I'm back from a whirlwind 48 hours at the first annual Cloud Identity Summit, hosted by PingIdentity, and I'm still digesting all I've learned in that short time.
Cloud identity is the subject of how to easily, yet securely, access and use the exploding number of cloud applications (from Facebook to Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services to Salesforce.com to Gmail) available to businesses and consumers. Since security is thought to be the biggest ro... The Platform Vision Model looks like a neat assemblage of building blocks. In reality, it has thousands upon thousands of moving parts. Most of these these moving parts are down in the infrastructure layer, as the clients we use: Mobile devices, notebooks, desktops, workstations, and kiosks. Making any changes to these moving parts can be a tremendous effort, and because the operation must happen many th...
We've received word that Apple's latest operating system for the iPhone -- iOS 4 -- is now available. The download should take an hour or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
More information about iOS 4 (and some step-by-step upgrade instructions) can found on the Apple website.
Are you planning to...
If you want to have your mind boggled, think about the complexity of building and shipping even a “minor” version of a Microsoft OS. For example, take Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (WS08 R2). Start by trying to list all the features, functionalities, and technologies that the server OS comprises, enables, integrates with, and provides the foundation for. The list goes on forever. Then try to imagine the tangled hairball of interdependencies among those technologies and features. This exercise ...
Database giant Oracle recently announced that it would increase its investment in MySQL, the open source database platform that it acquired as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems in early 2010.
According to a report by Reuters, Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven recently stated that "We are increasing our investment in MySQL... on every fr... 
Today I'm attending a Microsoft technical reviewer's workshop at TechEd 2010. Parts of the workshop are under NDA for various future reveal dates, so I can't write about everything. One thing I can mention is the ongoing development and improvements to Windows Server 2008, signified by a session that outlined the increasingly robust ability of Windows Server 2008 to serve as a platform for larg... At Tech Ed 2010, the Platform Vision team interviewed Ward Ralston, who’s responsible for Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. We had an interesting, wide-ranging conversation (video coming soon) about what’s going to be in Service Pack 1 and about upgrading to R2 in general. Though, like its predecessors, SP1 is a rollup of all the updates that an OS will get from Windows Update, there are a couple of important differences. The most significant difference is that SP1 will have features that ... Thursday, February 19, 2009
 When designing and estimating the cost of a data center, the business needs, and IT, people generally overlook factors that affects Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the data center in the long run. While doing Business Value Assessments (BVAs), which include TCO studies for large enterprises, my colleagues at Advaiya and I have found that there are no recognized standards for calculating ...
As popular as SharePoint has become over the past few years, many IT professionals are still grappling with the optimal way to deploy and manage it. To help shed some light on the topic of SharePoint deployment, I sat down with two SharePoint experts earlier this week at TechEd 2010: Quest Software Solutions Architect Curtis Kelly (photo, left) and Senior SharePoint Architect Joel Oleson.
... Apparently the Hyper-V product group is still catching up on exactly what their product is capable of. Hyper-V in its original form supports up to 384 virtual machines per host, but in a failover cluster, only 16 VMs are supported. Why is that? In a briefing today with Jeff Woolsey (Hyper-V program manager), he said that upon R2’s release, they simply hadn’t finished scalability testing of the product in a failover cluster environment. So to play it safe, they bumped the number up to 32 VMs per ... |
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