Cisco Systems' Unified Computing System, a new data center technology which is made up of Cisco's own blades, chassis, fabric interconnect, management software, fabric extender, and network adapters, may well shake things up a bit.
According to reports in the Wall Street Journal today, IBM is considering acquiring Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion. The competitors have long battled over the server market, and the acquisition could be a big coup for IBM on that front. At one time during the height of the dotcom boom, Sun was valued at $205 billion.
I've been asked by a client to use Google Docs as a way to share files, and it seems like a good idea--an easy way to track revisions and updates, and share files between multiple parties. In that respect, it works almost like a wiki, or a very basic content management system.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said something in a presentation this week that I've been predicting all along, and that's the convergence of PCs and mobile devices. The logic is undeniable.
Just about every business has some antivirus software and a firewall of some sort, and even during hard times, most will acknowledge the need for those basics. But what about security that goes beyond the basics? That may be a little bit harder to sell, despite the obvious need.
The market for mobile apps is hot. Microsoft just revealed a new strategy for encouraging development of Windows Mobile applications, where they will pay 70 percent of sales to developers that will be sold on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Google may be a big dog, but can they compete against Microsoft?
A news report today fueled the fire of speculation that Google will compete to be king of the desktop operating system hill.
Microsoft's Software-plus-Services deal is a sort of love-it-or-hate-it proposition, and it's dragging resellers kicking and screaming into the new era of SaaS. Ultimately, it's a good deal for customers, but represents a big change in how resellers get their revenue.
The iPhone fanatics are already hard at work trying to dismiss and belittle it, but BlackBerry's new application store has some real potential. But before we condemn RIM for "copying" Apple, let's be realistic here.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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