Cisco Expands Virtualization Across Data Center Portfolio
Original post provide by Latest News from AJAX & RIA JOURNALContinuing to fulfill and expand the Cisco Data Center 3.0 initiative, Cisco announced new products and professional services that will help customers virtualize data centers for greater operational and energy efficiency. The new offerings make the virtual network a highly efficient platform for delivering data center services-accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation.
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Microsoft managed to get its VMware-spooking Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based virtualization technology, out the door Thursday, which is something of an accomplishment considering that by Microsoft's clock the thing is weeks early, having not been expected until August sometime.
VKernel And Xcedex Enter A Virtualization Partnership
VKernel announced a partnership with Xcedex. Under the agreement, Xcedex is a VKernel Gold Partner that will resell VKernel's Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing and monitoring capacity, implementing chargeback, and gaining cost visibility in VMware ESX environments to its growing customer base.
Parallels Debuts Bundled Desktop Virtualization Solution
Web hosting server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has launched with Quest Software, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) bundle, designed to offer a centralized Windows desktop deployment and management platform. The end-to-end stack is hoped to reduce the management and security headache of desktop computing, and reduces the investment required in hardware and software licenses.
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows
mattnyc99 writes "The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new biometric software system that could store millions of iris scans within 10 years and has privacy advocates crying foul.
CDNetworks & Nirvanix Unite Cloud Storage & Content Delivery Network Services
The partnership with CDNetworks will provide Nirvanix customers with the ability to not only securely store massive amounts of media and content but also stage content for instant delivery anywhere in the world, utilizing one of CDNetworks' data centers for local delivery.
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I saw Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová at Radio City Music Hall, which was possibly the best show I've ever seen. (It's tough to beat the Indigo Girls, though.) If you live in NY, and you're not going to ZendCon, you can see them in Central Park in September.
Go!Johnny Class Library
It provides several classes that know how to generate different types of basic HTML page elements such as paragraphs, links, forms, images, etc.. The class also provides several other classes that can generate more complex custom page elements like menus, blog entries, Flash players, Google maps, etc..
MyWeather
It accesses the wunderground.com site and performs a search for a world location. The class retrieves an RSS feed associated to the searched location with the weather forecast for the following days. The class parses the retrieved RSS feed and returns an associative array with weather report parameters like the location name, temperature, humidity and air pressure.
And Now The Begging
Mithras Capital, which owns a relatively small block of 1.7 million shares of Yahoo and would vote for Icahn's replacement slate in a heartbeat, sent an open letter to Microsoft Thursday asking Steve Ballmer to take Microsoft's 'alternate transaction' directly to Yahoo's stockholders.