Many organizations struggle to deal with the management challenges of complex IT environments, not only on backup performance and the achievement of Recovery Time Objectives in disaster recovery, but also on productivity, performance and profitability. Published by: Acronis
“New infrastructure and operations technologies such as cloud services and virtualization … were selected by CIOs the most often and are the top-two technologies for 2011,” said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, as the results were announced of the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP).
Lisandro writes “The Enlightenment crew has finally released the first version of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, which the E17 desktop is built on.”
Adds reader mu22le:
“Among the Enlightenment libraries hitting version 1.0 are Eina (core data structure), Eet (data encode/decode and storage), Evas (canvas and scenegraph rendering ), Ecore (core mainloop, display abstraction and utility), Embryo (small virtual machine and compiler), Edie (GUI layout and animation), E_Dbus, Efreet (handling of freedesktop.org standards), and Eeze (udev wrapping).”
Getting it right can take a while — a preview of the EFL libraries first appeared in 2004. Enlightenment has never stopped looking cool.
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You too might someday be able to make a buck or two off of the patent racket.
The not-quite-two-year-old San Francisco start-up, RPX Corporation, which is apparently making a killing selling patent troll insurance, has filed to go public.
It’s looking to raise $100 million so it can keep on buying patents and selling protection to its dues-paying clients who now number 72 mostly brand name companies like Cisco, IBM, Dell, HP, Intel, Motorola Mobility, Novell, Palm, Qualcomm, Red Hat, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Verizon, heck even Walgreens, who pay the so-called “defensive patent aggregator” anywhere between $40,000 and $5.2 million a year depending on size.
Profitable since its first full year of operation, RPX did $800,000 worth of business in 2008, $32.8 million in 2009 and $65.2 million in the first nine months of 2010 when it made $10 million.
Mark.JUK writes “Broadband internet providers in the UK are considering whether or not to follow the example of a Swedish ISP, Bahnhof, which recently put all of its customers behind a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) in order to circumvent new European Data Retention and Internet Copyright Infringement laws. By doing this is makes their logs less useful to outside forces (e.g. rights holders) and allows customers to use the internet anonymously. However several UK ISPs, including business provider AAISP (Andrews and Arnold), have suggested that there may be better solutions than sticking everybody behind a costly VPN. AAISP’s boss, Adrian Kennard, claims, ’something ISPs will be doing anyway, carrier grade NAT, will create a similar anonymity as there is no requirement to log NAT sessions.’ Meanwhile, Timico’s CTO, Trefor Davies, warns, ‘It would be a pretty costly project for all ISPs to implement such a system. It would also bring with it risks – suddenly it becomes a lot easier for governments to start monitoring all your traffic because it all goes through a single point (or at least a few points) on the network.’”
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IBM CloudBurst is a family of pre-integrated service delivery platforms that include the hardware, storage, networking, virtualization, and service management software to create a private cloud environment, transform data centers, and build dynamic infrastructures that deliver new levels of service at reduced cost. Published by: IBM
Today, Forrester Research pegs the typical SMB IT organization as having two years of basic virtualization experience. Often based on DAS, rather than SAN, storage, these initial projects have proved to be successful in generating savings through hardware consolidation. Published by: Xiotech Corporation
Distributed computing has been the dominant IT architecture for the past 15 to 20years. Over that period, IT has needed to adapt to profound changes in the infrastructure supporting the way that users access applications. Published by: Xiotech Corporation
Register now for this complimentary virtual conference. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the insights for planning, executing, and succeeding in your cloud implementation Published by: BMC Software, Inc.
There’s no question of the important role server virtualization is playing in data center transformation. However, transformation creates new challenges as well, even for the most innovative IT departments. Published by: Hitachi Data Systems