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Kudos to 3Ware

In response to my previous post regarding the unstoppable alarm in my 3Ware RDC-400-SATA hot-swap cage, Scott Cleland, director of marketing for 3Ware products at AMCC responded with a very contrite email apologizing for the experience. He then went

My PASS Interview

I was sitting with Adam Mechanic at PASS last week and we were talking about the kind of stuff we do and don't like about Yukon. Jean-Rene Roy happened to be there as well, and asked if we'd be willing to have the conversation on film… so

Preview: Voyager Analyzer brings BI to library information system

Data-intensive applications have always had reporting facilities (what's the use of pouring all that data or garbage in unless you can get it out?). But as business intelligence (BI) practices become more refined and users become accustomed to b

India oversimplified

Full-scale globalization may take longer than anyone thinks

Perens: GPL v3 is the answer

In the wake of the Microsoft-Novell pact, support for a stricter license is swelling

Beware of SOA Vendors Wearing SOA Methodologist Clothing

These days SOA methodologies; meaning approaches, game plans, check lists, whatever…are everywhere. Indeed, there are many out there who would like to tell you how to go about building your SOA. I guess that would include me if we're being ho

LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit

If you didn't believe that virtualization was making a huge splash into the Linux and open source community, maybe this will help shape your opinion – Virtualization has its own track at the next LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit being held at the

Virtualization of Graphics Resources Patent – is it Apple?

You can find out a lot about a company, its product roadmap and the things that they are interested in by looking at the patents that they file. Case in point, the Macintosh News Network recently posted about an interesting find while it perused the

Virtual Machine Detection in Malware

Virtualization, as we know, offers itself to a number of use case scenarios and solutions. One such use case that isn't talked about much is the examination of computer forensics. Honeypots are a common way for security professionals to conduct

Straining Earthlings’ Terrestrial Intelligence

If you'd like to participate in the great quest for extraterrestrial life, you just have to have some spare capacity on your computer. Well, and maybe the smarts to deal with some software that doesn't work very well and the patience to tol

Web services security standards aren’t enough

Current standards focus on securing messages, not preventing attacks

CA seeks award, AOL charges forward

From the big chair to the big house in one easy step

Dodgy IT research yields dubious findings

Plus, Web 2.0 conference cooks up some kooky ideas

Patch those wireless drivers

Exploitable laptops, access points, wireless cards, and more are sitting ducks for hackers — here's why you should worry

Shielding Web services from attack

Web services are well-entrenched in the enterprise, but the new security risks they pose are only beginning to be understood

Accelerating the SAN on a budget

Cisco and Dell add fast, affordable pipes to the storage network

Time to plug in to Wi-Fi

With reliability improving, the Wireless Age is drawing near

Test Center Tracker: A plethora of storage, and some turkey tech

Fresh from the Test Center: Storage encryption is a much needed (can you say "lost backup tapes"?) yet still rare feature — but Spectra Logic is out to change that. The Spectra T120 tape library with hardware encryption is a nifty combinat

Spring LDAP capability improved

Spring LDAP, which is a Java library for simplifying LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) operations, has been upgraded, the Spring Framework community said on Saturday. The new release, called version 1.1.1, adheres to the Spring Framework 2

Google is Clearly a SOA Services Company

I'm at the SOA Kongress this week in Mainz Germany, doing my keynote talk this afternoon on the Web 2.0 and SOA. I had the pleasure of hearing Patrick Chanezon, API Evangelist with Google. Great update on what those guys are up to, and clearly t

Happy Thanksgiving

At the risk of being uplifting, here's a quick thought in honor of Thanksgiving:More than two billion people have no access to basic sanitation. The same number figures a bowl or two of rice a day means they've fed well.For much of the worl

Update: Dell PowerConnect line hits 10G

Editor's note: This entry has been updated with correct pricing information. Dell today announced the newest member of its PowerConnect network switch line, the PowerConnect 6248. With 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports, including four dual-personality S

The carbon-adjusted supply chain

SOA-enabled optimization can help reduce businesses' impact on the global environment

Test Center Tracker: Novell + MS = SCO II?

The Second Coming of SCO Weighing in on Microsoft and Novell's new buddy-buddy relationship, InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager observes that the techno duo appears poised to follow in the not-so-proud footsteps of SCO Group, which has gone

Microsoft and Novell pull a SCO

Microsoft’s chosen Linux is free to the first 70,000 customers; everyone else may get sued

VMware Pushed VDI – NEC and Provision Networks Listened

VMworld's list of hot topics included VMware's VDI. The VDI solution made its way into the keynote address and also made itself known on the exhibition floor. NEC announced the launch of a new virtual PC class thin client system – and Provi

OpenVZ Delivers Live Migration Capability

The OpenVZ project announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on Linux 2.6.9, including for the first-time in a stable branch, fully-tested and performance-tuned live migration an

Butler Group’s Technology Audit of Altiris SVS

Independent analysts at the Butler Group research firm recently released a 7 page technical audit paper on Altiris' Software Virtualization Software (SVS) 2.0 product. From the Abstract: Altiris Software Virtualisation Solution (SVS) v2.0 is a s

Review: Quick, Cheap and Dirty Shared Storage

If you're hosting out email and maybe CRM and accounting, too (ala Microsoft's Office Live concept), you may suddenly realize that all you're missing on your local area network is some shared storage space and maybe a few printers. Fo

Living with a bad decision

Dear Bob …Recently my office partner of 15 years retired. His replacement comesfrom another department and will be bringing along a software systemthat requires after hours support.Firstly, I don't much care for the replacement that was hired-

More than a toy, PlayStation 3 does Linux

If you're one of the fortunate few to have scooped up a Sony PlayStation 3 (and not gotten mugged in the process), and you're looking for a tax break, I have some good news: You might be able to count your new "toy" as a business

Is There a Future for SQLServerCentral.com?

By now it's no secret that SQLServerCentral.com has been bought out by Red-Gate. In fact, I even blogged on it last week. I've had a chance to talk to Red-Gate about it, as well as a few dozen users and MVPs. Red-Gate says they intend to ke

Preview: Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2 and Document Center

One of the problems with insider data leak (IDL) solutions is their complexity: You're always scanning networks, e-mail, and file shares trying to catch sensitive documents before they get into the wild. Often, a far simpler solution is to prote

What SOA Costs and Can your Enterprise See the Emerging Web?

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Trouble in homicide: a network detective story

The Chief didn't trust our in-house IT department, so he hired an expert. Some expert!

Beware of Redmondians bearing gifts

What's really behind Microsoft's interoperability agreements?

Test Center Tracker: The future of Mono

RIP, Mono?: Sun's open-sourcing of Java may have some potentially unfortunate side effects for the Mono Project, says Neil McAllister in this week's Open Enterprise column. Will the new availability of Java be a death knell for Mono, in the

Oracle Security Patch Causes Insecurity

To patch or not to patch – that is the question for many software customers. And it's particularly tricky one to answer when the software company won't say what the patch is for, as one reader discovered with a recent Critical Patch Update

Open Source and Appliance Software Delivery Open Up New Worlds for Small and Medium Enterprise IT

Preview: NetBeans 5.5

Sun shipped Version 5.5 of its NetBeans development environment in early November, giving the IDE — which is certainly the most important competitor to Eclipse — some significant and unique enterprise capabilities beyond those of the 5.0 release. T

Consolidation power tools

Much of the software you need to plan consolidation efforts may already be in place. If not, beware of overkill

Goodbye Mono, hello Java?

Sun's decision to open source the JDK could kill the momentum of Novell's .Net clone

Consolidate, outsource, or both?

The question isn't "consolidate or outsource," it's how to integrate the two

Simplify the workplace with IT datacenter consolidation

Datacenter consolidation is all the rage again, but today's payoff is more about agility than mere cost savings. Here's how a range of organizations have managed to shrink IT — and stay in one piece

Earthlink Outpacing AOL in Marketing Tricks

If I mention that a major ISP is finding new ways to squeeze money out of customers, you might assume I'm referring to AOL. But in recent months it's actually been the marketing practices of Earthlink that have generated more gripes from my

How Much Will Your SOA Cost? Here Are Some Guidelines.

I'm consulting now…at the project and strategy levels…and thus finding that a lot of real work needs to get done to get SOAs up-and-running. With most organizations at the initial stages of their SOA project, the first step seems to be is to

XenSource Launches Partner Program for XenEnterprise

XenSource, Inc. introduced a partner program that will leverage relationships with independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to develop high performance products for virtualized environments based on Xen technology.

Virtualization Helping our Children

AppStream and Ripple Effects have teamed up for a good cause – to help children cope with traumatic life experiences. To quickly reach more children with help in the aftermath of recent school violence, AppStream, Inc. and Ripple Effects announced to

MyEclipse Workbench IDE is upgraded

Genuitec this week announced shipments of the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 5.1 IDE, which bundles the Java 5 runtime environment, Eclipse 3.2.1 and MyEclipse in one download. This combination, made possible through the product's Developer Inst

Improving a small IT organization

Dear Bob …I've only been with my current company for about one year and have tried to influence change around verbal commands.  I have traditionally worked for large organizations (100-500 developers) and now sit in a small organizati