Links List 9.12.08

September 12th, 2008 by Julia Lim

HP forgot to “knock on wood”. The London Stock Exchange, touted in an HP case study as an example of having “produced unprecedented levels of performance and reliability” crashed on Monday. Seems that the LSE’s new trading system, TradElect, could not handle the volume of trades triggered by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac news. I’m sure there will be enough blame to go around – from the contractor to the contractor’s choice of Microsoft SQL Server and .NET.

Following in the footsteps of social networking projects like Intellipedia, A-Space, an online collaboration environment for intelligence analysts, will go live on September 22. A-Space allows analysts to share information, form communities, and work together all under one environment. The analysts from sixteen intelligence agencies will have access to shared and personal workspaces, wikis, blogs, widgets, RSS feeds and other tools, as well as be able to search for content on other agencies’ data sources and even on data that allied countries might share.

Karen Sage, Cisco’s director of product management for network management, said that it’s “actually a good thing when network management is struggling, because is say that innovation is really happening at a fast rate”.

Joe Weinman, Strategic Solutions Sales VP for AT&T Global Business Services, created The 10 Laws of Cloudonomics. Weinman expands upon his laws by comparing public utility cloud services, traditional data center environments and private enterprise clouds.

I’m not making this up. HP has a new reality show coming out. “Engine Room” will be broadcast on MTV and on the Web and will feature teams of designers from around the world who understake a series of challenges with the help of HP computers. Can’t hardly wait.

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September 12th, 2008