Virtualization has been around long enough now that practices have been established. What's changing is how virtualization intersects with cloud computing.
The Influences Driving Virtualization is the latest white paper from ReadWriteWeb. In the white paper, writer Philip Morgan looks at the influences that are shaping virtualization with particular emphasis on standardization, simplification and automation. Through that lens the white paper examines the factors that influence companies and how the cloud plays a defining role.
Enterproid is a new mobile startup launching today which helps companies better manage the personal smartphones used by employees for work purposes. The first product from Enterproid is Divide, a platform for separating work and personal profiles on one device, and allowing them to be managed separately. With this new service, I.T. has limited access to the device, as compared with the fully-managed deployments of business-only smartphones in years past.
I.T. can still wipe data from lost or stolen phones, but only corporate data. It can deploy enterprise apps over-the-air, but it can't see what personal apps a user has installed. And it can't track the location of a phone unless the employee gives it permission to do so.
RIM's Blackberry smartphones are no longer the default choice for corporate employees, a pair of stories released today seem to imply. Computer manufacturer Dell is planning to move its 25,000 employees from RIM smartphones to its own Dell Venue Pro - a phone running the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. Later, the company will permit Android phones as an alternative.
And Dell isn't the only RIM-switcher making headlines today, either. Two of the biggest U.S. banks, Bank of America and Citigroup, are seriously considering the iPhone, it's being reported.
Zoho provides businesses with wide selection of hosted enterprise productivity and collaboration solutions, including email, documents, wikis and more. The suite of applications is an alternative to Google Apps, which includes popular services like Gmail and Google Docs. Today, Zoho announced it has released tools for the Google Apps Marketplace that let Google users integrate Zoho's apps into their Gmail inbox.
Have you ever been using your iPad and thought, "man, I could really use Microsoft Word on this thing, right now!" No? Well, some users - particularly Mac fans whose business systems live in Windows environments - have been itching for this ability, and thanks to Parallels it is now possible. Today at DEMO in Santa Clara, California, the popular desktop virtualization software company unveiled Parallels Desktop 6, as well as companion mobile apps for iOS devices.
Pogoplug, the makers of a device to publish the content of your USB drive to the Internet, has launched Pogoplug Biz. Biz allows a company the ability to hook up to four external drives to the Internet, providing them with "an extensible cloud storage solution with no monthly fees."
A robust customization element allows users to change the interface of their business's Pogoplug to reflect company identity and branding. Emails can be customized in the same way. Domain and email address identities are customizable as well.
Hewlett-Packard is banking on alliances as the unified communications market hits its stride and Web 2.0 technologies become ingrained into voice services and other data networks within the enterprise.
Unified communications is the convergence of voice, data, instant messaging and presence technologies. It is one of the broadest terms that we come across but it is providing context as collaboration services and mobile technologies leverage the social Web.
Multimedia presentation company Brainshark just launched a new feature that lets the company's users stream their multimedia presentations to mobile devices, including Blackberry, iOS devices, Android phones and the Palm Pre. The company, which allows its users to create narrated versions of their PowerPoint presentations and mix these with additional video and audio content, now offers live streams of these presentations that are compatible with the major mobile platforms. Mobile streaming is available for users of Brainshark's free myBrainshark service, as well as Brainshark's enterprise customers.
It takes a lot of data to make Shrek. The big guy has to run, eat, talk. How much data? We're talking in the order of data centers to process the bits to bring the warm-hearted monster to its animated life.
The making of an animated film is a look into the changing world of networking and its importance in the making of just about anything these days.
Amir Salihefendic, the mastermind of