Virtual machines need defragging too
Weighing in on a seemingly perennial question asked by system administrators, IT analysts Osterman Research is recommending that virtual machines be defragmented just as often as physical drives.
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Facebook outage caused by database glitch
Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage -- which lasted more than two hours for some users -- is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need for effective testing and change control procedures.
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Microsoft: IE9 to require Windows 7 SP1
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser will require Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a not-yet-released major update to the operating system, the company said today.
According to a FAQ posted on the company's site, Windows 7 users will need to install SP1 prior to adding IE9. People running Windows Vista must have that operating system's SP2 in place.
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Cloud vendors seek better legal protections for online data
WASHINGTON -- Executives from top cloud vendors Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com and Rackspace Thursday urged a congressional committee to support their goal of giving data stored in cloud computing systems the same legal protections as information stored on one's personal computer.
The lack of such protections today is a particularly important issue for enterprise customers, and is deterring some from using cloud services, the executives said.
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IBM warns of challenge to U.S. supercomputing leadership
WASHINGTON -- To make a point about China's interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing, put a slide on the screen showing a large construction site for a building that will house one massive computer.
"That's a truck -- that's a big truck, that's a big hole, and that's going to be a big building," said Turek, pointing to the photo of a supercomputing center being built in Shenzhen, China for an audience at a Washington D.C. forum. "And that's only the first building they are going to build there."
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FBI investigating 'Here you have' worm
The FBI has launched an investigation into the "Here you have" worm, which disrupted corporate email systems in the U.S. two weeks ago.
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JavaOne debate: Java EE vs. Spring
The enterprise variant of Java faced off against the Spring Framework this week in a debate over which one developers should use for Java application development.
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Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft on Thursday began offering tools enabling Visual Basic developers to build applications for the Windows Phone 7 mobile phone platform.
Developers can download Microsoft Visual Basic CTP (Community Technology Preview) for Windows Phone Developer Tools at Microsoft's website, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog post. He called the CTP "a great milestone."
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Oracle's new support czar has big challenges
Oracle has tapped longtime executive Charles Rozwat to head up oversight of its support organization, a job that now takes on added complexity due to the hardware products gained by the company's purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Rozwat, who was not available for comment Thursday, will report to Oracle co-President Mark Hurd. He used to be executive vice president of product development at Oracle, but that role switched over to Thomas Kurian after Rozwat took a leave of absence last year to attend a graduate program at Harvard.
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Nokia, AT&T offer $10 million to app developers
Nokia is partnering with AT&T to offer $10 million in prizes to mobile application developers targeting North American users, in yet another attempt from the mobile giant to make an impact in the U.S.
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Marvell announces triple-core chip for tablets
Marvell announced on Thursday a triple-core chip for tablets and smartphones that it says will deliver breakthrough graphics and application performance.
The chip company's Armada 628 triple-core chip has two cores running at 1.5GHz and a third core running at 624Mhz, the company said. The chip has an integrated graphics engine that will allow it to play 3D high-definition video.
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