LInria inaugurates a research centre on the free software

L `national research institute in data processing and automatic, Inria, comes D `to announce the occasion of the living room Open World Forum 2009, the cration D `a new organization in the field of: the CIRILL.

This Center D `Innovation and of Research in Data processing on, cre in partnership with actors of the public research and free software, wants to be a place D `scientific reports, technological and industrial.

« We are convinced that France lays out D `a fertile medium for the free software. With the CIRILL, we want crer, with our partners of the public research, a place of research and D `innovation for the open free software all the actors of the chain of the innovation » explain Michel Cosnard, prsident directing gnral of Inria.

the project will be port by, dj in thmatic load of the group free software of the ple of comptitivit System@atic. In addition to a rle in the field of research and dveloppement, the CIRILL will accomodate industrial projects and will intervene in so much qu `observatory and center D `exprimentation.

the premires collaborations within the CIRILL would owe dbuter at the first half of 2010, prcise Inria.

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New iPod: Touch and the Nano one, spearheads of new

Technology – By positioning liPod Touch like a vritable portable game console and by equipping the Nano dune will camra vido, Apple wants to touch a clientle even broader.

Apple does not make the things randomly. And if the firm the apple chose the iPod Nano plutt that Touch to receive the function vido on which everyone had bet, C `is for a trs good reason.

L `Nano iPod, with its 100 million D `exemplary couls is quite simply the most popular walkman numric in the world. To equip with the vido, D `a broader notch, D `a loudspeaker, D `a tuner FM and D `a podomtre, C `is to open the iPod Nano new uses and new customers… and to push the others to exchange to them « old man » Nano. One will be able for example transfrer the vidos (one hour maximum) on computer and the poster on YouTube. Without counting qu `149 euros into 8 Go and 179 euros in 16 Go, the iPod Nano are posed as an alternative allchante vis-a-vis small the camscopes SSD which N `does not offer so many functions.

L `iPod Touch, better qu `a portable console?

Do Nintendo and Sony have concern of facing offensive it iPod Touch? If it one believes of them the figures publis by, question N `has anything of causing.

According to give of ComScore, the account on the whole 21.178 titles of leisures and plays against 3.680 for the DS from Nintendo and 607 for the PSP. Of course, quantit does not say qualit. And D `lay out it a strong catalogue of plays of the titles more priss. But Apple has dj prouv qu `it can bind its products of the gravitational contents. The base installs of the iPod Touch (20 million D `units sold) has what to convince the diteurs of plays more the skeptics.

The proof, at the time of the keynote, Apple made to dfiler on scne some heavy lorries of the industry of the play vido which have adapt them hits for the iPod Touch. Assassin Creed II Discovery (Ubisoft) who leaves on iPod in Mrs. time that for the other consoles; titles headlight D `Electronic Arts like Madden NFL 2010, Need For Speed Shift, Command and Conquer and NBA Live or 35 plays signs Gameloft, the leader of the plays vido for mobiles.

iPod Touch for the occasional players

And to complete the dmonstration, Touch sees its performances increase with in particular the compatibilit Open GL ES 2. 0 identical it. Apple thus had good game to push the comparison with the portable consoles which N `do not have « D `multipoint tactile notch, not D `App Blind, and of the expensive plays » .

Remain that the « hardcore gamers » remain trs sensitive the brand image of their console and qu `they are not fond of delicacies multi-fonction pocket knifes. Let us guarantee that new Touch will sduira plutt occasional players. Let us point out qu `Apple has moreover baiss price of the iPod Touch 199 euros for the version 8 Go (against 229 euros), 289 euros for the 32 Go and introduced a modle 64 Go 379 euros. (Eureka Press)

Nouveaux services cloud: Colt put on the scurit to convince

Business – the oprator put much on this new offer which aims at the time SME and the large accounts. Discussion with Batrice Rollet, marketing director of division Managed Services at Colt.

More known in so much qu `oprator of rseau voice-dated high efficiency for the companies and service provider manags, Colt S `is lanc this T in the adventure of the cloud computing through a division ddie: Colt Managed Services (CMS).

This segment of march has indeed the wheel in motion (port in particular by the crisis) and undertaken it N `does not intend to miss to it stage coach with its offer baptizes Enterprise Cloud. It east constitutes D `one fuses three tages but this day, only first D `has T to between-them plac in orbit. It S `acts of Colt Managed Workspace which proposes a accs distance from the bureaucratic applications and
mtiers Microsoft (Office, Sharepoint, Visio, Project,
Messaging).

For as much, competition on this ground is dj trs hard. How the British count does diffrencier? “; Us minks the small time the large ones and the entreprises”; , explains us Batrice Rollet, marketing director of division Managed Services at Colt.

“; Indeed, all seek aujourd `today flexibilit and continuit of service, Mrs. in SME which N `do not identify the universe cloud forcment. But we make to measure, not fits pied”; .

Breakdown

And obviously, SME seems in the center of the priorits of Colt (like much D `other oprateurs D `elsewhere): “; 75% of SME identify hbergement the distance as a solution of continuit and of performance, especially lorsqu `they do not possdent in-house comptences to ensure this continuit”; , it adds responsible.

But Colt put especially on its rputation of solidit to make the diffrence. Whereas certain services hbergs as those of Google have multipli the breakdowns, the British proposes his rseau highly scuris and redond which in particular convinced of the banks and the trader sites.

“; The applications must function 100% of time, the externalisation rpond this problmatique. Still one needs qu `it is scurise. C `is a major stake because give them are critical. Our rseau highly scuris (standard ISO, 25.000 fibre kilomtres, 18 datacenters in Europe) is our chart of visite”; affirm Batrice Rollet.

Mrs. tonalit on behalf of Maggy Mac Clelland, Directrice of activit CMS of Colt that ZDNet. Fr has interrog. “; We matrisons all the processes: we possdons the rseau, the datacenter, C `is a solid foundation trs and indpendante. Our competitors cannot say autant” of it; .

Reste that Colt, malgr its efforts, N `is not the shelter of the breakdowns. one of its datacenter europens knew a major incident causing the cut of many services IP. Of what corner an brand image built on annes and to call into question this speech? …

For as much, this breakdown is a premire. “; To say that the solutions are sres 100% is a mensonge”; , tempre it responsible. And of prciser qu `are it is necessary D `access to raise the good questions (Which the hberger applications? It is necessary to know qu `they have a whole a level of scurit diffrent. Which are the needs?) so D `viter D `tre will confront problmes of scurit.

For Colt, the cloud in particular and the services manags in gnral are stratgic. “; They increase by 30% per annum “; , the oprator affirms. Next slaps: Colt Cloud Infrastructure Services which will provide services of storage and …

Open Network Invention shows its Microsoft turn to threaten Linux

Legal – At the time of lvnement LinuxCon, the director by far has Microsoft accumulators to davoir essay to rcemment sell rcemment patents of the known socits for tre procdurires and likely D `to attack Linux.

the Linux Foundation and the OIN, two associations of dfense of Linux, do not digrent dfinitivement the rcente sale of 22 patents (lily Linux) by Microsoft. Aprs Jim Zemlin, the director of the Linux Foundation, C `is with the turn of Open Invention Network (OIN) D `to show Microsoft to threaten Linux while resorting as arms the intellectual proprit.

Recall of the facts: dbut September, Microsoft cdait AST, a socit whose activit consists to acqurir patents, to provide its members of the perptuelles licences, then finally the cder D `other companies.

Microsoft forgets to however request the OIN rpute

the OIN S `is then brings closer D `AST for and to prvenir a repurchase by a hostile socit. However, according to Keith Bergelt, which S `is exprim this subject the occasion of LinuxCon de Portland, Microsoft could not be unaware of only association conceals a potential acquror dowry of financial means sufficient.

Pourtant never N `has T contacts by the ditor of Windows, which would have on the other hand approch several other companies, among which some are known to carry out legal actions against Linux in S `supporting on patents.

Keith Bergelt voluntarily shows moreover Microsoft D `to have insist during the ngociations on the bond with Linux of these diffrents patents, when those are on the contrary very often cds naked, load for the acquror D `auditer him-Mrs. the contents of the patent.

the acts of Microsoft in the free one pain to convince

For the leader of the Open Invention Network, the sale ralise by Microsoft had a motivation hiding place: crer a climate of fear, D `uncertainty and of doubt in the communaut. The firm of Redmond has dcidment great difficulty to cause confidence.

During its, the ditor has martel to however want to collaborate with Free the, insistent one for example on its agreements with Red Hat and Novell, the setting provision under licence LPG V2 of source (of the pilots for), or the cration of its Open Source foundation.

But Microsoft will have to further go, S `it wants rellement to convince of associations like the OIN or the Linux Foundation of its volont to collaborate with the free software.

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Total Allianz Investors conomise grce in Thin Provisioning

tude of case – the financial group has virtualis its storage through Thin Provisioning, put in uvre in a top-of-the-range bay. A project which allowed him rduire its cots malgr the increase in its requirements in disk space.

Subsidiary of the group Allianz, Allianz Global Investors gathers the activits management D `active and liking thus 920 billion D `euros D `incur. To ensure these oprations, the computer infrastructure S `avre critical. The sector of finance caractrise galement by requirements in unceasingly increasing terms of capacit for storage. Total Allianz Investors France, which liking 65 billion D `euros, N `cap not the rgle.

« We tions parties there are some anuses on bays of the midrange type. Two catgories of waiters, Solaris and Windows, attack bay. We reached a premire limit in I/O on the part Unix, rsolue while passing on matriel HP EVA8000. Six months later, we reached another block on the waiters Windows » , explains Pierre-Yves Bouchard, responsible production and infrastructure D `Allianz GI France.

Thin Provisioning: mutualiser free space on bay of storage

With problmatic of safeguard S `adds moreover that of the acceptable limit of physical storage. A project is thus amorc in April 2008. Six manufacturers rpondent the call D `offers, of which the amricain 3Par. Meanwhile, the crisis S `invites and with it the constraints budgtaires. The project complte thus D `a need for rduction of the cots.

« In practice, a ingnior systme tends to take a margin in matire D `disk space, just like the ingnior bases give or the applicatif ingnior. On the whole, surface request is thus always suprieure usable surface. We had ds at the time need D `a solution allowing us D `conomiser on surface disc proposes while preserving flexibility on the assignment » , clarifies Pierre-Yves Bouchard.

Alternate reserve: of storage through. The principle consists mutualiser free space on bay of storage between all the waiters, plutt that D `to affect strict spaces each one. Storage can thus tre optimis grce a hot allowance D `space, thus rpondant the problmatique one of saturation or underutilization of the discs.

to prvenir overconsumption by an application and to preserve a margin of scurit, diffrents thresholds D `alarm is paramtrs. The mcanisms of Thin Provisioning at Allianz GI France are implemented in a bay of top-of-the-range storage of the manufacturer 3Par.

the cot of bay deadened ds the premire Anne

Concrtement, the project has consist prsenter with the waiters 26 To of volumtrie for a total space rel of 15 To, and 11 To of give concrtement useful. With a traditional bay, Allianz GI France would have D to acqurir the 26 To.

As the bay, redonde on a deuxime computer room in synchronous rplication, it includes/understands four contrleurs and of the discs of high qualit in attachment Fibre Chanel. But Thin Provisioning allowed D `to deaden the cot bay ds the premire Anne, grce also at the prices comptitifs matter by 3Par, including with regard to the maintenance contract over three years.

With the volution of the volumtrie, it undertaken still will be able …

T-Systems cuts in sharp the

Business – division data processing departments of Deutsche Telekom announces the removal of 3.000 stations. The subsidiary company remains a ball for the German oprator.

The situation S `amliore not of the ct of T-Systems. In difficult chronic, division services with the companies of Deutsche Telekom announces to the removal of 3.000 stations supplmentaires D `here the nearest Anne. The company counts 45.000 salaris.

the reason invoqu is traditional: vis-a-vis the deceleration of the march, the subsidiary company owes once again rduire its cots. Especially, it owes amliorer a rentabilit weak judge by his house MRE.

Falls of the rsultats

T-Systems has very of Mrs. ralis in 2008 a bnfice D `exploitation ajust of 826 million D `euros for a figure D `businesses of 9,34 billion.

But each Anne, her performances drops (the figure D `businesses reached 12 billion in 2007), to the great displeasure of the German oprator who has cherch a time to sell this division. Without succs. A partnership with Cognizant has nanmoins T concluded in 2008.

N the other hand of this new social plan (manpower have dj T rduits of 1,9% this Anne), the direction promised to maintain the use of the salaris in place until mid the 2012 (sic).

the redundancies will be ralises without dry dismissals if possible, by
internal skews of reclassifications or by helping the salaris which will have
to leave to find an employment elsewhere, according to the communiqu.

Apple, LG, Microsoft and 20 other companies continued for violation of patent

Legal – a firm texane affirms to dtenir since 2003 a patent on the tactile technology of VAP such qu `it east uses on the iPod dApple, Zune from final Microsoft and dautres.

Gamble or clap of thunder? Tsera, socit bases in Texas has dpos felt sorry for against 23 socits qu `it shows D `to have rape its patent for tactile interfaces ” type; touchpad”; .

With the number of the companies accuse appear Apple, LG, Microsoft and Philips which market all of the apparatuses using a touchpad or a sensitive serrated roller. It of course is thought, with. In its complaint, Tsera targets D `elsewhere name the firm the apple which would have been informed of this patent since 2004 and ignor would have it dlibrment.

Towards an arrangement the friendly one?

Tsera rclame this title of the more important damage to the crator of the iPod, and rclame of the royalties auprs of the others socits imply. The sums concerned are potentially standards. None firms continued N `still have ragi this complaint. However, profile of Tsera soulve some doubts: its name N `pageantry not in the patent, it possde not of Internet site and it one can wonder why it S `is not manifest more tt.

the lawyers of the 23 socits quote undoubtedly S `will employ to find faults. Fault of that, an arrangement the friendly one could tre concluded. (Eureka Press)

a fault of scurit in Office XP 2003 and 2007 dj exploits by hackers

Scurit – Microsoft has D reconnatre lexistence dune is necessary scurit in its Office continuation the Mrs. day of the diffusion of her monthly corrective measures of scurit. This fault is in the components Web dOffice which sactivent via Internet Explorer.

Situation embarrassing for Microsoft which has D, the Mrs. day of sound patch Tuesday, on attacks qu `underwent users D `Office XP, 2003 and 2007 via a fault of scurit. This vulnrabilit is at the level D `Office Web Components which S `use with Internet Explorer.

the hackers crent measuring rods pages and attract their victims by means of spam dguiss. They thus rcuprent rights administrator on the repugnant PC and can make then there this qu `they want.

While waiting for qu `a corrective measure is publi a date still not prcise, Microsoft advises dsactiver Office Web Components.

Dave Marcus, research director in scurit at McAfee notes: « Malgr the rparations D `aujourd `today, the users of Windows are always attaqus. When Microsoft takes two steps ahead, these attackers make it move back D `a » . (Eureka Press)