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RE: All My Communities

John Simpson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:33:25 GMT

Overwhelming doesn't begin to approach the level of confusion that all of these sites bring to the table.

When MySpace started up I created an account and asked my kids to add me as a friend on their private accounts; just so I can stay involved. To this day that site gives me a headache. It's almost like Dr. Seuss designed it with a paper-bag over his head while chatting through instant messenger with characters on sesame street listening to MTV playing in the background. This is proof that the customer is not always right (in layout and design). Personalization and configuration should be done in doses and have certain constraints to avoid content vomit.

Of course I prefer something a little less ADD and a little more structured, like Facebook, however, even in that space I'm overwhelmed by the sheer volume of user-created content and how it's delivered and can flood my senses. Don't even get me started on Flickr, my blogs or Twitter.

As you have pointed out in the past there are such disconnected approaches to unified login, shared resources and content that it makes little sense to even try and keep things synchronized between all these disparate systems.

I would love to see someone design a system, and or service, to allow for publish once - deploy everywhere (based on rules). Create a common profile, within parameters, and expose certain attributes for different sites. A little bit of this for MySpace, something different for YouTube and Facebook, and yet something else for Twitter and LinkedIn.

If I am having problems, and I enjoy these technologies. I can now see why many view these implementations as having limited value.

So my value is found in "some" of the functionality in "some" of the application sites.

RE: Demo of SCCM R2 w/App-V from Microsoft World Partner Conference

Sophia.Stalliviere — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:07:21 GMT

We are coming of age with virtualization. One is able to pull up two different versions of programs without disrupting any projects that one is working on. Previously, we would have two different word versions, with that, the documents that was on one version was not able to read on a newer version. Now you can bring up both versions without them going into conflict with each other.

My favorite part of this was how Craig Pierce showed how two different versions of programs could coexist on the same screen but they have no idea that they are there. We have always had the problem of pulling up two different versions of Microsoft; the system would just give error messages. Now they can hang out with each other in the same room and never know it.

I know this is not a new concept, and there were so much information that is published out there, but it is nonetheless exciting and so new to me. What would be a new VDI feature you would like to see? I would want to see multiple streaming without too much buffering. I want things to go faster. I have no patience!

RE: 5 Reasons to look forward to Danbury Technology

snrichar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:18:05 GMT

Intel(r) Anti-Theft Technology (Intel(r) AT, previous codenamed Danbury) brings a new approach to FDE. Intel AT brings platform hardware and firmware that provides the same advantages that other hardware based approaches, like encrypting HDDs offer, but adds to that the ability to scale out to multiple drives that leverage the same hardware crypto engnine. This means there is no dependence on a particular drive vendor or drive model as you add or replace drives in a system.

In addition, through tight integration with Intel(r) AMT, Intel AT offers the ability for an authenticated admin to access the disk remotely for management purposes, even if the OS is down. This means a machine can, for example, be deployed with FDE, yet still have patches remtotely applied that require multiple reboots - without the user having to authenticate locally. Patches can also be pushed to machines that are powered down at night (no need to leave a local user logged in and the FDE in an "unlocked" state). This is a major improvement on most of today's solutions, in that local authentication does not need to be disabled to facilitate remote management as is done with some of today's products. Instead, you have full local user authentication and the ability to remotely manage - manageability AND security.

Intel AT will be coming to both desktops and notebooks, as many enterprises want to apply encryption policy across all PCs regardless of form factor. While laptops is a major driver for the need for FDE, desktops still provide real risk and should also be protected.

Intel is working with leading security and system management software vendors to deliver solutions that meet the complete set of enterprise needs. Wave, McAfee/SafeBoot and Credant are among are announced partenrs for this technology.

RE: Multi-core Software Application Performance and Scalability using SMP

lmatassa_intel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:33:11 GMT

I believe you're referring to the producer/consumer threading method where one thread's output (producer) is the input for another thread (consumer). Yes, that's an ideal way to benefit from multi-core processors that are designed with shared cache. The other is that anytime two or more threads share a lot of data, it's ideal to run them on cores that share the last level cache. Intel has several community forums. You can visit the Threading forum to join discussions and read posts on similar topics. http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-US/forums/1042/ShowForum.aspx

Thanks for your feedback,
Lori

RE: Multi-core Software Application Performance and Scalability using SMP

JamesF — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:51:08 GMT

Thank you for the interesting article. I enjoyed reading about the shared L2 cache which I had suspected but had never looking into. Would this means that ideally you would want to prefetch to the L2 cache. Then as each core starts looking for work you would give handouts from the L2 cache?

RE: Demo of SCCM R2 w/App-V from Microsoft World Partner Conference

Jason Kennedy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:45:30 GMT

Very compelling stuff. It's great to see how Intel and Microsoft have teamed on vPro System Center and Application Virtualization up to deliver a unique solution with business value for both end user and IT.

RE: 5 Reasons to look forward to Danbury Technology

Jonathan Lazar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:26:57 GMT

How does this stack up to FDE HDDs like from Fujitsu, Seagate, Hitachi, etc? I see that currently Secude (http://secude.com) and Wave (wave.com) are already supporting this and it is targeted at laptops, not desktops.

RE: Intel SMS/SCS to SCCM Migration Utility production version released

miroyer — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:25:28 GMT

Blog adjusted with production link: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/3898.htm

--Matt Royer

RE: IPIP Denver: Event Recap on 'Blog Talk Radio' Coming this Week

josh.hilliker — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:19:33 GMT

Hi all. sorry for the slight change & move of the show.. we're doing it monday & please check out teh show.. If you are also interested you can search for this show in Itunes on Tuesday morning to download.

josh H

RE: BlogTalkRadio back in action with SCE/SCOM!

fietsverzekering — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:08 GMT

I've downloaded the show today and I'm going to listen to it on my iPod when I'm going to work!