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There is no doubt whatsoever that Microsoft needed to find a way to truly reinvent itself. Visually it all started with what was once known as the Metro UI, and what has now become a more benign "Windows 8 Style Interface." Nevertheless, the UI is different. As Microsoft officially launches Windows 8 in New York City this week, CEO Steve Ballmer said the company is working on more hardware beyond the Surface Tablet family. Should hardware manufacturers fear the move or just ignore it? Sponsored By: Alcatel Lucent WEBINAR: SDN: Let's Cut The Hype, What is the Reality? Thursday November 1st, 2012 11:00am ET/ 8:00 AM PT REGISTER TODAY Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow have both received enormous attention and unfortunately are surrounded by much confusion. To understand SDN, we must take a step back and ask the question, what is SDN trying to achieve and how can how can the current SDN deployments in very large web-scale data centers translate into a tangible benefit for enterprise scale data centers. Taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, SDN proposes one solution to an important problem we now face in the data center: the network and the applications are operating effectively in silos. Thus any automated attempt by the network or the application controllers, i.e. the hypervisor, to improve resource utilization can only achieve a suboptimal result. What is needed is a complete end-to-end coordinated virtual architecture enabling applications and the network to collaborate in providing a high quality experience for users and enable optimization of resource consumption. For any solution to be successful within the enterprise data center it must consider scale of the network in question as well as the desirable properties of current networks that should be maintained. Benefiting from the positive aspects of SDN network requires a clear strategy for both the application and network infrastructure. What Attendees will learn: - SDN: What is it, and what does it mean for the enterprise scale data center
- Criteria to be evaluated in defining a strategy covering SDN principles for enterprise data center
- Best practice recommendations for benefiting from SDN
Donald Trump was mocked in the media for his latest publicity stunt - offering to donate $5 million to charity if President Barack Obama would release his college and passport records, and college applications. This week, Trump promised to donate $5 million to Obama's charity of choice in Chicago if Obama would release the documents. New tablets such as the Apple iPad Mini, the new Android tablets and Microsoft's Surface tablet illustrate the changing computing device landscape, where the majority of human interaction with computing shifts away from PCs and to other devices. But one reason for the shift is an obvious shift in "things people do with computing appliances." This was the question I asked myself last week while I was traveling in Belize and using a new Samsung flip phone. What I'd forgotten about these simple phones is they are damn good phones, they can be bought unsubsidized for well under $100 and you can wait up to a week to charge them. In fact in most important ways they are better phones than smartphones are. With the small iPad launching this week I'm once again wondering if the best solution might have been to keep the phone and the PDA/MP3 player separate and focused. Let me start with an acknowledgement. While the term "douche" in the title maybe a bit off-putting to say the least, this is a case of, "Yes, there is an app for that," and it has drawn some attention. In addition, and as a point of clarification, the term is being used here under the definition provided from Urban Dictionary. In all actuality, HP's CEO Meg Whitman may not really have been all that bold when she stated that HP is not going to deliver a smartphone in 2013. She stated this during an on-stage keynote interview at a conference today in answer to a question. As expected, the iPad Mini has arrived. Unexpectedly, Apple also threw its seven month old iPad under the bus to roll out a new fourth generation product. Combined with a lot of trash talk about the Google Nexus, it is clear that Apple is -- shall we say -- concerned about the tablet market in a big way. The iPad Mini is now an actual thing instead of a projection, and not surprisingly, recent reports suggest it's going to be hard to find - especially in the early going. The primary culprit for the unusually tight release is in the supply chain, which will have some difficulty in bringing out the necessary numbers of displays to release devices in the kind of volume necessary to prevent shortages. UK-based chip designer ARM saw a 22 percent jump in profits during Q3. It saw profits for the quarter at $109.2 million (before taxes.)
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