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Highlight of the week:
Cool Tools video: Charging devices on the goKeeping battery-powered devices charged while traveling usually means a bag full of adapters. But Keith’s shows off two items that will lighten the load and keep your gear at full power.
More videos and podcasts:
Panorama podcast: 5 tips for optimizing ROI from a virtualized data center
Chances are before you begin a virtualization project you’re going to want to know how you’ll show a return on investment. And, of course, the better that ROI, the better for you. Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Sun’s resident virtualization expert, talks with New Data Center Editor Beth Schultz about how companies can get optimal ROI out of their virtualization projects. (21:29) Twisted Pair podcast: Google Phone coming soon?
Special guest-host Jonathan Summey and Jason discuss Microsoft caving in and patching a flaw, the potential for a new Google Phone and how to seek revenge on your enemies. (29:05)
Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Supporting Boeing supply chain requires major storage upgrade
Aviall Services, a Boeing subsidiary and provider of aftermarket supply-chain management services for the aerospace, defense and marine industries, learned it was taking over Boeing’s supply chain management, it embarked on a major effort to upgrade its storage systems. Russell Douglas, director customer and supplier services information systems at Aviall, explains how a new system was selected with major input from end users and what the company is doing to beef up backup and recovery systems. (9:31)
Panorama podcast: 4 stages of grid computingGrid computing is all about scaling out the enterprise IT infrastructure without having to invest scads of money in high-powered systems. But companies don’t typically through their mission-critical business applications on a grid all at once. Songnian Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Platform Computing, understands the enterprise motivation well, having worked with myriad grid computing customers over the years. Zhou sees companies adopting grid in four steps. He talks with Beth Schultz, New Data Center editor, about those steps, including the business goals, challenges and benefits to be gained in each. (25:57) LinuxWorld podcast: Corporate open source policies: Doug Small
Open source is great — any programmer in the middle of a project can grab a software component and use it, instead of reinventing the wheel. Not so fast, says HP’s Doug Small. Getting the licensing wrong can cause problems later on for the resulting product. And how should you handle open source that might be integrated into the work that a contract development house does for you? (18:01)
