infrastructure

  1. Windows 7 Lucian Wischik: Async - Compiler Bug Fixes, Updates and Core Improvements

    Lucian Wischik is an engineer who spends a great deal of his time making Async magic happen in the C# and VB compilers that do the heavy lifting and enable new asynchronous language features. Now, with the recent release of Visual Studio Async CTP SP1 Refresh, come several low-level improvements...
  2. Windows 7 Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security

    Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services, joins us to talk about an ITPro-focused overview of the securing Windows Azure roles, certificates, endpoints, storage accounts and operations. You’ll learn about: Specifics of securing various types of Windows Azure roles (Web...
  3. Facebook extends hand to rivals with technical initiative

    Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics. Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...
  4. Windows 7 Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials for Business Decision Makers

    Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services, answers the most common security concerns CxOs and other business decision-makers have regarding the security of their data in Windows Azure cloud platform. You’ll learn about: The security controls that Azure has in place to help...
  5. Post-tsunami, some Japanese shelter in nuke plant

    Link Removed due to 404 Error ONAGAWA, Japan – As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. Nearly three weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next...
  6. Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap water

    TOKYO – Some shops across Tokyo began rationing goods — milk, toilet paper, rice and water — as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptions left shelves bare Thursday nearly two weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The unusual sights of scarcity in one of the...
  7. Five years to rebuild Japan as cost of earthquake is put at £145billion ✔

    Japan may need five years to recover financially from the earthquake and tsunami, which have caused about £145billion of damage, the World Bank warned yesterday. The disaster is likely to shave up to 0.5 per cent from the country’s economic growth this year. ‘Damage to housing and...
  8. [FORBES] Disaster In Japan: Tech Companies Assess The Damage

    The global electronics industry continues to assess the damage to the supply chain. Here’s a rundown on some of the company’s that issued statements on their business in Japan on Thursday. Link Removed Cabot Corp. (CBT): All employees safe; minimal facilities damage. The company, which makes...
  9. Windows 7 Checking In: Mike Sampson - Channel 9 Cloud

    We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Link Removed Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The...
  10. True scale of destruction revealed as Japan earthquake and tsunami buries hundreds of people under p

    Four workers suffer fractures after explosion at power plant Metal container housing nuclear reactor was not damaged in blast Confirmed death toll stands at 574, but hundreds are still missing Region still being hit by aftershocks, some as powerful as magnitude 6 Millions left without power and...
  11. KOC among first regional oil, gas firms to use Windows 7 system

    KUWAIT: Microsoft Gulf Microsoft Gulf today announced that Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait Oil Company ( KOC KOC ) has implemented the Windows 7 Enterprise Operating System, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship Operating System, across its entire computing infrastructure In the process, the...
  12. Is Windows Azure Suitable for Startups?

    Last week we wrote about the services that Y Combinator startups use . For hosting, Amazon Web Services and Rackspace were the most popular services. Windows Azure was noticeably absent. But why? A topic turned up on Quora , citing our post and wondering why the lack of adoption. The topic has...
  13. MokaFive does VDI for Windows 7

    3.0 release adds multi-tenancy, embedded security MokaFive is offering an alternative to the pain and expense of migrating corporate desktops to Windows 7 with with release 3.0 of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) MokaFive Suite.… More...
  14. Windows 7 Quest Software's Azure Services

    In this interview, Dmitry Sotnikov (Director of Cloud Solutions) and Einar Mykletun (Security and Compliance Architect) from Quest Software discuss building Quest’s new OnDemand product line – cloud-based IT management services to help IT professionals manage their on-premise Active Directory...
  15. Windows 7 Welcome to the all new Channel 9

    Welcome to the all new Channel 9. This is the fifth major release of Channel 9 since our original launch back on April 6, 2004. With this major release we focussed on top requests from you in the forums along telemetry data to guide our design. We've made it easier to find content through...
  16. Windows 7 As predicted, SSDs in DIMM slots now becoming reality

    Link Removed Designing faster and more efficient enterprise server & storage solutions is now possible with Viking Modular Solutions™ SATADIMM. The Link Removed - Invalid URL Enterprise Class Solid State Drive (SSD) in an industry-standard JEDEC 240-pin DDR3 DIMM form factor (JEDEC MO-269)...
  17. VIDEO Chrome OS Is About Breaking Down Walls

    We’ve heard a lot lately about Apple and its “walled garden” approach to its computer platforms. When you think about this approach, however, this is the same thing that Microsoft has been doing for years. While they do not have hardware specifications set in stone like Apple, the ability to run...
  18. Windows Vista What Is Your Broadband Speed Up To?

    Suppose you went to the supermarket to buy a pound of steak for dinner and when you got home you noticed that the package seemed very light. So you went back and complained to the manager, only to be told that the label says "up to 1 pound", and you're stuck with it. You'd be furious, of...
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    Windows 7 Network Infrastructure show two routers

    Windows 7 home premium 64 bit I have a D-Link DIR 825 router and when I open Network & sharing, under Network Infrastructure I see a Linksys wrt110, at times it's icon goes away for a few minutes, then re-appears, If I right click on the icon I don't get a delete option (greydd out), if I...
  20. Optimum Online network in New York completely destroyed?

    From the New York Times: From the Associated Press: I've been on the phone with Optimum Online, which provides high speed cable Internet to the NY tri-state area. I've been on hold for over an hour. :confused: It looks like the infrastructure here is seriously damaged. This is following a...