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Microsoft System Center 2012 RC–part 1 SC VMM
In advance of the System Center 2012 Release Candidate announcement on January 17, I attended a reviewer workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. As I have predicted for many years, management mastery of virtualized environments will distinguished accomplished … Continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Servers 3.0 Released
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 was released today with many of the changes from version 2.2 focused on improving management features. The open source, KVM-based (Kernel Virtual Mode) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 hangs its hat, so to speak, on … Continue reading
AT&T’s Purchase of T-Mobile Collapses; Let the Finger-Pointing Begin
There will be some unhappy people this Christmas now that the acquisition of T-Mobile from AT&T is off the table. But I won’t be one of them, and I can say with a straight face that it has nothing at … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged ATT, Carly Foulkes, Deutsche Telekom, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, feds feds feds, Randall Stephenson, T-Mobile, take back the spectrum, US Department of Justice
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BMC Continues Discovery, Dependency Maps with ADDM 8.3
BMC is using a simple browser-based form to let data center application owners provide basic configuration information such as network protocol and port use so that the operations team can more quickly generate dependency maps. Version 8.3 of Atrium Discovery … Continue reading
Casual Attitude toward Corporate Data Brings Dangers, Study Finds
Newsflash: College kids are careless. Okay, that’s not exactly stop-the-presses material, but thanks to Cisco, one can now get an idea of how careless they actually are. According to the company’s 2011 Annual Security Report, released today, over 85 percent … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Cisco, data security, get off my lawn, right and responsibilities, security, social media, trust, young employees
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Governance May Help IT Staff Maintain Overtime Status
There’s a proposal floating around the U.S. Senate’s committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions that would seriously rework the standards for who in IT is eligible for overtime. This bill, the so-called “Computer Professionals Update,” or “CPU Act,” on … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged CPU Act, IT management, non-exempt, overtime, S. 1747, working conditions
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Reliable, Secure, Not Seen Before: CloudBeat 2011
While reliability and security topped the agenda at the Cloudbeat 2011 conference held this week in Redwood City, the big ideas on the first day were more about how cloud development is setting up a decade-changing stage for application development. … Continue reading
Glasses-free 3D on a Mobile 720p Screen, Cool
Glasses-free, 3D, full-motion video on a 4.3-inch screen looks pretty stunning. I didn’t get to watch the Captain America trailer long enough to see if the cell-matrix parallax barrier technology caused enough stress to bring on a headache. However, what … Continue reading
Touch My Office
If the rumors are correct, Microsoft will be showing off a beta of Office 2012 (or “Office 15” for those of use who keep count) at CES 2012 in Las Vegas this coming January, and – here’s the real news … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged iOS, iWork for iOS, microsoft, office, Office 15, Office 2012, tablets, touch computing
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ODCA and DMTF: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together?
A fledgling customer cloud standards advocacy group and a long-established vendor group “announced a collaboration that will hasten the development of industry standards for managing cloud computing environments.” I was very hot on the idea of a powerful collection of … Continue reading