Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis sparked a storm of comments with his post-election rant, in which he wondered aloud, sort of anyway, why no one has yet pointed out how "awesomely simple" the task of e-voting machines is and, thus, theorized that the company selling them, Diebold, conjures images of complexity that scare government agencies into paying more than the systems are worth. Several folks agreed with Bob; others took great pains to explain just how complicated the whole scenario really is. And many proposed open source e-voting systems to make them transparent to all. My personal favorite, though, and I quote "My idea: Two terms per politician; one in office, and one in jail." Read more comments and add one yourself here.
Podcasts: New products from Network Appliance and Panasas fill storage's need for speed. Plus, the week in storage with news from EMC, Oracle and others. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
Operating systems: Tooling around with the Vista RTM edition leads Oliver Rist to ask Does Vista kill third-party disk encryption? "I've got to say that the partition installation piece means that certain third-party disk encryption products still have a future. TrueCrypt or Cryptainer, for example, simply create an encrypted file volume with an ultra-strong password," he writes. "On the other hand, for SMBs looking to centrally manage a whole series of encrypted drives, BitLocker offers a lot of sophistication right there in the OS."
The news beat: A report by analyst firm Forrester suggests that consumers and enterprises alike will take to Windows Vista after the same fashion in which they adopted XP: they'll buy new PCs when existing ones break. IBM introduces four new rack servers that run on Intel quad-core Xeon chips. And MySQL says it wants to build what it calls a database in the sky.
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