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".
Links to stories discussed during the show:New DNS exploit now in the wild and having a blast (ArsTechnica)VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free (InformationWeek)Drizzle project plans a stripped-down MySQL (InfoWorld)Dissecting the Brocade-Foundry Merger (eWeek)SF mayor gets codes to hijacked city network (CNet News.com)VCs Reap What They Sow (Gigaom)The Silicon Valley VC Disease (Scobleizer)
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