To further its concentration on software-defined data centers, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk.
Fans of cross-platform computing and the "write-once-run-anywhere" concept of applications and software will want to take a look at Lina. The open source software company plans to debut its eponymous (but note the capitalization) LINA platform this month.
Windows 95 works well enough for my needs, but I'm eight years behind the technology curve. While I realize there are still many who rely on Apple IIs and Tandy 100s for their daily computing chores, it's time for me to start planning a migration route.
In a recent two-day visit to Microsoft corporate headquarters, writer John Brandon met with several researchers working on new projects. A few of these projects have already resulted in shipping products; others may never see the light of day - they are meant as a proof of concept. Some could change how we do computing altogether. Yet, all of them are driven by bright thinkers who are working to solve real-world technical problems.
I need to support Apple Remote Desktop and Virtual Network Computing connections on an Apple XServe running OS X, but both services listen on the same network port. I also want to tunnel the VNC connections through Secure Shell for added security. How can I set this up to support both kinds of remote desktop clients?
A Microsoft program aimed at making PCs and Internet computing more affordable through monthly payments will deliver 20 million new desktops and laptops over the next few years to people who may not otherwise have been able to afford them, an executive said.
Savvis is making progress on several fronts, winning new software-as-a-service, utility and hosting customers. To meet the demand, Savvis is opening four new data centers this year.
Microsoft has donated part of its network access protection (NAP) software to the public, and it has been picked up by the Trusted Computing Group as one of its NAC standards.
InfiniBand, once almost given up for dead by some unbelievers, has been quietly making all sorts of progress in vendor test labs, in high performance computing environments and, increasingly, on the floors of commercial IT rooms. If you haven’t been following the technology for a while, it likely has changed quite a bit since you last took a look.
Like many technology buzzwords, unified communications (UC) has had many meanings in its short life. It's now an umbrella term that covers an array of technologies—including instant messaging (IM), web conferencing, IP telephony, expertise identification, e-mail, unified messaging, mobile devices, etc.—that can be delivered behind the firewall or through the computing cloud.
How would you like a silver bullet you can drop into your data center and have it take control of business service flows and reduce costs, all without requiring you to change hardware, software, or your systems management and production controls?
The Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/06 was released June 23 and the list reflects how high performance computing is changing. Once reserved for the most complex of computing problems, HPC is now finding its way into more corporate data centers to handle tasks such as risk analysis. The reason is that this extreme computing power is becoming more affordable.
Big Linux systems plot climate change, simulate nuclear explosions, and secure bragging rights. But IT customers are starting to find that high-performance computing technologies make a difference in the real world, from clustered processing to data center greening.
A longstanding problem with end-user computing is that tools such as simple databases and spreadsheets are so easy to use that people with no background or training in computing can apply them to production problems.
The RFID skills shortage is receding, but the lack of IT pros skilled in RFID technology hampers deployment. Those are the findings of a survey from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), which offers a vendor-neutral RFID+ certification to validate techies’ skills in that area.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform that allows developers to build and host their services on Microsoft infrastructure.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas has just scored big with a $59 million supercomputer courtesy of the National Science Foundation.
Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving to the cloud.
The current economic crisis in the U.S. may have a silver lining for IT companies that invest in cloud computing, as it will contribute to significant growth in that sector over the next five years, according to research firm IDC.
Next week’s 3GSM World Congress -- the annual love fest for the global cellular industry -- will be the venue for an array of new products designed to give enterprises ever more capabilities, control and security over mobile computing.
In my May 2007 article Use Client Service Intelligence to Get Proactive, I wrote about a relatively new category of IT management tool that measures the performance of end user computing assets (i.e, desktops and notebooks) from the end user’s perspective. Tools in this category help you understand how people use their computers (“working patterns”), and how well the computers perform their required tasks. Knowing this kind of information can help reduce your support costs, help you plan and execute