Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Windows Server 8 First Looks

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Windows Server 8 First Looks
Microsoft's proposed Server Manager for Windows 8 Server Editions helps explain a lot of what Microsoft proposes in Windows Server 8: Ease and flexibility Read More


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The Most Important Metric for your VMs
The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Value of Service-Centric Visibility
IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More

How Microsoft Research helped Craig Mundie speak Chinese
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, doesn't speak Chinese. But on Tuesday he did, via a life-like virtual avatar shown at the company's offices in Beijing that can simulate his voice and speak in other languages. Read More

Cisco, Microsoft cooperation on virtual switching gives customers new option
Cisco support will make Microsoft's Hyper-V environment more attractive to corporate customers, but it remains to be seen whether that's enough for Hyper-V to give VMware's ESXi a run for its money. Read More

Some W8 PCs won't turn off secure boot, Red Hat warns
Last week, I alerted readers how Microsoft was requiring OEMs to implement, by default, UEFI secure boot on new Windows 8 machines. The Linux community had been worried for months that secure boot could lock Linux off PC hardware, and when Microsoft announced that secure boot would be required by all new Windows 8 hardware the red flags flew. Read More


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Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™
The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more

Microsoft passes Rustock botnet baton to FBI
Microsoft wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. Read More

Telework controversy: Are 17% of teleworkers unabashed slackers?
A recent report claims that 17% of telecommuters work less than one hour a day. That's bogus, say telework advocates who are taking to web sites, blogs and other social media to refute the findings. Read More

Does Microsoft's partnership with 'intent-driven' Adchemy protect consumer privacy?
If someone shadowed your digital footprints, making notes of who you became a "fan" of on social networks, keeping records where you were checking-in via mobile devices, compiling your data to decipher your intent, would you consider that collection to be tracking your personal info? Read More


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Saving cloud computing users from evil doers
This video panel discussion delves into IT's current and future security threats. Topics include web application security, vulnerabilities, threats and mitigation/defense strategies, and tactics with individual perspectives on the magnitude and direction of threats. Learn more

Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract
Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services. Read More

5 reasons why I'm excited to be going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim
In just about a week, I will be headed, along with several thousand other enthusiasts, to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. If you aren't planning to go, here are some of the reasons you might want to join me. Read More

Will Windows 8 lock out pirates and Linux?
Earlier this week members of the tech community voiced concerns over Microsoft's UEFI spec, which would in theory make Windows 8 PCs more secure, but could also prevent Linux from booting off the machines. Yesterday Microsoft responded via a post written by Tony Mangefeste of the Ecosystem team. Read More

Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech
Is Microsoft using a next-generation computing boot-loading technology to lock out the use of Linux and other OSEs on certain computers? While Microsoft has denied malicious intent, one Red Hat developer maintains that this may be the case. Read More



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