Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
Highlight of the week:
Cool Tools video: Drobo makes RAID sexy
Storage isn’t always sexy, but as Keith finds out, Data Robotics’ Drobo self-mounting storage system is quite impressive and simple to use.
More videos and podcasts:
Panorama podcast: Efficiently cooling and powering big data centers
With everyone talking about global warming, “going green” is the trendy thing to do. For a large data center operator such as Equinix, green is a little harder to do when you’re talking about the power requirements of a small city and a lot of heat that must be dissipated. Joining the program to discuss the company’s efforts at being more energy efficient is Margie Backaus, chief business officer at Equinix and an employee since Day 1 of the company. (14:02) Twisted Pair podcast: Spam spikes, Mac hacks and stealth attacks
Jason and Keith discuss the latest onslaught of security threats hitting the planet, Avaya’s $8.2B private-equity buyout, and why MLB still doesn’t get the Slingbox. Plus Movie Madness! (38:13)
LinuxCast: Storage engines, virtualization, revison control, open source economics: Brian Aker
How do you put a SQL interface on your favorite RESTful web APIs? What are Amazon’s web services doing for web startups and test-driven developers? Is distributed revision control the only way to work for a global software organization? And what are the real-world motivations behind open source contributions–individual and corporate? (21:46)
Voices from IT Roadmap video: Mainframes are alive and well at Hewitt Assoc.Hewitt Associates keeps it mainframe systems humming by offloading processing to a cluster of Linux servers. Dan Kaberon, director of computer resource management at Hewitt, explains how and why on this week’s Voices from IT Roadmap. Network World 360 podcast: Avaya goes private, faster DSL, Networx Enterprise and more
Avaya goes private in $8.2B deal; Covad launches higher-speed DSL service; Networx Enterprise: Five carriers claim piece of $20-billion pie; and Novell says Microsoft deal is good for Linux business. (8:34)
