Anith Gopal

Juniper reports record Q4 and FY2010 results.

When we announced Office 365 at the end of 2010 for businesses, we talked about the way that workers will use the cloud to collaborate more easily from virtually anywhere on any device. Now we’re doing the same for students. And the worldwide announcement is being made at the BETT Show today

На днях одно из крупнейших российских новостных агентств РИА Новости запустило новый технологический проект Digit . Мне посчастливилось попробовать себя в роли колумниста нового издания и начать небольшую серию статей о моей работе в нашей штаб-квартире в Редмонде. Хочу поблагодарить редакцию ресурса за такую возможность, а у вас спросить – о чем писать, что интересно, о чем рассказать?

In a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. Read presspass [Network World] Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

Why is there no inherent serialization support for normal object graphs like in the attached example. The attached example is a basic page with two simple vector caclulators. Entering a vector dimension of three in the part named “Add”, filling out a few values, press calculate, you get:  Press “Send arguments” and the arguments are send to the other app.

I was on Tekzilla Episode 92 , interviewed by the lovely Veronica Belmont .

It’s a nice time saver if you would like the HTML editor to automatically add quotes for the attribute values while you are typing. To set this option select Tools->Options. Check Show all settings

Sanjay Mishra just published the following White Paper, ” Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices “, highly recommended and much anticipated. On this same topic, I received a question from a colleague the other day, asking what the impact of data compression on memory was.  The assumptions I had were as follows: Page or Row compression allows for more data to fit in memory (compressed page on disk matches compressed page in the buffer cache) When the data is read from memory for use in a query – it is uncompressed during that time A little unsure of the specifics, I still wanted confirmation on these assumptions, so thank you to Sunil Agarwal for confirming that this was correct.  Compressed data does reside in the buffer pool in a compressed form (which you can test in a before/after data compression using sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors), but when compressed data is referenced, it is uncompressed as needed.  Sanjay’s paper also discusses this topic in more detail in the “Application Workload” section.

In slow economic times, it is often hard for customers to justify upgrading technology when they cannot easily identify specific benefits they will enjoy as a result of the upgrade.  For those Microsoft Dynamics GP customers who haven’t yet upgraded to SQL Server 2008, I think you may find the results of our recent Performance Benchmark tests to be reason enough to make the jump! In the latest test results utilizing a very large sample Microsoft Dynamics GP database, the application showed an 18% increase in performance through upgrading from SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition when using Row Compression.

AFP: Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China — the Agence France-Press talked to me when I was in Hong Kong about the early days of WordPress.com and our experience with the Chinese firewall. Today we are still sporadically blocked, nothing official but enough that almost everyone in China uses WordPress.org. It’s funny that this story came out almost two months after the interview because I’m wearing that exact same sweater today.

Why create Kerberos Identity for farms?

WordPress listed as one of  “Five Best Journaling Tools” at Lifehacker.