Twitter have just announced that they will kill Facebook integration from Tweetdeck on May 7th. Quote from the Twitter/Tweetdeck site: To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone. They will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter. We’ll also discontinue support for our Facebook integration. This is a major shame, I have been using tweetdeck for a few years now, and slowly all the integration with social media has been eroded. While I appreciate that Tweetdeck is now a Twitter owned and produced app, it really did make life easy updating and monitoring Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN. I hope they reconsider this, but […]
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Michael Owen to retire – my farewell
I have read the news today that Michael Owen is going to retire at the end of the season in May. BBC Sport reported here. To begin with, this post has nothing to do with Virtualization or technology in any way but I felt the need to publish my thoughts on this special football player. Former England striker Michael Owen is to retire from football at the end of the season. Owen, 33, who scored 40 goals in 89 internationals, played for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United and Manchester United and is now at Stoke. He said: “It is with an immense amount of pride that I am announcing my intention to retire.” Now this makes me feel old today. I have grown up with watching Michael Owen in an England shirt. He was awesome. I actually got to see him play at Wembley in 2007 against Russia when he […]
My “Chinwag” with Mike Laverick
So last week before PEX I had a chinwag with Mike Laverick. This was the first time I had done one of these, but found it thoroughly enjoyable. Mike had a few questions he wanted to ask me, but it wasn’t regimented, and found ourselves off tack quite a few times. Q1. What for you are the stand-out aspects of vCloud Director? Q2. Perhaps you can begin with a quick description of a Provider vDC…. Now Provider vDC can contain more than one HA/DRS cluster – what’s the logic behind where the VM gets placed? Q3. Do you think the changes behind the Provider vDC might ultimately lead to changes in design or best practises. For many a HA/DRS cluster represents a desecrate amount of compute/storage/networking – you could almost call it a virtual silo. Do you see that changing…? Q4. Can I ask what are you working on currently […]
IKEAHackers: Mac Book Air desktop stand
I wanted to share my latest find on IkeaHackers.net. After reading Frank Denneman’s post on his whiteboard desk, and discovering the Ikeahackers site, I actually like to see what idea’s people come up with for different uses of Ikea products. This post is about my latest find, an Apple Macbook Air desktop stand/holder. I have been looking for some kind of stand that I can use for my Air, after setting up a permanent desk in VMware’s Palo Alto office. This simple solution solved it, and for $1.99 it was an absolute bargain. Ikea sell a plastic (sturdy and strong) Napkin holder called Fantastisk. As you can see by the picture, it really does work, and looks cool too. For the full Ikea Hackers post click here
PHD Virtual Technologies release Virtual Backup v6.0
PHD Virtual Technologies recently released PHD Virtual Backup v6.0 at VMworld. This latest version builds on unique, patented virtual appliance architecture to deliver a powerful, feature-filled, easy to use backup solution for virtual servers at a fraction of the cost of competitive alternatives. Designed from the ground up as an exclusively virtual solution for the virtual environment, additional functionality in PHD Virtual Backup v6.0 includes: PHD Instant Recovery for VMware: Eliminate downtime and meet SLA’s Make any application available as quickly as possible in the event of a failure. PHD Instant Recovery gets you back up and running in less than 3 minutes. Full/Incremental Backup Mode: Optimized for Moving Data Offsite & to the Cloud Extending the flexibility of PHD Virtual Backup, full/incremental mode is ideal for organizations leveraging third party tools to copy backup files to the Cloud, or Tape, or those utilizing a hardware deduplication appliance or CIFS […]