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It’s all about the apps. With a smartphone, the mobile OS and default apps just form a foundation, but it is the apps that you apply on top that foundation that make the device uniquely yours, and enable it to be the indispensible tool you need it to be. For today’s 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 post, I am going to take a look at the apps and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace that sells them.
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A new smartphone with Windows Phone 7.5–a.k.a. “Mango”–will soon be here. The people have spoken…and I relayed the message to Microsoft, and Microsoft is hooking it all up. So, fear not! The 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 series will be Mango after all.
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I have used an iPhone for years, so I am used to the standard grid of apps on an iOS home screen. Android offers some unique capabilities, but still appears similar to iOS at face value. But, the tiles layout of Windows Phone 7 is a distinctive trademark of the mobile OS, and should make the 30 Days With Winows Phone 7 experience unique.
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Silver Peak is looking to significantly expand the wide area network (WAN) optimization market with two new solutions intended to attract new users – a free appliance, the VX-Xpress (VX-X) – and a 20x performance boost to its high-end enterprise data-center VRX-8 appliance.
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Here’s a puzzle for you: what do a new Dodge Ram pickup truck, a digital road sign, a young English lady’s cell phone, and a modern lighting control system have in common? They’re not all necessarily made in the same third world country, if that’s what you’re thinking. But they are all exploitable by virtue of their network connectivity, and the implications can be quite worrisome.
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Considered by some to be the biggest automation company you’ve never heard of, UC4 is looking to get a lot more respect with its collaboration with Red Hat to enhance automated open source solutions for virtual and cloud infrastructures. Based in Austria, with U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, WA, UC4′s technology is designed to automate IT and business processes across physical, virtualization and cloud computing environments, with the automation either time or event-based.
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Virsto Software has announced a new release of its VM-centric storage hypervisor software for VMware vSphere. Currently in beta, and due to ship next quarter, Virsto for VDI vSphere Edition, is ‘the industry’s first multi-hypervisor solution’ to address the storage challenges specific to virtualized environments. Initially launched in April, the software, priced at $ 2,800 per host, can reduce overall storage costs for VDI projects by 70 percent or more, says the company.
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Virtualization management software vendor VKernel has announced version 4 of its vOperations Suite software, which adds support for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, a visualization engine called vSCOPE, and a virtualization cost index called vCI to help IT administrators get more information about virtual machine (VM) performance, capacity, and cost across data centers, resources, and hypervisors. The software now also includes Smart Business Views, which lets IT administrators build collections of VMs, based on up to 10 attributes, to segment and group workloads.
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While security concerns don’t always get the attention they deserve in discussions about the cloud and virtual infrastructures, this week’s VMworld 2011 conference saw an increased interest in security solutions. Joining this trend was security vendor Trend Micro, who announced Deep Security 8, which adds increased capabilities for monitoring and securing virtual environments.
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Software-as-a-service vendor Salesforce.com is introducing a number of upcoming new services to enable companies to use social networks to understand their customers, their employees and to improve their businesses. The “Social Enterprise” was a big theme pushed at this week’s Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco. While the company is developing new services to use social networking tools in order for companies to be competitive, a survey of attendees shows that some still have reservations about the practice.
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