Thursday, November 25, 2010

How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website

A tutorial to get free Backlinks for your website.

Blog Commenting

blog commenting is the cheapest way to get quality back-links for your website. But you have to follow some steps before commenting to any post
  1. First find some blogs by going to Blog listing sites like http://www.blogtoplist.com
  2. Chose any catagory and visit the blog
  3. on the blog Right Click on the page and select “View Page Source”
  4. Then search for “nofollow” if its present in source code don’t give comment on any post
  5. If “nofollow” not present in source of that blog then Post a reasonable comment
  6. Use Name/URL option to post comments
  7. Don’t make Anchor tag within the comments

Article Writing

If you are expert in Article writing then write articles about your site & publish it to blogs or Article Submission sites i am using FlixyaClick here to Join & start submitting your articles free

Signatures

This is Another big way to get backlinks go to some popular forums Get Registered & go to your profile and make your signature with Anchor tag and start commenting on threads
» List of social bookmarking sites
A good way for sites or articles to get known is submitting to social bookmarking sites, so submitting should be as easy as possible for your visitors. But gathering information on the best social bookmarking sites, their icons, submission URLs, and ranking is quite a pain. And so I did it for you. I'll also give you a PHP example of how to integrate social bookmarking sites in your website.

The List

When using this list you have to replace the {url} and How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website variables with the right URL and title of the documents that you're going to submit.
Though it's not an infallible method, I figured I had to use some kind of objective ranking, so I ended up ordering this list using Alexa.com's traffic rank (from August the 5th, 2007).
Digg
submit to: http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={url}&title=How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website
alexa traffic rank: 97
Technorati
submit to: http://www.technorati.com/faves?add={url}
alexa traffic rank: 211
Squidoo
submit to: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?{url}
alexa traffic rank: 474
dzone
submit to: http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url={url}&title=How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website
alexa traffic rank: 5,071
SWiK
submit to: http://stories.swik.net/?submitUrl&url={url}
alexa traffic rank: 7,749
Shoutwire
submit to: http://www.shoutwire.com/?p=submit&&link={url}
alexa traffic rank: 9,501
Bluedot
submit to: http://bluedot.us/Authoring.aspx?u={url}&t=How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website
alexa traffic rank: 9,754
Diigo
submit to: http://www.diigo.com/post?url={url}&title=How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website
alexa traffic rank: 15,171
Rawsugar
submit to: http://www.rawsugar.com/tagger/?turl={url}&tttl=How to Get Free Backlinks For Your Website&editorInitialized=1
alexa traffic rank: 29,236
Smarking
submit to: http://smarking.com/editbookmark/?url={url}
alexa traffic rank: 122,996
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Microsoft’s New Gaming Experience

GamesHub 400x276 Microsofts New Gaming Experience
Microsoft announced The Microsoft Game Hub a new gaming hub. It connects its three major social gaming portals, MSN Games, Bing Games and Windows Live Messenger into one. The effect is to blur the line between social and casual gameplay.

Microsoft GamesHub
Microsoft has made it easier to find and play the games that users enjoy and connect with people who are important to those users. It is driving the experience across multiple platforms so that players can share their experiences with others in their social circles.
The Microsoft Game Hub allows anyone who uses any one of those play sites to access the same games, and see their friends’ status updates, while also able to send each other game challenges.
Another new feature is the rebuilt MSN Games site. Also, there is an update to the games experience on Windows Live Messenger. Not forgetting Bing Games, which has been expanded into other English-speaking markets including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom?
MS Game Hub Microsofts New Gaming Experience
MS Game Hub
The goal behind this move is to make non-hardcore gaming more social. Facebook or Windows Live accounts (or both), can be the basis to allow players can sign into Game Site. Then they can scroll through their friends’ status updates, and perform other social actions, like view game leaderboards, sending casual game challenge requests, save a game as a favorite, or to make it easier to find, and track games, game history, and scores regardless of the platform they’re on.
It used to be that many of these games had a tendency to be very solitary. Instead of posting scores outside of the gaming function, people can now offer challenges to others. People can use the gaming function as a new style social network. People start with something in common, a game, and develop into friendly relationships.
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Windows 7 News Editor on “Computer America” US Radio, Fri 19th Nov

Windows7News Editor on “Computer America” US Radio, Fri 19th Nov

 
Windows7News Editor on “Computer America” US Radio, Fri 19th Nov

Mike Halsey will be appearing on Craig Crossman’s Computer America radio show on Friday 19th November 2010.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily podcast in the US according to the New York Times.

Mike will be talking about his new book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press, Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Phone and general technology and troubleshooting issues.  He will also be taking calls on a live phone-in and make sure you tune in live for a special prize give-away!  The show normally has two guests for one hour each but Mike will be Craig’s guest for the entire two-hour show.
Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out is one of today’s three eBook Deals of the Day at the O’Reilly website, where for one day only it’s available for only $14.99.  You can find out more HERE.
The show is syndicated across the whole USA and broadcasts on the Business Talk Radio Network and the Lifestyle Radio Network.  The show goes out at 7pm PT / 10pm ET / 3am GMT.
You can find out more at the Computer America website.  You can listen live or download the podcasts here and you can also subscribe to the podcast in the iTunes store.
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Microsoft Moves 1 Million Kinects in Ten Days

Microsoft Moves 1 Million Kinects in Ten Days

Microsoft announced on Monday that they have sold over 1 million Kinect units in 10 days. The interesting new technology first went on sale on November 4th and was impossible to get, in my area and many others, for days after. Analysts expect Microsoft to meet 5 million units sold before the end of 2010.

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last two years, Kinect was acquired by Microsoft from an Israeli company known as PrimeSense. Microsoft then refined and added a ton of money and R&D into the project. Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled the former “Project Natal” device as the Xbox Kinect and people started to take notice of the interesting new technology.
Capitalizing on the motion-based hit, Nintendo’s Wii, the Xbox add-on adds even more intrigue to this genre of motion gaming by tracking a users motion using three cameras.
Xbox is already considered the leader in most hard-core gamer circles, but the addition of Kinect adds the young children and family segment that is now storming the gaming industry.
One Million units in ten days is a good indicator hat there is alot of interest in the device, but whether the Kinect continues to be relevant or whether users play it twice and drop it like many do with the Wii, remains to be seen. I’m more interested in Kinects future implications with Microsoft Windows.
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$119 Windows 7 Family Pack

$119 Windows 7 Family Pack
The Windows 7 (3 PC) Family Pack was released a few months back for only $149, which is an incredible deal when you consider that you get three licenses for the cost of one. Well, today the deal gets even better. Dell is offering the Windows 7 Family Pack for $149, but when you add it to their cart, it drops in price to $119, which includes shipping.

If you are doing the math, that’s a little under $40 per PC to upgrade. For an OS as popular and solid as Windows 7, you can’t beat that deal anywhere.

win7family 400x151 $119 Windows 7 Family Pack
So, if you’re still booting up Vista or Windows XP, you now have almost no excuse to continue doing so.
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Customer Reviews now available at the Windows Shop

Customer Reviews now available at the Windows Shop

Ever wanted to tell the world how much you love (or hate) Windows 7 and other Microsoft products?  Well now you can as  the Windows Shop has finally embraced customer reviews.

Now you can leave your feedback and comments on Microsoft’s most recent desktop operating system as well at other products such as Office 2010 and even the Windows Anytime Upgrade programme.
Customer reviews have been a mainstay of e-commerce for the best part of a decade now.  Amazon was one of the first sites to introduce them and eBay wouldn’t be able to operate without them.
As usual it’s simple to add our review, simply click the write a review link under a product and the system works just as it does on any other website but in addition, this system allows you to rate individual elements of the product, as you can see in the screenshot below.

Submit a new review Windows Internet Explorer 400x431 Customer Reviews now available at the Windows Shop
It’s good that Microsoft have now finally embraced product reviews on their own website, though if you look at Windows 7 on Amazon.com a great many people have already given their thoughts.  It also has to be asked just how many sales are made through the official Microsoft Windows Shop.
Never the less, this is a welcome addition and demonstrates Microsoft’s confidence in their current product ranges.
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Should Microsoft Split Up?

Microsoft(R)

 In the mid-nineties, during the great anti-trust battle era, many felt that Microsoft would be best served by splitting up into multiple companies. The thinking was that by having different mobile, desktop, office, ect…divisions, they would be able to keep up with pace of innovation of companies, like Apple, who are large corporations but operate like a much-smaller company without the levels of bureaucracy stopping and stalling, creative and innovative ideas.

This same old story has been resurrected again, but this time at Microsoft’s investors conference. Because of slowly, but steadily declining Microsoft shares, investors have been prodding Microsoft for answers as to why this is the case and how they intend on fixing this problem. This investors conference is their forum to ask Microsoft higher-ups just those kinds of questions. Microsoft, whose shares are currently at 25.57, have been split multiple times (around 9 times) over the years and are steady, but when compared to companies like Google, investors become restless and openly disturbed. One unidentified investor even asked the question during the conference, “Is it time to consider breaking this company up?”
Their thinking is that a bunch of smaller companies can work quicker to innovate without the fiscal burden of the businesses which are doing not-so-well. Also, fewer levels of bureaucrats will allow divisions to move much quicker through testing and decision-making, essentially moving products to launch much, much quicker.
Both CEO Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, who was in attendance, gave their opinion that it wasn’t time to consider such a move and that their current system allows for many areas of the company to contribute resources to another, like we see in Windows Phone, which contains: Xbox, Office, Windows Live, Zune and Bing integration.
The investors, however, continue to be baffled by the great divide between Microsoft’s staggeringly great revenues and its slowly falling stock price. Until Microsoft can figure out how to change growing profits into greater returns on stocks, the same old question will inevitably be asked, “Should Microsoft Split Up?”
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New IE9 Build Tops JavaScript Benchmarks (Without Cheating)

PPB71 400x283 New IE9 Build Tops JavaScript Benchmarks (Without Cheating)
Microsoft have just released a new build of the IE9 Platform Preview and they’ve been working hard on JavaScript performance.  This appears to have paid off as it puts their new broswer miles ahead of the current competition in terms of performance.


Looking at the graph (above) it’s nearest competitor, Firefox 3.6 is a very long wa behind in terms of performance.  Microsoft have also improved more features and should ou want to see for ourself you can download the (interface-less) version from the IE test drive website.
I sa in the headline that they achieved this without cheating as blogger Ed Bott has reported that some people simply don’t like the idea of Internet Explorer or Microsoft being better at anthing than the competition, and so are spreading unfounded rumours that are specifically intended to wind up the anti-Microsoft brigade.  Here at Windows7News we know better and will only report the truth.
The result is extremel impressive and LiveSide is saing that it’s 345% better than the IE9 preview build we saw at PDC.  It just goes to show what can be done when graphics hardware is properly utilised, you processors on our graphics chip are far better and faster at pure number-crunching than a standard PC processor will ever be.  We can expect more software houses and more applications to take advantage of the hardware accelleration technologies in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in the years to come.
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Adobe Reader X Released, With Emphasis On Security

Adobe Reader X Released, With Emphasis On Security
Adobe Reader isn’t a Microsoft product, but I’ll bet that on Windows computers it’s almost as common as Notepad or Calculator. That’s why it’s important for you to know that Adobe released Reader X (ten, just like with Apple) yesterday for Windows XP, Vista, 7, OS X, and Linux.

The state of Windows security today is almost unbelievably improved from five years ago. Windows Update and Microsoft Update provide convenient, mostly-transparent delivery of patches and fixes, Microsoft offers its own competitive anti-virus solution in the form of Microsoft Security Essentials, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 brought many much-needed under-the-hood security improvements. It’s not perfect, but Windows security is nowhere near the laughingstock it was in those pre-XP SP2 days.
Security analysts quickly found a new punching bag, however: Adobe Reader is as ubiquitous as IE6 was at its height, installed on an estimated 90% of computers worldwide. PDF files are popular and easy to distribute, and to date Windows has never come with a built-in program capable of opening them. Hence, the widespread presence of Adobe Reader on computers throughout homes and businesses, a situation that caused one security specialist to dub it “the new Internet Explorer” earlier this year.
Adobe has made some steps forward in the last year, issuing a much-improved update for Acrobat 8 and 9 series products and committing to a quarterly update schedule, but one still gets the feeling that they’re behind – they’ve released several updates this year that were either out-of-band or published ahead of schedule, all because of security issues.
All of these security-related issues have led Adobe to release the Acrobat X family of products with an emphasis on greater security. Chief among the new product’s feature list is sandboxing technology that helps to separate the PDF from the OS. While not foolproof, sandboxing can help prevent bad PDFs from damaging the OS. Google and Microsoft have built similar technology into the Chrome browser and the Office 2010 suite, respectively. It’s worth noting that the sandboxing is limited to the Windows version of the software right now – Mac and Linux users don’t have it, at least not yet.
It’s safe to say that all current Adobe Reader users should upgrade to the new version, especially if you’re using version 8 or earlier. Reader X is quite a bit snappier than Reader 9, especially when loading PDFs in a browser window, and the above-mentioned security updates also make it an easy recommendation.
As for all the people who have already jumped to an alternative product like Foxit Reader – just move along. Nothing to see here.
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Happy 25th Anniversary Microsoft Windows

windows1shot 400x218 Happy 25th Anniversary Microsoft Windows
Yup, time really does fly and today, 20th November 2010 is the 25th anniversary of the launch of Windows 1.0.  This was Microsoft’s first stab at a multi-tasking graphical user interface and had four versions.  1.02 was released in May the following year with the final version 1.04 coming out in April 1987.
The GUI, because it wasn’t an operating system at that time, ran on top of MS DOS and didn’t come to the mainstream public’s attention until the release of Windows 3 in May 1990.



Windows 1 was officially unveiled on November 10th 1983 when it was known as “Interface Manager” and it was competing head on with the most popular GUI at the time, GEM.
It’s interesting to note, because Microsoft would never be able to get away with this these days, that some early versions of Windows 1 came bundled with Office apps Word and Excel, presumably to help boost sales.
Clearly the main reason why Windows 1 wasn’t a success was the release of the Apple Macintosh the year before, with a high profile Orwellian advertising campaign.
Windows 1 offered very limited multi-tasking and didn’t include features such as being able to overlay one window on another.  Instead, Windows could only be run side-by-side.  Layered windows did not appear until Windows 3.
Supplied programs included the Calculator, Calendar, Cardfile, Clipboard viewer, Click, Control Panel, Notepad, Paint, Reversi, Terminal and Write and it’s surprising just how many of those programs have survived to this day.
Anyway, a very happy anniversary Windows from Windows7News and looking back, it surprising how much of the main interface elements in Windows 1 are still used by Windows 7 and will continue to be used for many years to come.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Motorola releases mobile device management software

Motorola has launched a device-management software platform aimed at IT managers that works with a variety of brands, but excludes Research In Motion devices like the BlackBerry.
The Mobility Services Platform 3 product provides end-to-end management of mobile devices as well as printers, credit card readers and other peripherals, according to Motorola. The software will cost $45 per device per year, with discounts available for large volume customers.
The software is designed to let IT managers schedule automatic updating for the various operating systems, firmware and applications in use while gathering important data on where and how devices are being used for devices with integrated GPS systems.
The product will be targeted at Motorola's traditional verticals, including health care, retail, transportation logistics, warehousing and manufacturing, said Motorola Director of Global Product Marketing Sheldon Safir.
"It eliminates the need to call things back from the field or manually upgrade them because thousands of pieces can be upgraded remotely at the same time," he said. "We bring the addition of incorporating consumer devices that are coming into the enterprise space and the ability to manage them using the one software.
"This also incorporates some integration with our air defense platform that monitors, tracks and manages the wireless infrastructure," Safir said.
The software will eventually be made compatible with BlackBerry devices, Safir said, but could not provide a date for when this would be done.
"It can control Apple devices and Android devices," he said. "We've seen more iPhones and Android devices make inroads into the areas we sell our Motorola products. We'd like everything to be Motorola, but we realize that's not feasible."
Motorola's solution is mainly aimed at its existing install base, said independent analyst Jack Gold. The new software's lack of RIM support is not a major problem, Gold said.
"Frankly, there's very little Motorola could do to enhance what [BlackBerry Enterprise Server] already does in enterprise," Gold said. "What they should do and will do over time is integrate with some of the APIs so there can be a common console."
"Motorola is adding Android and iPhone because people are moving in that direction," Gold added.
Gold said there were already solutions on the market that performed a similar task at similar prices and claimed customers would only move if Motorola's solution could migrate users cheaply and simply.
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Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers

Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half.
The company is contributing chips, motherboards and software to the project, as well as other engineering expertise, said Navin Shenoy [CQ], vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region for Intel, in an interview.
The aim is to build data centers inside 20-foot (6.1-meter) shipping containers using standardized parts to lower costs and common software to make the data center more energy efficient. Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced the program in June, and had said it would have prototypes available by the end of this year.
But it looks like the prototypes may be coming earlier than expected.
"I've seen a couple of them from the leading edge OEMs," said Shenoy. The term OEM (original equipment manufacturer) refers to IT hardware manufacturers such as Taiwan's Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec.
Shenoy said Intel is contributing data center manager software and node center manager software to the project.
The work with the Taiwanese companies synchs with another announcement that Intel made on Wednesday. The company plans to tweak its Xeon server chips as part of the Open Data Center Alliance, to make the chips work more efficiently for cloud computing.
The company will also develop software to ensure security and interoperability for cloud computing.
Intel also announced its part in creating the Open Data Center Alliance, a coalition of more than 70 businesses that have cloud research projects already underway. These companies come from a variety of industries, including BMW in automobiles, J.P. Morgan Chase in finance, and Marriott International in hotel and travel. The aim of the alliance is to lay out future hardware and software requirements so more open and interoperable cloud and data centers can be built.
The idea for containerized data centers was popularized by Sun Microsystems in 2006 with "Project Blackbox."
Other companies have jumped aboard to promote the idea, including Microsoft and Google, due to their own heavy use of data centers and the need for solutions to the cost and power use of such centers.
The Taiwanese program hopes to end up with a standardized container data center that costs around half the price of today's systems, is easier to use, and saves energy.
Publish Post

The hardware part of ITRI's design has been named Container Computer 1.0. It includes thousands of servers inside a shipping container, using commodity computer parts to keep costs low.
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How to Build IT's Business-Strategy Reputation

Measure and explain what IT does. Don't let IT be out of sight, out of mind for the rest of the company. As you become more involved in strategy, it is critical to celebrate success and have everyone in your group be able to explain what IT has done for the bottom line lately. Map what IT currently provides--including ad hoc services--to the activity of users throughout the company to gain recognition for specific contributions.
Address structural constraints. Physically separating talent, even over multiple floors of the same building, restricts collaboration. Step forward with a plan to overcome silos.
Keep your customers in the loop. Be transparent about the impact any planned new services or enhancements will have on your customers.
Form long-term relationships. Dedicate people to a line of business for more than one rotation. Let them stay long enough to gain a true understanding of user needs.
Lead change. Creating and carrying out a new strategy often requires organizational changes. Don't shy away from business plans that shake up your group.
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The scary side of virtualization

At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure that has subsumed more than half of his company's production servers. Two other IT executives chimed in with their own nagging worries.
None of the executives in that room wanted to admit on the record that they feel vulnerable, but Jai Chanani, senior director of technical services and architecture at Rent-A-Center Inc., feels their pain. "One of my biggest fears is the ability to steal [virtual servers]," he says.
Getting Worried
How concerned is your organization with the issue of security in a virtualized environment?
* Very or extremely: 32.7%
* Somewhat: 36%
* Minimally: 23.7%
* Not at all: 7.6%
Source: TheInfoPro survey of 214 IT security professionals, November 2010
Chanani's team has about 200 virtual servers operating as file, print and, in some cases, application servers. But, for security reasons, his shop doesn't use virtualization for the company's ERP system, databases or e-mail.
Michael Israel, CIO at amusement park operator Six Flags Inc., voices a different concern. For him, the most unnerving scenario is a rogue administrator moving virtual servers from a secure network segment onto physical hosts in an unsecured segment, or creating new, undocumented, unlicensed and unpatched virtual servers. "The last thing I want is 25 servers out there that I don't know exist," he says.
John Kindervag, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., says he's heard stories from clients who have had VMware's vCenter management console compromised, enabling the attacker to copy a virtual machine that can then be run to access data. "When you steal a VM, it's like you broke into the data center and stole a piece of hardware. It's potentially devastating," he says.
"We worked for many years with customers on best practices that make this a complete nonissue," says Venu Aravamudan, senior director of product marketing at VMware Inc. He says most users address such risks by following best practices such as creating an isolated network segment for managing the resources, and creating role-based access controls.
The migration onto virtual servers has saved businesses huge sums of money as a result of consolidation and improved efficiency, but as virtualization gobbles up more and more production servers, some IT executives are getting indigestion. Has anything been overlooked? Could a catastrophic breach bring down critical applications -- or perhaps an entire data center?
"Customers wake up one day, realize that 50% of their business-critical apps reside on virtual infrastructure and say, 'Gee, is that secure?' That's very common," says Kris Lovejoy, vice president of strategy at IBM Security Solutions, a security consultancy.
"There are some huge, well-known corporate names around the globe that you'd think would have this stuff pretty much beat. That couldn't be further from the truth," says Andrew Mulé, a senior security consultant in EMC Corp.'s RSA unit.
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Beware the all-powerful administrator

In an unchecked, unmonitored virtual environment, administrators are all-powerful -- and that's not a good thing, consultants and IT executives agree. "This gives server admins the keys to the kingdom, and most of the time they don't understand the security risks," says Vauda Jordan, senior security engineer for the Phoenix city government.
As companies turn more of their critical applications over to virtual servers, some IT managers are starting to worry about the security risks of virtualization.
For example, administrators may create a virtual FTP server that compromises security. Or they may inadvertently use a virtual-machine migration tool to move a server onto different hardware for maintenance reasons, without realizing that the new host is on an untrusted network segment.
Failure to implement best practices, or to establish a clear separation of duties in virtual infrastructure, is an all-too-common problem, says Andrew Mulé, a senior security consultant at RSA. "Folks still today don't like to practice segregation of duties. They give the crown jewels to a small number of people," Mulé says. He recommends developing a strong change-management process that includes issuing change management tickets.
KC Condit, senior director of information security at Rent-A-Center, agrees. "In the virtual world, there is no inherent separation of duties, so you have to build that in," he says. Change management, configuration management and access control are vital to securing the virtual infrastructure.
Compliance is another concern. As director of systems engineering at the Council of Europe Development Bank, Jean-Louis Nguyen needs to monitor activity to ensure that the administrators of 140 virtual machines comply with regulations and management requirements. The bank tried using VMware's logging capabilities but needed a better way to consolidate the information. "Getting at those logs was nontrivial," he says. He ended up using a dedicated tool from HyTrust that provides a central log of all activity.
The bank also used HyTrust to set up a completely segregated virtual environment for the chief security officer, who can monitor the entire physical and virtual server infrastructure.
"The key is to assure your management that there's no administrator abuse," Nguyen says. "We needed to be certain that we're administering systems and not peeking into the data."
Read more about Virtualization in Computerworld's Virtualization Topic Center.
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The Grill: Joe AbiDaoud

Joe AbiDaoud, CIO at Toronto-based metals mining company HudBay Minerals Inc., supports more than 1,400 employees, including 1,200 miners in Flin Flon, a remote outpost in Manitoba where copper and zinc ore are extracted from a mine over a mile underground. Since starting in February, he has overseen the launch of a $20 million ERP project, but he has also been looking for "low-hanging fruit" -- projects with a quick payback. AbiDaoud talked about what it's like to support IT operations in far-flung locations.
Joe AbiDaoud
Role model: Kumud Kalia, CIO at Direct Energy. He is one of the best CIOs in the industry and helped me work into my first division CIO job.
Favorite pastime: I have two children under 2, so it's spending as much time as I can with them. I collect wine, and I like good cigars.
Organization: Organization goes here
Favorite vice: I do love to eat. I love eating out at different restaurants quite a bit.
Recommended books: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't, by Jim Collins. Also Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of 37signals LLC. Anyone going into the workforce should read that book.
What's the most challenging aspect of delivering IT services to a mining business? The operations happen in very remote areas of the world, so we support IT in a decentralized model. We provide regional support at the site of operation and have some centralized IT functions around shared services and IT governance. For the most part, we try to provide end-user support locally. Logistically, that's easier.
The mining industry is closely tied to the economy. When production ramps down, IT is a cost center that needs to be ramped down accordingly. We have to be able to react quickly. We are trying to create some variability in the IT services we provide, so we're looking at servicing some things through external parties. Database support has been outsourced. We're also looking at some infrastructure support. Our IT staff is pretty lean. [HudBay's IT group consists of 12 full-time staffers and seven contract workers.]
What are your key IT initiatives for the coming year? Our ERP project is our No. 1 priority. No. 2 is building out another mine we have in the Flin Flon area, our largest to date. Our No. 3 priority is enhancements to the ERP system, which is expected to go into production in April 2011. The fourth thing is to digitize the exploration and development division's geological data.
What was the business case for the new ERP system? Management realized they couldn't scale. If we went out and bought another mine, we could not integrate that operation onto the platform that exists. If we put a mine in Arizona or Guatemala, we wouldn't have best-in-class systems and business processes for it. Our current business processes are very much custom-tailored to how people were doing things in Flin Flon. They are not scalable. They're very manual.
How does the remoteness of Flin Flon affect your IT architecture? We have mini data centers at these sites for performance reasons. However, I am not sure if we're going to stay with this model. Our new ERP system will be a shared service and will be hosted in our primary location.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Private “Cloud”

msft data center 400x285 The Private Cloud
After announcing major updates to Windows a few weeks ago Microsoft Corp. offered a new set of cloud computing programs. It unveiled Hyper-V Cloud, that makes it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server platform.


Several hardware manufacturers like Dell Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., HP, IBM Corp. and NEC Corp. have already signed on as Hyper-V Cloud partners in this current deployment. They will help deliver Microsoft validated infrastructure services to enable organizations to implement private clouds.
Privacy and Security
Apparently, many customers are interested in “Cloud” services and operations but have concerns over things like physical infrastructure and security policies. In response, Microsoft’s new private cloud offerings will satisfy that need at the infrastructure level; meanwhile it will provide a clear migration path to cloud services at the platform level.
Hyper-V Private Clouds
Microsoft has existing technologies that are able to meet the concerns and conditions of “cloud” customers.

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft’s server platform, delivers comprehensive virtualization and management capabilities through Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
  • Microsoft System Center, provides the components that organizations need to implement private clouds.
  • Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, Microsoft and its partners will deliver a broad choice of predefined, validated configurations for private cloud deployments; this included compute, storage, networking resources, virtualization, and management software.
HP and Microsoft have jointly collaborated on the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program and developed HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V. This architecture combines Microsoft System Center and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with the HP BladeSystem Matrix. It will provide customers with a foundation for running business applications within a private cloud-computing environment.
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Additional Hyper-V Cloud Components
Microsoft is not stopping there. Their commitment to the cloud include additional services to make it easier for companies to make the move. Here are three:
Hyper-V Cloud Service Provider Program More than 70 service providers worldwide offer infrastructure as a finished, using Microsoft technology.
Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides Microsoft is now offering tools and expert guidance developed during hundreds of Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) customer engagements over the past few years. For customers who want to build their own private clouds on top of existing infrastructure investments the Microsoft experience can be invaluable.
Hyper-V Cloud Accelerate Finally, to tie it all together, Microsoft is making investments to help customers and partners fund proofs of concept, assessments, and production deployments. They want to make sure that the customer’s needs are satisfied and cloud.
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Microsoft WILL Control Windows Phone Updates

Microsoft WILL Control Windows Phone Updates


There’s been a great deal of concern over the update policy for Microsoft’s new smartphone OS.  Initially it was understood that Microsoft would push updates directly to users.  News later emerged however that carriers would be able to delay updates while they confirmed they would work with handsets and any bespoke software the carriers had added.

This was a blow to many people, especially with the rise of smartphone security threats.  Google’s Android operating system is especially prone to delays to updates.  Each update must go to both the carrier and the handset manufacturer before release for review and, if necessary, recoding.  This can hold updates up for three months which is very bad news given that Android is the smartphone OS that is most prone to virus and malware attacks.
Now, Ed Bott is reporting that Microsoft have confirmed that will be firmly in the driving seat when it comes to updates for Windows Phone.  In a statement they said…
Microsoft will push Windows Phone 7 software updates to end users and all Windows Phone 7 devices will be eligible for updates.
This is a very unequivocal statement that’s not open to misinterpretation.  It’s also great news for all Windows Phone users, not only from a security perspective, but from the point of view of people who will want new features and functionality as soon as it becomes available.
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How An Intel Processor Is Made




here look how intel proc being made.
come lets read more



Sand. Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that's in the earth's crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing.



after procuring raw sand and separating the silicon, the excess material is disposed of and the silicon is purified in multiple steps to finally reach semiconductor manufacturing quality which is called electronic grade silicon. The resulting purity is so great that electronic grade silicon may only have one alien atom for every one billion silicon atoms. After the purification process, the silicon enters the melting phase. In this picture you can see how one big crystal is grown from the purified silicon melt. The resulting mono-crystal is called an ingot.


A mono-crystal ingot is produced from electronic grade silicon. One ingot weighs approximately 100 kilograms (or 220 pounds) and has a silicon purity of 99.9999 percent.


The ingot is then moved onto the slicing phase where individual silicon discs, called wafers, are sliced thin. Some ingots can stand higher than five feet. Several different diameters of ingots exist depending on the required wafer size. Today, CPUs are commonly made on 300 mm wafers.


Once cut, the wafers are polished until they have flawless, mirror-smooth surfaces. Intel doesn't produce its own ingots and wafers, and instead purchases manufacturing-ready wafers from third-party companies. Intel’s advanced 45 nm High-K/Metal Gate process uses wafers with a diameter of 300 mm (or 12-inches). When Intel first began making chips, it printed circuits on 50 mm (2-inches) wafers. These days, Intel uses 300 mm wafers, resulting in decreased costs per chip.


The blue liquid, depicted above, is a photo resist finish similar to those used in film for photography. The wafer spins during this step to allow an evenly-distributed coating that's smooth and also very thin.


At this stage, the photo-resistant finish is exposed to ultra violet (UV) light. The chemical reaction triggered by the UV light is similar to what happens to film material in a camera the moment you press the shutter button



Areas of the resist on the wafer that have been exposed to UV light will become soluble. The exposure is done using masks that act like stencils. When used with UV light, masks create the various circuit patterns. The building of a CPU essentially repeats this process over and over until multiple layers are stacked on top of each other.





A lens (middle) reduces the mask's image to a small focal point. The resulting "print" on the wafer is typically four times smaller, linearly, than the mask's pattern.


n the picture we have a representation of what a single transistor would appear like if we could see it with the naked eye. A transistor acts as a switch, controlling the flow of electrical current in a computer chip. Intel researchers have developed transistors so small that they claim roughly 30 million of them could fit on the head of a pin..


After being exposed to UV light, the exposed blue photo resist areas are completely dissolved by a solvent. This reveals a pattern of photo resist made by the mask. The beginnings of transistors, interconnects, and other electrical contacts begin to grow from this point.


the photo resist layer protects wafer material that should not be etched away. Areas that were exposed will be etched away with chemicals.


After the etching, the photo resist is removed and the desired shape becomes visible.


More photo resist (blue) is applied and then re-exposed to UV light. Exposed photo resist is then washed off again before the next step, which is called ion doping. This is the step where ion particles are exposed to the wafer, allowing the silicon to change its chemical properties in a way that allows the CPU to control the flow of electricity..





through a process called ion implantation (one form of a process called doping) the exposed areas of the silicon wafer are bombarded with ions. Ions are implanted in the silicon wafer to alter the way silicon in these areas conduct electricity. Ions are propelled onto the surface of the wafer at very high velocities. An electrical field accelerates the ions to a speed of over 300,000 km/hour (roughly 185,000 mph)



After the ion implantation, the photo resist will be removed and the material that should have been doped (green) now has alien atoms implanted.



This transistor is close to being finished. Three holes have been etched into the insulation layer (magenta color) above the transistor. These three holes will be filled with copper, which will make up the connections to other transistors.


The wafers are put into a copper sulphate solution at this stage. Copper ions are deposited onto the transistor through a process called electroplating. The copper ions travel from the positive terminal (anode) to the negative terminal (cathode) which is represented by the wafer.


The copper ions settle as a thin layer on the wafer surface.


The excess material is polished off leaving a very thin layer of copper.


Multiple metal layers are created to interconnects (think wires) in between the various transistors. How these connections have to be “wired” is determined by the architecture and design teams that develop the functionality of the respective processor (for example, Intel’s Core i7 processor). While computer chips look extremely flat, they may actually have over 20 layers to form complex circuitry. If you look at a magnified view of a chip, you will see an intricate network of circuit lines and transistors that look like a futuristic, multi-layered highway system.


This fraction of a ready wafer is being put through a first functionality test. In this stage test patterns are fed into every single chip and the response from the chip monitored and compared to "the right answer."


After tests determine that the wafer has a good yield of functioning processor units, the wafer is cut into pieces (called dies).
The dies that responded with the right answer to the test pattern will be put forward for the next step (packaging). Bad dies are discarded. Several years ago, Intel made key chains out of bad CPU dies.


This is an individual die, which has been cut out in the previous step (slicing). The die shown here is a die of an Intel Core i7 processor.
The substrate, the die, and the heatspreader are put together to form a completed processor. The green substrate builds the electrical and mechanical interface for the processor to interact with the rest of the PC system. The silver heatspreader is a thermal interface where a cooling solution will be applied. This will keep the processor cool during operation.
A microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story.


During this final test the processors will be tested for their key characteristics (among the tested characteristics are power dissipation and maximum frequency).

Based on the test result of class testing processors with the same capabilities are put into the same transporting trays. This process is called "binning". Binning determines the maximum operating frequency of a processor, and batches are divided and sold according to stable specifications.


he manufactured and tested processors (again Intel Core i7 processor is shown here) either go to system manufacturers in trays or into retail stores in a box. Many thanks to Intel for supplying the text and photos in this picture story. or full size images of this entire process.


woah making a proc so damn complicated.
but i thanking for the one who firstly create a processor now our jobs gettinh more effectively and fast n saves times
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