Posted by admin on March 19, 2010 under News | 
Microsoft and Citrix have announced a programme to jointly develop desktop virtualisation technology in a move they claim will lead to products that will simplify the way IT departments manage their desktop PCs.
The move is part of a package of measures unveiled by Microsoft which aim to kick-start businesses’ use of virtualisation technology to host applications and data in datacentres and the cloud, rather than on desktop PCs.
“We are trying to enable the mainstream adoption of desktop virtualisation,” says Dai Vu, director of virtualisation solutions marketing at Microsoft. “With companies upgrading from XP to Windows 7, it is going to give people the opportunity to think about desktop virtualisation in its widest sense.”
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Posted by admin on March 9, 2010 under News |
Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition.
As a metaphor for the Internet, “the cloud” is a familiar cliché, but when combined with “computing,” the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is “in the cloud,” including conventional outsourcing. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 6, 2010 under News |
Autodiscover and Multitenant Hosting
In a corporate environment, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 clients locate an Autodiscover service running on a Client Access Server by directly querying the Active Directory directory service and locating relevant Service Connection Points (SCPs). This is shown in the following diagram:
Figure: Using Outlook 2007 to locate an Autodiscover service
For Internet users, Outlook 2007 will attempt to locate and connect to an Autodiscover service based on the e-mail domain of the user. For example, for the user johnc@alpineskihouse.com, Outlook 2007 will automatically try to connect to the following URLs in turn: Read more of this article »
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We just had another of our regular cloud research meetings at Forrester. In these meetings, we cut across our research organization to examine cloud computing from every angle.
Compared with even just a year ago, it’s amazing how important and pervasive cloud computing analysis (as opposed to cloud computing guesswork) has become in our research calendar.
You can see the existing cloud/SaaS research here and our planned research here. As the meeting host, I mostly listen, probe, and take notes, but ocassionally I get to jump in with a thought. Read more of this article »
Tags: cloud computing guesswork, Cloud-hosted, Cloud-hosted collaboration, collaboration, email, instant messaging, social computing, team sites, virtual machine, Web conferencing, Xenigy
Posted by admin on March 4, 2010 under News |
Huge crowds at the CeBIT fair gathered round a man sitting at a pinball table, wearing a cap covered in electrodes attached to his head, who controlled the flippers with great proficiency without using hands.
“He thinks, left hand or right hand and the electrodes monitor the brain waves associated with that thought, send the information to a computer, which then moves the flippers,” said Michael Tangermann, from the Berlin Brain Computer Interface.
But the technology is much more than a fun gadget, it could one day save your life.
Scientists are researching ways to monitor motorists’ brain waves to improve reaction times in a crash.
In an emergency stop situation, the brain activity kicks in on average around 200 milliseconds before even an alert driver can hit the brake. Read the whole story.
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Last week, Microsoft released a set of drivers that allow production versions of Red Hat to run on Hyper-V. The drivers, otherwise known as integration components, have some limitations, but they come with the full assurance that both Microsoft and Red Hat will support such an implementation.
Specifically the drivers support RHEL 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4. These drivers also support SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x86 and x64, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86 and x64, but that’s old news.
Last week, Microsoft released a set of drivers that allow production versions of Red Hat to run on Hyper-V. The drivers, otherwise known as integration components, have some limitations, but they come with the full assurance that both Microsoft and Red Hat will support such an implementation.
Specifically the drivers support RHEL 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4. These drivers also support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x86 and x64, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86 and x64, but that’s old news.
With much fanfare, Microsoft first submitted said drivers to the Linux kernel way back in July (its first, and so far only, contribution to Linux, for obvious reason). Those drivers were already tested to work with Red Hat and, of course, SUSE. And in October, Red Hat and Microsoft announced that they were joining each other’s virtualization partnership programs, and validated that their products worked on each other’s virtual machines. So what took Microsoft so long to release these Red Hat drivers to the public? Read more of this article »
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The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with Oracle’s $7.4 billion Sun Microsystems acquisition, and the company has signaled a willingness to take on VMware, the market leader. Many are skeptical, based on Oracle’s very late push into the market.
But even some of these skeptics acknowledge that Oracle VM 3, expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc.– at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 3, 2010 under News |
Server virtualization Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The “virtual machine” method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the “OS virtualization” method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS has recently been gaining greater attention by enterprise IT professionals. There’s a good chance that you have come across someone using, promoting or writing about the wares We love “wares” in this industry as noted below. Read more of this article »
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Novell would be wise to embrace Xen and KVM — but only if the company has adequate resources to support both sets of customers.
The Waltham, Mass. company is the second biggest Linux distributor and supporting both open source hypervisors would give it a significant differentiator over its key rival, Red Hat, which announced that it will back KVM as its strategic hypervisor over the long haul. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 2, 2010 under News |
Those who find the touchscreens on their ever shrinking gadgets too fiddly to handle, will be glad to hear scientists are developing a new touch surface… your own arm.
Developers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working together to create an armband that projects an interface directly onto your skin.
They have combined a mini projector which creates a changing display with a sophisticated sensor that can tell which part of your arm is being tapped.
ARM into a touchscreen display
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