News podcast: Network World 360 One thing that became obvious this week at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Los Angeles is that corporate IT will need to deftly plan and strategize how to deal with an onslaught of Microsoft software in the next 7 to 12 months. Also, Hewlett-Packard has recalled Lithium-Ion batteries used in some of its laptops, as they pose a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Thursday. (5:34) Gigabit Ethernet switches from BLADE on tap at Interop BLADE Network Technologies will unveil at Interop next week a set of products that includes an “FCoE-ready” 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade server switch with 100 Gig Ethernet of uplink capacity and a virtualization offering that the company says supports more than 1,000 virtual ports. The 100G is achieved by bonding 10 10G Ethernet links, BLADE says. Google needs some network help Look's like yesterday's Google outage, which left 14% of Google users with slow or interrupted service for about two hours, could have been prevented with some good old-fashioned network expertise. Interesting. McAfee buying Solidcore for whitelisting technology McAfee today announced it intends to acquire Solidcore Systems for about $33 million in cash and an additional $14 million if certain performance targets are met. Google’s latest conquest: Commencement speeches Google really is everywhere, even at university commencement ceremonies. Google co-founder Larry Page sends off Michigan students; CEO Eric Schmidt going back to back at Pennsylvania universities VoIP, UC offerings announced Verizon Business and Avaya have expanded their joint-offerings for VoIP and contact center capabilities, and Sprint Nextel has spelled out their unified communications strategy for both wireless and wireline offers. Is Interoperability The Right Microsoft Open Source Strategy? Win over the PHP open source community. Get PHP developers to put their apps on Windows and Microsoft technologies rather than open source software options on Linux. That's what Microsoft would love to do. The BHAG (big hairy "audacious" goal) would be to achieve a transformation from LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), the dominant web app platform de-facto standard, to a new Microsoft model, WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server and PHP). But the distance between passionate open source users and Microsoft is as wide as the chasm between Starfleet Federation and the Romulans. HP recalls 70,000 laptop batteries Hewlett-Packard has recalled Lithium-Ion batteries used in some of its laptops, as they pose a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Thursday. Emulex fends off Broadcom once more Emulex has once again rejected an attempt by Broadcom to take over the company, reiterating its stance that the bid undervalues the company and does not adequately compensate its shareholders. Resume skills: We speak Chinese and can land an airplane Keith and guest co-host Denise Dubie talk about where the hot IT jobs are located, good news on the IT spending front, and why the office refrigerator really can be harmful to your health. (35:57) |
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