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"