I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views. I don’t hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names [...]
Continue reading → Rod Adkins IBM on Wednesday launched a new family of data center building blocks called PureSystems. The aim is offer integrated systems that have expertise to automate maintenance, anticipate computing requirements and scale servers, storage and networking resources as needed. The idea of an integrated system isn’t unique, but IBM’s twist is that it will [...]
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Moudry: When Hurricane Ike came, we were using another DR support company, and they gave us facilities to recover our data. They were also doing our backups. We went to that site to recover systems, and we had a hard time recovering anything. We were testing it, and it was really cumbersome. We tried to [...]
Continue reading → For about a decade, I’ve worked along side Tom Ryan on various projects. He’s a former Gartner Group analyst and West Pointer. He also knows more re: RFID, WMS and transportation technology than I’ll ever get. Tom penned the following post and I agreed to turn over the space to him. I’ve also added a [...]
Continue reading → Ubuntu Linux wants to be more than your Linux desktop, it wants to be your server and cloud operating system as well. Linux fans are excited about Ubuntu’s forthcoming long-term service desktop release, Ubuntu 12.04. That’s all well and good. After all Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company hopes 20-million of you will buy Ubuntu PCs in [...]
Continue reading → Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN’s San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and [...]
Continue reading → This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a principal analyst at Ovum. By Tony Baer Of the 3 “V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add “Value” as the 4th V) – velocity has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big [...]
Continue reading → Whaaaaa? Windows 8 is absolutely, positively, 100% guaranteed to sell hundreds of millions of copies. And systems running WinRT are absolutely, positively, 100% guaranteed to sell more than a billion copies. That is even if the PC market remains completely flat, or even declines markedly over the next 10 years. Developing for Windows is not [...]
Continue reading → While the economics of public cloud may be fairly clear for many organizations, public cloud is a murky area. Because of this murkiness, ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg, who has been tracking the Web services/SOA/cloud world for many years now, predicts that private cloud — at least as the vendors are pitching it — is due for [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
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