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- Family Dollar Selects Windows Server, Saves Millions of Dollars
- Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, Family Dollar required a more robust merchandising solution to accommodate its continuing growth. In 2007, Family Dollar began the transformation of its merchandising tool set to a planned implementation of the SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning solution. Family Dollar faced a significant investment in new...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, Family Dollar, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-10-20
- Cloud may complicate SOA load balancing act
- Shine your own light in the cloudLori is correct to suggest that the cloud can obscure what you see. Cloud offerings tend to be basic, covering CPU, bandwidth and storage, and are very much of a 'one-shape-fits-all' nature. This is a consequence of building the offering on multi-tenanted...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Lori, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Updated software provides additional data center insight
- The team at nlyte Software formerly known as Global DataCenter Management must have despaired of me writing about them months ago. But I noticed the company has a new version of its software shipping, which I wanted to note for readers of this blog. First some background....
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Nlyte, Data Centers, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Hyperic, JasperSoft team to provide IQ systems intelligence solution
- JasperSoft and Hyperic have formed a partnership to give users in the enterprise and in the cloud a view into mission critical application performance metrics and service levels, the companies announced. JasperSoft is a top provider of open source business intelligence software and Hyperic is a...
- Tags: Team, JasperSoft, Hyperic, Hyperic IQ, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Novell updates PlateSpin and rebrands Orchestrator
- Richard Whitehead, one of the interesting people from Novell I speak with on an irregular basis, contacted me to tell me about an update to the PlateSpin portfolio and how Novell the PlateSpin product family and the former ZenWorks Orchestrator have been rebranded. Novell's products in the area of virtualization...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- DataCenter S.A. Improves Its Information and Transaction Services With a Robust IT Infrastructure
- Datacenter S.A., headquartered in Bogota, offers information services to companies in the gaming and state lottery industries. It also contracts with other operators to provide added value for its clients by offering bill paying, collections, reloading of cell phone minutes, and lottery ticket sales, among other services. It needed to...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Information Service, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Notes from VMworld
- Here are some random notes from VMworld. Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...
- Tags: Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, VMware Inc., Paula, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- SteelEye Technology Announces DR for Hyper-V
- As Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V makes its way into the market, quite a number of virtualization technology suppliers have announced support. Recently SteelEye, a company with deep expertise in high availability/clustering solutions, joined the party by announcing SteelEye DataKeeper support for the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ...
- Tags: SteelEye Technology, Microsoft Windows Server, Disaster Recovery, Virtual Machine, DataKeeper Cluster Edition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
-  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Take Four Cassatt's Active Response 5.1
- In honor of the demo goddess, my chat with the good folks of Cassatt was rescheduled four times. They had to reschedule. I had to reschedule. A fire alarm forced a reschedule. Finally, on the forth try, we connected and I was able to see a most impressive demo of...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Server, Active Response, Policy Compliance, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- StackSafe and the Permeable Sandbox
- Most products designed to help organizations use virtual machine software as the foundation for development and testing create a "sandbox" or encapsulated environment for systems and functions. While this approach has several advantages, a recent discussion with StackSafe highlighted a few issues it creates. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Sandbox, Organization, StackSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Low-Cost Virtualization With Ubuntu Server Edition 7.10 and VMware Server 1.05 on IBM BladeCenter Servers
- As demand for power and cooling within datacenters increases, more companies are looking for ways to reduce the amount of hardware required to run their business. Moving computing hardware to higher density, yet more manageable and robust architectures is playing a major part in server consolidation. To get the most...
- Tags: Ubuntu, IBM eServer BladeCenter, VMware Inc., IBM Corp., Server Consolidation, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-06
- Of course you realize, this means war.
- Fanboys exist for every favored computing platform. When you’ve been writing about computing for any number of years, such as I have, you are eventually going become the target of kooks â€" people who post completely random stuff on your blogs, send you crazy and inflamed emails, or write...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Macalope, Jason Perlow, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source
- Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...
- Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try
- At the Heroes Happens {here} event in LA yesterday which saw the launch* of Windows Server 2008, one of the relatively hidden gems of the event in my opinion was Microsoft's free** Search Server 2008 Express. It's is a streamline install of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with almost all the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Search Engine, Enterprise Search Engine, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Search Result, Microsoft Windows, Search, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
- Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on noticeProven Linux solution VMware Vs MS Windows Garbage HVYou have the rock solid and proven Linux base that is VMWare vs the bug ridden and unreliable Windows base that is Hyper-V. Sorry, but if I'm putting my butt on the line...
- Tags: Operating systems, Xen, VMware Inc., Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Citrix moves to integrate XenSource's technology
- Now that Citrix has completed its acquistion of XenSource, one would expect an announcement in which the company tried to put all the pieces together into an integrated story. Can you guess what the company just did? Right, presented an integrated story. Since the two companies worked together in the...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Pricing Strategy, XenSource Inc., Citrix Delivery Center Product Family, Citrix Workflow Studio, Tech Preview, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Insurance Firm Uses Virtualization to Streamline Server Provisioning, Drive Agility
- In business since 1917, today Alecta is the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden. The company's data center, located at headquarters in Stockholm, houses more than 100 older, underutilized servers. Alecta's IT staff deployed a Microsoft virtualization solution to improve hardware utilization, streamline server provisioning, and increase agility in responding...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, Streamline, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Alecta, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts examine 'Microsoft-Oriented Architecture' and evaluate SOA's role in 'Green IT'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 27, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus,...
- Tags: Green IT, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Green, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
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