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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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Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.

A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...

Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-05

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparency

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparencyProbably was Worse than ThoughtThe lack of transparency is probably due to how much of a failure their disaster prepardness really is. It probably failed on many levels. No doubt Netflix doesn't want anyone to know just how ill prepared they really...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., transparency, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

NetSuite moves early to support Chrome

NetSuite said Friday that it will offer native support for Google's Chrome browser, which is in beta and may not be enterprise strength yet. In a statement, NetSuite said its CRM, e-commerce, accounting and OpenAir unit will support Chrome in phases with support being complete in mid-October....

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?Mostly valid points Christopher, but, you should give OLPC more credit fortransforming the market. And, I would like to see more OLPC features in computers like the Dell Mini. I DO want a sunlight readable screen. I DO want a more durable laptop. I...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to Ars Technica and several other outlets. Although the Ars piece paints this a real boon for OLPC, whose G1G1...

Tags: Developing Country, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Approved Downloads Policy

For many organizations, it's not enough to provide an acceptable use policy that spells out what kind of latitude employees have when using e-mail or the Internet. Although many businesses have users who are technologically astute enough to know what kinds of downloads and executables are safe to bring into...

Tags: Information Technology, Policy, Internet, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management

Download resources 2008-09-05

Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game (exe)

Preschool and kindergarten students will have fun practicing identification of numbers, letters, animals, and things while testing their memory skills in a classic tile match up farm themed environment in Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Memory, Fast Rabbit Software, Games, Flash Memory, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...

Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-04

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....

Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...

Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list

Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat listWhat use is this?What use is this post?This is just replicating the Microsoft advisory.You need to work a bit harder than this to be counted as "content".A list of the applications patched is about as useful as mammary glands on a...

Tags: Patch Tuesday, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-09-04