March 10, 2010, 3:34 pm PST  

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2nd Cloud Computing World Forum To Invite End Users For Free

— End users looking at implementing cloud computing and SaaS into their businesses are being invited to attend the 2 nd Cloud Computing World Forum... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:33:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

Cal Net Technology Group and Microsoft Will Kick-Off Hyper-V Campaign on St. Patrick's Day

— Cal Net Technology Group, recently named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, has announced the official launch Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:28:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

Swedish Internet Leader to Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

— Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swedish Internet company Voddler has standardized its... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:26:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

Xangati Shatters Pricing Barrier to Live Enterprise-Wide Virtualization Management

— Xangati, the first management solution to provide live, video-like visibility into all communications across both the virtual and physical worlds,... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:21:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

ING Group Selects RingCube vDesk for Mobility and Business Continuity

— RingCube Technologies , the leading provider of managed virtual workspaces, today announced that ING Group, the #1 ranked commercial bank by Fortune... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:19:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

Veeam Achieves Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status and Systems Management Competency

— Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:17:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list turns 60

— Call it the father of Top 10 lists.  The FBI today commemorated the 60th anniversary of its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.  Read more
Mar 10 11:04:14 am PST / Layer 8's blog»

Google Apps in a Box. Oh, and an iPad Killer.

— What we've missed from our Google Apps Marketplace coverage : the Best Poster Award … drumroll.. goes to box.net: And while at it, their video isn’t too shabby, either:   Wait… is that an iPad killer with a great virtual keyboard at 0:46?   Bias alert: I’ve been watching Box.net from the hu...
Mar 10 10:36:28 am PST / CloudAve »

YQL code samples: YQL is easy to use

— YQL is easy to use. How easy? Check out these three examples: 1) Fetch Twitter search results using YQL + JSONP + a simple JavaScript handler function Feed readers, see the code on Github. Run this query in the YQL console: select * from json where url="http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=puppy" Note: You ...
Mar 10 10:34:11 am PST / Yahoo! Developer Network Blog»

Test Results Published Show Flash Is Not a "CPU Hog" Like Apple Claims

— There's been a lot of discussion on the blogsphere over the last few weeks due to Steve Jobs being quoted as saying one of the reasons Apple won't support Flash video on the upcoming iPad was due to Flash being a "CPU Hog". Apple's workaround to Flash video is to use HTML5 and that encouraged some to even suggest that....
Mar 10 09:04:46 am PST / The Business Of Online Video»

SSDs Putting Appliances in the Fast Lane

— Solid-state disks (SSDs) have made major inroads into enterprise storage over the past decade or so, boosting application performance and expanding overall capacity at a time when data requirements are shooting through the roof. So it’s no surprise,
Mar 10 09:04:12 am PST / Arthur Cole»

Introducing ProServe In The Cloud

— Robert Collazo, Professional Services Many businesses, small and large, are testing out our suite of cloud computing products. We see clients moving their entire environment or part of it to the Cloud from dedicated hardware or even from other Cloud environments. As businesses make the decision to move to our Cloud, t...
Mar 10 09:03:45 am PST / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Cisco Preparing To Launch New Flip Cameras

— Last week someone sent me specs for new Flip cameras Cisco is preparing to launch around the NAB time frame. While I've been able to confirm that new cameras are in fact on the way, I have not been able to verify that the specs I have been sent are completely accurate, so I'm not going to publish them. But...
Mar 10 08:07:16 am PST / The Business Of Online Video»

Oracle’s Third Fiscal Quarter Earnings Due March 25

— Sun’s First Month Expected to Contribute About $636 Million Oracle’s third quarter fiscal year 2010 results will be released on Thursday, March 25th, after the close of the market. Oracle plans on hosting a conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the financial results. T...
Mar 10 07:48:48 am PST / System News for Sun Users - The Blog»

Buzz:

Virtual Machine Backup Leader, PHD Virtual, Names Thomas Charlton Chairman and CEO

— PHD Virtual Technologies , award winning provider of esXpress VM Backup , the fastest multi-VM backup and restore solution on the market, today... Read more at VMblog.com.
Mar 10 02:36:00 pm PST / VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone»

Oracle’s Open Source Initiatives

— Now the World’s Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world’s largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle’s support didn’t start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company h...
Mar 10 07:16:34 am PST / System News for Sun Users - The Blog»

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