It is that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, but time for water&stone’s annual report on the state of the open source CMS market. Once again the report highlights what a strong lineup of open source CMS solutions are available. The folks at water&stone looked at 35 open source CMS, but only picked the top 20 for the report. Again another indicator of the vibrancy of this market. Read more
Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some best practices other government agencies or in public corporations could emulate to achieve success in their own IT projects. Read more
The Green Initiative has certainly caught on. Pens made of cardboard, the short-lived paper straws at McDonald's, and even bamboo paneled laptops. There have been a number of ideas, both good and bad, on how to save the environment. Some of these ideas come direct from network manufacturers. We can all agree that creating less waste and being more efficient is a good thing, but not every plan survives contact with the enemy.
Enter the Cisco 3560 and 3750 v2 switches. Read more
I first became aware of cloud security issues listening to Simon Crosby, fresh off of taking in millions and millions of Citrix dollars when they bought XenSource, speak with my friend Chris Hoff at several conferences, podcasts and blog posts. In many ways Crosby and Hoff brought cloud security and even cloud computing itself to the forefront in many peoples minds. Read more
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical skills. Read more
As perhaps expected, the Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers defended its title and today was listed again the world's fastest machine, this time hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops). The TOP500 list was previously announced in June 2011. Read more
Earlier this week I wrote about a new service from Rackspace Cloud Builders division called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. It is a cloud management as a service (CM-aaS) offering that allows anyone to set up a private cloud on their own premises, in a Rackspace data center or even another data center. Read more
The folks at Rackspace cloud builders have released a new service called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. They have released the reference architecture to build your own Open Stack based private cloud based on the best practices and experience of Rackspace's own team. You can build this private cloud in your own data center, in a Rackspace data center or even other hosting providers. Best of all Rackspace Cloud Builders will manage your cloud for you wherever it is. This represents a new step in cloud management, Cloud Management As A Service (CM-a-a-S). Read more
Did you know that HP has been under investigation by the SEC and DOJ since September, 2010, for allegedly bribing officials for a €35 million ($46.3 million ) deal with the Russian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office? Read more
The Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers broke its own record this week by hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops), according to its operators, Fujitsu and Riken. Read more
IBM said today that is rolling out a solar-power array system designed to run high-voltage data centers.
IBM has installed the first iteration of the system on the 6,000 square-feet of rooftop of its India Software Lab in Bangalore. The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average of five hours a day. Read more
2011 has been one of the most exciting years for networking I can remember. Innovations made popular this year will prove to bring more value to enterprise networking consumers than anything in recent memory. Not only are we transitioning to cloud architectures and highly automated systems management, but new trends promise to do for the networking industry what x86 and the PC clone did for the compute market. Read more
I have written several times about my ongoing love affair with the iPad and, surprise, a wave of iPad-related products has been appearing in the Gibbs Universal Secret Underground Bunker.
While a number of these are, well, meh, there are a few that are truly outstanding. One of these winners is the Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad.
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While MySQL has been an unqualified success, there have always been whispers and regrets from those looking to use the open source database in mission critical situations. If you need five 9's type of availability and other large enterprise features, MySQL may not have been able to scale up for you. But of course if you were Oracle and you owned MySQL, that was not too large a problem because if MySQL wasn't enterprise enough, they had another database that they could sell you that would scale to the biggest jobs. Read more
Just as we got comfortably settled in with Windows 7, Microsoft dropped a little surprise on us in the form of Windows 8, a radical redesign of the operating system we are all so familiar with, preparing it for the touch/tablet age. Read more
This week we are chatting with Bill Burns the CEO of Spirent Communications in our executive conversation. I would like to thank my most favorite Global Public Relations Manager for Spirent Communications Sailaja Tennati, for working on this interview for me over the last few months.
Where is the market when it comes to your product technology and where do you still see growth? Read more
IBM is taking its Watson supercomputer on the road and its first stop will be Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management where some of the country's brightest upcoming business minds will take their shots at the smart Big Blue computer. Read more
IBM Tuesday announced that Virginia Rometty will become president and CEO of the company, effective Jan. 1, 2012. She succeeds Sam Palmisano, who will stay on as chairman.
Rometty will be the first female CEO of the company. Currently, she serves as IBM's senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy.
Palmisano has been president and CEO of IBM since 2002. During his tenure, IBM got out of commoditized businesses that it helped build, such as PCs, printers and hard drives, to focus more on services and higher-margin businesses. Read more
When I think if the United States Air Force I don't typically think of it worrying too much about the human psyche. But in this case, the Air Force says it wants to begin studies that look at the psychological, neurological, or contextual elements of human reliance on autonomous systems. The idea, the Air Force says is to identify general principles of human trust. Read more
So what do you do after you've helped build the IPod? Build wicked cool thermostats of course.
That's what ex- Apple engineer Tony Fadell, who is now the founder and CEO of Nest, which this week rolled out its Learning Thermostat. Fadell is considered the creator of the iPod. Read more
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