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- A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
- This paper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organizations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and optimize...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Data Center, Data Center Consolidation, Consolidation Initiative, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-03-12
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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games
- Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox
- News items 2008-07-23
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer
- Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...
- Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...
- Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?
- Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- The edge-centric Internet
- Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...
- Tags: Consumer, Internet Data Center, Data Center, Internet, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity
- Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Twitter going commercial?
- Twitter going commercial?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think this is a very positive initiative by Twitter and may be one that will possibly end its dilemma. With popular sites like Youtube still struggling to monetize their popularity, i beleive this will help put twitter on some sound business footing and give...
- Tags: Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
- In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...
- Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan:Â Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Linux Kernel, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Twitter, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Linux, Channel Management, Mainframes, Open Source, Telecommunications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Servers
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiativeFlash sizes?What size flash are we talking about here? There is no way we are flash freezing a 200G database in any flash implementation that I know of.Leading to what?Will this work - as soon and as well -for ZFS on Linux? (and Mac?)If so cue AntonHow...
- Tags: ZFS/Flash initiative, ZFS/Flash, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative
- Sun's forthcoming ZFS/Flash products will be interesting enough, and important enough, that most companies will be justified in exploring the technology a bit and perhaps experimenting with it ahead of time using a ramdisk to emulate the flash components. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup, Memory, ZFS, Storage Hierarchy, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- AIIM Market IQ Research
- There is a torrent of information available on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies available to inquiring minds, but making sense of it all is another matter. As is so often the case, the more information you find, the harder it can be to get an clear...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, AIIM, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending
- A Citi Investment Research survey of 200 CIOs finds a cautious outlook for technology spending that's roughly flat in the second half compared to a year ago. Under the surface, however, there are some interesting crosscurrents and IT buyers are getting better pricing. The survey released last...
- Tags: CIO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Server Consolidation, Pricing, Marketing Research, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Servers, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
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