Laptop Shipments Exceed Desktops For The First Time

I just read the article from the web and found this interesting news. Had been a while we discuss all the time about laptop, desktop, workstation and thin client. We see the significant grow for the number of laptop in the market VS desktop and the 1st time we see the number of laptop had been overtake the desktop. Personally, here is my opinion. Laptop today is good enough to handle most of the activities require to be performed for personal and work related today thanks to the competion from Intel and AMD, as well as the graphic chip from Intel, ATI & nvidia which is too powerful for most of the users. Desktop, is not mobile type and is not green in my point of view. Therefore, I am not a big fans of desktop, unless for gaming purpose. Of course the desktop will not been dissapear in the market for now, but it will significant reduce as it may not be the favour for major users today.

Wipro Take over the IT services Company from Citigroup

Latest new from informationweek.com that the Citigroup had been agreed with a deal of $ 127 Million. Many of the discussion now had been started to talk about the job availabilities after this deal. As many of us aware, to further reduce operation expenses in IT, offshore the IT support to Asia will be the choices as it is really tough for the current economy. At the same time, the impact of this news will also reduce the job vacancy for US who work for Citigroup. Is really interesting to monitor the followup status of this deal and hopefully will not create another massive lay off in US because of the deal.

VMware ESX 4 New features

According to VMware, the future of the VMware Enterprise Edition Virtualization which name as ESX 4 will be launched earlier next year, will contain some of the features which been show case during the seminar to the public. Below is some of the information which had been shared by VMware for reference

1. 64 bits kernel VS the current 32 bits kernel on ESX server
2. Thin Provisioning
3. Fault Tolerance
4. 8 way virtual SMP
5. 256 GB memory per single VM

There are also more to come in the roadmap of year 2009 which will specify on the vcloud, virtual data center and etc. At lease for today, this had been public demostrate to the end user about some of the technology roadmap and features in the next version. ESX 4 is still under private beta test at this moment, which aim to be launched at 1st quater next year.

VMware Workstation 6.5.1 Release

VMware had just official released the Workstation 6.5.1. There are some new features will be impress with the latest build number of 126130

For more information, please view it over at the link below

VMware Workstation 6.5.1