology

John Hamilton, EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Trigence, and I had a long discusion about application virtualization recently. One of the more challenging issues for suppliers of application virtualization technology is that there are many competitors each presenting different types of technology and this leaves many organizations feeling confused....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=328

Date: 01/24/08     Keywords: web

Business intelligence is becoming 'collaborative intelligence,' thanks to the confluence of SOA and Web 2.0 approaches. Business intelligence becomes collaborative intelligence That's the theme of a Webinar I recently moderated, featuring noted author Don Tapscott, Molson Canada BI manager Katrina Coyle, and SAP's Lothar...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1048

Date: 01/24/08     Keywords: no keywords

Sybase announced its financial results today, calling it the best quarter and year in the company's 23-year history. Total revenue topped $295 million for Q407 and the full year exceeded $1 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2006. Full-year GAAP operating income increased 26...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7698

Date: 01/23/08     Keywords: no keywords

Comments totaling around 380,000 words were made by eight top administration officials before the March 2003 Iraq invasion. The Bush administration's warnings about prewar Iraq, from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "mushroom cloud" to Vice President Dick Cheney's statements on weapons of mass destruction, were released on Wednesday...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6227283.html

Date: 01/23/08     Keywords: google

Google has offered archiving and distribution data for years to researchers who needed to store and move massive amounts of data. According to Ars Technica, Google is looking at innovative ways of making some of these large datasets (often stored in Google's own 3 terabyte storage systems distributed to...

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1488

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: google

Valleywag reported that Digg went offline today to make changes -- but then later updated their article to say nothing major changed between the previous version, and the "new" one. Well, there is at least one change that came out of the updates -- and that's a new Google...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=894

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: microsoft

Both Microsoft and Citrix/XenSource made important announcements January 21. Since they've been widely reported, I'd rather not cite the details. I'd rather consider what this really means. Microsoft Microsoft made a sweeping announcement that indicated that they changing their licensing rules for the Windows operating system and making...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=325

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

Every once in a while you run into a comment that just begs for wider application. Take a look, for example, at this bit from Glyn Holton's "Best of 2007 Book Awards": One embarrassing trend that has gained steam this year is that of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1050

Date: 01/21/08     Keywords: xml, microsoft, google

In spite of their public opposition to Microsoft's attempt to get the ISO standardization nod for its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, IBM and Google quietly are supporting OOXML. That's according to two blog postings from the end of last week by Microsoft execs involved in...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1121

Date: 01/20/08     Keywords: no keywords

Reddit is the hacking playground for today. While Reddit is just barely a "social network" with minor interactions between its members it is a powerful site for spreading the latest cool thing and in recent months has been pretty much taken over by Ron Paul enthusiasts and Fox...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=507

Date: 01/18/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql, postgresql, security, linux

In all the media excitement over the week's two database deals, Oracle buying BEA Systems and Sun buying mySQL there's a name we're forgetting. It's PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL keeps on keepin' on, getting bugs fixed, upgrading its security, and integrating those fixes with major Linux...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1903

Date: 01/18/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft has been turning up the volume on its green initiatives across the company, as of late. I recently stumbled onto yet another one: DiskEnergy. DiskEnergy is a Microsoft Research project headquartered at the company's Cambridge, U.K. research facility. So far, there's very little public information about...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1119

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft has replaced its fired Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stuart Scott, with the former Walt Disney CIO Tony Scott. Microsoft announced Scott's hiring on January 17. Scott will manage Microsoft's 4,000-member global IT staff and will report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. From the press release...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1118

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

Oracle finally nails BEA, SAP completes its deal to buy Business Objects: the day started out making a lot of sense. But when I heard that Sun had spent $1 billion to buy MySQL, I had to check the calendar. No, it wasn't April Fools Day, just another day in...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=146

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

Two things seem self-evident concerning this week's news about Oracle buying BEA and Sun acquiring mySQL: This is an important turning point for enterprise open source, and the database business generally. Everyone has an opinion on it, but no one really knows anything. I...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1899