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Computer Retailer Boosts Data Warehouse Performance With Move to 64-Bit Servers

Computer retailer CompUSA uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services cubes to provide a valuable environment for business intelligence queries to help it enhance operations and customer service. But as the company brought more information into its data warehouse, the batch window for processing became an issue. The company also...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Environment, Computer Retailer, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computer, CompUSA Inc., 64-bit Environment, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Databases, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Killing Engine 0.90 (Windows)

Killing Engine is a free multiplayer shooter where you team up with your friends to beat the opposing team. It takes place in an imaginary universe where Finland and Russia are at war with each other. The game features support for up to 64 players, large battlegrounds that take place...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows, Killing Engine, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-11

HP Answers Thin Client Questions

NOTE: The good folks at HP pointed out that I had used an old version of my document and some factual errors crept into my post.  This is a revised version of the post with those errors removed and quite possibly new ones inserted. On September 16th,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Microsoft buys desktop parallel-computing software maker ISC

the regulators should stop this dealM$ is an evil monopoly and should not be allowed to buy any company.Sounds great! NT.Hoping this brings massively multi-cpu/gpu supportThis is a technology area they badly need to boost. The future lies with massive numbers of CPU and GPU cores. Bringing in some expertise...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, desktop, CPU, Microsoft Corp., operating system, software, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X

Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, ZBrush, performance, Upgrading Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, clean install, CS4, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Rackspace goes for it: Plots infrastructure buildout; Notches enterprise wins

Rackspace is adding cloud and hosting customers at a healthy clip and plopping down the capital spending to go with it. The company upped its 2009 capital expenditure outlook as it builds out its infrastructure and chases enterprise customers. On Rackspace's second quarter earnings conference call, the...

Tags: Rackspace, Patrick Walravens, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Brother MFC-490CW

After giving the Brother MFC-5890CN a not-so-great review, we weren't breaking down doors with excitement over the step-down model. We expected another unstylish device marred by mechanical imperfections and unsuitable for any environment where productivity is a factor. Fortunately for Brother, this $130 all-in-one is actually a better printer than...

Tags: Printers, Monitors & displays, Brother MFC-490CW, printer, Brother MFC-5890CN

Product reviews 2009-07-21

Are legacy game consoles making a comeback?

I am not a gamer. I don't spend hours of my time in front of a computer screen playing games because quite simply, I don't have the time. That is until this summer when I moved into my new house, everyone else buggered off back to their respective homes around...

Tags: Console, Game Console, Games, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Wishful thinking: Can we make this carbon clock count backwords?

Remember the world debt clock that loomed notoriously over Times Square in New York? Now, city residents will get to see a massive, close-to-70-foot tall carbon carbon counter that is being sponsored by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. [caption id="attachment_5597" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Deutsche Bank counts carbon rather publicly"][/caption] ...

Tags: Counter, Deutsche Bank AG, Carbon, Asset Management, Engineering, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Report: RIM has Wall Street smiling

Is Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry, giving Wall Street that "warm and fuzzy feeling?" That's the word that comes from a blog post on Barron's Tech Trader Daily today. The post notes that at a recent analyst's day, the company offered no updates on...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Analyst, RIM BlackBerry, Blogger Eric Savitz, Savitz, Handhelds, Investment, Hardware, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-05

'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu goes into beta

'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu goes into beta'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu goes into betaAnd no one cares. I can think of a few names for it instead of Jaunty Jackalope but will still keep the jacking name in there. It still has linux as the core which is why people will...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, beta

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Will business users bite on Windows 7?

Will business users bite on Windows 7?SureI definitely see a business case for Win7 in our org. In fact, I have a business case for Vista, surrounding capabilities in .NET 3.5 with a home-grown app. (something that has to do with collapsible views which somehow is dependent on the OS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SMB/SME, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Oracle VM Manager Template

Oracle VM is Oracle's own x86/x86-64 server virtualization product, launched fall 2007. Oracle VM provides a very stable and high performance solution to run Oracle products in a production environment inside Virtual Machines VM. The product has been well tested and is fully supported and certified to be used with...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle VM, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Leadership, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Management, Storage

White papers 2009-02-01

Retail stinks, but Amazon doesn't; E-tailer delivers strong fourth quarter

Amazon managed to get stronger even as retailers across the U.S. struggled amid weak holiday sales. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $225 million, or 52 cents a share, on revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18 percent from a year ago. Those results handily topped Wall...

Tags: Revenue, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-29

NCP Network Communications Products Engineering Case Study: LDI

The LDI is a centralised service provider for IT and communications technology within the federal state administration of Rhineland-Palatinate. Among their clients are federal state ministries, police and judicial agencies. LDI wanted to have provision of mobile computing, setup of home office workplaces for teleworkers and high-security, yet economically viable...

Tags: Information Technology, NCP Network Communications Products Engineering, LDI, PKI, VPNs, Network Security, Modems, Remote Access, Security, Networking, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2009-01-01

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing Awards

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing AwardsWanna clarify...?[b]The 2008 Tyrian Silver Shekels go to the Wintel Customer Base - for increasing their purchases of Vista on Core Duo after the Wintel partners switched to marketing their yet undeliverable copies of the same Apple and AMD technologies they've been denigrating for...

Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, mainframe, Apple Inc., server, Linux, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

HP's Hurd: IT downturn different than 2001; Ink matters

HP's Hurd: IT downturn different than 2001; Ink matters"... variablize ..."?Quoting:"I think in this environment services in many cases is countercyclical, so what you have is people trying to take cost that could be capital and outsourcing that to somebody else so that they actually take the cost for them...

Tags: Printers, vista, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT downturn, Ink matter, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Achieving Better I/O Throughput Using SGIO in the Microsoft Windows Environment

In the SAS System, SAS I/O, the most common Input/Output (I/O) processing, is performed on SAS files such as SAS data sets, SAS catalogs, and SAS index files. Most SAS I/O processing is sequential I/O, which means that the DATA step and SAS procedures read a data set from the...

Tags: Environment, I/O, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2008-11-11

Americans who own desktops/laptops/PDAs by their job function

Work environment   Desktop Laptop Blackberry or other PDA Work longer hours Over 50 hours a week 79% 67% 32%   41-50 hours 79 57 20   40 hours 75 45 15   Less than 40 hours 76 40 17 ...

Tags: Job, Team, Hour, Team Management, PDAs, Management, Handhelds, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...

Tags: Linux, Mainframes, Data centers, Servers, Storage, Z10, IBM Corp., Z10 number

Discussion threads 2008-10-29