CSTechcast.com brings you another episode of the podcast for IT professionals. Today, we talk about the future of IPv6 for business with Fred Wettling, author of Global IPv6 Strategies from Cisco Press. In the news, solid state drives are looking to replace spinning disks for enterprise applications, AMD is introducing new processors, a court ruling on model trains impacts free software, Windows 7 starts to get real, and iPhone gets Gartner's nod for use in business. VMWare's servers have fallen and they can't get up in "The Worst tech Move of the Week", greening servers gets "A Closer Look", and a quick FTP server setup is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

News Spam King Kills his Wife, toddler, then himself. http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/25923259.html Microsoft Issues another advisory about the DNS Flaw. No patch, just a warning. I was under the impressions that for this flaw, you would have to use a man in the middle attack to poison a cache. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/956187.mspx Microsoft Officially Sponsors the Apache Foundation http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209601103 "Microsoft is contributing a patch to ADOdb". This is a data access layer for PHP, and adds support for SQL Server. "This is our first code contribution to PHP community projects but will not be the last." PowerGUI - Open Source GUI and Script Editor for PowerShell http://powergui.org/index.jspa New version released. http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/powergui-151-rtms/ Microsoft's Mojave Experiment http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html New Google competitor: Cuil.com Pronounced "cool", it seems ok, but I'll keep googling, not cuiling. http://www.cuil.com This Week in Computer History This Wednesday on August 3rd, 1977, Radio Shack announces the TRS-80 http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,3,1977 This Thursday on August 4th, 1988, Computers shut down the space shuttle because of a safety issue. http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,4,1988 VMWare makes ESXI Server Free Maybe in Response to Hyper-V? http://twoguystech.com/node/82 Buzz Aldrin blames Sci-Fi, at least partially, for the death of the space program http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=57491 JCL at Geeks are Sexy http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/07/25/the-ascent-of-scripting-languages/ Mike's Topic Twitter Service for updating your status to your friends. Works terrific for questions and short conversations. http://twitter.com You can follow Mike at http://twitter.com/Port16 I've been able to meet some good friends on Twitter, including Halr9000, who has a great web site, [1] and does a powerscript Podcast [2]. Not to mention some old friends too. Mike Really likes Twhirl at http://www.twhirl.org/ I still use Pownce, but I just don't get the response. You can find my Pownce page at http://pownce.com/Mike_Scott/ Server Naming Schemes Mike needs an idea of what to name his servers. BSG? Links: ------ [1] http://halr9000.com/ [2] http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/

CSTechcast.com, your weekly source for tech, trends, news, and reviews for IT pros presents the latest episode of our podcast. Rhonda Layfield joins the fray to update us on the extensive deployment tools available for the Microsoft Windows platform. Find Rhonda contributing to the web site Minasi.com. Tech news brings everyone early exposure to the DNS flaw, VMWare decides to give away the ESXi hypervisor, Drizzle aims to slim down MySQL, the Brocade-Foundry marriage merges Fibre-SAN switching with 10G Ethernet expertise, and Terry Childs finally gives up the goods. Quick selling VC's are investing in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at virtualization sprawl, and we look at SharePoint disaster recovery in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

This week we explore VMware ESX virtualization with Edward L. Haletky, author of VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise. Find information from the author at http://astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualiza

This week Keith and Greg talk about Skyfire, HoverSnap, Virtualization, the 13th Apostle and much much more Get the complete show notes and all the links at: http://www

Well you have all seen the Apple ads so you know a Mac can run Microsoft Office 2008 natively, but the question is "Is it worth it?". In this episode we do a comparison between MS Office 2008 and iWor