Data Center Knowledge – Microsoft (MSFT) said tonight it is continuing to explore alternatives to a full acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO). The company provided few details on the possible form and focus of any deal, but emphasized that Microsoft is not making a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo. Speculation about a renewed… read more
IT ManagementAndy ITGuy – Although Im not a official Web Worker I subscribe to the Web Worker Daily RSS feed. They often have good tips and hints that make online life a little easier. Today they have a post about Online document services such as Google Docs. As cloud computing becomes more and more popular there are more and more services coming online and there are more and more documents being stored in the cloud. I have [...] read more
Enterprise Topics – I want to share with you my personal experience with social software and how it changed my career.
What is social software?
Social software is a subset of Web 2.0 that allows people to collaborate with other people over the web. Examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.), instant messaging, chat, and a whole host of dynamic content sharing tools like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and many others.
My Professional life before social software [...] read more
4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Networkworld recently published an interesting article entitled “7 side effects of sloppy virtualization”. This title seems to indicate that the problems server virtualization might cause are solvable by being well prepared. Nevertheless, all seven arguments discussed can be considered disadvantages of server virtualization. Because I am seriously thinking of virtualizing all of our servers, I read the [...] read more
