IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

An anonymous reader writes "I was put in charge of an aging IT infrastructure that needs a serious overhaul. Current services include the usual suspects, i.e.

Dr. Jim writes "The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years.

SAI: Hulu Household: Why I Got Rid of Cable
The Inquirer: 5 New Fabs for $14.7B
EETimes: Nokia, Techs Drop as TI Points to 3G Weakness

BroadbandReports: Israel Latest to Force ISPs to Block Piracy
Reuters: Logitech Says Any Microsoft Bid “Without Sense”
Virtualization for Everyone: Interview with Rackspace CTO

BobB writes "Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization market by introducing an open source Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Novell, Red Hat, and VMware.

ParaFan writes "In a fascinating story on KernelTrap, Theo de Raadt asserts that while virtualization can increase hardware utilization, it does not in any way improve security.

It has been a summer of virtualization: the blockbuster IPO of VMWare (VMW) followed by

RulerOf writes "TechNewsWorld is carrying an article detailing that Intel has made an investment in VMWare for $218.5 million in anticipation of VMWare's imminent IPO.