http://itknowledgehub.com ...a place for IT Professionals Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:48:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In March 2009 virtualization.info published an article titled Quest uses Surgient, why not acquire it? suggesting that such acquisition would fit the Quest expansion plans and would be the natural evolution of a pre-existing relationship between the two. Quest answered today to that question by announcing in fact the acquisition of Surgient ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/quest-acquires-surgient/ As companies continue their search for the elusive "360-degree view" of their prospective clients, harvesting all the scattered information from social networks and other content providers about these prospects can potentially be beneficial for the purposes of deploying more finely targeted sales and marketing campaigns. In fact, recent Aberdeen research ... http://itknowledgehub.com/crm-siebel/sales-reps-know-your-targets/ Personal data about millions of Android users could be sent to a mysterious Chinese website thanks to a set of wallpaper apps in the Android Market. That's according to mobile security firm Lookout, which discovered the questionable apps as part of its new App Genome Project, an effort to identify ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/linux/that-cute-android-wallpaper-may-be-sending-your-data-to-china/ Microsoft recently announced record revenues of $16.04 billion for its fourth fiscal quarter of the year, which ended June 30. This was 22 percent up year over year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were up 49 percent, 48 percent and 50 percent, respectively, ... http://itknowledgehub.com/it-management-trends/microsofts-mobile-morass-part-1/ Apple is looking into reports that its iOS 4 does not run well on older devices such as the iPhone 3G and 3GS. To be sure, Apple has warned from the beginning that not all of the features -- in particular, the multitasking in iOS 4 -- could be supported ... http://itknowledgehub.com/it-management-trends/apple-mac/ios-4-murders-iphone-3g-but-nobodys-perfect/ Yesterday Oracle announced a major deal with Dell and HP: the two OEMs will certify and resell the Oracle VM virtual infrastructure, along with Oracle Solaris x86 and Oracle Enterprise Linux.Those customers that will buy Dell’s and HP’s Oracle solutions will have full access to the Oracle Premier Support. It sounds ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/dell-and-hp-to-resell-oracle-vm/ In April Microsoft announced the beta program for the Linux Integrated Services (LIS) 2.1 for Hyper-V.Among the many new features, the package introduced support for up to 4 vCPUs inside Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems. Yesterday Microsoft finally released it. Besides the ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/microsoft-releases-linux-integrated-services-2-1-for-hyper-v/ A couple of days ago VMware officially validated an end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) hardware configuration provided by Cisco and NetApp. The solution includes Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches and NetApp FAS3100 and FAS600 series SANs, now included in the vSphere 4.1 hardware compatibility guide. To be fair, the three companies ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/vmware-validates-end-to-end-fcoe-configuration-from-cisco-and-netapp/ The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) just announced the LPI-304 exam, titled Virtualization and High Availability. The exam is elective for the vendor-neutral Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC)-3 and includes virtualization (Xen, KVM, OpenVZ, VirtualBox), load balancing, cluster management and cluster storage. Interestingly, LPI has assigned a weight of 10 to the questions about ... http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/linux-professional-institute-launches-virtualization-and-high-availability-exam/ The above headline seems to be the message in an article in the latest edition of Computer Weekly.: “The article, called “How will suppliers be able to cut IT costs?” starts with the words: “The government has told IT suppliers it wants them to reduce the cost of contracts with ... http://itknowledgehub.com/it-management-trends/it-suppliers-reduce-your-costs-or-your-out/