Microsoft’s next version of Internet Explorer, version 8.0 is soon to be released for public beta test. Next week Microsoft will demonstrate IE8 on the MIX conference in Las Vegas. According to Microsoft there will be a consumer ready version of IE8 within 6 moths from now. If you want to check that status and the facilities in the new browser where Social Media, RSS, WEB2½ and many new facilities for sharing and security will be implemented, then the blog for the Microsoft Internet Explorer Team is the source.
Feb
28
2008
28
2008
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta
Feb
28
2008
28
2008
Will Fujitsu Siemens beat IBM and DELL on the EMEA server market?
Fujitsu Siemens is taking markets from the other storage and server leaders such as HP, IBM and DELL.
In the period of 2006-2007 Fujitsu Siemens made a strong double growth compared to the other market players in the EMEA storage market. The growth was 25.4 percent which is around double as much as the Server Market in the EMEA countries which was only 11,5 percent.
Fujitsu Siemens, Product chief Erik Aldring is saying to it24.se: “Our Strong sale and fast growth in earnings and market shares is a reflection of our partners and customers support, when it comes to our strategy. On the server market we have been in twice the growth as the market, if you look at the delivered x86 servers”
Verinet Denmark, CTO Steen Clausen says: »This very fast growth rate gives Fujitsu Siemens a market share at 8 percent, and if you look at the extremely broad and advanced product portfolio and the newly agreement with EMC, then i am sure that Fujitsu Siemens will surprise us all beating both IBM and DELL in the EMEA market. If you look at the product range and compare with the current market, then Fujitsu Siemens has newly developed storage and server products for demanding customers, like 2.5″ hard drive architecture, double PSU and the ability to have 12 drives in 1 mainstream server.”
Top 5 Server sale in Emea:
HP 43,4 percent
Dell 19,2 percent
IBM 15,4 percent
Fujitsu Siemens 8,0 percent
Acer 1,8 percent
Feb
24
2008
24
2008
Social Media and sharing sites is ranking higher than Google and anyone else
In terms on determine the trends around having video and social media on your sites you may look on the current Alexa.com ranking of the main sites in the world. It is telling af story about social media and videosharing which can be related to Verinet’s Business Building and having a CMS system.
The trend seems to bee sharing content and having Web Social media facilities on your Site. Sites such as Social Media and Files or Content sharing is gaining momentum very quickly. From that we could learn that people are using the internet to share and to make connections both privately and Business like.
Hosting Trends is that the CMS systems is gaining momentum. The Traditional web hotel is dead. The users wants CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress included in their solutions. And many new research indicates that the price is not important.
Here is the links of TOP 20: Notice that Google has moved to number 4 and no. 2 is now Youtube – owned by Google.
| 1 | (none) | yahoo.com |  |
| 2 |  1 |
youtube.com | |
| 3 | 1 |
live.com | |
| 4 |  2 |
google.com | |
| 5 | (none) | msn.com | |
| 6 | (none) | myspace.com | |
| 7 | (none) | facebook.com | |
| 8 | 1 |
hi5.com | |
| 9 | 1 |
wikipedia.org | |
| 10 | (none) | orkut.com | |
| 11 | (none) | rapidshare.com | |
| 12 | (none) | blogger.com | |
| 13 | 6 |
fotolog.net | |
| 14 | 1 |
megaupload.com | |
| 15 | 6 |
google.fr | |
| 16 | 1 |
friendster.com | |
| 17 | 7 |
skyrock.com | |
| 18 | 1 |
microsoft.com | |
| 19 | 3 |
yahoo.co.jp | |
| 20 | 6 |
baidu.com | |
In the Danish list http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang〈=da there is also a trend which is Soccial Media, sharing and sex.
Source: www.Alexa.com
Feb
06
2008
06
2008
Windows Server 2008 is going to manufacturing with release of February 27 for licence and March 1 for retail package and OEM
The beta versions of Windows 2008 where downloaded around 2 million time, according to Microsoft. Many of the customers is actually using Windows 2008 for tests and deployment, among these is Verinet.
Windows Server 2008 is containing many new features. For the web hosting clients the most important is Internet Information Services 7.0 which has many new features like running PHP application hosting via the IIS FastCGI module.
The Windows Server 2008 also comes with 17 roles including a file and print server or Web server and then it only installs the code need for that purpose. Theres is a new Network Access Protection which is a check to prevent any unpatched and insecure computers from accessing a corporate network. The Virtualization news is the Hyper-V virtualization which currently is delivered in a beta version but is to be released within 6 month.
