Archive for September, 2008
VMware this week announced a string of new products with a single goal in mind: to expand its flagship virtual-infrastructure 
suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources — servers, storage and network — into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.
“The first 10 years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. “The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing — where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity.”
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September 18th, 2008
In one more shock to a stunned Wall Street, Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it will cut more than 24,000 jobs over the next three years. Once completed, the restructuring is expected to mean an annual cost savings of about $1.8 billion.The announcement came at a securities analyst meeting where HP unveiled new plans to gain market share in a changing enterprise market.
At the core of the announcement is EDS. HP acquired the technology-services firm five months ago. Layoffs were expected, but slashing about 7.5 percent of the workforce was a surprise to analysts. It’s part of an effort to restructure EDS to streamline costs, invest in growth, and drive shareholder value, according to HP.
“HP now has the broadest technology capabilities in the market to meet customer needs today and in the future,” said Mark Hurd, HP chairman and chief executive officer. “HP has a strong track record of making acquisitions and integrating them to capture leading market positions. We will deliver on the promise of HP and EDS for our customers and shareholders.”
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September 17th, 2008
With pharmacists already in short supply nationwide, a dearth of pharmacy professors threatens to deepen the pharmacy labor crisis and backfire on the needs of the marketplace.
“The shortage of pharmacy faculty, now and in the future, represents a serious public health threat in the face of the rapidly growing consumer demand for prescription drugs,” says Lucinda Maine, executive vice president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
In 2006, the AACP reported an 11 percent faculty vacancy rate. Even with vacancies at this level, pharmacy schools are expanding enrollments to meet increased demand, and at least nine new pharmacy schools are scheduled to open by 2010, two factors that will only exacerbate the problem, says the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.
Therein lies the dilemma. With industry wooing both graduates and teachers with skyrocketing salaries and enviable benefits, who will instruct the next generation of pharmacists the industry so desperately needs? The solution lies in attracting more new pharmacy graduates and more practicing pharmacists alike to careers in teaching.
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September 17th, 2008
While Facebook is grinning about earning the attention of employment recruiters looking for the best and brightest talent, LinkedIn is earning some new revenues from its just-launched social-networking advertising program. Or at least hoping to.LinkedIn, a professional online network with more than 27 million members, launched the LinkedIn Audience Network on Monday. A grown-up version of Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn is tapping into its profile-based targeting technology to help marketers reach specific audiences of what it calls “influential and affluent professionals across hundreds of high-quality brand-name publishers.”
“The message we hear from advertisers is simple: They want mass reach against specific segments of decision-making professionals, and they want their ads to appear in quality environments,” said Steve Patrizi, LinkedIn’s director of advertising sales. “The LinkedIn Audience Network offers advertisers one of the most accurate audience data sets available on the Web, along with the confidence of knowing that their brands will only appear on sites with high editorial standards.”
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September 16th, 2008
The digital-content landscape could look very different in the months ahead if a group of more than 20 companies has its way.The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium that includes seemingly all the major players except Apple, officially announced Monday plans to define and build a new digital-media framework using industry standards. The goal is to allow consumers to acquire and play content across a wide range of services and devices.
The DECE is anchored by Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Lionsgate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign and Warner Bros. The consortium hopes to clarify what it calls growing consumer confusion about buying, downloading and playing digital content.
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September 16th, 2008
The second installment of Microsoft ‘s “Seinfeld” campaign launched Thursday night during the reality TV series Big Brother. Like the first commercial in the $300 million campaign staring the well-known comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the spot didn’t discuss Windows.The two-and-a-half-minute ads show Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Seinfeld living with a typical American suburban family in hopes of “connecting with people.” The cast of characters includes three kids, a cranky grandma with many skills, and mom and dad.
“Why are we doing this?” Gates asks Seinfeld. The comedian responds with his trademark humor about how the duo is out of touch with regular people, referring to Gates’ “moon house hovering over Seattle” and his own vehicle collection that causes him to “get stuck in my own traffic.” The bottom line, Seinfeld says, “We need to connect with real people.”
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September 13th, 2008
Following in the footsteps of AOL earlier this week, Yahoo on Friday talked about its plans to open its online services to third-party developers.Yahoo calls it the Yahoo Open Strategy, or YOS for short. The mission is to “deliver open, industry-leading platforms that attract the most publishers and developers.”
The YOS platform aims to harness Yahoo’s audience of a half a billion users per month. The plan is to keep open Yahoo’s content repositories to the innovations of the developer community. Yahoo first announced the initiative in April, calling it a major rewiring of Yahoo that blows the doors wide open.
“Yahoo is trying to position itself as a distribution vehicle for third-party content,” said Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. “This is not a break with anything or a change of direction, it’s just a continuation of what they have been talking about for a few months. It would have been really novel if they had done this two years ago.”
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September 13th, 2008
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