Rating the VDI vendors Six software and three hardware approaches to virtualizing your desktops. Cisco? HP? IBM? Choose one and only one In the last couple of newsletters we discussed some of the long-standing concepts that underlie cloud computing. We also discussed a few somewhat newer concepts, such as the dynamic movement of virtual machines (VMs). In this newsletter we will discuss how the concept of dynamically moving VMs is causing us to loose sleep. Cell phone cancer warning proposed by Maine state legislator A Maine state legislator wants cell phones in the state to carry labels warning of brain cancer risks due to electromagnetic radiation. And the proposal could come up for debate and vote in early 2010. Verizon Forcing Microsoft Bing Search on BlackBerry Users BlackBerry smartphone users on Verizon Wireless's U.S. cellular network may have noticed a small but significant change within their mobile web browsers in the past week or so: The only search engine option that's currently available to some Verizon customers via their BlackBerry Browsers' "Start" or "Go to" pages is now Microsoft Bing. Intel launches next-generation Atom netbook processor Intel on Monday launched its next-generation Atom netbook processor, saying it will bring longer battery life and improved system performance to low-cost laptops. New Intel Atom Chips Spell More Trouble for Pricier PCs Here's a rhetorical question: How are netbooks any less attractive to consumers when Intel improves the Atom chips inside them? Microsoft's 2010 task: Make the cloud clear For Microsoft, 2010 is a platform building and marketing year with no less than the future success of its cloud strategy hanging in the balance, according to observers. How to win the software licensing game Are your software licenses keeping up with the times? Probably not -- and that can cost you big time. Endpoint Security: As Important in 2010 As Ever Call it endpoint security, antivirus, or Internet security. The security software we all run on our PCs may be one of the most important yet misunderstood areas of computing. The No. 1 Cause of IT Failure: Complexity Software architect Roger Sessions says the cure for IT project failure -- which costs the U.S. an estimated $1 trillion a year -- is a big dose of simplicity. Rackspace Outage Has Limited Impact Rackspace experienced an outage yesterday--a recurring issue this year for the hosted data center provider--which took down a number of high profile sites including the popular blog site TechCrunch. No network is impervious to outages, but a company like Rackspace needs to provide consistent and reliable service. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet:Are Cisco's acquisitions working for the company? and iACLs; A Service Providers Best Practice on your LAN; On Microsoft Subnet Microsoft Exchange 2010: A hard upgrade and not yet in the cloud: On Google Subnet: 10 best Chrome extensions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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