Ever want to know a secert....

How about one about a secert corporate data center.  How about how they designed the Google datacenters?  Well check out this article and the book it is promoting called "The DataCenter as a Computer" which sarts to answer the questions around how and why Google did what it did with those resources.  All in all the article over at wired  online magazine is pretty cool.

Google buys more patents to protect Android....

Google bought @1023 patents from IBM.  The patent wars don't seem to be ending anytime soon.  So Google is trying to shore up it's defenses.  None of the articles we could find could tell us exactly what was in the patent grab.  Neither was anyone sure what was paid for them.  What we do know is that Patents seem to be going for about $400,000/patent on average.  So it goes without saying that they spent a lot. 

Google's Chris D talks about Android, Chrome, Linux and More...

The folks over at derstandard.at posted an interview with Chris D, Open Source Manager, and got him talking about All things Open Source and Google.  It's a really cool interview and Chris's comments are easy to follow and still informative.  He does a great job explaining how and what Google is using Open Source for and reminds us all that Google has opened up over 1300 packages to the world in the last 5 years.  Go check it out and let us know what you think.

Episode 45 - Cloudy with a chance of conectivity...

Running Time: 49:30

1) Introduction

Joe and Brian Talk about stuff(We love the Narwhals song at this link, Natty is out, PSN is still down, and other off topic stuff)

2) News

Purple Reign - IBM and Red Hat hook up to take on VMWare

Canonical changes it’s cloud strategy...And Linux Mint 11 opts for Gnome 2.x rather than Gnome 3.x/Unity

Fedora and Ubuntu working on Brtfs support may give the ability to do virtualized like snapshots on systems that aren’t virtual...

Google VP says cloud is at the same point E-Mail was in the late 1980's

3) Conclusion

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Episode 38 - Predictions for 2011....

Running Time:  38:28

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1) Introduction

2) What we predicted for 2010

• An App Store for Linux like there is one for the IPhone and Android Phones - This came true with the Ubuntu One App store. Google released the first browser/Chrome OS App Store and Apple announced a Mac App Store to premier in 2011.
• Microsoft will be try to make a serious run at VMWare for the Vitalization Market on XSeries, Red Hat will come from no where and put Microsoft into 3rd place behind Xen. - Failed on this but they did acquire a lot of Novell Patents
• Someone will figure out what to do with Google Wave in an enterprise or just in general. Wave Federation will take off. - Wave got killed by Google but it’s been reborn as an apache project and several companies, including Novell, are doing wave in a box.
• Chrome OS and Android will merge. - Google Still swears it ain’t gonna happen.
• This will not be the year of the Linux Desktop. Linux will continue to gain share in the X86 Server market. Linux will be the preferred Netbook OS paired with something like Chrome OS. - That was true but Netbooks seem to be getting replaced by Tablets. We finally have the first Chrome OS “CloudBook”. CES is coming so how many new tablets are we going to see. Playstation Phone will run on Android.
• Linux will not see a major virus in 2010. Really we don't think there will be a major issue with Viruses in general in 2010. - True Same goes for 2011.

3) What we think is going to happen in 2011

• Phones will become a big target for virus’ in 2011.
• Joe says ...HTML 5 will rock the world..OK he really said it’s going to take off.
• Android will continue to dominate...New tablets will hit the market next year that may upset.
• Google will negotiate contracts and start streaming day old episodes
• Wayland will successfully replace Xorg for most major free distributions and become an option for the paid distributions.
• And More you will have to listen to hear....

4) Conclusion

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