Walled Garden or a Sanctuary?

As mentioned earlier the security provided by Apple's "Walled Garden"

is in my opinion worth giving up a bit of control for security purposes.

See below ....

How’s Apple’s Walled Garden Look Now?

Certification Came Quickly After One-Click Access to Wikileaks Was Removed

This could certainly be a big deal .... I wonder if office is FISMA certified?

Certification Came Quickly After One-Click Access to Wikileaks Was Removed

Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses

It appears that the long predicted exhaustion of current Internet addresses, known as IPv4, will happen sometime next summer. Hopefully your organization has a good number in the it's "bank".

everything is amazing and nobody is happy

Funny but uncannily true ...........

Life on Earth wiped out every 27 million years

.....but we've got about 16 million years until the next one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1294372/Life-Earth-wiped-27-million-years.html

But not according to the Maya predictions of December 2012.

RDP Client for vSphere Client

If you work with VMware's ESX server there are times when having a RDP connection to a VM is needed. With the following tool you can bring up RDP from your vSphere client. Xtravirt.com is a excellent source for virtualization tools and insight. Login required.

http://xtravirt.com/vsphere-client-rdp-plug-in

I propose this to be the theme song for the Tea Party movement!

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/twisted-sister-were-not-gonna-take-it/a1da5cb0f658799908d2a1da5cb0f658799908d2-130025914696

Why You’ll Pay to Watch Ads on the iPhone and iPad

These are the type of Ads I would actually watch.

Why You'll Pay to Watch Ads on the iPhone and iPad

QOTD: So You’re Open-Sourcing Your Search Algorithm, Then?

Good quote by Google's Eric Schmidt on Google's phone model verses Apple's

I guess he forgot to mention that Apples model is also more secure.

InformationWeek Article on "New Plans for UNIX"

In Micheal Healey's report on state of the UNIX industry, he mentions that the main UNIX/Linux hardware vendors "are retooling UNIX to play a greater role in the virtualized data center.". The three main UNIX vendors listed are IBM, HP, and Oracle-Sun.

I couldn't agree more. Virtualization is and will be the driving force for growth in the large scalable SMP systems. I see virtualization as the logic step before the up coming massive move to the cloud. The other new driver will be the Oracle-Sun solution sales team going head to head with IBM. Most IT shops I have had the privilege of working with, would love to reduce the number of vendors that they have to deal with. The do not want to go down to just one, but two would be just about right. I am sure most of us noticed that in one quarter after the Oracle acquisition of Sun, they added $500,000.00 in profit to Oracle.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

The Saga of Solaris and Active Directory

There is little doubt that Solaris 10 from Sun Microsystems, an Oracle Inc. company, is the most advanced, secure commercial operating system on the market today. The inclusion of Solaris containers, ZFS, and its rating from the NIST, National Vulnerability Database, make for compelling reasons to use Solaris in your Enterprise infrastructure. The only issue I continue to hear about is the lack of integration with Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD).

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