Archive for May, 2013

Open Switches

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Facebook looking in to open switches, people are starting to figure out that, a switch is just a PC with a lot of IO going on, VMware and others are getting in on the act too. It could be interesting times for Cisco and very destructive technology for the networking industry.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/08/facebook_ocp_switch/

Windows 8 is going to have a major redesign

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Windows 8 is starting to look like is going the way of windows vista, the reg (ttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/08/microsoft_coke_moment_windows_8/) is reporting that windows 8 is going to have a major redesign, I think Microsoft were too far ahead of the hardware on this one, a laptop needs a touchscreen before it can go to fully to windows 8, problem is that there isn’t too many touch screens out their on laptops.