Servers & Data Center

We interrupt the regularly-scheduled Microhoo update to bring you the story of an obscure software vendor that seems to be proving that open-source and Windows are not like oil and water after all.

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

A SaaS supplier wants corporate IT to deploy their apps as a service to company users.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which the Internet Archive/EFF/ACLU declare victory over the FBI's super-secret, Patriot-Act-style request for information. Not to mention what it would be like if Facebook was played out in real life...

Jaikumar Vijayan reports:

Pilot fish gets a new job where one of her first jobs is to design a database-oriented application. But when it comes to implementing it, there are problems.

The battle between Microsoft and VMware to control Windows virtualization is forcing users to chose between two proprietary approaches. Users are caught in the middle.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Novell's countersuit against SCO has started, with bloggers highlighting hilarious, contradictory statements from SCO execs -- enjoy schadenfreude much? Not to mention the hidden Apple parody in Grand Theft Auto IV...

A new tool for Virtual Machine Manager lets you implement management policies for both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines.

Last week was a lousy week for Web site administrators. Depending on your expert of choice anywhere from just over a hundred-thousand to half-a-million Web pages had been hacked to turn this into malware-spewing portals.

Support pilot fish at a small vendor gets a call from a customer who tells fish that the server in his lumberyard is making a whirring noise. ...

Microsoft's got pretty cool virtualization technology, but not many places to run it.

Microsoft made it clear today: Its future is not in Windows or Office. Instead, it's in the Internet and computing clouds. If it can deliver on the promise of its just-announced Live Mesh, the company will be able to fight off Google, and leave Apple in the dust.

Microsoft has a radically different approach to software as a service. But will it be better for IT?

ROAR! It's IT Blogwatch: in which Western Digital offers its latest amazingly speedy 10K RPM drive. Not to mention more loopy error messages...

Brian Fonseca reports:

Western Digital Corp. today launched the first model of its new 2.5-in. VelociRaptor VR 150 hard-drive product line, which company executives said offers about twice the capacity of the 2.5-in. Raptor hard drive it will replace ...

What's big and yellow and Google all over?