Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: linux

IBM has embraced Linux as its operating system of choice, but employees are slowly working toward using it on the desktop. As of yesterday, IBM had 24,190 Linux desktop installations within the company. That's out of 372,000 IBMers. So what's the holdup?...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7386

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: database

I occasionaly use database applications on my mobile devices, primarily for tracking my paid time off and for making gift lists. Many enterprise users need a database program that provides lots of functionality and that works with desktop solutions like Access (bi-directional conduit support in HanDBase). One of the most...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=744

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

I dunno either. But even my feeble English literature addled brain knows that humans burn fewer calories on a couch than on a treadmill. So why shouldn't we design our computers to use power in the same way? Apparently some smart souls are doing just that. It's...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=627

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

I had a lovely conversation with both David Patrick, CEO, and Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer, of xkoto about their new product, GridScale. I've known David for quite some time. We met at Ximian's Cambridge offices long before Novell acquired the company. If my memory serves me, David later become...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=302

Date: 12/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido (who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech). But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=941

Date: 12/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

An unhappy computer technician admits trying to shut down part of California's power grid in an attempt to get back at his boss. A computer technician at a data center that administers the electrical power supply to part of California's vast power grid pleaded guilty on Friday to...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1009_22-6223144.html

Date: 12/17/07     Keywords: crm, microsoft

Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: Getting started with Android Ed Bott: Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3 Mary Jo Foley: There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suite. Microsoft releases CRM 4.0 to manufacturing just under the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7361

Date: 12/15/07     Keywords: software, google

From a tech industry standpoint, one big side effect of the software as a service (SaaS) movement will be the build-out of massive data centers capable of scaling to handle ever-growing user traffic. That doesn't sound so green now, does it? No wonder Google refuses to reveal...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=618

Date: 12/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Telecommunications manufacturer Nortel has just filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, accuses Vonage of infringing on 12 Nortel patents related to telephone data management solutions. Vonage is on record as having contested three...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2878

Date: 12/14/07     Keywords: web

A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web services (AWS) evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we'd built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS. Each student had built part of a project that eventually used 25-30 independent machines. One...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7359

Date: 12/14/07     Keywords: web, google

Google has launched a tool called Knol, which is a service that aggregates knowledge from individuals. Google says: The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7350

Date: 12/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

I receive a notice of partnerships or alliances between and among companies almost every business day. Unless they are of an unexpected or very strategic nature, I seldom comment on them. Why is that? I'm reminded of something Mary Poppins said describing what she called "Pie Crust...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=300

Date: 12/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=430

Date: 12/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=938

Date: 12/12/07     Keywords: software, database, microsoft

On the same day Microsoft issued fixes for at least 11 Windows software flaws, the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) warned that hackers were using malicious Microsoft Access databases to launch attacks against unknown targets. According to a US-CERT alert, the attacks are using an unpatched...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=738

Date: 12/12/07     Keywords: technology

One of the toughest things about being a technology VAR or reseller is finding a way to "productize" your intellectual property. Otherwise, your tech guys find themselves building custom solutions for virtually every customer. Not so for Enterprise Information Management (EIM), a small IBM Business Partner that has struck green...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=590

Date: 12/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Dan Farber: Pat thanks for joining me. Pat Lawicki: Thank you, I'm delighted to be here. Dan Farber: Now you've been at PG&E in 2005, it's a company that's undergoing some transition as you're putting in new systems. What is the scope of...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=235

Date: 12/11/07     Keywords: technology

One of the big takeaways from Hewlett-Packard's analyst meeting will be that the company's information technology overhaul serves multiple purposes. To wit: HP's IT consolidation is designed to save money; The teams are that are carrying out the consolidation are being trailed by...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7312

Date: 12/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Subodh Bapat, Sun Microsystems eco-computing vice president, believes we'll soon see the first world-class data center meltdown. According to News.com: "You'll see a massive failure in a year," Bapat said at a dinner with reporters on Monday. "We are going to see a data...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=527

Date: 12/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

EDS said Monday that it will manage Bristol-Myers Squibb's IT infrastructure in a deal valued at $715 million over seven years. According to EDS it will manage Squibb's operations data at the pharmaceutical company's data centers around the world. EDS will also take over help desk support...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7299