Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 to be developed under wraps

	Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype | Microsoft hopes to attract VMware users with free migration tool
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	Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 to be developed under wraps Ubuntu 13.04, scheduled for release in April next year, will have some of its key parts developed under wraps with the help of community members who can be trusted not to talk in their sleep, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote in a blog post on Thursday. Apparently tired of critics, Shuttleworth said he has figured out that critics will continue to be critics whether an idea is discussed with them in advance or not. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solar Winds Awesomely Affordably IT Help Desk Software from SolarWinds Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks – remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! In this Issue Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype Microsoft hopes to attract VMware users with free migration tool SDN and virtual networking seen as a key to growing hybrid clouds Virtual desktops: User tips from the trenches Microsoft takes income hit prior to Windows 8 launch RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling. Read More Microsoft hopes to attract VMware users with free migration tool Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that today run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, Hyper-V, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. MVMC converts VMware vSphere virtual machines or virtual disks stored using the VMDK format into Hyper-V compatible versions. Read More SDN and virtual networking seen as a key to growing hybrid clouds If the OpenStack Summit held this week in San Diego is any indication, virtual networking is a hot IT topic. A panel discussion about virtual networking in the cloud featuring representatives from HP, Big Switch, and Midokura was packed to the brim. Talks by engineers from eBay and Nicira about their software-defined networking implementations in an even larger conference room were standing room only. Read More Virtual desktops: User tips from the trenches The lure of virtual desktop infrastructure -- less costs for endpoints, reduced power requirements, lower management costs, better security -- is compelling but mastering the environment is tricky, say users that have embraced the technology. Read More Microsoft takes income hit prior to Windows 8 launch Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, Microsoft reported $4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013, a 22 percent decline from the same period a year earlier. Read More
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