Upcoming webinar starring you know who
I've been invited to be part of a Webinar sponsored by DataSynapse and Cognos. It's taking place on Monday, 31 July 2007.
Virtually Speaking
Virtualization reaches from hand-held devices to the data center to the clouds. Virtually Speaking examines the forces behind this expansion, the suppliers of the technology and the organizations using the technology.
Dan Kusnetzky
Daniel Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and the founder of the Kusnetzky Group LLC. He's also the managing partner of Lux Sonus LLC, an investment firm.
Paula Rooney
Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
Ken Hess
Kenneth 'Ken' Hess is a full-time Windows and Linux system administrator with 20 years of experience with Mac, Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems in large multi-data center environments.
Latest Posts
Virtualization's impact on Market Research
I recently published a paper on one of my other sites that examined the role virtualization is playing in the market for Linux software and server. I've gotten enough positive comments that I'd like to summarize it here.
Application streaming and why your organization should care
There are many approaches to offering computing services to mobile staff today. One approach is providing everyone with their own laptop, their own portfolio of applications and making them become their own system manager, security manager and operations manager.
HP's Spending Spree - Acquisition of Opsware and Neoware
Over the past few days, HP has announced the acquisitions of Opsware for $1.6 Billion and Neoware for $214 Million.
New virtualization buddies - XenSource & Symantec
XenSource, Inc. and Symantec have signed an OEM agreement.
ConAgra Foods saves thousands using Covalent Technologies Enterprise Ready Server
Tomcat from Covalent was both easier to manage and was significantly less costly than the other solutions. Covalent Technologies' solutions were tens of thousands of dollars less expensive.
Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
When we take a look at each of the technologies, what becomes clear is that many people are grappling with how to make the most use of powerful industry standard microprocessors from Intel, AMD and others.
Transitive QuickTransit - Hardware Virtualization that Takes the Pain Out of Migrations
Bob Weiderhold, CEO of Transitive, and I fought off intermittent telephone problems to discuss a technology that is often overlooked when analysts put together their taxonomy of virtual processing software. Transitive calls this "Hardware Virtualization" and offers a product family, "QuickTransit" that implements this concept in a number of ways.
Digipede Wins Microsoft ISV of the Year
If your organization has Windows laptops, desktops or servers that fall idle at certain times of the day or certain days of the week and it has applications that could utilize the computational resources of those machines, your organization would be well advised to learn about Digipede.
Day 14 of the old-coffee-in-the-keyboard trick.
Although I thought my adventures in Dell-land were through, I just received an Email message from one of Dell's systems asking me to return the battery that they kept at the depot. If you'd like to refresh your memory on this exciting adventure, please read the following posts.