* Microsoft nabs Softricity in virtualization push * $100 laptops? Not yet * U.S. agency loses data containing 26 million IDs * Foundry adds Snort to LAN switch * SANs on the move * Today on Layer 8
Microsoft nabs Softricity in virtualization push
As part of its ongoing plan to beef up its virtualization portfolio, Microsoft Monday said it would acquire virtualization vendor Softricity, revealed a timeline for offering built-in hypervisor technology for Windows Server and introduced a virtual machine-management product. Click here for more.
$100 laptops? Not yet
On a desk in a messy office on the eighth floor of a building opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sits a circuit board that might just transform education for millions of kids around the world. Click here for more.
U.S. agency loses data containing 26 million IDs
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Monday warned military veterans about the potential for identity theft after personal data on up to 26.5 million VA clients was stolen from an analyst’s home. Click here for more.
Foundry adds Snort to LAN switch
In July, Foundry Networks is expected to make available an upgrade to its LAN switch/WAN router network management software that adds the widely used open source Snort intrusion-detection and -prevention system to the product. Click here for more.
SANs on the move
Babu Kadaravalli, of National Medical Health Card Systems, saw storage grow fivefold in four years. Sophisticated change-management tools soothed the growing pains. Click here for his story.
Today on Layer 8, the cream in your coffee:
Few using Google tools; Microsoft wants you to pay by the hour; what’s on Hillary’s iPod?; and the start of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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