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- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power business
- Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessHah. Fat chance.Americans have been programmed to think nuclear radiation is the most toxic material on the planet.RE: Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessOne mention of the words 'Nuclear Power' and everyone freaks out. They immediately link it to nuclear fission, which...
- Tags: Toshiba Corp., nuclear-power business, reactor, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Rapid Functionality Updates With Higher ROI Through Dedicated ODC for the World's Largest e-Marketplace
- The client is the world's largest online retailer with over USD 6 billion of revenue in 2006, 240+ million registered users, and 649,000 online stores worldwide selling over 50,000 categories of merchandise. The major challenges included: parallel development on the same source code; seamlessly integrating the code developed by different...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Team, E-marketplace, ROI, Team Management, Roi/Tco, Service Level Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Internet
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 Policy-Based Backup Management
- Reliable data protection in the enterprise extends beyond simple tape backup to multi-tiered data protection strategies based on criticality of data, Recovery Time Objectives RTO and retention meeting business and regulatory requirements. Tape media remains the cornerstone of enterprise data protection providing the most affordable, reliable media for long-term backup...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Tape Backup, Backups
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Issue Centric Evaluation Methodology
- There are specific methodologies used for building business, strategizing business growth, development of software applications and setting up architecture, databases and enterprise software. It is interesting that most amount of time, money, and energy is spent on resolving issues rather than development of new applications. However, there is standard method...
- Tags: Software, Issue, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2007-10-18
- Virtual Machine Software - Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
- Virtual Machine Software - Failing to Plan is Planning to FailA Machine is a MachineWhen was the last time someone said E-Commerce? 1998? Commerce is commerce.A Machine is a Machine--virtual or physical--so treat them the same way.Leverage existing processes like Change & Release Management.Use and enforce Security Policies and Compliance.Check...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, Virtual Machine Software, virtual machine
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com)
- Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com)UNETHICAL??????????I have to agree with you on this case. A crash doesn't mean they are unethical in practice. I inherently think of it as, like you mentioned, a growing pain. But take into consideration, What caused the crash? Was it...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, Salesforce.com Inc., Uptime Institute
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore's Law could be failing
- I'm at a panel discussion at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, the purpose of which is to discuss the ever-widening gap between the physical success of Moore's Law, and its failings from an economic, environmental, and sustainability point of view. The session was opened by Uptime Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, SUV, Environment, Server, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Fault Tolerance in a Virtual World: How Common Use Cases Raise Your Criticality Quotient
- As server virtualization goes mainstream, the workloads of virtual machines are taking on mission-critical proportions. Uses range from application-dense server consolidation, to failover and disaster recovery, to managing the virtualized infrastructure. Downtime and data loss pose harsh consequences in scenarios like these. This paper looks at five use cases to...
- Tags: Stratus Technologies, Fault-tolerance, Use Case, Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Configuresoft's George Gerchow points out that "You can't manage what you can't see"
- Configuresoft's Technology Strategist, George Gerchow, and I had a lovely discussion about virtualization, virtual machine software such as VMware and the stresses this technology push on overworked IT professionals. During this discussion, I mentioned that I thought that Configuresof's focus is too narrow, that virtualization is a far broader...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- "Every Problem Imaginable"
- Twenty years ago, the Tennessee state government built a 70,000 square-foot data center in a location that now appears to have a few problems. What kind of problems, you ask? Well, heres what Computerworld has to say on the matter:The state located its data center on top of unstable, jiggly...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Virtualization and Green Computing
- Virtualization and Green ComputingMakes sense...It's a good and clever way to combine e-mail and other sundry servers. More power from one box.It's not useful for EVERY type server yet, obviously, but it's got its clever uses...RE: Virtualization and Green ComputingThe Business Performance Management BPM Forum is undertaking two milestone...
- Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Storage management, Strategy, BPM Forum, Green Computing, Crunch Time, survey, IT Organizations, BPM, virtualization, Business Performance Management Forum
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Automating the Business of Business Recovery
- Ensuring business recovery has become a difficult and sometimes thankless task despite regulations and local catastrophes. Obtaining tools that aid in ensuring business recovery is one of the most important items with any strategy within this space. Knowing the criticality of the business applications and their associated data can helps...
- Tags: Recovery, Business Recovery, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Define and defend perimeter and internal segments of your network
- With the proliferation of wireless access points WAPs, virtual private networks VPNs, and extranets, it has become increasingly difficult to determine where your network begins and ends. Yet without knowing how your network is laid out, or understanding which segments touch the Internet directly, it will be nearly...
- Tags: Network, Networking
- Book chapters 2007-04-26
- Vista gets bashed for non-exploitable vulnerability
- In my blog yesterday I was in full agreement with Ryan Naraine and I heavily criticized Microsoft for their slow response times in patching known vulnerabilities. Today Im going to have to take Naraine to task for bashing Microsoft and Vista on an vulnerability that isnt even exploitable. ...
- Tags: Vista, Security, News, Microsoft, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- A good outbound firewall in Windows Vista wouldn't replace the need for layered security
- In case you missed it, my post on when a firewall really isnt a firewall (hint: When its Windows Vistas firewall) drew a firestorm of response from ZDNets readers many of which agreed and many who did not (be sure to see the screen gallery I prepared as my proof-point)....
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Security, outbound firewall, firewall
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and Winer
- I love reading Joel Spolksys blog actually pretty much everything the guy writes is a gem. Today, he performs an absolutely amazing Tamudic examination and explication of Steve Gillmors latest rant about... well Steve tends to cover a lot of ground when he posts so there are a number of...
- Tags: Blogs
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Health Sciences Center Recognizes Need to Secure Wireless Airwaves
- The University of Utah Health Sciences Center UUHSC needed a solution that would uphold the foundation of information security - criticality, availability and data integrity. Among the requirements UUHSC needed a solution that would enable them to track and easily discover rogue access points, provide visibility into the performance of...
- Tags: AirDefense, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, LANs, Networking
- Case studies 2006-11-22
- Can we STOP with the sensational browser flaw reporting? Please!
- Can we STOP with the sensational browser flaw reporting? Please!I don't doubt it.ntYeah, too right. Reckon I'll go into isolation W/O Internet.Yeah, Right. Reckon I'll go live in a cave for six months W/O Interent.It'll be a repeat of Windoze '95 razzmatazz all over again but only...
- Tags: Web browsers, Opera Software, Opera 9.02, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
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