IT Blog My phone is as stupid as a phone can be, but you can drop it or get it wet and it will still work. My cellular cost per month is about $4, on average. My wife's LG phone is sort of half-bright, you might say. Her plan costs $25 per month (now $35 for new users) for unlimited data use and five hours ...
IT Blog Really? I last called you an hour ago. Have they changed since then? How about I hang up, wait 10 minutes, and call you again. Same message! Wow. I'm starting to think a lot of companies have people who do nothing, all day long, but change phone messages. Why don't they have those people answer the ...
IT Blog In this blog entry, I passed on system administrators' complaints about the difficulty in tracking virtual machines in their large companies. The fact that this is a problem surprised me and also surprises others. For example, on his blog, Tarry Singh asks: "What kind of a manager are you anyways t...
Virtual machine, Virtualization management IT Blog Last week, I spent a fascinating hour on the phone with some engineers from Prowess, a Seattle-based software and services firm that offers a free software product called SmartMigrate(at least, it's "free for individual, at-home use" according to the language on the product page at the Prowess Web...
IT Blog VMware highlighted its Mobile Virtualization Platform at VMworld 2011, but I left the show feeling like the technology is little more than a novelty. The concept itself is a good one, but the lack of Apple iOS support, VMwares reliance on Googles fragmented hardware partners and concerns abou...
IT Blog Sean Clark is a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and a member of the Des Moines, Iowa-based Central Iowa Virtualization Users Group (CIVUG). The CIVUG emerged from the Central Iowa Linux Users Group as a way for virtualization users to learn more without being tied to one vendor. That is, t...
VMware ESX, VMware High Availability (VMware HA) IT Blog Hi folks! So last but not least on my review of the iPhone, is battery life. So far battery life has been great and it allows me to use it as both for apps and as a phone without killing the battery completely. However, there is one point I want to mention. Many iPhone 4 users aren't use to the mul...
iPhone 4, battery life, multitasking IT Blog Understanding virtual machine networking intracaciescan be difficult.You might wonder how the network traffic routesbetween two virtual machines (VMs) that are both located on the same host server -- does the traffic go out onto the network at all? The answer implies that byassigning certain...
IT Blog Dominick Baier - WCF Claims to "Zermatt" Claims Migration Story Ayende Rahien Layered 'Onion' Architecture Some observations on saving to file Some finalizer pitfalls Charlie Calvert Community Convergence XLV, Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 LINQ Farm: Mor...
IT Blog Could it really be true? The one and phone that could truly bring the iPhone to its knees? According to rumors Sprint has apparently confirmed that it is in the process of providing its employees training on the Palm Pre. preThinking also posted this Blogthat shows that Sprint is "Ramping up Mar...
Palm Pre, iphone killer, prethinking IT Blog So unless you've been under a rock lately, you've probably heard about all the hullaballoo surrounding the vulnerability in the iPhone. It was announced at a recent BlackHat conference. This vulnerability had the ability for a hacker to use SMS message to compromise an iPhone! This was a big blow t...
Apple, vulnerability, iPhone IT Blog Hello world, this is Shamus McGillicuddy, news editor at SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. I will be a regular contributor to Unified Communications Nation. I hope this blog becomes a good place for you to visit when you want to keep up on what's happening in the UC industry, or maybe when you just w...
star trek, VoIP, IP Telephony IT Blog I read in interesting article just now on RFID tags in cellphones and how they could revolutionize the world. Read more about it here. Basically, the article talks about how the RFID chip in your phone could be used as your house keys or car keys cool use of technology. It mentions that...
IT Blog Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about VMware ACE virtual desktop alternatives Kidaro and vThere. Michael Brennan, a SearchServerVirtualization.com reader and a principal at the 17-year-old Barrington, Ill.-based consulting company Advanced Logic Corp., wrote in with an interesting point of view: I...
Virtualization, Virtual machine, Virtualization platforms IT Blog If one thing annoys me to no end, it is unused capacity. That's why I like virtualization.And it's alsowhy I like grid computing. Heck, that's why I like cheeseburgers (there's no empty space in my stomach after a trip to In-and-Out.) Virtualization makes efficient use of existing hardware to...
Storage, Virtualization management, VMware IT Blog SMB users of Hyper-V will soon get a new backup alternative. Altaro, which previously focused on desktop-level backups, plans to release software in August it says will be simpler and cheaper than other offerings on the market for Microsofts hypervisor. The product, Altaro Hyper-V Backup, relea...
IT Blog Not a day goes by that I don't wish my landlines -- both in office and at home -- could do half as much as my BlackBerry Curve, or even do any of the variety of fantastic tasks that your basic feature phones breeze through. Why do I still have to dial digits to call someone? What is this, the 20th c...
IT Blog Vauhini Vara asked a tough question in yesterday's Wall Street Journal Business Technology blog: What's in Oracle's mystery "facility" in Utah? The mystery facility in question is a new "Global Information Technology facility" that Oracle recently announced it would be building in West Jordan, U...
Oracle database administration, Oracle development, Oracle careers and certifications IT Blog Recently someone asked me what VMwarescheduling is, so I thought I would cover that in this blog post. Scheduling, or virtual CPU scheduling,happens behind the scenes and is not a very visible component of virtualization, but is absolutely critical forvirtualization to work properly. You shoul...
IT Blog The virtualization world is still waiting for the official release of the Open Virtual Machine File Format, or OVF, once Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) puts the finishing touches on what will be an industry standard virtual machine (VM) format. According to DMTFs Christy Leung the organ...
Virtualization, Virtual machine, OVF IT Blog There's been a lot of talk about mobile phone virtualization lately, thanks to the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and the Citrix Receiver. These new products hold a lot of promise. But for now, the best application of mobile phone virtualization is to use mobile devices to manage exist...
mobile phone virtualization, Virtualization management, VMware IT Blog How important is it, as a CIO, to have a fashion-accessory phone? What about if said phone is sexy unlike some of the more boring models? Windows Mobile is boring. According to Mikael Nerde, head of the accessory and developer program for Sony Ericsson, "Win Mobile has so many great functions, ...
IT Blog Cisco's Telepresence is entering home, thanks to Cisco's systems "MI" (pronounced as you-me'). The latest revolution from Cisco Systems, MI is a piece of hardware developed by Cisco Systems, which will allow people to connect and start using their HD television for videoconferencing. Intere...
Cisco Systems, Cisco TelePresence, ūmi IT Blog Tired of running back to your desk to solve the "Help! This virtual machine is acting funny" emails you read on your iPhone or BlackBerry? Andrew Kutz, developer of the Storage VMotion graphical user interface (GUI) plug-in, recently launched Virtualization Manager Mobile (VMM), another convenience...
IT Blog Microsoft has put a fair amount of marketing muscle into their Unified Communications offering. Many organizations are busy architecting, deploying, and implementing the various components- Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007, the OCS 2007 Mediation Server, etc. The standard, sup...
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