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Bob Muglia Named President of Microsoft’s Server and Tools BusinessBob Muglia, a 21-year veteran at Microsoft, was named president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), a group he previously served as senior vice president. As head of the Server and Tools Business, Muglia, 49, is in charge of delivering on the vision of Dynamic IT, Microsoft's effort to help IT pros and developers create optimized and agile infrastructures that align to changing business needs.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/799588" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo Can Reportedly Cross Sarin’s Name Off its ListLast week the name of Arun Sarin, the former head of Vodafone, was being bandied about as a possible replacement for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. However, according to the Financial Times, Sarin has decided he doesn’t want the job. The paper said, “It is understood that one reason for his rejecting Yahoo was a perceived risk that the company could be dismembered.” <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/779957" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo Stockholder Has Visions of SugarplumsAs Yahoo went around handing out ~1,500 pink slips and culling products and services Wednesday, California hedge fund Ivory Investment Management LP, which owns ~1.5% of Yahoo and probably wishes it didn’t, started pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft (like who isn’t?).<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/774860" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
It’s Official. We're in a RecessionThe Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit research organization that determines such things based on broad and more precise measurements than most, said Monday that the U.S. is in a recession and has been since the beginning of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 680 points after the news started circulating. Now we have to get out of this thing before it turns into the Great Depression 2.0.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/769526" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Don't Look Back! The Server Landscape's UglyWorldwide server shipments might have been up 4.4% to 2.3 million units in the September quarter but revenues were down 5.4% to $12.7 billion according to Gartner. IDC's numbers aren't all that different. It hasn't been this bad since 2002 and IDC for one doesn't expect a rebound this quarter or next year. The downturn hit x86 ASPs and Unix servers no matter how they're measured.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/768241" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
CNET Posts 24 Percent Increase in Unique Users Following CNET Redesign Announced in AugustCNET has reported a 24 percent increase in unique users year-over-year. The traffic increase comes two months after the launch of the CNET redesign, a complete evolution of the website that spanned everything from its logo, design, and navigation to the delivery of product reviews, tech news, and original video programming.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/764812" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
SAP Presented at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & ExpoIn his virtualization session on Nov. 21 at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Roland Wartenberg, SAP's director of virtualization strategy, discussed the supported virtualization solutions provided by partners of SAP's virtualization ecosystem. Simply running an SAP solution in a virtualized environment is not enough.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/757683" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Journal Calls Report of Yahoo-Microsoft Deal BaloneyAccording to the Times of London, Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's search business. The Wall Street Journal says the story is utter hokum. The British paper puts the price at $20 billion – although all of Yahoo was only worth $15.96 billion as of Friday. However, it says "senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed the broad terms of a deal, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed."<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/763647" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Dell Offers 0% FinancingWith its Q3 sales down 3% and demand fearfully thin, Dell is tearing a page out of Microsoft's book and is going to offer U.S. businesses 0% financing. It's focusing on large corporations and institutions but some smaller shops should also qualify. Guess it's glad it decided to keep that financing arm it was thinking of selling off earlier this year.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/763469" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google ShrinkingGoogle is significantly reducing the number of contract workers it uses but says it won't cut its staff of 21,123 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. It remains unclear how many of its 10,000 contractors Google will be cut. Apparently layoffs have been going on since the summer.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/760511" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Cassatt to Transform Data Centers Into 'Internal Clouds'"Cloud computing offers great promise by having third parties deliver the computing resources needed to run applications as an on-demand service, with a lot of the IT infrastructure invisible to the user," said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "However, at this point most IT professionals are not comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider. They are concerned about availability, vendor lock-in, not having the control they need, and having to rebuild these applications from scratch with proprietary tools running on provider-specific platforms."<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/744932" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Is Jerry Yang the Dumbest CEO in Silicon Valley?Please read the news story below filed today by my colleague Maureen O'Gara and think about the once-in-a-life-time lottery ticket this man had last February with Microsoft's acquisition offer, and then again through Carl Icahn's unasked-for help. He blew it and in my Wikipedia, this man is the dictionary definition of an IDIOT!
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/718821" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
The Next Generation of Enterprise ArchitectureThe Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment driven by enterprise architecture, driving down the lead times for delivering IT value to business, from concept to deployment, and through maintenance. An architecture-aware cloud computing infrastructure leads to IT services that are easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled, and managed in these virtualized hardware environments, while tied into business processes, data models, security services and the data center's service management, problem resolution, and compliance processes.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/742438" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo & Google Reportedly Redo Deal To Appease RegulatorsYahoo and Google have reportedly revised their controversial advertising agreement to overcome Justice Department objections to the original deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, which got it from unidentified sources, over the weekend the pair agreed to cap the amount of revenue that Yahoo can generate from Google search ads to 25% of its search revenues and shortened the length of the agreement from 10 years to two years. What happens after two years is unclear.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/735745" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo & Google Reportedly Up Against a Hard StopThe Yahoo-Google negotiations with the US government are reportedly over. The Justice Department has supposedly had enough. The companies were told last Thursday to have their final proposal on how to structure their controversial revenue-sharing pact to prevent the DOJ from taking them to court in this week, preferably by tomorrow, according to The Deal. Supposedly the would-be partners collapsed under pressure and are considering shorting their proposed 10-year axis to as little as a year and may have to limit the amount of searching they could cooperate on.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/733956" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo & Google Could Reportedly Turn Tail & RunThe Wall Street Journal – which has big ears on the ground – said that Yahoo and Google could walk away from their revenue-sharing pact by the middle of next week unless a miracle happens and they come to terms with the Justice Department. The Deal reported last week that the deal was doomed because of its antitrust implications.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/731062" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Virtualization, Cloud Investors & YahooAtlanta-based TechOperators, a new early stage VC targeting cloud computing and SaaS as well as Internet services, security, infrastructure and mobile, is launching its first venture fund and claims it didn’t have too many problems raising the $20 million-$30 million. The four managing partners, all ex-CEOs who sold their companies mostly to big boys, include Tom Noonan who sold Internet Security Systems to IBM, David Gould who sold Witness Systems to Verint Systems, Said Mohammadioun, who sold Samna to Lotus and Glenn McGonnigle, who sold VistaScape Security Systems to Siemens. They’re reportedly looking for firms already doing $1 million in revenue that need $2 million-$3 million to leverage their recurring-revenue business.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/714226" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google Hits It Out of the ParkOn another day of wild swings – when the stock market – as a proxy for the global economy – badly needed a comfort blanket – Google gave it one. It came in Thursday with Q3 net earnings of $1.56 billion, or $4.92 a share (non-GAAP), up 26%, on revenue of $4.04 billion, up 31%, after subtracting TAC. Analysts were only expecting $4.75. US paid clicks were up 18%. After scrapping as low as $309 Thursday – because of worries about advertising in a recession – it shot up to $376 in after-hours trading.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/713725" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Yahoo a LifelineWhen Yahoo rolled out of bed this morning its stock was at an abysmal $11.75. Then it lost another 40 cents in early trading as the market plummeted again. At lunch time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threw it a lifeline. On stage at Gartner’s gathering this week in Florida, Steve suggested that a Yahoo acquisition – or at least a search partnership – still makes economic sense to Microsoft – not that Yahoo doesn’t still think it’s worth 40 bucks a share.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/713295" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google & Yahoo Dicker with Feds To Salvage Deal: WSJThey are now in early-stage negotiations with the regulators, the paper said, hoping to sidestep litigation. Google, in particular, has been publicly resistant to the idea of making any changes to the agreement, but concessions may be inevitable – unless of course Google decides to walk. The Journal says the talks may not “resolve US objections or be acceptable to the two companies.”<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/709982" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Mithras Suggests Microsoft Buys Yahoo For $22 a ShareMithras Capital, an investment fund that, poor thing, owns 1.9 million shares of Yahoo, which amounts to a fractional percentage in the company, has suggested that Microsoft buy the joint for $22 a share, these days something like a 60% premium to its bombed-out stock price, then sell off Yahoo’s Asian and non-search interests, cut costs by $3 billion and get $2.8 billion in tax benefits. <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/708339" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google-Yahoo Deal Put on HoldYahoo’s life-saving revenue-enhancing alliance with Google, supposedly set to kick off in a week and substitute for a Microsoft buy-out, has been put on hold while antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice continue their investigation. The companies issued separate statements late Friday saying they had agreed to a "brief delay in implementing the agreement." <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/699352" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
SEO Search Engine Optimization Criminals Shoud Be Jailed Like Nigerian Email Crime GangsThese email spammers with fake gmail addresses are clearly breaking the law and I personally believe that they should be found and jailed. The last time I looked at my inbox I found more than 700 emails from these people who do not have real names, company websites or company emails. Even before I was able to write this sentence I received yet another email from a person signed as Steve Doody. As the industry, can we police our own criminal elements such as this example? If not, our next stop will be what Wall Street is going through now.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/694426" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Think Tank Tries Imagining a Yahoogle Consent DecreeThe American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has waded into the Yahoogle debate with a 22-page white paper that worries that the Yahoo-Google alliance will turn into “a black hole that swallows up Yahoo.” And it says that if the government can’t negotiate a consent decree that “preserves Yahoo’s [economic] incentives to remain in the paid search market” and compete against both Google and Microsoft – the only potentially pro-competitive feature in the deal is the money it would throw off that Yahoo could invest in its Panama advertising platform – then the Justice Department should “seek an injunction to prevent Google and Yahoo from implementing their agreement.” <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/687882" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google CEO Says Yahoo-Google Deal’s a GoIn the absence of the regulators investigating the proposed Yahoo-Google deal saying either “aye” or “nay,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the press yesterday that Google will start putting search ads on Yahoo’s sites on or about October 11, the implementation date set by their agreement. To delay any longer would be to lose money, he said.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/681476" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
EC Probing Yahoogle Deal as Opposition MountsRemember how Yahoo and Google carefully restricted their deal to the US and Canada so they could tiptoe past the persnickety European Commission?
Well, it turns out the slumbering giant woke up anyway and has been informally reviewing the controversial web search advertising axis since mid-July on the theory that the pact could violate European price-fixing rules (oooo!, heavy antitrust stuff) and regulations on sharing sensitive business information.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/676799" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google Chrome Compatible with Lightstreamer AJAXChrome, the new Google browser, was released yesterday as a beta version for Windows Vista/XP and officially entered the browser war, where the primary competitors are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers many interesting features, aimed at making the browsing experience more robust, more secure, and faster.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/662841" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Virtualization Expo - Jerry Brown Piles On YahoogleCalifornia’s own Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided that his office ought to investigate the proposed monopoly-enhancing Yahoo-Google revenue-sharing ad deal too. Brown’s letting the Justice Department do his legwork and is reviewing documents the agency collects, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/674153" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google Is Ten: The Search Engine That Changed the WorldGoogle opened its doors in September 1998. But, as the Google official site phrases it, "The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake." Maybe, now that Chrome is released, instead of waiting till the 27th of the month as it did last year, Google will feast on a nice big cake right away this week.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/666469" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Google Chrome: Will the Web Ever Become a Real Platform?I have been reading a lot of reviews about Chrome. Most people seem to be comparing it to Firefox, which I think is underestimating Chrome's capability. I think it has nothing to do with the browser at all; it has everything to do with the platform.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/662397" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
"To Google" Is Officially a Verb: A Behind-the-Scenes HistoryHaving your brand name used as a generic term, is of course, a mixed blessing for a company. On the one hand, it’s great to have your name become the common shorthand for an entire category. It implies acceptance that your product is the standard by which all others in the category are judged and it’s great word-of-mouth for building awareness and trial. On the other hand, you want to protect your trademark and it’s difficult to do that if overuse dilutes its connection to your product.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/649105" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Advertising on Google.com Requires No Personally Identifiable Information (PII), States Executive"Advertising on Google.com is contextual, requires no personally identifiable information, is not provided by a third-party, and does not collect any information in addition to the basic information collected to provide search results," asserts Google's Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Alan Davidson.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/640130" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo Stockholders Don’t Like Jerry Yang THAT MuchTurns out the vote that overwhelmingly returned Yahoo’s board to office last Friday by a surprise three-to-one margin was seriously miscounted. The official tabulation claimed that CEO Jerry Yang got 85.4% of the vote (14.6% withheld) and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock got 79.5% (20.5% withheld). By that count the pair that ran off Microsoft and its billions fared better than last year.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/634388" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo Stockholders Don’t Like Jerry Yang THAT MuchTurns out the vote that overwhelmingly returned Yahoo’s board to office last Friday by a surprise three-to-one margin was seriously miscounted. The official tabulation claimed that CEO Jerry Yang got 85.4% of the vote (14.6% withheld) and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock got 79.5% (20.5% withheld). By that count the pair that ran off Microsoft and its billions fared better than last year.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/634376" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Big Yahoo Stockholder Demands a RecountThe surprise three-to-one margin that overwhelmingly returned Yahoo’s board to office last Friday at the shareholders meeting proved too big for Capital Research & Management to swallow. It’s demanding a recount, according to the Wall Street Journal blog All Things Digital, which has been all over the Yahoo story for months. <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/632989" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
No Fire in the Belly of Yahoo StockholdersDeprived of a proxy fight Yahoo stockholders basically reacted with a shrug Friday to the board that cost them billions by running off Microsoft and overwhelmingly returned the existing directors. <p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/631983" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
In Search of the Human ElementGeorge Orwell didn’t specifically mention enterprise search in his visionary book "1984", but he made a statement that still resonates today. When it comes to relevant search query results, "it's not about the statistics." Sanity comes from the human element. Until recently, this concept was mostly ignored by enterprise search solutions.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/628598" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Is Google To Follow Intel and Motorola by Launching Venture Capital Investment Arm?Is Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer David Drummond, about to become the head of a dedicated Venture Capital division of Google? The Wall Street Journal seems to think so - adding that Google has hired William Maris, a former Web hosting entrepreneur, to help set up the unit.
<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/627761" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Enterprise Virtual Management for Next-Generation ITVirtualization enables strategic benefits, but significantly impacts infrastructure, operations and configuration management. Virtualization's additional complexity and new management challenges can adversely affect TCO, reduce service levels, threaten security and pose compliance issues, as well as introduce new problems like VM sprawl. In this session, you'll learn how virtualization impacts traditional management disciplines, and their supporting people, processes, and technology. Participants will learn about the next generation of Enterprise Virtualization Management, and how it dramatically simplifies the management of growing virtual environments. Topics include eliminating sprawl, reining in snapshots, effectively dealing with offline VMs, and virtual appliances. You will also learn how to support distributed provisioning, delegated administration and self-service operations for enterprise virtual environments.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/607995" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
VMware Announces Change in Executive LeadershipVMware's Board of Directors announced that it has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO. VMware's Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as President and CEO of VMware effective immediately. Maritz was also named to VMware's Board of Directors.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/606585" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
DOJ May Prove Hurdle for Google-YahooThe Justice Department has reportedly opened a formal antitrust investigation of the multimillion-dollar Microsoft-escaping deal for Google to provide advertising to Yahoo's search engine, with a demand for documents going out to other than the immediate parties, not just the voluntary collection of information Yahoo and Google were prepared to supply.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/605393" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Adobe Works with Google and Yahoo! to Help Web Users Search Flash Content'Until now it has been extremely challenging to search the millions of RIAs and dynamic content on the Web, so we are leading the charge in improving search of content that runs in Adobe Flash Player,' said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe, as Adobe today announced it is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/603226" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Yahoo & VirtualizationThe two Detroit pension funds suing Yahoo in Delaware to invalidate its severance plan 'poison pill' have been denied the expedited trial that they asked for ahead of the August 1 stockholders meeting. The plan is supposed to incentivize Google staff to leave if an acquisition were to come off.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/595803" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
The Media Color Yang OutThe New York Times tried putting a horse's head in Jerry Yang's bed Saturday, prophesying that his 'days as Yahoo's CEO are numbered.' In a piece entitled 'Oh Jerry, It's No Longer Your Baby,' it excoriated him for 'shafting' Yahoo shareholders by running off Microsoft on purpose and turning Yahoo into a Google 'pawn.'<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/595802" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Microsoft To Open Search Center Somewhere in EuropeMicrosoft says it's going to open a Search Technology Center in Europe in the fiscal year that starts in July. The center is supposed to 'accelerate Microsoft's investments in Live Search and disrupt the search and advertising marketplace to the benefit of both the consumer and the advertiser,' it said, 'in line with Microsoft's recent announcement in the US of Live Search cashback.'<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/595780" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Cloud Computing - Firefox: 8.2m and CountingAfter a bit of a breech birth - caused by visitors overloading its web servers - Mozilla released Firefox 3 Tuesday seeking to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours as a way to stir up interest and at the same time stick it to Microsoft.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/595753" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Best Practices for Multi-site Data Center Relocation and ConsolidationA common mandate in large organizations is to shrink the total number of data center sites in order to achieve new efficiencies and economies of scale. Rapid growth, globalization, mergers and acquisitions often necessitate physical data center relocations or consolidations. The ability to effectively analyze, plan and execute multi-site data center relocations or consolidations is vital to large enterprises. Attendees will learn how the ability to decouple server workloads from the underlying hardware and move them over the WAN between any physical or virtual infrastructure enables fast and easy server and data center relocation and consolidation. Topics will include rapidly provisioning new servers, running new and old data center sites in parallel, and the importance of testing.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/588619" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
InstallFree to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & ExpoInstallFree is a provider of application and desktop virtualization solutions. InstallFree enables corporate IT departments to centrally deploy software applications and complete desktops to employees at any location enabling corporations to lower their Total Cost of Ownership, improve the manageability of applications and desktops, and improve the end-user's productivity.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/587321" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Application VirtualizationThis session will focus on Application Virtualization with particular focus on achieving Web-scale. The session will compare and contrast external cloud deployment to internal deployment on commodity infrastructure.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/585862" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
Splunk to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & ExpoSplunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 450 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 125,000 users achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and meet compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk.<p><a href="http://search.sys-con.com/node/587318" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
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