Once again, CSTechcast.com brings you another podcast for IT pros. This week we talk to Marc Borbas, Vice President at INETCO, about how the approach to measuring and monitoring real-time applications that often leave your sphere of control. Find more information at INETCO.com. In the news, Internet Explorer 8 is officially release and gets a cool reception, IBM is looking to swoop in on Sun with a takeover bid, the FTC looking into privacy concerns around Google cloud applications like Apps and GMail, EMC pushing bigger and faster solid state drive technology into the data center, and Microsoft aims to make it easier to find bugs in your code with Crash Analyzer. Quick hacks at a contest of the top 3 browser's security gets "The Worst tech Move of the Week", small and mid-size business security options gets "A Closer Look", and new features of DHCP server in Windows Server 2008 R2 and a new tool are covered in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:Explorer 8: Bugs, Crashes, Glitches, Oh My! (InformationWeek)IBM-Sun Rivalry May Finally Reach An Accord (InformationWeek)Feds To Shut Down Google Apps? (InformationWeek)EMC Offers Larger-Capacity Flash Drives For Symmetrix Systems (InformationWeek)Microsoft to Unveil Open-Source Security Analyzer for Application Developers (eWeek)DHCP Server Events Tool (TechNet Blogs)A grim day for browser security at hacker contest (The Register)
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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=67 - Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)