http://pcbadge.com Recent PC News, Reviews, Help and more Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday. http://pcbadge.com/rackspace-hires-to-align-with-mysql-offshoot/ This just in from VMware: "Fling is defined as 'a brief casual relationship.'" That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects -- software cipher that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware's flagship virtualization products. http://pcbadge.com/vmware-unveils-experimental-projects-on-new-web-site/ Sentilla has released an update to its input center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units ... http://pcbadge.com/sentilla-s-energy-management-tool-gets-chargeback-feature/ Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. "Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean)," Phipps wrote. ... http://pcbadge.com/sun-s-open-source-chief-leaves-following-oracle-merger/ When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its details center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized notes center. The company, which supplies Caterpillar sort heavy-machinery to Australian customers and others, found itself with to... http://pcbadge.com/modular-data-centers-a-fast-secretive-option-that-s-spreading/ EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to goods stored in VMware environments. http://pcbadge.com/emc-offers-deduplication-thin-provisioning-for-vmware-on-celerra/ Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation World Wide Web core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. "The Net will scale faster than any of us anticipate," Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast Tuesday dawn announcing the pr... http://pcbadge.com/cisco-unveils-next-internet-core-router/ Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to build performance-critical portions of an application in native cipher. Release of NDK r3 was noted in a posti... http://pcbadge.com/android-native-development-kit-updated/ If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it considering businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, safety measure expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference. Facebook's New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know http://pcbadge.com/schneier-fight-for-online-privacy-or-kiss-it-good-bye/ Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer. The problem affects Opera browser version 10.50 running on Windows and possibly others, according to an advisory from Danish protection company Secunia said... http://pcbadge.com/opera-software-to-patch-browser-vulnerability-soon/