UBS PaineWebber - Quote, Charts and News

UBS PaineWebber - Quote, Charts and News: "announced new collaboration with Intel Corporation to deliver the VMware Client Virtualization Platform (CVP) as a new product that will be part of the VMware View suite of desktop virtualization products."

AnandTech

AnandTech: "Well, it is possible that the Opteron might be able to do some 'damage control' compared to Nehalem when we try out a benchmark with large and fat VMs"

"ith Intel’s latest quad-socket systems—equipped with a 2.66 GHz Dunnington processor in each socket—we can achieve approximately 20 to 35 fps at a resolution of 1280x720. Nonetheless, this represents a significant improvement over the experiments in 2004 that required 20 machines to render a simpler game more slowly and at a lower resolution"

Complications Following Distal Radius Fractures ~ MikeReinold.com

Complications Following Distal Radius Fractures ~ MikeReinold.com: "A Review of Several Complications Following Fracture of the Distal Radius"

Distal Radius Fractures, Broken Wrist

Distal Radius Fractures, Broken Wrist: "Distal radius fractures are some of the most common fractures (the medical term for 'broken bone')."

Northrop Plans To Trim Jobs - New York Times

Northrop Plans To Trim Jobs - New York Times: "As part of the merger, the Northrop Research and Technology Center in Palos Verdes, Calif., is being closed."

Amazon Web Services Blog: IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model

Amazon Web Services Blog: IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model: "you can bring your existing licenses into the cloud."

Corporate executives overpaid, undertaxed - Columns - Belleville News-Democrat

Corporate executives overpaid, undertaxed - Columns - Belleville News-Democrat: "Average full-time workers made $41,198 in 1973 and $37,606 in 2008, adjusted for inflation.

CEOs made 45 times as much as workers in 1973 and more than 300 times as much as workers now."

Joe Duffy's Weblog

Joe Duffy's Weblog: "Sharing is evil, fundamentally limits scalability, and is best avoided."

Cloud computing with Linux

Cloud computing with Linux: "Cloud computing and storage convert physical resources (like processors and storage) into scalable and shareable resources over the Internet (computing and storage 'as a service'). Although not a new concept, virtualization makes this much more scalable and efficient through the sharing of physical systems through server virtualization"

PC Management with NxTop - No Agents, One to Many Management, PC Lifecycle Management - Virtual Computer, Inc.

PC Management with NxTop - No Agents, One to Many Management, PC Lifecycle Management - Virtual Computer, Inc.: "NxTop Beta


Be a part of the NxTop Beta.

NxTop is a combined client-side virtualization and management server solution that offers numerous advantages over traditional"

IBM's 'Smart' Moves - Forbes.com

IBM's 'Smart' Moves - Forbes.com: "November, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a 'smarter' national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency; to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.

Animoto’s Facebook scale-up « RightScale Blog

Animoto’s Facebook scale-up « RightScale Blog: "The Animoto guys did hit the jackpot on Facebook this past week. Jeff Barr mentioned a few of the stats on his blog: Animoto ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in three days, signing up 20,000 new users per hour at peak."

Animoto’s Facebook scale-up « RightScale Blog

Animoto’s Facebook scale-up « RightScale Blog: "The Animoto guys did hit the jackpot on Facebook this past week. Jeff Barr mentioned a few of the stats on his blog: Animoto ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in three days, signing up 20,000 new users per hour at peak."

UCI Working Group Signup - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups

UCI Working Group Signup - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups: "In this vision for a unified cloud interface the use of the resource description framework (RDF) or something similar would be an ideal method to describe our semantic cloud data model (taxonomy & ontology). The benefit to an RDF based ontology languages is they act as general method for the conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented by web resources. These web resources could just as easily be 'cloud resources' or API's. This approach may also allow us to easily take an RDF -based cloud data model and use it within other ontology languages or web services making it both platform and vendor agnostic. Using this approach we're not so much defining how, but instead describing what."

OGF DRMAA Working Group

OGF DRMAA Working Group: "Develop an API specification for the submission and control of jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems. The scope of this specification is all the high level functionality which is necessary for an application to consign a job to a DRM system including common operations on jobs like termination or suspension. The objective is to facilitate the direct interfacing of applications to today's DRM systems by application's builders, portal builders, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)."

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups: "The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum i"

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) | Google Groups: "The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum i"

Creating a Common Cloud Computing Reference API or Standard - Part One | ORACLE DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

Creating a Common Cloud Computing Reference API or Standard - Part One | ORACLE DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL: "* Monitoring and System Metrics
One of the best aspects of using cloud technology is the ability to scale applications in tandem to the underlying infrastructure and the demands placed on it. Rather then just scaling on system load, users should have the ability to selectively scale on other metrics such as response time, network throughput or other metrics made available. Having a uniform way to interact with system metrics will enable cloud providers and consumers a common way to scale applications"

Joyeur: Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.

Joyeur: Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.: "JoyentHome Products Services Developers Partners Support News & Events Weblog Login Joyeur: Joyent's weblog Search


Cloud Nine: Specification for"

Application Automation for Web Hosts, Load-Balancing, SaaS, and Clouds

Application Automation for Web Hosts, Load-Balancing, SaaS, and Clouds: "NGASI AppServer Manager automates
multiple installations and
configurations for Tomcat,Jetty,
Glassfish, Oracle-OC4J,and JBoss on
a single server machine, across multiple
VPS, and across multiple servers."

CDs Say 3-D Fizzled on Game Day

CDs Say 3-D Fizzled on Game Day: "It felt like a gimmick to me"

IBM And Juniper Networks Hoping To Gain Cloud Computing Market Share

IBM And Juniper Networks Hoping To Gain Cloud Computing Market Share: "IBM, through its Blue Cloud Initiative, is rolling out a number of new cloud computing solutions for enterprise users, including joint Juniper Networks and IBM or businesses to install hybrid public-private cloud capabilities across IBM’s 13 “Cloud Labs” spread across the world. The companies have created technology that would allows enterprises to extend their private clouds to remote servers in a secure public cloud at the click of a button. Once the technology is installed in the Cloud Labs, businesses can easily switch clients workloads when resources become constrained."

The cloud-SOA connection | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-02-10 | By Paul Krill

The cloud-SOA connection | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-02-10 | By Paul Krill: "Cloud computing is a deployment architecture, not an architectural approach for how [to] architect your enterprise IT [as SOA is]"

One Sentence archive - tag: "humor"

One Sentence archive - tag: "humor": "I think I've been making smart enough decisions so far, considering that my future self hasn't traveled back in time and beaten the crap out of me."

One Sentence archive - Most Popular from the Last 30 Days

One Sentence archive - Most Popular from the Last 30 Days: "It took the internet to find out about my uncle's successful career in porn."

Microsoft's Windows Azure Strategy Defined

Microsoft's Windows Azure Strategy Defined: "Microsoft said Azure eliminates the need for deploying a major server infrastructure. This could prove to be especially valuable in today's cash-strapped scenarios where start-ups may not have the money to build out a new datacenter to host new applications."

Eulogy for a benchmark : The Observation Deck

Eulogy for a benchmark : The Observation Deck: "And amazingly, in the update to SPEC SFS -- SPEC SFS 2008 -- the benchmark's flaws have not only gone unaddressed, they have metastasized. The result is such a deformed monstrosity that -- like the index case of some horrific new pathogen -- its only remaining utility lies on the autopsy table: by dissecting SPEC SFS and understanding how it has failed, we can seek to understand deeper truths about benchmarks and their failure modes."

Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Micropayments: An idea whose time has passed twice?

Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Micropayments: An idea whose time has passed twice?: "Micropayments: An idea whose time has passed twice?"

Compound Win32 Synchronization Objects

Compound Win32 Synchronization Objects: "Multithreading is a little bit like Zen Buddhism: The more you learn about it, the more it escapes you"

Enomaly: An Open Source Cloud For the Enterprise

Enomaly: An Open Source Cloud For the Enterprise: "Enomaly is trying to sell big business on its open-source cloud management and provisioning software by renaming it and packaging it with enterprise-level support, a model popularized by Red Hat."

Software could save organizations $19,000 each month

Software could save organizations $19,000 each month: "Systems experts have developed new software called PowerDown, which works by automatically shutting computers down if left unused for half an hour."

Cisco Unveils Energy-Savings Technology

Cisco Unveils Energy-Savings Technology: "By having the network as the common platform that integrates with building controllers, you can collect power information and push down power policies to devices,” said William Choe, director of the Cisco business unit that created EnergyWise."

Virtual Distributed Ethernet

Virtual Distributed Ethernet: "VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network that can be spawned over a set of physical computer over the Internet.
VDE implements a virtual ethernet in all its aspects, virtual switches, virtual cables. A VDE can be used to create a VPN. VDE interconnects real computers running Linux, Free-BSD, MacOSX kernels (through a tap interface), virtual machines (qemu, kvm, user-mode linux, pearpc, gxemul...) as well as the other Virtual Square components like ViewOS implementations (UMview/Kmview) and Lwipv6"

People Over Process » Know Your Cloud Consumer: ISV or Enterprise? - Cloud Conference Week, Part 3

People Over Process » Know Your Cloud Consumer: ISV or Enterprise? - Cloud Conference Week, Part 3: "Benefits for ISVs
If you’re an ISV - someone writing software to sell to others, not use yourself - you’re going to run your software on a cloud, using the SaaS business model. (Throw in re-sellers and The Channel here a la Jamcracker, OpSource, &co. for some angels on a needle-head nuance.)"

Dr. Dobb's | Software Development In the Cloud | January 15, 2009

Dr. Dobb's | Software Development In the Cloud | January 15, 2009: "CUBiT management features include visibility of all system resources within cloud, auditing, capacity monitoring, role-based access, and accounting with charge back"

Microsoft unveils Windows 7 SKU lineup

Microsoft unveils Windows 7 SKU lineup: "These are the key features by SKU:

Windows 7 Starter: up to 3 concurrent applications, ability to join a Home Group, improved taskbar and JumpLists;

Windows 7 Home Basic: unlimited applications, live thumbnail previews & enhanced visual experience, advanced networking support (ad-hoc wireless networks and internet connection sharing), and Mobility Center;

Windows 7 Home Premium: Aero Glass & advanced windows navigation, improved media format support, enhancements to Windows Media Center and media streaming, including Play To, and multi-touch and improved handwriting recognition;

Windows 7 Professional: ability to join a managed network with Domain Join, data protection with advanced network backup and Encrypting File System, and print to the right printer at home or work with Location Aware Printing;

Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate: bitLocker data protection on internal and external drives, DirectAccess for seamless connectivity to corporate networks based on Windows Server 2008 R2, BranchCache support when on networks based on Windows Server 2008 R2, and lock unauthorized software from running with AppLocker."

» VMware launches open source virtual desktop software; Assessing the fallout | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

» VMware launches open source virtual desktop software; Assessing the fallout | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "VMware on Tuesday launched an open source client for virtual desktops in a move that mixes a little bit of offense and defense.
In a statement, the company said its VMware View Open Client would allow compnaies to host virtualized desktops in the data center. Users would be able to access their desktops from any device."

Invisible Worlds ``BEEP`` Technology Ratified by IETF; BEEP Becomes a Standard for New Internet Applications. - Free Online Library

Invisible Worlds ``BEEP`` Technology Ratified by IETF; BEEP Becomes a Standard for New Internet Applications. - Free Online Library: "With BEEP, Invisible Worlds has delivered one of the quantum enablers for new applications on the Internet,' said Dr. Marshall Rose, general manager of Invisible Worlds and chief designer of BEEP technology. 'The IETF standardization of BEEP will enable these applications and services to interoperate over the Internet seamlessly. Using BEEP, Internet applications will become smarter, faster, and more effective than before.'"

The Business Case For An Internet Refrigerator - Startup City Blog - InformationWeek

The Business Case For An Internet Refrigerator - Startup City Blog - InformationWeek: "Internet refrigerators were a joke a few years ago"

Science Centric | News | How does a dog walk? Surprisingly, many of us don't really know

Science Centric | News | How does a dog walk? Surprisingly, many of us don't really know: "It turns out that all four-legged animals step with their left hind leg followed by their left foreleg. Then they step with their right hind leg followed by the right foreleg, and so on. Animals differ from one another only in the timing of that stepping"