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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

VMware unveils vSphere; History, according to Google News; Cisco bolsters security family

Aggregation of data center resources highlights new VMware virtualization platform
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VMware vows to overhaul data center with "cloud operating system"
By Jon Brodkin
VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool. Read full story.
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VMware partners line up for vSphere launch
Does VMware vSphere solve IT's worries about Cloud?
VMware's version of flexibility doesn't include Microsoft Hyper-V

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News podcast: Network World 360
A new survey shows that many businesses are concerned about the management and privacy of data that they entrust to cloud computing service providers, but not many are doing anything about it. Another vendor is taking aim at Cisco's recently announced Unified Computing System. This time, it's HP, which has rolled out BladeSystem Matrix, a converged software, server, storage and network platform. (5:28)

Google News Timeline: A Glorious, Intriguing Time Sink
Got a deadline anytime in the next 24 hours? Then don't, for your own good, check out Google News Timeline. This new Google Labs feature, which organizes news stories and other information by date, looks to be the biggest, funnest time waster since we all spent hours exploring the globe with Google Earth.
Also: History, according to Google News

Cisco bolsters security family
Cisco today announced the Cisco IPS Sensor v. 7.0, adding what it calls "reputation analysis" to augment the signature-based defense of the intrusion-prevention system.

AT&T doubling 3G capacity
AT&T is doubling the capacity of its 3G high-speed packet access network to reach peak speeds of 3.6Mbps.

The FBI as an ethical hacker?
More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.

EMC, Symantec kick-off security barrage at RSA
With the RSA Conference cranking up, EMC’s security division RSA and Symantec rolled out security product releases today.

Microsoft could be a winner in Sun-Oracle deal
Microsoft has had few critics more vocal than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. With their companies set to merge in a blockbuster $7.4 billion deal announced Monday, is it time for Microsoft to worry?

Net security, Windows 7 and Conficker under scrutiny
Cross-domain security on the Internet, Windows 7 vulnerabilities and the Conficker worm will be among the topics under scrutiny at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) held in Dubai this week.

Pentagon bombs $400M Lockheed outsourcing contractThe Pentagon this week said it was taking back the veterans pay and administration service work in had outsourced to Lockheed Martin in what some say is also a blow the former President Bush administration’s government work privatization efforts. The return of the veteran’s contract to government employees will save up to $25 million over the next 10 years according to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) that will run the program.

Are Instant Messaging Emoticons the New Age's Hieroglyphics?
In his Microsoft Voice and UC blog, Joe Schurman talked with his brother's best friends and mentor about the affect that text messaging has had on the English language, which eventually led to how emoticons or images are now used. Have we as a society, now repeated history by leveraging images versus text to converse?

April giveaways galore
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and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30.


Eye-catching gadgets at CTIA
10 eye-catching gadgets at CTIA From WiMAX hotspots to $2,000 cell phones, a look at what caught our attention at CTIA Wireless.

Are you an IT geezer?
Quiz: Are you an IT geezer? (and we mean that in a good way)Sure, the new generation knows Facebook, Android and Twitter. But what about ISDN, SNA and X.25? Take the quiz!

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04/21/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
  2. The biggest loser in Oracle-Sun deal: SAP
  3. 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
  4. VMware vows to overhaul data center with "cloud operating system"
  5. Why the Oracle/Sun deal is bad news for Microsoft, SQL Server
  6. Buzzblog: Oracle acquires Sun in $7.4B stunner
  7. Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management
  8. Oracle agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B
  9. Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership, analysts say
  10. Six things that could ruin Twitter (and five that won't)
  11. Honda demos motion-assistance devices


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