http://www.infoworld.com InfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Easing-network-congestion-caused-by-virtual-servers_1.html Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerful. Less obviously, they also need better I/O capability than standalone machines, which means more cabling to connect the virtual machines to the network switch and more switch ports to accommodate the increased number of virtual machines contending for the network's resources. Fri, 09 May 2008 18:27:04 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Easing-network-congestion-caused-by-virtual-servers_1.html 2008-05-09T18:27:04Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Sun-exec-ponders-OpenSolaris-Linux_1.html Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux. Fri, 09 May 2008 17:53:02 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Sun-exec-ponders-OpenSolaris-Linux_1.html 2008-05-09T17:53:02Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/XP-SP3-cripples-some-PCs-with-endless-reboots_1.html Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:06 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/XP-SP3-cripples-some-PCs-with-endless-reboots_1.html 2008-05-09T14:46:06Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Vista-as-insecure-as-Windows-2000_1.html Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:02:23 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Vista-as-insecure-as-Windows-2000_1.html 2008-05-09T14:02:23Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Water-cooled-servers-gaining-steam_1.html When the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications set out to build a machine with more than 200,000 server cores, the key wasn't simply shelling out cash for newer, faster silicon chips. The trick was harnessing the power of a substance that comes right out of your kitchen sink: water. Thu, 08 May 2008 23:09:24 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Water-cooled-servers-gaining-steam_1.html 2008-05-08T23:09:24Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Intel-ports-thread-optimization-tool-to-OpenSolaris_1.html C++ developers using Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris OS have a new tool from Intel for optimizing their applications to run on multicore processors, Intel said on Thursday. Thu, 08 May 2008 19:49:49 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Intel-ports-thread-optimization-tool-to-OpenSolaris_1.html 2008-05-08T19:49:49Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Leopard-at-6-months_1.html It has been just over six months since Mac OS X "Leopard" first shipped, bringing with it a slew of new features, a tweaked user interface, revamped underpinnings, and -- as is often the case -- a healthy batch of complaints from users about problems. At the time, some in the Macintosh community even argued that Apple's new operating system was released before it was ready for prime time. Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:45 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Leopard-at-6-months_1.html 2008-05-08T15:09:45Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Six-downloadable-boot-discs_1.html Way back in the 20th century, Windows prepared you for the day your PC wouldn't boot. It came with a program that formatted a bootable floppy disk, complete with diagnostic and repair utilities. If you had the forethought to create that floppy while Windows was still working, you were ready when it eventually failed. Thu, 08 May 2008 11:49:38 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/08/Six-downloadable-boot-discs_1.html 2008-05-08T11:49:38Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/07/Microsoft-warns-of-IE7-lock-in-with-XP-SP3_1.html Microsoft has warned users updating to Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) that they won't be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE6 without uninstalling the service pack. Wed, 07 May 2008 18:01:38 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/07/Microsoft-warns-of-IE7-lock-in-with-XP-SP3_1.html 2008-05-07T18:01:38Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/07/Microsoft-to-hook-up-with-Parallels_1.html Parallels Desktop for Mac will be made available as part of the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription. Wed, 07 May 2008 16:24:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/07/Microsoft-to-hook-up-with-Parallels_1.html 2008-05-07T16:24:00Z