Archive for May, 2007
A Series of Tubes #9 — Siemens Enterprise Networks, Data Centre Cooling and Unified Communications
May 30th, 2007On today’s show we take a look inside Siemens Enterprise Networks, we talk to Rimatrix5 about keeping data centres cool and we’ll hear from our sponsor Dimension Data about unified communications.
In our news segment Scott McKenzie from ZDNet talks about the lack of communication between Telstra and the ACCC, and we discuss the slow take [...]
A Series of Tubes #8 — Compliance, Smartphones, IPv6 and Second Life
May 23rd, 2007On today’s show we’ll take a look at so-called compliance laws which require the secure retention of digital documents, we’ll talk to Microsoft about Smartphones and we’ll hear from our sponsor Dimension Data about IPv6.
Scott McKenzie from ZDNet talks about the value to business of Second Life and ponders whether Microsoft will sue open source [...]
A Series of Tubes #7 — Patching woes
May 16th, 2007Patching and EMC Informs. This week we learn how to deal with Patch Tuesday when you have 1000’s of PCs to manage and we check in with EMC to see how their new enlarged Inform user conference is travelling.
Brett Winterford joins us from ZDNet Australia’s HQ to talk networking news
Last week on a Series of [...]
A Series of Tubes #6 — Thin clients, WiFI mobile, EMC informs
May 9th, 2007Thin Clients, WiFi Mobile Phones and EMC Informs. This week we attempt to find out “whatever happened to†the Network Computer which in the mid-90s was predicted to replace the desktop PC. We try a new mobile phone which uses Telstra’s NextG but can also place a VoIP call if there’s a WiFi network nearby, [...]
A Series of Tubes #5 – Longhorn, VoIP and SaaS
May 2nd, 2007Longhorn, VoIP and SaaS. A Series of Tubes is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Dimension Data and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week’s show:
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Award winning journalist Munir Kotadia, of ZDNet Australia, gets on the line from CeBIT in Darling Harbour
Michael Kleef from Microsoft joins us to discuss the upcoming Windows Server release [...]