All Things Gibbs

Opinion
Feb 13, 20072 mins

* Gearhead: AppLogic: Enterprise Infrastructure * Backspin: The how, why and where of future IT * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Gearhead: AppLogic: Enterprise Infrastructure

Last week we began discussing 3tera’s AppLogic, an infrastructure virtualization system that we’re all kinds of excited about. This week we’ll take a detailed look at how AppLogic works its voodoo that it works so well.

To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.

Backspin: The how, why and where of future IT

What will your IT department look like in, say, five years? This is an important question, because we’re at the beginning of an array of major changes in the how, where and why IT is done.

To read this week’s Backspin, click here.

Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

In Backspin this week: The how, why and where of future IT

This week, I take a look at what your IT department will look like in five years. Your thoughts?

What is Your Laptop Preference, Exploding or Electrified?

As if exploding batteries in Sony laptops weren’t bad enough now Dell has, it is reported, managed to wire their notebooks so that there exists an AC voltage of between 19 and 139 volts “as measured from any chassis screw vs. earth ground.” The lower value you won’t notice but the upper value you certainly will. The guy who first found this problem, “Randy” otherwise known as “ViriiGuy” (not a moniker to inspire confidence), has a discussion forum going and it is reported that Dell have been trying to shut him up.