VMware VSphere 5.0 Gets Common Criteria Security Clearance | Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie Probably Won't Be "Cradle To Grave" Biography | Mary Meeker: "We Are Still In Spring Training — Magnitude Of Upcoming Change Will Be Stunning" | Why flash in the cloud will shake up enterprise storage | Does console have a future?

VMware VSphere 5.0 Gets Common Criteria Security Clearance

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VMware today said its virtual-machine infrastructure software, vSphere 5.0, has achieved certification under what's known as the Common Criteria program, a U.S.-supported international effort to test software in labs for security and general soundness in technical features.
VMware said vSphere 5.0 has attained the Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) under Common Criteria. This is considered a very high rating for commercial software using conventional security. In contrast, there are highly-specialized methods for ultra-high-security purposes demanded by the government which go beyond EAL4+ up to EAL7.
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Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Movie Probably Won’t Be “Cradle To Grave” Biography

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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin offered some early thoughts today on the movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography Steve Jobs, which he has signed on to write.
Sorkin was speaking at the D10 conference, and it sounds like he hasn’t actually written any of the screenplay yet — he said the initial stages of the process will look at lot more “like watching ESPN.”
“It’s a process of procrastination, where you’re trying to figure out where the movie is going,” he said.
So before Sorkin has gone through this process (and before the screenplay goes through the rewriting that’s endemic to Hollywood) it’s hard to know exactly what the film w[...]
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Mary Meeker: “We Are Still In Spring Training — Magnitude Of Upcoming Change Will Be Stunning”

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Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is usually full of good stuff and this year is no exception. We already covered her comments about mobile monetization and the Facebook IPO, but one of the most interesting sections of her presentation were her thoughts about the future of the Internet. In her view, technology has already allowed us to re-imagine everything from book to news to note taking to crime awareness. Still, according to her, “we are still in spring training” and “the magnitude of upcoming change will be stunning.”[...]
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Why flash in the cloud will shake up enterprise storage

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Flash memory has already transformed consumer devices like smartphones, tablets, and ultra-notebooks (think MacBook Air). These devices use a solid state drive, also know as SSD or flash drive, rather than traditional mechanical disk. Presumably, if you have a flash-based device, you don’t miss those quaint whirring and chirping noises that a PC’s hard drive makes, and flash also delivers radically better performance and battery life. What you may not know is that a similar shift is already underway in the data center: Google’s instant search and Facebook’s performance intensive applications are powered by flash rather than hard drives.
What’s going on is that storage based on mechanical dis[...]
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Does console have a future?

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While recent headlines such as “Game sales crash!” and “Games retail collapses!” don’t paint a rosy picture, I believe the report of the death of console games is an exaggeration. Yet an uncertain future faces those console games companies that choose not to evolve rapidly.
When I blogged back in early 2010 that console games publishers were at risk of going the way of traditional media companies back in early 2010, readers reacted strongly. So I wasn’t surprised by the even stronger reaction last year when I wrote that the games market had fundamentally split into “Value” and “Volume” markets, both by sector and geography. The two-speed market this is creating may have more rapid and profou[...]
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