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Deploying Sun Java Enterprise System on the Sun Fire T2000 Server Using Solaris Containers

Improving the manageability and efficiency of enterprise infrastructure services poses a significant challenge to many organizations. The problem is compounded by the proliferation of individual servers used to run key enterprise applications including directory, portal, identity, mail, and calendar services. A recent Gartner report indicates that the power, space, and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Sun Java, Sun Fire, Sun Java Enterprise System, Enterprise Infrastructure Service, Sun Solaris, Servers, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-10-02

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Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)

Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Sun's latest server packs a punch in performance while using less power

Sun Microsystems, along with Fujitsu, is introducing a compelling new energy-efficient server platform that is intended to address heavy-duty tasks such as server virtualization, consolidation or even something like Web 2.0 database transactions. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server line runs on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture with...

Tags: Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-13

FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile

Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...

Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-12

New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste

Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...

Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Tim Bray on surviving the tough times

Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...

Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-11

IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting

A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...

Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Entellium's lost millions

Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...

Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsThis could help the economy...The government should burn the recorded conversations to CDs and sell them. :-)NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsHrmmm I wonder if they are hiring?More lies from the Bush administration.http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060102/news_1n2bush.htmlIt only counts because AMERICANS are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone sex, NSA, Eavesdroppers, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Are there really too many Windows editions?

Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-10

US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures

The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...

Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'Where are these returned MachinesI keep looking online for refurbished Linux Netbooks and can´t find any. Are they being resold as new?'teething problems'well written but i would like the know the return rate for Linux not compared XP or vista, is it...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare

News items 2008-10-10

Consumers score a partial win against Walmart

Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10