British Telecom (BT) wants to sell datacenters.
BT announced that they would like to sell datacenters to HP. One of the selling conditions would be that BT would get the data and voice networks of HP to manage. The deal would consider the British datacenters of BT, the voice and data networks BT would like to manage are the worldwide networks of HP.
New 8 Gbps server storage connections.
Today Jasper Bakker announced in a vnunet article that Brocade is launching a new storage switch and host bus adapter for storage networks capable of reaching 8 Gbps. The new equipment will also be downwards compatible with the now common 4 Gbps network equipment from Brocade. Brocade announced that around 40 to 50 percent of their current customers are on a 4 Gbps data network. The new equipment has been developed while keeping close contact with Microsoft and VMware so it will be compatible and adopted by software from those vendors.
New release from nimbuzz.
Today a new release of nimbuzz so the day of light. Nimbuzz is direct competition for Skype, eBuddy and Fring. Nimbuzz released a mobile voice and chat service accompanied with widgets to incorporate in Hyves, Jabber and facebook. It is compatible with Skype, Google Talk, AOL-IM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo-IM.
VirtualCenter 2.5 Database White Paper.
VMware® VirtualCenter database stores metadata on the state of a VMware Infrastructure environment and is a key component of VirtualCenter performance. VirtualCenter 2.5 features a number of enhancements that are aimed at greatly improving the performance and scalability of the VirtualCenter database. This paper presents the performance results of benchmarks we conducted to validate these performance enhancements and to provide best practices information for configuring a VirtualCenter database. The paper also provides information for sizing the server you use to host the VirtualCenter database based on these performance results. Although the new features in VirtualCenter 2.5 benefit users with any of the supported databases, the examples and performance data presented in this study are specific to Microsoft SQL Server and the paper assumes that you have a working knowledge of SQL Server. Read the paper on the VMware website.
Vulnerability in Debian cryptographic functions.
Debian has warned of a vulnerability in its cryptographic functions that could leave systems open to attack.
The use of a cryptographically flawed pseudo random number generator in Debian's implementation of OpenSSL meant that potentially predictable keys were generated. Versions of Debian's OpenSSL packages starting with 0.9.8c-1 (released in September 2006) are potentially vulnerable. Many types of cryptographic keys (including SSH, SSL session keys, OpenVPN and others) generated on affected systems may be weak, so the impact of the bug is potentially far reaching.
Windows XP service pack 3
Seven pages of secret internal Microsoft documentation have leaked discussing the internals of windows XP service pack 3. Like to take a sneak peak in the Microsoft documentation? Follow the link to find out what will be shipping to you in the coming time.
Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise
Infoworld.com is running an article on the bigger share of Macs which are being found in offices around the world. Macs where already widely accepted in the printing industries where they where the number one choice in most cases. Today you see more and more “normal” users make use of a Mac instead of a “normal” pc platform. A great direction we are heading into. Mac’s are just sexier than normal PC platform computers by the look and feel they have and Mac OS X is a great operating system.
NASA researching 'nanosats' for orbiting 5G space network
NASA is looking for a way to build a space network by implementing “nanosats’. Teaming up with “Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation”. The two organizations intend to develop swarms of spacecrafts weighing between 11 and 110 pounds, which will be placed in low Earth orbit to create a commercial telecommunications and networking system.
GIOVE-B in space
ESA has launched the second satellite for the Galileo satellite which, when it is finished, should replace GPS for the European customers.
Data Visualizations
oracleappslab.com blog is running a fun item on data visualization, some topics like twitter and the Google Visualization API(http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/) are addressed. A fun read and it might give you idea on how this great API can be used in combination with things like, Google Earth, for example the way twitter is working with it.
RFID in your glove
German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung (IFF) have devised a RFID reader in a glove. Order pickers can have those gloves when picking orders. Every item they get in their hands will be registered and so one can construct a item list of items picked without the need of scan the RFID tag. By picking them item it is scanned automatically.
Google street view in Europe
Google has started recording the streets of its first non-US city for its Street View service. Google vans with mounted cameras have been spotted on the streets of Rome and Milan.Street View is the project which allows Google users to see photographs of any street in a surveyed area and even travel through the city, frame by frame.
It has been controversial because of the privacy implications of publishing images which inevitably contain people or private property. A lawsuit was filed in the US earlier this year which alleged that images on the site invaded one couple's privacy.Europe has stricter privacy safeguards than the US, which could impact on the service once it has been put into operation.
Google maps, driver game
Did you know you can use google maps to play a race drivers game? No you did not now that? Check out this link and drive your car on google maps.
IBM and web2.0 with iDataPlex
IBM introduced today an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers.
Companies that operate massive scale-out data centers spend 10 to 30 times more on energy costs per square foot than a typical office building. The energy powers both hundreds of thousands of servers and the air conditioning needed to cool them. The exponential growth of such data centers will continue as streaming video, online gaming and social networks spike Internet traffic, requiring companies to build ever vaster pools of computers that devour energy resources to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The IBM "iDataPlex" system leverages IBM's blade server heritage to build a completely new design.
Google Developer Days 2008
“a set of one-day developer events, are back and will take place in locations around the world. We've designed these events for developers with strong coding backgrounds, so that we can discuss our APIs, developer tools and applications.” The coding days will be given in the following cities around the world: Yokohama, Beijing, Taipei, Sydney, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, London, Paris, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Prague and Moscow. I am currently thinking about attending a Google Developers Day in Paris.
Today I like to introduce a new kind of topic on my weblog. Normally I post quite randomly things I encounter on the web. Interesting things, fun thing, etc etc…. However this is somewhat disturbing the main interest fields of this weblog, for the people who are already confused this is Google, Oracle, Linux/UNIX and SQL coding. Now I like to introduce a new topic I for which I like to post a daily post named “Daily web finds 2.0”. The “daily web finds” part I do not have to explain I think, the 2.0 part is because I have had a “service” like this before which I send out via e-mail to a select list of people a couple of years back. Now I like to restart this by making a post of it on my weblog.
I hope to maintain this on a daily basis however it can happen that I sometimes do not have the time or that the idea sounds fun at this moment however will become a pain within time which will mean I will stop posting the “Daily web finds 2.0”. So here is number one and this will set a example of what I want it to be… this can however change during time.
Global Enterprise Web 2.0 Market Forecast: 2007 To 2013
Forrester research today released a research paper by Oliver Young named Global Enterprise Web 2.0 Market Forecast: 2007 To 2013.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013, with social networking, mashups, and RSS capturing the greatest share. In all, the market for enterprise Web 2.0 tools will be defined by commoditization, eroding prices, and subsumption into other enterprise collaboration software over the next five years; it will eventually disappear into the fabric of the enterprise, despite the major impacts the technology will have on how businesses market their products and optimize their workforces.
Imtech reports 90 million for datacenters
Imtech reports that is has received orders to build and or upgrade datacenters in Europe for a 90 million euro in the upcoming time. Imtech is one of the leading datacenter builders in Europe and analysts see this figure a key indicator for the continuing grow in the Europe’s IT land.
Motorola gets part of VirtualLogix
Motorola today announced it is investing into VirtualLogix. VirtualLogix is specialized in creating virtual machine solutions for mobile platforms. A good working mobile virtual platform would enable a mobile phone to run custom code in a save box on top of the host operating system. This would isolate custom code from the original code of the vendor and makes running custom downloaded application on your mobile phone a lot safer.
A work in progress
Steve Ballmer today admitted that Microsoft Vista is not finished and certainly was not finished when it hit the market. Today he called it “A work in progress” meaning there is still work to be done before it is completed. Most likely Microsoft decided to launch the product because Microsoft stock was going down because the release was postponed and again postponed. Service pack 1 is to be released and should solve most critical problems however would not solve all problems.
IBM press release
IBM Launches Mobile Web Initiative to Transform Consumer and Business Experiences. This is the title of a new IBM press release. At the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM's India Research Lab, the company today unveiled a new initiative to bring even more features and functions to mobile devices as they continue to rival the PC as the primary tool for Web-based business, education, communication, entertainment and more.
The new IBM Research program will entail a number of efforts to bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people in the world who have bypassed using the personal computer as their primary method of accessing technology, and are instead using their mobile phone to access the web, conduct financial transactions, entertain themselves, shop and more.
"The world is entering the 'Era of the Mobile Web.' In many countries, the mobile phone has become an electronic wallet, the window to the World Wide Web, an education device and more, and globally, mobile devices outnumber PCs, credit cards, and TVs," said Dr. Daniel Dias, Director, IBM India Research laboratory. "Today, we are launching projects that will make a mobile device an even easier to use than the PC, allowing you to do everything you can with a PC and much more."
networkworld.com, 25 leading-edge IT research projects
networkworld.com is running a story on the 25 leading-edge IT research projects. While companies like Google and IBM are showing with new developments universities are conducting also very nice research and having great results. Now here is a gathering of the top 25 research projects which are evenly cool as the once promoted in a big way.
British Telecom (BT) wants to sell datacenters.
