Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: yahoo

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Mozilla names Lilly CEO; A look at his early priorities CES coverage: Robin Harris: Cool storage at CES - part 1 Dan Farber: Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! Intel's...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7510

Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: microsoft

Whether you think the recently proposed class action lawsuit over Xbox Live service holiday outages is crazy or justified, there are undeniable problems with Microsoft's back-end Live infrastructure that Microsoft needs to address. Microsoft recently offered its 10 million Xbox Live subscribers a free arcade game as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1084

Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: google

Inside the Googleplex, Ron Paul is wildly popular. Here's what happened when current and former Google engineers hit the Granite State to campaign for him.Photos: A techie touts Ron Paul MANCHESTER, N.H.--Vijay Boyapati is perched on a snowy corner of Elm Street here late Sunday night, fielding other...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6224935.html

Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

Managers of industry standard system-based datacenters have dreams of moving beyond a static environment. They imagine that their lives would be quite a bit easier if their datacenters did the following things: Automatically found unused and, thus wasted, resources on a moment-to-moment basis. Resources such as systems,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=314

Date: 01/04/08     Keywords: web, microsoft

When Microsoft starts shipping Windows Web Server 2008 real soon now, the licensing terms and conditions it will require of its customers will be different than they were for prior versions of the company's Web-server version of the product. Customers will be able to use any type...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1075

Date: 01/04/08     Keywords: technology

A Kusnetzky Group client and I had a rather intense discussion about the role virtualization technology could play in a disaster recovery strategy. Although the strategy this organization was currently pursuing appeared to be based upon sound foundations, it didn't go far enough. This organization really didn't have a plan ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=313

Date: 01/03/08     Keywords: software

Software that integrates data with applications is expanding at a rapid pace but the cost of these projects that require custom code is skyrocketing also. XAware's Bill Miller has ideas to keep it under control. Commentary--The demand for software that integrates data with applications is expanding at a rapid...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-181807.html

Date: 01/03/08     Keywords: database, microsoft

Oracle's database has a reputation for being hard to install. This video might persuade you otherwise. Over to you IBM and Microsoft. Can you do any better? Link courtesy of Justin Kestelyn at OTN by Dennis Howlett

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=274

Date: 12/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University (ASU) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), to a massive implementation problem at the UK National Health System (NHS),...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=558

Date: 12/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

In The Simpsons movie, Marge, Bart and Lisa's conversations are tracked by the NSA. It's not that they've been targeted as specific threats to the EPA's plans to wipe Springfield off the map but because the NSA listens to every American's conversation. That scenario -- which...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3580

Date: 12/21/07     Keywords: software, technology, database

Deal expected to close in early 2008; financial details not disclosed. International Business Machines said on Friday it has agreed to buy in-memory database software provider Solid Information Technology from private owners for an undisclosed sum. Solid's largest owners were private equity firms Apax Partners and CapMan. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-3513_22-6223858.html

Date: 12/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

Eweek just featured an article on compliance with new e-discovery requirements in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. I use the term "new" very loosely, as these rules have been in effect for over a year. The take-home message of the article, though, was that a majority of...

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1440

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: technology, google

Earlier this month I spoke with Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn and formerly Google's director of global operations and Keynote Systems' vice president of technology and operations. He discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7411

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

The year 2007 was a time that saw a lot of conventional wisdom shattered. Continuing with our review of the most popular posts of 2007, stories that captured the interest of readers far and wide included the potential of running an entire data center operation in the "cloud" for pocket...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1025

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: technology

Which has a larger carbon footprint: your neighbor's gas guzzling SUV or the server in your machine room? The answer might surprise you. In a recent report from the Global Action Plan, the average server has a larger annual carbon footprint than an SUV getting 15 MPG. Information technology...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7403

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: shopping

You know how confusing shopping mall layouts can be? Oh sure, most malls have maps, but numbering schemes for specific stores often follow no logical order. I mean the mall map says Wet Seal is across from Macy's but I just don't see it. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2899

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: google

Lloyd Taylor, Vice President of Technical Operations at LinkedIn talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new role, managing a...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=240

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

Dan Farber: Lloyd, thanks for joining me. Lloyd Taylor: And thanks for inviting me. Dan Farber: Lloyd you have been at LinkedIn since September of this year, what is LinkedIn and what compelled you to go there? Lloyd...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=241

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: microsoft, google

A statistically unsound study shows that comparatively few PC  people have heard of, let alone use online applications As sure as night follows day and the blogs go bonkers. Attention is naturally directed towards a Google v Microsoft shoot out. If you're one of the 500 million...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=262

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: technology, java

Blogger Jonathan Schwartz, who also happens to be CEO of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA), has written an insightful post describing issues raised by Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Technology Officers (CTO) during meetings with Sun. His comments reveal distinct differences between the two groups. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=538