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Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise: One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run applications on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the hardware procurement cycle to facilitate it. While most discussions...; Tags: Webcast, Grid Computing, Grid, Intel Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking; Webcasts 2008-04-22
Sudoku (exe): Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 - 9. In options you can change color of numbers and grid. Also you can select the level soft, medium or hard. This version is the first release on CNET...; Tags: Grid, Aruemmler; Software downloads 2008-04-18
IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1: The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...; Tags: Failover, Grid, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Storage, Servers; White papers 2008-04-01
Championship Grid Graw (exe): Create Official Speedway New Zealand Grid Draws. Determine grid positions for speedway events according to Speedway New Zealand championship regulations. Produce HTML & printed Grid Draws for race meetings. Save and edit event starting information. Championship Grid Draw is designed to conform to Speedway New Zealand Regulations G13-7-3 and G13-8-1....; Tags: Grid, Computer, Productivity; Software downloads 2008-03-26
The server with the windmill on top: Wind farms and server farms, energy-efficient couple. That's according to a study from a British academic. The study concludes that in-house servers should give way to server farms co-loated in remote areas where wind or solar or other alternative energy can be generated. "There's something...; Tags: Server Farm, Grid, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-18

Hybrid cars and the power Grid: Hybrid cars and the power gridHybrids AREN'T "plugable" carsThere aren't any "plugable" hybrids in the market. A few people may add some extra batteries that may require a plug, but that is not a standard vehicle. The only "plugable" cars in the market are 100% electric (with only a max...; Tags: kW, Hybrid-car, power grid, plug-in, grid, battery; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
Hybrid cars and the power Grid: Today, people who care about the environment are attracted by hybrid electric cars. But in 2020, hybrid cars and trucks might represent 25% of all the vehicles in the U.S. Of course, these vehicles will need to be plugged to the power grid to recharge their batteries. A recent Oak...; Tags: Consumer, Car, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp: Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids...; Tags: Oracle Corp., NetApplications.com, Grid, NetApp, Oracle Grid Architecture, Storage, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers; White papers 2008-03-01
Off the Grid: energy independence in the real world: Courtesy: Builidng With Awareness and Ted Owens. Forget the campaign year political slogans. "Energy independence." Out in the real world, designers and engineers are making real headway in building homes and work spaces that are off the grid, and in some cases water...; Tags: Grid, Energy, Home, Ted Owens, BWA, Colorado Court, Corporate Communications, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Three risk categories that explain IT failure: A new white paper from Alpha Software describes three broad categories of risk that explain why software projects fail: Process failures arise when a project is "bumped off track," relative to the expected plan. If the goal of a process is to produce a specific outcome,...; Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Grid, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence: One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture that increases business agility and reliability.; Tags: Oracle Corp., SOA, Grid, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-02-01
Sudoku Time for Windows (exe): With Sudoku Time, you can have all your family plays as a separate user in the same game. You can choose from three different types of grid sizes and practice the game that fits exactly your current skills. If you are kid or just want to play something easy then...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Grid, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-01-23
Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfaces: David Chappell (the SOA Oracle of Oracle) issued his predictions for the market over the coming year, and says that grid computing will be hot, hot hot. But, he cautions, "the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB [Enterprise Service Bus], " given "the various concepts of hardware...; Tags: Web, SOA, Grid, David Chappell, Enterprise Service Bus, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Web Services, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-01-10
Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging: If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I've been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...; Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-09
FlexCell Grid Control for .NET 2.0 (NET2): FlexCell is a flexible and easy to use grid control, it provides comprehensive functions, such as exporting to Excel/CSV/PDF/HTML/XML, importing from XML, printing, preview, sorting, charting, cell merging, virtual mode, ownerdraw mode, etc. FlexCell grid control contains a grid designer that allows you to design report templates and user interfaces...; Tags: Microsoft .NET, Grid, FlexCell Technologies; Software downloads 2008-01-07
IBM To Buy Grid Storage Startup?: There a rumor running around that IBM may be buying Israeli grid startup, XIV for $300 - $350 million. If so this would represent a whopping coo for XIV who's seen just $3 million in investment to date, reports Globes As Globes notes,...; Tags: Grid, IBM Corp., XIV, XIV System, Storage, Hardware, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2007-12-31
Data-center worker sabotages Calif. power Grid: Data-center worker sabotages Calif. power gridThat data center was outsourced - wonder who to?IBM used to manage that data center in Folsom. The contract was re-bid in 2005, but I did not hear who won it. I guess that winner is the employer who the worker was mad at.Moral of...; Tags: Data centers, Storage, Adobe PDF, Data-center worker, data center, computer specialist, grid; Discussion threads 2007-12-18
Creative Design ChartMaker (exe): Easy Fast Charted Designs Perfect for creating design charts for Knitting, Crochet, Beadwork, Patchwork, Cross Stitch and Graph Paper. Beginners as well as experienced designers will find this tool easy to use and a convenient way to create projects. Significantly speeds up design projects, Print professional looking charts. Very intuitive....; Tags: Legend, Grid; Software downloads 2007-12-18
Grids need more medical applications: In many ways grid computing remains a solution in search of a problem. After enormous hype early in this decade, spurred by success stories like the SETI@Home project, valuable commercial applications have proven few and far between. Much of the problem lies in set-ups....; Tags: Grid, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Red shift meets event horizon: I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...; Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-12-13