February 2012
12 posts
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“Enterprise hypervisor comparison”
– Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison | VMGuru.nl - I choose (a virtual) life!
Feb 23rd
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Cloud estimates all over the map →
Where do you draw the line? Facilities? Network? Server/storage? Hypervisors? OS? App? Management of any of these?
Feb 22nd
“Rather than stick with traditional all-you-can-eat deals known as “enterprise...”
– CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming | Reuters (via irq) Pay for use by consumers means supply for use for producers (kind of)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 18th
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An IT company walks into a bar...
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Feb 18th
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Feb 11th
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“To implement UMA may take a certain level of humility,” says Sascha Segan,...”
– Phoning it in: the dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry | The Verge Very well done update on the state of WiFi voice and mobile operators.
Feb 10th
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“The point here isn’t to blow a standards dodger whistle, but rather to observe...”
– Dodging open protocols with open software (via irq) Glad he wrote this down. I had a similar thought when I found out Juniper was running open vSwitch on the MX router open flow implementation. Note: Dudes with duct tape and leaks will solve problems faster than standards bodies can schedule...
Feb 9th
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“big data sit in silos. Web browser data isn’t linked to transaction data. Social...”
– 3 Hurdles in the ‘Big Data’ Race « From ATX …with Gary Skidmore Silos aren’t just databases. They are also segregated by physical datacenters, storage types, and multiple networks. Gotta get it all on one network…
Feb 9th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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“Asheem Chandna said a business plan around a fabric play to compete with...”
– Data Center, Cloud Fabrics All the Rage in 2012 CIO.com Whoa, networking *hardware* as a area of interest for VC investment. Asheem say it isn’t so.
Feb 3rd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
11 posts
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“Cisco’s GM for core routing biz Marc Randall has left to be GM of...”
– Twitter / @ShamusTT: Cisco’s GM for core routin … And he was the #2ish guy at Brocade for a while as well. It will be interesting to see what he can do with Avaya’s business.
Jan 17th
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Kempt - The Phone Stack →
damiendeville: It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten. —  I love this Idea! Brilliant
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“If you’re a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing...”
– Seth’s Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer As witnessed by this post, I go through cycles of being bad or decent at this. When I’m bad, it nags me right down to my core. Enough then.
Jan 13th
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“The plan specifically called for an effort under the U.S.-India Strategic...”
– Data.gov Goes Global | The White House Nice.
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching... →
infoneer-pulse: The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. “Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down,” says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it’s a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data...
Jan 6th
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“This role will define and own the enterprise go-to-market strategy for a set of...”
– Director, Enterprise Marketing at LinkedIn in Mountain View, CA, United States - Job | LinkedIn Interesting hiring going on at Linkedin.
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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December 2011
8 posts
“During a meeting in Madrid in March 2008, Hurd walked Fisher to an ATM and...”
– Hurd Pursued Sex With Contractor Jodie Fisher While CEO of HP, Letter Says - Bloomberg This is possibly the most pathetic thing I’ve seen all year. (via felixsalmon) Oh dear. WHAT.A.LOSER. Also who keeps a million in their checking account?!? I mean sure, having cash in 2008 was probably a good...
Dec 31st
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“One of my favorite restaurants is a little Mexican place in Utah called El...”
– Seth’s Blog: A hundred little things Word. That place rocks.
Dec 30th
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“BRScompetitions is requesting permission to do the following: Access my basic...”
– Request for Permission Dear Facebook Apps - this is the part where I say nope, sorry. I’m actually cool with handing over some of this to enter a contest “list of friends” Seriously? No “Any other information I’ve made public” Ok, so perhaps I mucked up...
Dec 17th
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“Dovetail is a free smartphone app that transmits text messages to and from...”
– Dovetail: Voice to the People by Kevin Vogeltanz — Kickstarter (via irq) Cool. Add a retailer network to my smartphone, get a coupon when I walk into the store.
Dec 16th
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Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12... →
infoneer-pulse: The bankrupt bookseller Borders wants to sell its stash of 65,536 IP addresses to healthcare software vendor Cerner for $12 per address. The bust high street chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, and has been selling off its assets to pay its creditors ever since. The address sale is one of its last assets to be disposed of. Cerner has agreed to pay...
Dec 6th
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“When I went to China for the first time in 1978, I saw workers stringing...”
– Power in Numbers - China Aims for High-Tech Primacy - NYTimes.com Always interesting to see what Pat actually cares about. Shame about the IPv6 fud and no mention of Huawei
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
8 posts
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John Roese on Redefining Huawei and the... →
Good insight into Huawei’s aspirations. Doesn’t jive with employee reviews on Glassdoor, but good context and perfect venue for John Roese.
Nov 18th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 14th
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“As we focus on this market transition with the convergence of server, processing...”
– Cisco Systems’ CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha Noted.
Nov 11th
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What's the difference between VMware vShield and...
In a word, architecture. The result? Performance. The bottom line: Do you want your server dollars focused on the app or security? See this overview of the vGW architecture by Ivan at ioshints.com then check out this vShield vs vGW performance test comparison. (Warning - it’s a pdf)
Nov 4th
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WatchWatch
cliveb: Nearing the event horizon. Hadoop was predicable whats Next. Mike Miller (UW) (MIT) Inspired by the Google,  MapReduce and Hadoop have exploded as “The Tool” for big data. Interestingly, Google no longer uses MapReduce to build their index of the web. Mike presented a brief overview of new tools emerging for (1) incremental analytics (2) ad-hoc analytics and (3) dealing with...
Nov 4th
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“Best case, BPDU guard on the physical switch blocks but doesn’t shut down the...”
– Cisco IOS Hints and Tricks: Virtual switches need BPDU guard (via irq)
Nov 4th
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Video screen-spy program can read texts and emails →
infoneer-pulse: NEXT time you’re tapping off a private text message or sensitive email in a public place, consider this: someone could be reading every letter you type from up to 60 metres away. “We can be in the second floor of a building and read a phone on the ground,” says computer vision researcher Jan-Michael Frahm, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Frahm and Fabian...
Nov 3rd
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October 2011
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“The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much...”
– Quote Of The Week | ZeroHedge Larry Summers. Scary as it seems to be true.
Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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Android Fragmentation Visualized →
securityparty: I’ve never used Android, so I don’t really have an opinion on its quality or utility. In general I am a fan of it, because I think the world needs a fiddly, “open” operating system for smart phones that allows for unhindered and wild exploration and endless tinkering. I am an iPhone user, though, because I want my phone to be a solid, reliable and supported device and I am a big...
Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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“manufacturing energy is roughly half of the Internet total energy use.”
– The power to run the Internet | Marketplace From American Public Media
Oct 27th
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“Junos Pulse 3.0 for Apple iOS adds support for mobile device management (MDM)...”
– App Store - Junos Pulse The new shnizzle in JUNOS Pulse 3.0. Combining mobile security and mobile device management
Oct 25th
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“Within the typical enterprise datacenter, developers have long been one of the...”
– What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train? | Cloudscaling (via irq)
Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 22nd
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“Brian Moynihan is here tonight. He’s the C.E.O. of Bank of America. As many of...”
– Live From New York, It’s Steve Schwarzman - NYTimes.com (via felixsalmon) Ha! Beauty.
Oct 22nd
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