VMware packs Zimbra into virtual appliance

The main reason why VMware took open source core groupware software maker Zimbra off the hands of Yahoo back in January was to have yet one more piece of code to sell to SMB customers and hosting companies adopting its vSphere server virtualization stack. Today, a virtual appliance version of the Zimbra email, calendaring, and collaboration is available as a standalone offering.

Making a virtual appliance is not that big a deal, but VMware faced some particular challenges in putting Zimbra in a virtual shrink wrapper to distribute it in a virtualized appliance format.

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Seagate’s flash cache drive rocket

A user of the flash cache-enabled Seagate Momentus XT drive reports a tenfold improvement in PhotoShop application load time and three times faster startup.

It is only anecdotal evidence from one user on his amnesiablog but it is compelling. He has a Windows 7, Core2Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM and replaced the had drive withe the Momentus XT and its 4GB of NAND flash cache. Software on the drive populates the cache with the most popular files and applications so that they are accessed faster.

The times, recorded via an Android phone’s stopwatch, were 2 minutes for starting up with the old hard drive versus 37 seconds with the Momentus XT.

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Google / Verizon: Hardwire Neutrality to Old Networks Only

Good news! Sony and Panasonic would like you to know they now support VHS neutrality! The two companies would like the government to ensure that no future VCR manufacturer can impose a fee on the movie studios or tape manufacturers or make the tapes of a particular movie studio look better on your TV, just because that studio paid a kickback. Your right to watch whatever VHS tape you want is assured from here til eternity.

If the idea of protecting freedom and competition in a dying platform sounds ridiculous, then what about the joint policy proposal for an open Internet that Google and Verizon released earlier this week?

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Acer Aspire One AOD255 Netbook Dual Boots Android and Windows XP

You can get a phone with Android. You can get a tablet with Android. But why stop there? Today at the Taipei Computer Applications show, Acer showed off its new Aspire One AOD255 netbook, which duals boots Android and Windows XP. The notebook comes with pretty standard hardware you’d expect of a 10-inch netbook these days: 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data.Learn Morehard drive, and a 1.66-GHz Atom N450 CPU.

The netbook will carry a list price of NT $11,900 or approximately $375 U.S. For that price, you get only a 3-cell battery, but a 6-cell option will be available for another $95, a salesman told PC World.  

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