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- Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters
- Cloud storage solutions promise high scalability and low cost. Existing solutions, however, differ in the degree of consistency they provide. Its experience using such systems indicates that there is a non-trivial trade-off between cost, consistency and availability. High consistency implies high cost per transaction and, in some situations, reduced availability....
- Tags: Consistency, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-08-28
- InterWeave: A Middleware System for Distributed Shared State
- As an alternative to message passing, Rochester's InterWeave system allows the programmer to map shared segments into programs spread across heterogeneous, distributed machines. InterWeave represents a merger and extension of the previous Cashmere and InterAct projects, combining hardware coherence within small multiprocessors, Cashmere-style lazy release consistency within tightly coupled clusters,...
- Tags: Segment, Consistency, Middleware, University Of Rochester, InterWeave, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Information Service Patterns, Part 3: Data Cleansing Pattern
- The data cleansing pattern specifies rules for data standardization, matching, and survivorship that enforce consistency and quality on the data it is applied against. The data cleansing pattern validates the data whether persistent or transient against the cleansing rules and then applies changes to enforce consistency and quality. In this...
- Tags: Consistency, SOA, Information Service, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-04-06
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- Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?
- Dell = Junk always has always will beJust return it and get another computer from a vendor that does not sell junk. Ie: not Dell.RE: Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?I am glad this was posted! I have had an E6400 since June, and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Throttlegate, Is-a, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- 2010 GMC Terrain
- Photo gallery:2010 GMC TerrainWhen GM rolled out the Terrain at the last New York auto show, it seemed the company hadn't learned a thing from recently plummeting SUV sales. Not to mention that the Terrain seemed an unnecessary addition to an already full SUV lineup. But then we got a...
- Tags: V-6
- Product reviews 2009-11-30
- Paragon Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition (32-bit) 2010 (Windows)
- Partitioning is not for amateurs. That is why millions of people have trusted our safe, stable technology and professional software solutions for over 15 years. Our latest Free 2010 Edition easily organizes your hard drive and redistributes free space to enhance system performance. Easily resize and move partitions through the...
- Tags: Hard Drive, 32-bit, Technology, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-11-30
- Convert to PDF 1.0.004 (Windows)
- Convert to PDF is an economical solution for creating high-quality PDF documents that are 100% Adobe compatible. Designed to work with any Windows program that can print, it gives you a virtually unlimited number of programs that can be used to create PDF documents. If you can print it, then...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- The role of data governance in the enterprise
- According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News
- News items 2009-11-12
- 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
- MOBY 7v5 (Mac)
- MOBY helps you consolidate your ordering, customer database and cash register into one unified system. MOBY is streamlined to make short work of your most repetitive tasks, while improving consistency and reliabililty of the results. Ordering can be based on actual sales, holds, requests and reordering thresholds. MOBY transactions are...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mouse, Item, Bitter End Systems, MOBY, MOBY Transaction, Mice, Keyboards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Citigroup Uses FAST to Accelerate Delivery of Customer On-Boarding Application
- Citi had invested significant time and resources in creating its certified 'Gold copy' customer database. This was not merely a technology challenge. The team wanted to create an intuitive, easy to use search system that by reducing the time spent searching for customer records, would re-enforce the value of the...
- Tags: Team, Customer Information, Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc., Team Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-23
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Tags: global warming, climate change, food
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Toilet Tissue, Quilted Northern, 60/Carton
- Quilted Northern Goes Cheap Quilted Northern, relying on the long term customer base they established and that has the expectation of continuity, has now changed/cheapened their product. If you have old rolls compared to the newer packages the first noticeable changes are in size. To me,...
- Tags: Georgia-Pacific Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data (Updated)
- Proves Apple is not perfectI know many ABMers that bashed Microsoft when a bug that only affected a very small user base came on in Windows 7 Release Candidate and said that Microsoft should pay and how can they release software with bugs. All software has bugs I don't...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, S**t, Snow Leopard, user data
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Why the big Android bandwagon?
- One minor nit to pickTo succeed, however, it will have to deliver products as good or better than the iPhone, at the same or less cost, with just as many apps.It needs just as many good apps. It doesn't need all the flashlights or fart apps or things like that....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Branding, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Technical Description: IBMXIV Storage System
- The IBMXIV® Storage System offers a new level of high-end disk system performance and reliability. It is a core component of theIBMInformation Infrastructure which helps clients address their needs for availability, security, compliance and retention of information. The XIVsystem provides consistency under all conditions, immunity to hotspots, and consistent performance...
- Tags: Disk, IBM Corp., IBMXIV Storage System, XIVsystem
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Information workers loaded with tech they don't use, need
- my thoughts . . ."Workers have too much technology and software licenses when they?d really be happy with just a browser, email and a few handy social networking tools."In other words, you think that the only form of productivity is endless chatter.IMHO the real productivity tools are the ones you...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, worker, social networking, e-mail, social networking tool, information worker, computer, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints with lack of customization and stylus requirement
- I had high hopes for Windows Mobile 6.5 to at least provide a better touch experience, but it only does so on a basic level. We now see no customization support in the Start menu or Today screen and an overall lack of consistency across the platform. Windows Mobile needs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Customization, Mobile Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, screenshots, microsoft, windows mobile, pocket pc, smartphone, Matthew Miller
- Image galleries 2009-10-05
- Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints with lack of customization and stylus requirement
- I had high hopes for Windows Mobile 6.5 to at least provide a better touch experience, but it only does so on a basic level. We now see no customization support in the Start menu or Today screen and an overall lack of consistency across the platform. Windows Mobile needs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Customization, Mobile Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, screenshots, microsoft, windows mobile, pocket pc, smartphone, Matthew Miller
- Image galleries 2009-10-05
- Green Grid releases green data center resources
- Looks like The Green Grid is getting deeper into the Green IT tools business. The organization has launched a free online site with maps that data center managers in Japan and 33 European countries can use to figure out the extent to which they can use free cooling (the process...
- Tags: Data Center, Grid, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
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