What happens to tech if Microsoft dies; Customers not buying cloud hype; Sun's long goodbye nears finish

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	Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue -- but here's why apocalypse is more likely. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 4 Key Principles of Storage Virtualization Applying the concept of virtual resource pools to storage can transform the virtualized storage infrastructure. Read this ESG report to learn best practices on; storage virtualization, application integration, capacity and power optimization, and storage & server convergence. Read Now! In this Issue Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it With emotion, Sun's long goodbye nears the finish Sandia tests supercomputer virtualization NSF funds research to separate you from malware Gates frets over aid, sees R&D as vital to energy in letter The blind side: What network monitoring tools don't see HP unveils extensive security services package How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers Apple posts record quarterly revenues, and profits NASA test drives all-composite prototype spacecraft WHITE PAPER: NetApp Inefficiencies Behind Exchange, SQL Server, More Discover four current Microsoft application infrastructure challenges and why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now. Learn more! Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it For all the cloud computing hype, few business customers are actually storing data on Web-based platforms. Read More With emotion, Sun's long goodbye nears the finish James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, posted the image of a tombstone on his blog last week, an R.I.P., for Sun Microsystems. Before long, more than 800 people had posted their own comments and memories. Read More Sandia tests supercomputer virtualization The U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the possibility of using virtualization to allow its researchers to make better use of its behemoth Red Storm supercomputer. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico are also participating in the project. Read More NSF funds research to separate you from malware The National Science Foundation is funneling more than $1.7 million into a pair of computer security projects outlined today by the researchers' schools. Read More Gates frets over aid, sees R&D as vital to energy in letter Bill Gates marked his first-full year at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his second annual letter, fretting over possible cuts in foreign aid by rich governments and noting that research into renewable energy will be critical to resolving the global climate debate. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Optimize Network Management, Achieve ITIL v3 goals The key to truly efficient network management software is the ability to integrate with other management software platforms. Find out how HP now provides a completely new, rich set of out-of-the-box integration with HP software as well as third-party applications. Learn more The blind side: What network monitoring tools don't see Enterprise Management Associates study, commissioned by Anue Systems, shows that many network and security operations professionals lack the visibility they need to optimize network, application and IT service availability and performance. Read More HP unveils extensive security services package HP Monday announced an extensive security-services portfolio that includes more than 90 basic offerings for application, identity and access management security to business continuity, cloud computing and managed services aimed at businesses and government. Read More How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers Happy birthday to the Rubik's Cube, which was launched in 1980 (invented in 1974, but licensed by Ideal in 1980) and began a craze of goofy kids like yours truly (I was 11 or 12 at the time) trying to impress people with their cube-solving skills. Read More Apple posts record quarterly revenues, and profits Apple has reported a first quarter net profit of $3.38 billion on a record $15.68 billion in sales ending December 26, fueled by selling 3.36 million Macintosh computers, 8.7 million iPhones (a 100% jump compared to a year ago), and 21 million iPods (down 8% from a year ago). Read More NASA test drives all-composite prototype spacecraft With an eye toward building safer, lighter and tougher spacecraft, NASA said today its prototype space crew module made up of composite materials handled tests simulating structural stresses of launch and atmospheric reentry. Read More
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