May 28
Hugh Pickens writes “Burglars and terrorists should be careful not to use Google Maps if they plan on committing crimes in the state of Louisiana. Nola reports that a bill approved 89-0 by the Louisiana House will require that judges impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years on terrorist acts if the crime is committed with the aid of an Internet-generated ‘virtual map.’ The bill, already approved by the Louisiana Senate, defines a ‘virtual street-level map’ as one that is available on the Internet and can generate the location or picture of a home or building by entering the address of the structure or an individual’s name on a website. If the map is used in the commission of a crime like burglary, the bill calls for the addition of at least one year in jail (PDF) to be added to the burglary sentence. The House measure is now being sent back to the Senate for approval of clarifying amendments made by a House committee.”
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May 28
In the current economy, increasing pressure is on the budgets of organizations that rely on the mainframe as a key business driver.
To address that pressure, BMC Software has announced new mainframe cost optimization capabilities to help organizations manage their mainframe investments and prepare for future business growth.
BMC now has enabled many of its DB2 for z/OS solutions to take advantage of IBM System z Integrated Information Processors (zIIPs). BMC customers can move more of their DB2 work to lower-cost processors, thereby reducing their mainframe operational costs. This new zIIP offloading capability, along with previously-introduced BMC MainView zIIP exploitation efforts, represent a significant step to reduce the costs of MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), the primary cost driver in mainframe environments.
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May 28
ScaleMP’s got a new version of the widgetry that aggregates cheap off-the-shelf x86 servers into a single virtual high-end system and says it can now create the biggest x86 shared-memory systems available on the market given Intel’s Nehalem-EX and Westmere-EP chips – anywhere from two to 128 nodes – that’s CPUs (core or threads) for a theoretical total of 16,384 CPUs.
Marketing VP Benjamin Baer said a customer wanted 32 nodes, up from the company’s 16, and it figured what the heck going from 16 to 32 was harder than rustling up 128 so it went to 128 instead.
The widgetry, now in beta, is its vSMP Foundation 3.0 software platform and it says it can scale dual-socket systems to four or eight-sockets without the forklift upgrade the hardware would otherwise face.
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May 28
Mikoomi ( http://www.mikoomi.com/ ) has released what it calls the world’s first open-source cloud monitoring solution. The solution consists of a… Read more at VMblog.com.
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May 28
SolarWinds Inc., a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software to more than 93,000 customers worldwide, and Ingram Micro… Read more at VMblog.com.
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May 28
This demo shows virtual I/O connections via the Xsigo Director to Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware vSphere. The GUI interface and CLI interface… Read more at VMblog.com.
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May 28
Going back to the cloud model for a moment, for those of you who might be interested, free services are possible thanks to multitenancy. Which is a fancy way of saying that everyone benefits from common services (so instead of hiring your own personal doorman, the costs are spread across all the apartment building’s tenants). With a multitenant architecture, a cloud provider is able to minimize the infrastructure and labor costs as well as spread them across all customers with similar needs. The customer is the winner since this significantly reduces the total cost of ownership.
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May 28
ABSi Corporation, announced it has signed an agreement with Surgient (Austin, TX) to provide the government, military, and authorized federal… Read more at VMblog.com.
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May 28
InfoWorld - Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of centralized computing while upholding the fine desktop tradition of user empowerment. Each user retains his or her own instance of desktop operating system and applications, but that stack runs in a virtual machine on a server — which users can access through a low-cost thin client similar to an old-fashioned terminal.
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