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SOA done right: the Amazon strategy

I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful. I met some fellow bloggers and a lot of smart folks from massive scale websites, and some that hope to become massive scale websites.What is the...

Tags: Software, Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Google's three rules

They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software. Costly corporate kit, like RAID arrays and 15k FC...

Tags: Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Warp speed file serving with pNFS

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop.Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file servingThe Network File System NFS is the oldest NAS Network Attached Storage protocol. Developed by Sun in the '80s and made an open standard, NFS makes files on the network available...

Tags: Clusters, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Microsoft Cluster Services and Network Appliance Storage Devices: Integration of Storage

Clusters are a set of loosely coupled systems that behave as a single system. By coupling multiple independent systems to present the appearance of a single system, clients and applications can interact with the single system presented by the cluster. The cluster can then provide for system and component failure...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Storage Device, Microsoft Cluster Service, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Clusters, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2004-12-01

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What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Pooch 1.8 (Mac)

Pooch is designed to combine powerful, numerically-intensive parallel-computing clusters with the famed ease-of-use of the Macintosh. Pooch coordinates the distribution of data, acts out commands from other Pooches, and provides a modern user interface to start and monitor parallel computing jobs.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Pooch, Dauger Research, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)

Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Unified Parallel C, Berkeley Unified Parallel C, Apple Mac OS X, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...

Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Live Webcast: Building an Always-On Single Instance Database

New with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node Oracle RAC One Node is a one-node version of Oracle RAC which enables customers to standardize on a single deployment model for all their database needs. It offers far greater benefits than traditional server virtualization to single...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-10-20

Don't discount network technology in the energy-efficiency equation

I haven't much thought about the role of networking equipment in more energy-efficient data centers. But switch maker Voltaire, a specialist in InfiniBand technology, is now co-opting this rallying cry. What gives it the right? Well, for starters, it's worth noting that some flavor of the company's...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Network, Network Technology, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Jeju University Hospital Improves System Performance, Eliminates Network Downtime

Jeju National University Hospital is a teaching hospital, which was established in November 2001. Korea's Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs recognized the hospital as a specialist intensive care and emergency institution. Over recent years, the amount of electronic patient records that needed to be managed and archived had...

Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Performance, Network, Downtime, Jeju National University Hospital, E-health, Healthcare

Case studies 2009-10-01

GGZ NHN Improves Performance and Availability of McKesson's Electronic Patient Dossier Horizon GGZ

GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord GGZ NHN wanted to improve primary system performance and stability of McKesson's electronic patient dossier, Horizon GGZ, and enable interactive operations by users while the organization runs batch processes, including monthly invoice runs and improve availability during planned and unplanned outages. The challenge was to achieve a more...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Performance, GGZ NHN, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Caitong Securities Brokerage Processes 300,000 Daily Transactions With Powerful Database Platform

Caitong Securities Brokerage Co wanted to enable the efficient processing of large volumes of financial transactions for brokerage services and ensure optimum performance even during peak trading periods. The challenge was to reduce the financial threat to the business of trading in high-risk products such as futures commodities. Caitong Securities...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Accounting, Databases, Storage, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

NovoSpark Visualizer 1.2 (Windows)

NovoSpark Visualizer is an advanced, powerful and feature rich visualization program that enables qualitative analysis of multi-dimensional data on a graphical image. The product comes with a variety of image viewing options that helps you get the most representative view of your data. With NovoSpark Visualizer you will be able...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, DEK Software, NovoSpark Visualizer, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

The best VoIP solution is ...

What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Database Virtualization Using Clusters: Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better

Learn how a virtualization approach that is built into the database can create deployment flexibility for better service levels, shift workloads for less downtime, and free-up valuable DBA resources to focus on high-value activities. Guest speakers: Carl Olofson, Research Vice President for IDC ...

Tags: Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-09-17

Change Reporter for VMware 2.0.45 (Windows)

The freeware reporting tool for change management of your virtual infrastructure. Reports changes to virtual hardware, configuration of ESX servers, resource pools, clusters, and other virtual and physical objects. The tool sends a daily report, outlining all changes made to virtual infrastructure, including previous values of configuration settings. You can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Infrastructure, Change Management, Virtualization, Business Intelligence, Ip storage, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-09-16

Cloud Computing Initiative Using Modified Ant Colony Framework

Scheduling of diversified service requests in distributed computing is a critical design issue. Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected and virtual computers. It is not only the clusters and grid but also it comprises of next generation data centers. The paper...

Tags: University Of New Brunswick, Optimization Method, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-04

We ferret out the latest flu questions

Genes included in the new swine flu have been circulating undetected in piGenes included in the new swine flu have been circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade, according to researchers who have sequenced the genomes of more than 50 samples of the virus. The findings...

Tags: H1N1 flu, latest flu, flu

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03