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VMware does Intel ASAP

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Jun 21, 20062 mins

Best of the blogs: As if VMware wasn’t in the news enough lately, here they come again writes the InfoWorld Virtualization Report. “The company is announcing with Intel the launch of something called the Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP. The aim of the global program is to accelerate IT customer deployment of applications in virtual environments using VMware infrastructure on Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. See more www.virtualizeASAP.com.

News beat: Researchers have demonstrated the ability to hack Wi-Fi drivers and take control of a laptop computer. Plus: A third Microsoft Excel attack has been disclosed. The latest attack takes advantage of Adobe Systems’s Flash technology, which can be used to provide graphics and animation to Excel documents.

Columnists’ corner: Jon Udell writes that IT is key to energy crisis fix, saying “Last Friday, I got a glimpse of what such a partnership might look like. For my weekly podcast, I interviewed Mike Frost, CEO of Site Controls, a 3-year-old Austin, Texas, startup focused on the part of the energy web that can be built out now, for profit, with near-term ROI and a growth path that could eventually produce macro-level network effects.”

Podcasts: The new NAS is cheaper, faster and more scalable. It’s even clustered. But it’s not for everyone. Plus, the week in storage news. Listen to Storage Sprawl.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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