Computerworld articles from January 2008

Computerworld archives from January 2008

No Nostradamus.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(future of information technology)(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... IT'S REMARKABLE how much Nostradamus and I have in common. We both entered the University of Avignon at the age of 15. We both served as royal physicians to French monarchs. And, of course, we've shared, in our respective eras, the uncanny...

Microsoft patch puts up stop sign for some IE users.(INTERNET)(Internet Explorer)
January 1, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. acknowledged on Dec. 18 that a software patch issued earlier in the month for Internet Explorer had crippled the Web browser for some users. After initially suggesting a work-around that required changes to the Windows...

Green server benchmark takes root.(SERVERS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... STANDARD PERFORMANCE Evaluation Corp. (SPEC), which creates performance benchmarks for servers, has released a test suite that is designed to let server buyers comparison-shop on the basis of energy efficiency. Five server vendors helped...

Tests in Ohio point to e-voting insecurities.(IT IN GOVERNMENT)
January 1, 2008... A SERIES OF tests on the electronic voting systems used in Ohio showed that security shortcomings are a continuing danger to the accuracy of elections there, according to a report released in December by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer...

Apple Inc.(Short Takes)(Mac OS X operating system)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Apple Inc. has issued a year-end flurry of fixes for its Mac OS X operating system and the test version of its Safari browser. The 31 OS X updates affect several components. The Safari patch fixes a scripting security problem that affects...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(an agreement with Protocol Freedom Information Foundation)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement with the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation that will give developers of open-source Samba software access to previously secret Windows protocol specifications. The foundation will pay a $20,000 fee...

Red Hat Inc.(Short Takes)(James Whitehurst appointed as chief executive officer)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... James Whitehurst, former chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines Inc., has been named CEO of Red Hat Inc. Whitehurst replaced Matthew Szulik, who said he resigned the post after eight years due to family health issues.

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(new investment in online storage service)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm has invested an undisclosed sum in Nirvanix Inc., a San Diego start-up developer of scalable online storage service.

Sysadmin admits to hitting 'off' button at data center.(DATA CENTERS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR who worked at the data center that controls California's power grid pleaded guilty in December to federal charges that he maliciously shut down the facility after his computer privileges were revoked. Lonnie Charles...

ETAI rides open source to ease data traffic jam.(DATABASES)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... ETAI Group publishes parts catalogs and service manuals for about 85% of the automobiles built in Europe over the past 15 years. But with 50,000 car models and a million parts to keep track of in nine massive databases, its homegrown...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Sprint Nextel Corp.(BENCHMARKS)(Daniel Hesse appointed as president)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Sprint Nextel Corp. named Daniel Hesse president and CEO, two months after predecessor Gary Forsee resigned. Hesse had been CEO at Embarq Corp. since that company was spun off by Sprint in May 2006.

IDC.(BENCHMARKS)(laptop PC sales )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... IDC said that in 2007's third quarter, the growth of laptop PC sales outpaced desktop sales growth by 33 percentage points--the first time that the gap has been more than 30 points.

One year ago.(BENCHMARKS)(software licensing schemes from Oracle Corp.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Oracle Corp. unified the software licensing schemes for all of its business applications into four pricing models.

Opera files suit against Microsoft.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... BRUSSELS -- Opera Software ASA last month filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Corp., accusing it of stifling competition by tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows. The complaint, filed with the European Commission,...

IBM projects $1B in India revenue.(Global Dispatches)(Financial report)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... BANGALORE, INDIA -- IBM is projecting sales of about $1 billion (U.S.) from its Indian operation, up from about $700 million in 2006. A spokesman for IBM India Ltd., which is based here, said sales in India grew by 39% during the first...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(National Foods Ltd. contract with Hewlett-Packard Co)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... National Foods Ltd. has extended its outsourcing contract with Hewlett-Packard Co. by three years. The deal is worth $12.3 million Australian ($10.6 million U.S.). HP manages the Melbourne, Australia-based dairy products manufacturer's IT...

8 trends for'08: our Vital Signs survey forecasts a busy year filled with intricate projects, fresh-faced staff and a crushing amount of data. Are you ready?(FORECAST 2008)
January 1, 2008... TREND NO. 1 Tightfisted Budgets Loosen a Bit Yet the economy continues to cast a shadow of uncertainty over the best-laid tech spending plans. WHEN Bogdan Butoi-Teodorescu, chief technology officer at Animas Corp., submitted his...

Hot 8 for 2008.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(IT budgets )
January 1, 2008... READY FOR 2008? Budgets may tighten up, but IT's challenges will just keep growing: security problems, virtualization technology, legal issues, users who can't be stopped and that worrisome baby-boomer brain drain. Here are eight hot-button...

Common sense.(Editorial)
January 7, 2008... IN ORDER to make the point that Iran's illicit acquisition of AMD processors to build a supercomputer should not be allowed to fuel a blanket indictment of the Iranian IT community, I asserted in a column I wrote last month that the vast...

Ethics: just a matter of right and wrong.(Letter to the editor)
January 7, 2008... I have a fundamental problem with Don Tennant's assertion that the lack of ethics education in school curricula is to blame for illicit activity ["Just Plain Unethical," Editor's Note, Dec. 3]. Ethics are as simple as right and wrong. Is it...

AOL plans to drop curtain on Netscape's browser.(INTERNET APPLICATIONS)(America Online Inc.)
January 7, 2008... AOL LLC'S Netscape unit is discontinuing its Navigator Web browser and urging users of the pioneering and once-dominant software to switch to its Firefox cousin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ironically, the announcement of Navigator's demise...

Bain mum on federal probe of 3Com deal.(REGULATION)(Bain Capital Inc.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... INVESTMENT FIRM Bain Capital LLC last week declined to comment on the likelihood that a federal panel will extend its review of a proposed buyout giving China-based Huawei Technologies Co. a 16.5% ownership stake in 3Com Corp. The...

Every click you make ... sears and Kmart could be watching you.(PRIVACY)(Kmart Holding Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... CUSTOMERS taking part in a marketing program launched by the parent firm of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corp. may be unintentionally providing the retailers with significant personal information, according to antispyware researchers. ...

Endicott, N.Y.(Short Takes)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... About 90 residents of Endicott, N.Y., sued IBM, alleging that the company's manufacturing operations there caused environmental contamination for decades. IBM, which built computers and circuit boards at the facilities until 2002, said it has...

EMC Corp.(Short Takes)(Document Sciences Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... EMC Corp. has agreed to buy Document Sciences Corp., a maker of software that can automate the creation and delivery of personalized communication such as brochures, for $85 million.

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(One Laptop Per Child)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Intel Corp. resigned from the One Laptop Per Child project's board of directors after refusing OLPC's request that it abandon its Classmate PC program. Intel's low-cost Classmate PC competes against OLPC's XO laptop, which uses processors from...

Network Appliance Inc.(Short Takes)(Onaro Inc.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Network Appliance Inc. agreed to buy Onaro Inc., a Boston-based maker of storage management software, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is set to close this quarter.

Software glitch Mars Seattle's New Year's fireworks show.(SOFTWARE)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... SOFTWARE PROBLEMS can even wreak havoc with fireworks shows, as New Year's Eve revelers in Seattle learned. A corrupted computer file forced the operators of a midnight fireworks display at the city's Space Needle tower to launch most of...

Hitachi unveils 500GB notebook disk drive.(HARDWARE)(Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... HOPING TO ADDRESS increasing user demands for storage capacity, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies last week unveiled a pair of 2.5-in. hard disk drives for notebook computers and mobile devices. The Travelstar 5K500 disk drive will be...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
January 7, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

IBM.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... IBM is realigning its hardware units around four customer categories--enterprise users, small businesses, vertical industries and chip buyers--instead of its current product-line setup.

Vonage Holdings Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Nortel Networks Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Vonage Holdings Corp. said it and Nortel Networks Corp. plan to cross-license several patents to settle a dispute related to voice-over-IP technology. The settlement is the fourth reached by Vonage since October.

Two years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(MCI Inc.)(Verizon Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Verizon Communications Inc. completed its acquisition of rival MCI Inc. for $8.5 billion in cash and stock.

U.K. to strengthen breach penalties.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... LONDON -- The U.K. House of Commons Justice Committee is calling for tougher penalties for data security breaches. In a report issued last week, the committee also recommended that the U.K. Information Commissioner's office gain new...

Nokia Siemens purchasing Apertio.(Global Dispatches)(Nokia Siemens Networks)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... ESPOO, FINLAND -- Nokia Siemens Networks last week agreed to buy Apertio Ltd., a maker of network management applications for telecommunications operators, for [euro]140 million ($206 million U.S.). The deal is expected to close in May. ...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(International Business Machines Corp.)(XIV)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... IBM last week acquired XIV, a Tel Aviv-based maker of storage-area network equipment. IBM said it expects to use XIV's flagship product, Nextra, to address growing needs for high-performance storage for digital archives, digital media and Web...

App support limitations could impede virtualization: a lack of support commitments on the part of application vendors may stall the spread of virtual servers.(SERVERS)
January 7, 2008... SERVER virtualization feels unstoppable these days, with market research firm IDC predicting that worldwide sales of virtualization software will grow at an average annual rate of 27% through 2011. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But several...

E-discovery rules still causing IT headaches: many say the new archiving guidelines fail to account for evolving technologies.(COMPLIANCE)
January 7, 2008... MANY IT shops have spent months working to refit corporate systems so they comply with year-old changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, even as some executives say the revisions aren't clearly defined. However, some IT executives...

Automate best practices.(On the Mark)(NextNine)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... WHEN YOUR IT vendor's product goes kablooey in your data center, you contact the company's support team and with a calm, Hannibal Lecter-like voice, you threaten to cook them with fava beans if they don't fix your problem immediately. Sometimes...

Convergence coming.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Fixed/mobile convergence seems inevitable. A Google search on the term delivers more than 670,000 hits. FMC technology was prominently featured in Computerworld.com's recent story "13 Future Mobile Technologies That Will Change Your Life." And...

Ribbiting conversations.(On the Mark)(Ribbit Corp.)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Ted Griggs, CEO of Ribbit Corp. in Mountain View, Calif, calls his startup "Silicon Valley's first phone company." He claims that Ribbit Smart Switch software, which Alcatel-Lucent has certified for use in its networks, can connect to telephone...

John Hagel: Deloitte's IT strategy guru talks about 'innovation blowback,' the real point of outsourcing and the end of IT as we know it.(THE GRILL)(Deloitte & Touche L.L.P.)(Interview)
January 7, 2008... John Hagel has written about "innovation blowback"--the unexpected consequences of investment in emerging markets--as well as other phenomena at the intersection of technology and strategy. His books include Net Worth, Out of the Box and Net...

Calling on IT to do the impossible.(OPINION)
January 7, 2008... HERE'S A CHALLENGE FOR YOU: Balance multi-year infrastructure development work with short, 30-to-90-day projects that deliver business application systems as business needs evolve. And do it so that even as you're implementing the IT...

The geekiest candidate: other presidential hopefuls may be further ahead in the polls, but Ron Paul has the standout e-campaign.(YouTube Inc.)
January 7, 2008... POP QUIZ: Who is the first presidential candidate ever to be interviewed by a college student in his dorm room, with the video posted on YouTube? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The answer is Republican longshot Ron Paul, who is waging one of...

8 ways to boost your career in '08: how to stay ahead of the coming changes.(CAREERS)
January 7, 2008... TODAY'S IT professionals are an evolving breed. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT jobs keep morphing as companies demand not just technical know-how, but more business acumen, analytical skills and industry knowledge as well. Kudos if...

Is your CEO a cybercrime target? Here's how to protect him--and your company.(SECURITY)(chief executive officer)
January 7, 2008... WITH ONE mouse click on a seemingly internal e-mail, your CEO could unwittingly enable a cybercriminal to mine his hard drive for credit card numbers, passwords to corporate databases or other proprietary information. [ILLUSTRATION...

Budget cuts call for new priorities: what could be more important to a security manager than avoiding a data breach? Only a life-or-death situation.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
January 7, 2008... MY priorities have been reordered at gunpoint. I'm sure that sounds like an overstatement, and I admit that there is no gun pointed at my head. But I am talking about a literal gun, even if it's merely a hypothetical one at this point. The...

What makes great companies great? The answer is simple but profound.(IT MENTOR)
January 7, 2008... In the current Harvard Business Review, Rosabeth Moss Kanter reports on a two-year exploration of a dozen "progressive megacorporations." Her goal was to discover what makes giants like IBM, Procter & Gamble, Omron and Cemex innovative and...

Stop that!(OPINION)
January 7, 2008... THOSE OF YOU who are regular readers of this column probably already know that I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions. They set people up for failure by setting unrealistic expectations that only lead to disappointment and depression. But...

Resume confidential.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... WORKERS WHO already have a job but want to actively troll for a new one have faced a conundrum ever since the advent of the online job board: Your resume is available to lots of companies to see, but what will stop your own employer from...

Getting the big bucks means always having to say you're sorry.(Career Watch)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Respondents were asked to state their incomes and whether they apologize regularly after a mistake or argument. Annual income Likelihood of apologizing regularly Over $100,000 92% $75,000 to $100,000 89% $50,000 to...

Business meets academia.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... HOW U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE WORKING WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DEVELOP NEXT-GENERATION IT LEADERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SCHOOL: Northeastern University's High-Tech MBA program, Boston DOES IT HAVE AN IT ADVISORY...

25%.(Career Watch)(Survey)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... 25% Percentage of people who said they consider their offices to be the germiest places they encounter on a regular basis. That ranked higher than public restrooms, at 19%. SOURCE: BOOTH RESEARCH SERVICES INC. ONLINE SURVEY OF 1,005...

New Year, same old attitude.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Pilot fish arrives at work to find a usually overconfident consultant white in the face. He left his laptop on all night under a hot work light, and now it appears to be dead. "Of course, his most recent work was not backed up," says fish. "My...

OK, got it.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... This pilot fish fixes printers at a government facility where broken machines are sent in for repair. And the trouble ticket for this one seems straightforward enough. Under "Describe the Problem," it reads: "Self-destructed. Parts coming out...

Status unchanged.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... It's the late 1990s, and this pilot fish who's preparing for Y2k is stunned to learn that his boss has canceled all the software support contracts. "He didn't understand what they were for, so he was 'saving the company money,'" grumbles fish....

Aha!(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... User tells pilot fish she can't read CDs in her PC. "When I popped the drive open, I noticed a lot of small, shiny pieces of stuff all over," says fish. "'Oh,' she said, 'we had a CD blow up in the drive last week.' Seems they had a CD with a...

Hey, mom!(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
January 7, 2008... New employee expense system no longer just uses a password; now it also asks one of several questions at random when a user signs on. "These are fixed-form questions such as 'What was your mother's maiden name?'" reports a pilot fish on the...

Prisoners of legacy.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(One Laptop Per Child)
January 7, 2008... IS IT RIGHT that impoverished third-world children have more innovative technology than corporate users? Don't answer yet. First, take a look at the slew of recent news articles, reviews and blog posts about the XO, that little green...

Crossing the line.(Editorial)
January 14, 2008... THERE IT IS AGAIN: "Big Brother." This time, the term has crept onto the cover of this week's print issue and into the headline of Rob Mitchell's story, which warns that "Big Brother Really Is Watching." Few other terms elicit as much emotion...

Macs are a joy to use, but not to develop on.(Letter to the editor)
January 14, 2008... Mark Hall missed a point in his "Apple vs. IBM" Editor's Note of Nov. 26. In order to flourish in the enterprise space, a platform must have the tools needed to build enterprise applications. What are those tools for Mac and Xserve? If the...

On Netscape's demise.(Letter to the editor)
January 14, 2008... The Netscape browser has been only a shadow of its former self ever since AOL bought it out, and it has been almost completely irrelevant for at least five years ["Microsoft: Now-Dead Netscape Shows Antitrust Decree Worked," Computerworld.com,...

Old-timers know virtualization.(Letter to the editor)
January 14, 2008... It's great that Microsoft is coming out with a reasonably complete model for virtualization ["Windows Server 2008 Revealed: Hyper-V Virtualization," Computerworld.com, Dec. 20]. If people need to know more, they can ask Really Old People--the...

Robbery alters thinking on data center security.(DATA CENTER)(C I Host)
January 14, 2008... IN OCTOBER, Web hosting vendor C I Host Inc.'s data center in Chicago was robbed by two masked men, who allegedly pistol-whipped a lone IT staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours while stealing computer...

Six firms settle software license disputes.(SOFTWARE)(Business Software Alliance)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... SIX COMPANIES last week agreed to pay nearly $700,000 collectively to settle claims that they used unlicensed software from several vendors. The Business Software Alliance said that the settlement also requires the companies to delete all...

'Hacker Safe' web site suffers security breach.(CYBERCRIME)
January 14, 2008... EVEN IF a Web site displays a seal certifying that it is hackproof, it may not always be immune to security breaches. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A case in point is Geeks.com, which on Jan. 4 began notifying an undisclosed number of...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has released a patch to fix a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copying computer worm attack. A second patch fixes a less serious flaw that lets hackers steal...

The state of New York has launched an investigation to determine if Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... The state of New York has launched an investigation to determine if Intel Corp. violated antitrust laws by coercing customers to not use processors from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Intel has faced similar investigations in Europe and...

Microsoft.(Short Takes)(Fast Search and Transfer ASA)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Microsoft last week agreed to buy Oslo-based search software firm Fast Search & Transfer ASA for $1.3 billion in cash. Microsoft said it hopes to integrate Fast's high-end products with its Share-Point search technology.

Jeff Raikes plans to retire as president of Microsoft's business division in September.(Short Takes)(appointment of Stephen Elop in Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Jeff Raikes plans to retire as president of Microsoft's business division in September. He will be replaced by Stephen Elop, former chief operating officer at Juniper Networks Inc.

Mailing exposes personal data of Wisconsin residents.(SECURITY)(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... THE WISCONSIN Department of Health and Family Services last week called on Electronic Data Systems Corp. to explain how Social Security numbers were printed on the address labels of brochures sent to more than 260,000 recipients of state health...

IT worker jailed for creating logic bomb.(SECURITY)(Medco Health Solutions Inc.)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... A FORMER SYSTEMS administrator at Medco Health Solutions Inc. last week was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for planting a logic bomb that could have taken down a corporate network that held personal health care information. ...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
January 14, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Microsoft Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.'s outgoing chairman, said at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the software vendor has now sold more than 100 million licenses for Windows Vista.

The White House Office of Management and Budget.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... The White House Office of Management and Budget said it will release the federal government's first-ever paperless budget on Feb. 4. OMB officials expect the "e-budget" to save nearly $1 million over five years.

One year ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(NCR Corp.)(Teradata Corp.)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... NCR Corp. announced a plan to spin off Teradata Corp., its data warehousing division.

Suit filed to block German e-vote.(Global Dispatches)(Chaos Computer Club)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... BERLIN -- A computer club is seeking an injunction in a German court to prevent the use of electronic voting machines in state elections later this month. The Chaos Computer Club, founded here in 1981, contends that the German government...

Intel answers EC antitrust charges.(Global Dispatches)(European Union. European Commission)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... BRUSSELS -- Intel Corp. has formally responded to antitrust charges filed against it by the European Commission. Intel also requested that the EC schedule a hearing on the allegations. In July, the EC accused the chip maker of handing out...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(China Electronics Import-Export Corp.)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... China Electronics Import & Export Co. has announced plans to sell its 30% stake in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Chinese operations. The state-owned firm set a minimum price of 967 million yuan ($134 million U.S.) for its share. Sumner Lemon, IDG...

IE still top dog in corporate browser kennel: deployment and management issues are keeping Firefox leashed at many companies, enabling Internet Explorer to remain dominant.(WEB BROWSERS)(Mozilla Corp.)(internet explorer)
January 14, 2008... WITH A new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla Corp. hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. [ILLUSTRATION...

Green PC push by feds may seed wider adoption: federal agencies are being required to buy eco-friendly PCs and monitors--a mandate that likely will broaden the availability of such systems.(HARDWARE)(personal computers)
January 14, 2008... THE U.S. government is moving ahead with a plan to require federal agencies to buy PCs and computer monitors that are energy efficient and have reduced levels of toxic chemicals. And because of the government's massive buying power, the plan...

VMs boost SAN costs.(On the Mark)(VMware Inc.)(storage area networks)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... THE LAW of unintended consequences is rearing its head in the realm of server virtualization, says Bryan Semple, vice president of marketing at Onaro Inc. in Boston. He claims that the vast majority of VMware Inc.'s ESX server deployments are...

Control your VMs.(On the Mark)(virtual machines)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Virtual machines should make IT managers nervous. Yes, they save labor and hardware costs in companies with tight data center budgets. Plus, you don't have to hassle with Purchasing to get new hardware, and you can roll up the internal IT...