REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 29, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM). Today's announcement included an in-depth look at how Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 (code-named "Rosario") will help democratize ALM with a unique solution that brings all the members of a development organization into the application development life cycle, and removes many of the existing barriers to integration. Additional details on the other focus areas will be disclosed over the product development cycle. "With Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, we are focused on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms spanning client, server, services and devices, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements," said S. "Soma" Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "These pillars are designed specifically to meet the needs of developers, the teams that drive the application life cycle from idea to delivery, and the customers that demand the highest quality applications across multiple platforms. You can expect to hear a lot more about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 in the coming months." Democratizing Application Life-Cycle Management Today, much of application development remains siloed throughout the enterprise, leading to decreased productivity and lengthy product development cycles. With VSTS 2010, Microsoft is taking the next step forward in giving individuals and development organizations an advanced solution that enables the
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2007 – Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced expansion of its market-leading 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series which include three new high-capacity, high-performance Serial ATA HDDs for mobile PC applications, including the industry's first 250GB1 1.8-inch HDD. Toshiba's third-generation 5,400 RPM SATA 1.8 HDD family also features 120GB and 160GB capacities, along with the fast data transfer rate of the SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface. In addition, the MKxx29GSG series offers a Toshiba's state-of-the-art free fall sensor option, which enhances protection from external shock and vibration events. This powerful, high-capacity family further broadens Toshiba's full line of 1.8-inch HDDs to meet the diversified storage needs of both PC and CE manufacturers with products suited to the specific capacity, performance and configuration requirements of each application. Building on Toshiba's recent introduction of PATA 1.8-inch HDDs with up to 240GB capacities, this new SATA 1.8-inch HDD series offers the performance characteristics required for computing applications and enables PC manufacturers to further miniaturize notebook designs without sacrificing functionality. Toshiba's concentration on the 1.8-inch HDD platform and leadership in advanced recording technologies have enabled the company to continually push areal densities to 378.8 Gb/in2 in the new series and deliver storage capacities that were previously available only from larger form factor HDDs, while decreasing the power consumption required by the storage device. The MK2529GSG achieves a low energy consumption efficiency2 of 0.0016 watts-per-GB in. In addition, incorporation of high-performance features such as SATA 3.0 Gb/s and 5,400 RPMs enables 1.8-inch HDD entry into all mobile PCs, delivering the benefits of longer battery life, increased shock tolerance and quieter operation in a field-prove
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As a Windows network admin, you know that one of your key duties is to monitor the health and status of your network. There are a lot of ways to do this. You can manually check each machine each day, but unless you have a exceptionally small network, this isn't a realistic option. What you need is a network monitoring solution that can provide you with real time information about your network. That solution needs to be able to detect when systems or services are down, and then information the appropriate people that there's a problem. This is where ipMonitor from SolarWinds comes in. ipMonitor provides you a secure-real time network monitoring system that allows you to proactively monitor, alert and recover systems and system services. And ipMonitor does this around the clock, in the background so that you don't have to worry about watching the console all the time. I had a chance to install and test ipMonitor 9.01 recently. I consider one of the key features of a good software product is that installation and initial configuration is transparent. I shouldn't have to read the manual to do the initial setup and installation. If there's a problem, I expect the software to let me know about the problem and provide guidance on how to correct the problem. ipMonitor didn't let me down. The installation was smooth and there were no errors when I installed ipMonitor on my Windows XP SP3 management station. After a clean setup, the initial configuration tasks wizard began. The configuration wizard walked me through adding an administrator account, adding alert settings for the administrator, including an email address that can be used to alert the administrator when an event is triggered. Then the device detection screen appeared and gave me the option to scan the network using an IP range, Network Neighborhood, a DNS zone or a HOSTS file. Since I was interested to see what network devices I had on my home office network, I decided to scan the entire class C range I'm us