Opinion

EU charges Intel with abusing monopoly power, HP rumored to buy Bull, MS sketches its future, the HPC money roundup, and more

<p>In today's enterprise HPC news summary, the EU charges Intel with abusing its monopoly power to crush AMD, HP is rumored to be in talks to buy Bull, MS sketches its utility computing future, the HPC money roundup, and much more.</p&g

Geek Week in Review

News and views you might have missed. It was a lovely honeymoon, while it lasted. It turns out those 270,000 iPhones Apple sold in two days last June were in reality 270,000 new ways for hackers to&nbsp;make our lives miserable. Baltimore securit

The New Guy

It's always interesting going into a new gig. You've got the local politics to deal with as well as new systems to learn. There's really too much to pick up than I could ever cover in a blog, but you've all started new gigs, so yo

SoapScope

When I encountered Web service problems earlier this month, one of the first diagnostic tools I reached for was SoapScope. Naturally, it wasn't on the computer where I was developing the client, but that wouldn't have mattered so much; the

More on the SOA/EA Thing

Not that I wanted to make this SOA vs. EA week, but it has been an interesting angle to each topic, and the bloggers continue to pick up on it. Typically, they are referring to the comments I made during Monday's keynote at the Open Group Confer

Recovering from identity theft

Victims should take these steps to minimize the damage from identity scams

Take a byte out of ID crime

Companies must do their part in combating identity theft — not just wait until mandated by law

Microsoft to Submit License to OSI

In Bill Hilf's keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it's shared source licenses to the OSI for approval. This includes the Microsoft Permissive License, Community License and Reference License. Although a bit late

Responses to “Why Microsoft should buy Red Hat”

Earlier this week I wrote a "what if" post suggesting that Microsoft buy Red Hat. The comments here and on my personal blog were lively to say the least. Many comments were a variation of the "wow, you're clueless" theme. I a

Ambient Orbs spark bright idea for cutting energy waste

Clive Thompson over at Wired has shared <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/st_thompson">an intriguing story</a> about how Mark Martinez, demand response manager of Southern California Edison, got 120 cus

Dumb, dumber, and Davis

The irony in this story is so thick I may need a spatula to complete it. Here's&nbsp;a lesson in how not to do business&nbsp;on the Internet:&nbsp; a) Start a company that guarantees your customers never have to worry about having th

Personal vs Commercial Software

As you can imagine I get asked by all types of companies and individuals to look at software. In fact, I probably get more requests to look at software than a lot of people even get email. And there's one thing that's becoming abundantly cl

Emerging management challengers to the Big 4

Energy-efficiency battle is key in war between AMD and Intel

With datacenter operators fixated on electric bills as well as their facilities' environmental impact, and with the EPA pondering Energy Star standards for server hardware, being able to claim the title of Most Energy-Efficient has become far mo

IT immigration: Standing firm on floodgates

Why open the doors? History tells us that when great minds emigrate to the United States, economic expansion ensues

Reader Voices: Insecure Questions

<P>Are financial institutions only covering their own behinds by forcing their customers to jump through additional layers of security checks? That was the general consensus answer to <A href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/5/

Configuresoft Delivers its Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization

Configuresoft announced the delivery of the latest phase of its Configuration Intelligence platform to manage virtualized environments. Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization enables organizations to lower operating costs, improve IT agility a

EMC Profits Up as VMware IPO Nears – Show Me the Money!

EMC said on Tuesday that its second quarter profits rose nearly 20 percent as the company recorded double-digit sales gains and posted its largest revenue gain in more than two years. EMC reported net income of $334.4 million for the three months end

SugarCRM Goes GPL 3 / OSI Approves Attribution

SugarCRM, one of the leading open source applications, has announced plans to switch their current Mozilla derived Sugar Public license in favor of the new GPL 3 license for their next community version in September. While SugarCRM took some heat for

EPA seeks input on Energy Star for servers

With datacenter energy consumption clearly on the U.S. government's radar, the EPA is now soliciting input from the public for developing an Energy Star standard for enterprise servers.

Here be Dragons

When I wrote about my Web Service Blues&nbsp;on July 11th, I had no idea that I'd still be singing them two weeks later. But I was. The short summary of the issue is that my unmanaged Microsoft Visual C++ Web service client couldn't par

Linthicum’s Comments at the Open Group Conference Blows Up the SOA Blogosphere!

You never know what kind of impact a comment made at a speaking event will have. That is, unless you have 4 other SOA blogger in the audience at the time. During my keynote address on Monday at the Open Group's conference held in Austin Texas I

Can Enterprise Architecture and SOA Work Together?

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Intel’s new processors, multi-threaded networking, software, and pricing; NASA builds world’s largest shared memory system; enterprise grids, and more

<p>Today's enterprise HPC roundup turns out to be the Day of Intel with new processors at the high end, multi-threaded networking, an open-sourced thread library for C++, and a 50% price cut from Intel.</p> <p>Oh, and other p

Tired Programmers

Empowerment: how will you know when you’re doing it right?

<p>If you need one last motivation on the benefits of empowering your people as a new leader, think of it this way: you are paying these people a lot of money for their time and expertise. Use it. Ask them their opinions and require them to sol

A security policy conundrum

Dear Bob …So much of what you stated (in "Roving e-mail," Keep the Joint Running, 7/2/2007) hit home.About a year ago, our company shutdown access to all web email interfaces to non-company mail accounts. They did it for three reasons (th

Escape from Vista Hell

You think Windows Vista has been causing you fits? Consider the case of Cringester G. M. Back in March I reported on the problems he was having with his “Vista compatible” Dell 9200 and its Intel RAID array controller. Fortunately, this s

In search of energy benchmarks

Efficiency has rocketed to the top in server purchasing criteria, but benchmarking has not left the launch pad I've been working on InfoWorld's power and cooling benchmark suite (I call them "Greenmark," but I haven't officia

Hit the books, Windows admins

From Vista basics to SharePoint deep-dives, there are plenty of good reads beyond Harry Potter

O’Reilly Radar at Oscon

This is the second year that Oscon has included a one day conference-within-a-conference called O'Reilly Radar, intended as an executive level briefing session on new open source or related technologies. The agenda includes a wide range of topic

Intel’s new heavy hitter

Intel had a fairly big announcement today, highlighting their work in the server MP space with a new multi-processor framework dubbed Caneland. This is a new one on Intel, and definitely new in the industry, marking the first time a four-socket quad-

Yet another reason the geek shall inherit the Earth

The old saying is just one letter off — it's not the meek, it's the geek. I'm sitting in Portland Airport in Oregon waiting for a redeye, and the wifi is up but the DHCP server is dead. PDX is an enlightened airport, offering free WiF

HP Acquires Opsware and Neoware – Oh My!

Hewlett Packard isn't content leading the market with its server hardware. Now, they are making a strong play to become a software powerhouse as well. The company announced the acquisition of the data center management software firm – Opsware. A

Behind the scenes of “Pimp my data center” Part 2

More notes and pre-project photos on the modernization of a little data center that could, if only

Open Source Barometer from Alfresco

Ian Howells, Doctor of Marketing over at Alfresco, has published results of a survey of their users to come up with a barometer of open source. While the sample is from Alfresco's own users (and perhaps a bit skewed), it's an interesting sn

Those Goo Goo Googely eyes

Google Street View has made sport out of capturing strangers' embarrassing personal moments. Google Earth has snapped photos of Chinese nuclear subs, making much unhappiness in the temple of their Beijing fathers. But does that stop the insatiab

IronRuby

The Microsoft team building Ruby for the .NET Framework has released the first source code for IronRuby. See John Lam on Software: A first look at IronRuby for the announcement. The IronRuby source code&nbsp;was released under the Microsoft Perm

3 practical steps for empowering your technical teams

<p>Empowering your team is a good thing, and everyone keeps telling you to do it? The basics are straightforward, but the implementation can be a real challenge. There are 3 basic steps: put your team in a position to make decisions, teach them

SMB Tech News Today; 7/24

* The Dos and Donts of data breaches. This one was written for the enterprise set, but most of these tips work for businesses of any size–and we know that SMBs are as likely to be breached as anyone else. (Source: InfoWorld) * Microsoft leaks Gatine

Covet my code

Sturdy code can be a thing of beauty. Unless you prefer money and sex. I was working in an accounting department in the mid-1980s which had just acquired a completely new computer system, and the accounting application had been written from scratch.

Macs and motorcycles

Apple's cult appeal has a somewhat unlikely predecessor: Harley-Davidson In an attempt to explain the phenomenon that is Apple and why it has such a loyal following, I thought I would take a look at a company that achieved that haloed status fir

Sprint Goes in Slow Motion on Promised Feature

<P>My recent story about <A href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/7/9/0110/36924"> imaginary Samsung optional equipment</A> has prompted similar tales from readers about advertised features that are missing in act

VMware Released its Benchmarking VMmark Solution

VMware has finally rolled out its virtualization benchmark solution called VMmark, which is the result of two years of engineering design, collaboration with partners, and review of extensive customer survey data. The company hopes that VMmark can pr

XenSource and Symantec to Deliver Unified Server and Storage Virtualization

XenSource, Inc., provider of the open-source Xen virtualization project, and a provider of enterprise virtualization solutions, announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec to embed Veritas Storage Foundation, Symantec's industry-

Home technology

JasperSoft BI Suite 2.0

Recently, JasperSoft began shipping version 2.0 of their Business Intelligence Suite. JasperSoft has risen to prominence on the popularity of JasperReports open source reporting for Java. Since the company's launch they have been rounding out th

Why Microsoft Should buy Red Hat

Some background: Matt asked "Why doesn't Oracle just buy Red Hat?" I explained why Oracle would not buy Red Hat Luis Villa replied to Matt's question: "Because Red Hat employees would leave en masse." Microsoft announced

Speaking at the Open Group Conference Today

In Austin today speaking at the 15th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference run by The Open Group. I did the keynote this morning. A few notes from the conference: SOA is now an official EA concept, and they are thinking long and hard as to

Wireshark

When I needed a Network Protocol Analyzer last week, I realized that I had recently uninstalled one (I think it was NetSniffer), in a fit of tidiness. It was several years old, and I hadn't used it in over a year, so it seemed reasonable to nuke