Today's Favorite Articles and My Two bits.

Iomega Home Server reviewed....
http://www.wegotserved.com/2011/05/05/iomega-refreshes-storcenter-business-nas-range-desktop-rackmount-models/?utm_source=WGS+Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a691810cb5-WGS_DAILY_NEWSLETTER

The Pro’s and Con’s of Data Caps.....
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Data-Caps-and-Web-TV-Heading-for-a-Clash-72402.html?wlc=1304706447

Making the Wireless LAN a central part of your LAN Architecture
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/fixing-its-new-achilles-heel-the-wireless-lan-750?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-05-06

Windows Server Update coming next week....
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050511-microsoft-plans-critical-update-to.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2011-05-06

A Amazon Netflix merger idea considered.........
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-netflix-an-ma-idea-resurfaces-2011-05-06?link=home_carousel

“Microsoft Improves Exploitability Index Rating System”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-improves-exploitability-index-ratin?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-06

“Size matters for firewall rule sets; small is best”
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/techexec/2011/050611bestpractices.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-06

“SIP interoperability and multimedia support: Has it come far enough?”
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/converg/2011/050911convergence1.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-06

Advances in Tech....
A Paper thin smart phone
http://www.dailytech.com/Queens+University+Researcher+Creates+Paper+Smartphone/article21556.htm
The future is here.

Raspberry PI a computer as big as a thumb drive....
http://www.dailytech.com/For+the+Kids+Tiny+PC+is+Size+of+USB+Stick+Offers+1080p+Costs+25+USD/article21569.htm

Surfs up!.....................Eric

Today's Favorite Articles and My Two bits.

Today in Tech...........

TV Reviews;
Vizio 65”LED 3D reviewed....
http://www.pcworld.com/product/798703/vizio_xvt3d650sv_65_led_3d_tv.html

LG 47” 3D TV....
http://www.pcworld.com/article/226595/lg_47lw5600_hdtv_review_3d_connected_and_more.html#tk.nl_tex_h_cbstories

A Samsung 50” Plasma....
http://www.pcworld.com/article/226596/samsung_series_6500_pn50c6500tf_a_wellconnected_basic_plasma.html#tk.nl_tex_h_cbstories

Deal of the day........
Vizio 55” LCD for $1330
http://www.pcworld.com/article/226963/vizio_vf552xvt_55inch_lcd_hdtv_1330.html#tk.nl_tex_h_crawl

Today’s Tech News........

The demise of the DVD are getting closer as sales of DVD’s drop 20%.....
http://www.pcworld.com/article/227062/dvd_death_watch_sales_drop_20_percent.html#tk.nl_tex_h_crawl

Kindle DX not yet ready to replace Textbooks study finds....
http://www.dailytech.com/First+LongTerm+EReader+Study+Compares+Textbooks+with+Kindle+DX/article21529.htm

Comcast rolls out Xfinity Signature Support.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chibrkbus-comcast-to-offer-tech-support-for-more-home-electronic-devices-20110504,0,3388519.story


Apples Lion OS to include server capabilities...
http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/apple-brings-mac-os-x-server-the-masses-what-means-000?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-05-05

“Deploying and Configuring Server Core VMs on Hyper-V (Part 3)”
http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/general-virtualization-articles/deploying-configuring-server-core-vms-hyper-v-part3.html

“Manufacturing and Detroit spur software job growth”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/manufacturing-and-detroit-spur-software-job-growth/48264?tag=nl.e539

“Fortune 1000 firms shun public cloud storage”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050411-fortune-1000-firms-shun-public.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cloud_security_2011-05-05

“FAA wants your opinion about commercial space rules”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/faa-wants-your-opinion-about-commercial-space?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2011-05-05

Two NH residents have their credit card info stolen from their Netflix accounts, call center worker is to blame.....
http://www.pcworld.com/article/227190/netflix_fires_call_center_worker_for_stealing_data.html#tk.nl_bdx_h_crawl

“How should you redesign your data center LAN?”
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/frame/2011/050211wan2.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_wan_2011-05-05

“IBM endorses Red Hat's KVM virtualization”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ibm-endorses-red-hats-kvm-virtualization?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2011-05-05


Surfs up!...........................Eric

Today's Favorite Articles and My Two bits.

Here come the 3D transistors......
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/229402784

Another viewpoint on the 3D transistors...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intel-moores-law-has-been-cubed-welcome-to-3-d-transistors/48216?tag=nl.e589

Comcast beats analysts expectations............but just barely.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/comcast-delivers-solid-first-quarter-adds-internet-voice-subscribers/48180?tag=mncol;txt

Disney and Starz have issues with DishNetwork....
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/disney-starz-take-legal-issue-dish-network-offer/2011-05-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

“Microsoft, Juniper Urged to Patch Dangerous IPv6 DoS Hole”
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227034/microsoft_juniper_urged_to_patch_dangerous_ipv6_dos_hole.html#tk.nl_bpx_h_crawl
I’m sure this is a sign of things to come with IPv6.........

“CCNA Lab III: Sifting Through the Router Model Series”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ccna-lab-iii-sifting-through-router-model-ser?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cisco_2011-05-04

Microsoft office 2010 vs. Everyone else...
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-office-2010-takes-all-comers-862?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-05-04

Ideas on how to Implement VDI without making it a costly venture.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/vdi-often-expensive-deploy-doesnt-have-be-889?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-05-04

A VM management tool for free...
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2011/050211nsm2.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_network_systems_2011-05-04

“Cloud drives Cisco to open source”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cloud-drives-cisco-open-source?source=NWWNLE_nlt_network_systems_2011-05-04

RedHat argues its the best platform for cloud software..
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050411-red-hat-microsoft-vmware.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-04

New WiFi technology seeks to over throw ethernet....
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050411-meru-wifi.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-04

“VMware integrates automation tool with Active Directory”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050411-vmware-integrates-automation-tool-with.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-05-04

An argument that Linux skills are a hot commodity...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227001/linux_skills_a_hot_commodity_for_job_hunters.html#tk.nl_bdx_h_crawl

Microsoft to invest in the Blackberry platform...
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050311-ballmer-surprises-with-microsoft-rim.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_web_apps_2011-05-04

Making an SSD run even faster...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-do-you-make-an-ssd-even-faster/3223?tag=nl.e539

Another reason not to rely on your cloud provider for security....
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2011/050211id2.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_identity_2011-05-04

“Brocade developing 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050411-brocade-developing-32-gigabit-fibre.html?page=1
So some one might connect to the network with WiFi but the storage aspect will be handled by Ethernet......an interesting convergence if I understand this right.

Surfs up!..................Eric

Today's Favorite Articles and My Two bits.

“Microsoft to deliver Windows Thin PC to customers by June 30”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-deliver-windows-thin-pc-to-customers-by-june-30/9331?tag=nl.e550

Why is this announcement by Microsoft important? Because as the author Mary Jo Foley explains the product,  “It is a version of Windows 7 that allows customers to repurpose existing PCs as thin clients. Win TPC doesn’t require the VDA (Virtual Desktop Access) license to access VDI desktops. The product is built on top of Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack 1, and supports RemoteFX and enterprise management via System Center Configuration Manager.”

Microsoft internal memo says to focus on developers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-plan-to-increase-its-focus-on-developers-the-full-internal-memo/9327?tag=nl.e550

“U.S. VC cleantech investment tops $1.14 billion in Q1 2011”
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/us-vc-cleantech-investment-tops-114-billion-in-q1-2011/15978?tag=nl.e550

On that note I had the following email forwarded to me.

Help Wanted: 24 Clean Energy Firms
Hiring 300 New Employees Right Now
by KEVIN DOYLE

It’s rough out there.  We all know that job creation isn’t as vibrant as it would be if we had more consistent and sensible federal energy policies. But that doesn’t mean that New England clean energy companies aren’t hiring.  From Advanced Electron Beams to Ze-gen, clean energy employersare looking for talented people. Whether it’s solar or wind, efficiency or batteries, biofuels or insulation, you don’t have to look far to find “help wanted” signs in the shop windows.
Want proof?  It’s not hard to find.  On the morning of April 4th, I quickly visited the websites of a small group of member companies of the New England Clean Energy Council (www.cleanenergycouncil.org) to get a hiring snapshot of the industry.
I skated over some of the really big national employers in the Council membership, like Philips and Belcan Corporation.  Job seekers shouldn’t give them a pass, though! Both companies are in a big time hiring mode. Philips has 680 job openings all over the country, and Belcan is looking to hire more than 1100 people in the US.
In the end, I picked out a small group of representative clean energy employers., and started plowing through the “help wanted” postings. Those 24 companies alone had 300 current job openings advertised right now.
Keep in mind that these companies represent the tiniest fraction of the industry total. There are more than 1,500 clean energy related companies in Massachusetts alone, and many more in Connecticut, Rhode Island and the rest of New England.
Who’s looking for the most people? Well, it will come as no surprise to learn that companies with a national reach have the greatest number of offerings, and that those jobs are distributed throughout the country. Massachusetts based companies like Ameresco (50+ openings), A123 Systems (46 openings), Conservation Services Group (35), Boston-Power (26), and EnerNOC (24) topped the list of employers seeking new workers among those we looked at.
Far more typical of the industry were the many companies that are seeking just a few people, likeNext Step Living and American Superconductor (14 each), Borrego Solar (12), Nuvera (10), Digital Lumens (8), Alteris (7), Advanced Electron Beams and Beaumont Solar (6 each).  Harvest Power,Konarka, GMZ, and Nexamp all had ads for five new people.
Finally, there are many that need just a handful of new employees. Liquid Piston, for example, was advertising four current job openings.  Aircuity, Aspen Aerogels, Metabolix, Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Qteros and Ze-gen were all seeking three new workers.
Small potatoes, you think? Perhaps, but a regional industry with hundreds of companies hiring, the numbers add up to a lot of new jobs now in a labor market that’s shedding jobs in many other sectors.
Just what are these companies looking for, you ask? Glad to answer.
The industry is hiring lots of engineers, of course, from a wide variety of different engineering specialties, including electrical, energy, industrial process, software, and more.  Follow-up conversations confirmed that top rank engineers for these positions are hard to find, even at a time when unemployment is high.  We’ll have more about the industry’s acute need for talented engineers in future blog posts.
Also high on the “help wanted” list are IT professionals, project managers, finance and accounting staff, energy auditors, renewable energy system installment and maintenance people, and a variety of sales, marketing and administrative pros.
So, take heart, job seekers. There may not be a huge wave of clean energy jobs cresting, but there is a tide that is steadily rising.  We’ll track and comment upon all things workforce related through this blog, and also bring you reports from the industry’s HR directors, recruiters and trainers.
Whether you’re an employer or employee; a job seeker or an interviewer; a professor or a student; we’d love to hear your stories.   You can post your thoughts to the blog directly, or get in touch with me using the contact information below

How to find the employers:
If you’d like to check out job offerings at the companies mentioned above, you’ll find a full list of links at: http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org/our_members.   Happy hunting. (I second that feeling. Happy job hunting.)

“Alcatel-Lucent Chops Away at Years of Failure”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227029794705.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology

“Crunching the Data of Love”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227032797839.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology
See math isn’t so boring after all. It really does lead to love.

Comcast to add more content in its On-Demand service.
http://www.trcbnews.com/comcast-makes-all-the-efforts-to-compete-netflix/112717/


“Infoblox upgrades DNS appliances to ease move to IPv6”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050311-infoblox-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_wan_2011-05-03

“How to be an effective security buyer”
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/050211-andreas.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03

“Home Wi-Fi Network Security: 4 Ways to Avoid Big Trouble”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-home-wi-fi-network-security-4.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03

“VMware causes second outage while recovering from first”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-vmware-foundry-outage.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cloud_security_2011-05-03

“Free DNS service adds IPv6 support”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-opendns-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_network_architecture_2011-05-03

Guess who’s coming back...........................Its “Clippy”!
http://www.dailytech.com/Microsofts+Clippy+Makes+A+Comeback+Sort+Of/article21514.htm
I kid you not.
"Apple updates iMac with Intel, AMD chips"
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-updates-imac-with-intel-amd-chips-2011-05-03?dist=countdown

Surfs up!.................... Eric