Well the bad news is that I never made it to Berlin this year after Sam came down with Pneumonia at the very last minute and was admitted to hospital.
So for those who expected to meet me there, sorry to have missed you but hopefully I will get a chance to attend next year.
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I can’t believe they are still pushing this nonsense.
Even after they have just discovered a huge Mac based bot net and even though the number of viruses for Macs is growing by the day, they still push ads like these.
Remember, if you have a Mac, you still need to protect yourself. There is a reason why the AV vendors make products for you to.
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Didn’t see that coming did we?
But now things are about to get interesting and assuming this deal is allowed to go through, this could actually be the deal that makes Sun great again.
Why?
Speaking from what my customers and I do and see, when somebody deploys a Microsoft SQL database package, it is typically deployed onto an Intel server from the likes of HP, Dell etc.
When somebody deploys a DB2 database it goes onto IBM hardware.
But what about Oracle?
Well for a long time, the preferred platform for small to reasonably large deployments was Linux (Red Hat to be precise but not essential) running in Intel hardware. This was actually Oracles own preference for a long time.
What do you think Oracles preference is going to be moving forward?
It’s not rocket science is it?
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If you have read my biography you will have noticed that one of my specialities is server virtualisation based on the modern hypervisor approach that is offered by vendors such as VMware, Microsoft and Xen to name but three.
Last year, the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) undertook to put together guidance on this emerging technology in the form of one of their Technical Notes and pulled together a substantial team from across the industry. I was honoured to be part of that team
This technical note is now available to download from their Technical Notes Archive on the CPNI public website (no registration required) and whilst aimed very much at CNI (critical national infrastructure) providers, it should be interesting to anybody looking at using virtualisation.
it is also interesting to see that even though this document is only a few months old, the technology has moved forward in leaps and bounds making some of the observations seem odd.
So download the document, have a read and do with it as you see fit. It is their for everybody’s benefit and even if you only take one thing away, it’s been worthwhile:
Direct download link:
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