Cheap and Easy Internet of Things

David Carr and John Kestner are hoping to raise $35,000 to "connect your things to the Internet, without a nerd degree." The project, Twine, promises "the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing." No programming required.

This does look pretty cool, so I'm hoping it takes off. Not only as a consumer project – I can see this having lots of uses in business as so then. The project is set to run through January 3, 2012 and already has near $3,500 in backing. What do you think, is the Twine set to the holiday gift of the year, or what?

Reliability is a huge factor in choosing a server to host virtualized business-critical applications. If a RAM error brings your entire server to a halt, all the applications on it stop functioning. Principled Technologies loaded an Intel Xeon processor E7-4870 based server running VMware vSphere 5.0 with 12 virtual machines. At that time they injected a memory error that affected one of the VMs.