Links List 5.16.08

May 16th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Interoperability continues to be an issue for Microsoft, as they face another complaint in Europe. I seem to remember big signs in the Microsoft booth touting “interoperability” at Interop…it makes us all smile.

Denise Dubie of Network World shares her top 3 reasons to get excited about management technology, particularly network and systems management. She discusses that innovative technologies often require superior management to meet high demands, as well as the benefits of saved time, reduced costs, and streamlined applications.

An Infoworld blog cites some very interesting numbers around the needs driving green computing. Datacenters total estimated energy bill will be $11.5billion in 2010, up 34% from 2007. This reflects a 16% increase in installed server base – wonder how much this projection takes virtualization adoption into account?

Dave’s friend and network security e-pundit, Alan Shimmel writes about his un-interoperability experience at Interop this year. As part of InteropNet, the multi-vendor project all about interoperability, we of course had a different opinion. Different perspectives are a good thing.

HP announced its intention to buy EDS this week for $13.9 billion. There was a lot of talk about HP positioning itself better to take on IBM in the technology services space, but more interesting to us was what such a deal means to Microsoft. Given the combined Microsoft-buying/bought power of HP and EDS, will the new HP have the power to push Microsoft around?

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