Previous DayA better way to migrate virtual machines
Blog VMware has been in business for 10 years, and for most of that time it based its business on the fact that Intel and AMD did not support virtualisation. Although the chip vendors both added...
Confessions of an IT Eco-Sinner
Blog Just working my way through an excellent book called Confessions of an Eco Sinner by Fred Pearce. The gist of the book is that rather than just come all preachy about the state of the planet -...
Cisco, VMware collaborate on desktop virtualisation
News A partnership between Cisco and virtualisation company VMware has led to the development of a virtual network switch for VMware clusters
With Intel in Prague
Blog Intel is hosting a shindig in Prague today, to celebrate the recent launch of its Dunnington processor, a.k.a. the Xeon 7400. Boyd Davis (Intel's General Manager, Server Product Group Marketing)...
Sony Ericsson: Xperia not tied to Windows Mobile
News The manufacturer hints that non-Windows Mobile handsets may in future appear under the Xperia brand, but says it is satisfied with Windows Mobile for now
IBM launches virtual-storage-optimisation product
News The company has launched Virtual Storage Optimiser, a product it claims can make virtual image storage more efficient
A clear view of cloud computing
Blog Ironically for a conference in sunny Las Vegas, people here are talking about clouds. Of course, they’re not thinking about typical English rain clouds. Here at the VMworld Conference, everyone is...
Bed Fellows
Talkback I attended the Phorm presentation earlier this year at the University College London and one thing that surprised me then was the very easy, relaxed and confident attitude of Kent Ertegrul....
Ubuntu Mobile Broadband
Blog I have done quite a bit more testing with my Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 on Ubuntu, both the current 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) and the Alpha 5 release of 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). The results are very...
Mozilla: Firefox licence in Ubuntu was a 'giant error'
News Chairperson Mitchell Baker has said it was a mistake to include an end-user licence agreement in a beta version of Firefox 3.0.2
VMware demo reveals ESX 4.0 features
News The company's product manager has shared details of the forthcoming update to VMware's hypervisor, including the fact it will allow users to change RAM without rebooting the virtual machine
Scandalous
Talkback How can Becta and our government allow such an abuse! Alternative systems in schools would raise the quality and expectations for IT education in schools and ultimately benefit the country....
Great but a word of warning
Talkback Congatulations to Codeweavers for a great coup. However, unless I'm mistaken, Flash and other video does not run in an otherwise rather clever program and, under Ubuntu anyway, there are some...
UK climbs up tech-competitiveness rankings
News The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual IT industry competitiveness report puts the UK third in the global rankings, as Japan and South Korea drop out of the top five
What the credit crunch means for IT
Analysis The implications of the credit crunch may prove more positive for some sectors of the technology industry than for others
NHS trust loses 18,000 staff details
News Security firms have questioned the London trust's claim that the passwords of the missing, unencrypted CDs can only be cracked by 'expert hackers'
Google makes audio search a Labs project
News The company's has big ambitions for speech-recognition technology that could make the content of videos searchable
From Disney to 'dogfooding': Life as Microsoft's CIO
Q&A Can Microsoft's chief information officer, former Disney executive Tony Scott, work a little magic on the customer experience?
And now - a physical webcast
Blog Good news: I was invited to a preview of Sony Ericsson's spiffy Xperia phone, at a London venue. Bad news: It was a webcast. Fifteen eager hacks were packed in a tiny room, watching the preview...
OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
Analysis One Laptop per Child exec David Cavallo says the organisation welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as 'unfortunate'
Google Android looms large, blurry
Blog Below is a video shot at yesterday's Google Developer Day in London. It shows Mike Jennings, Android 'developer advocate', demonstrating Google's mobile play in some detail. From what I can...
VMware unfazed by Microsoft's guerrilla marketing
News CEO Paul Maritz has dismissed Microsoft's marketing tactics at the VMworld conference as the strategy of a virtualisation underdog
Lib Dems urge immediate halt to NPfIT
News The party has called for a halt to spending on the project, and pledge to launch an independent inquiry into the scheme, describing it as a 'shambles'
IPCC probes police memory-stick loss
News The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the loss of a data stick from West Midlands Police
Translated - Arrogant monopoly makes tiny, tiny concession.....
Talkback So, Microsoft will finally reduce the *TAX* on cash-strapped schools and 'allow' them to run Linux and MacOS on a few computers? That's really big of them... Please tell me in what other industry...
Samsung makes hostile bid for SanDisk
News Failed merger negotiations have led to Samsung's £3.27bn bid, while rival Toshiba has also said it is 'interested' in SanDisk
Google offers cutting-edge Chrome builds
News Users wishing to try the latest features added to the browser can sign up for developer releases or beta versions, with the first update now available
VMware announces Fusion 2.0, vClient Initiative
News The virtualisation company has updated its Fusion software for running Windows on the Mac, and touted 'universal clients'
Dell expects 'further softening' in IT demand
News Having recently reported a decrease in second-quarter profits, Dell has warned investors of further decline in global end-user demand
RE:SightSpeed to Announce Linux Version
Blog Comment My experience has apparently been exactly the opposite of yours. Iv'e had trouble getting people to install Skype because Skype is hard to install and get working properly, it has problems with...
Government whittles down ID scheme suppliers
News IBM, Thales, CSC and Fujitsu are among the companies progressing to the next round of talks over ID card scheme contracts
Building Connections in Emergency Communications
Blog By Monique Lanne-Petit, director and co-founder of Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) As we've seen time and again, telecommunications can reduce the impact of humanitarian crisis and cut through...
