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- Environment
- A particular configuration of hardware or software. "The environment" refers to a hardware platform and the operating system that is used in it. A programming environment would include...
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- FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite
- I just spoke with Jerry McCloud, VP of Business Development of Fastscale Technology, about the newest release of their product, FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite. This product is aimed at reducing the complexity of creating and maintaining virtual machine images. Previous versions of the product supported VMware's ESX Server. This version adds...
- Tags: Software, Environment, Image, Virtual Machine, FastScale Composer Suite Software Environment, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Saving money with solar tech
- It's not cheap to power a home these days. Could solar-energy tech be the solution? At the Intersolar North America exhibition in San Francisco, CNET's Kara Tsuboi finds a few products that could help bring sunshine to your wallet.
- Tags: Tech, News, kara tsuboi, intersolar, solar, green tech, comsumer electronics, home remodeling, environment, global warming
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Japplis Toolbox (exe)
- Japplis Toolbox is a compilation of text utilities in one application. It can encode and decode URL, Base64, Hex, SoundEx or Metaphone. It can convert numbers from/to binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal and to date. It gives you text information such as character count, word count, MD5 or SHA. You can...
- Tags: Environment, Anthony Goubard, Japplis Toolbox
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- FDA warnings in the era of immunity
- FDA warnings in the era of immunityThe indoctrination runs deepNote how it is simply assumed as truth now that big pharmaceutical puts money ahead of the well-being of their customer.Not once does the brain engage to consider how big pharmaceutical could make money once all their customers are dead.One of...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, pharmaceutical company, TV ADS, FDA, environment
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?
- UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing...
- Tags: Turbine, Environment, U.K., Sea Wave, Anaconda, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take
- Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the conversions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- 10 keyboard shortcuts to improve your Linux experience
- A few simple keyboard shortcuts can make your work in Linux far more efficient. Jack Wallen runs through 10 of his favorites, for both desktop environments and window managers.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: Environment, Keyboard Shortcut, Jack Wallen, Linux, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Download resources 2008-07-02
- Configuring Team System for Your Environment
- Working with customers on Team System, few questions are raised around the configuration of the Team System environment. From external users using Team Foundation Server to setting up test rigs for staged load tests. This webcast will cover some of these typical scenarios in Team System, and makes one aware...
- Tags: Team, Environment, Team Management, Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-27
- Save the environment: stop eating
- Save the environment: stop eatingWe need to extinct to save the worldOnly human extinction can save the world.RE: Save the environment: stop eatingGo veg - save the planet!wow"Save the environment: stop eating"Wow. I really hope that's a joke. That's pretty extremist.I'm fine with saving the planet and all that, but...
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Save the environment: stop eating
- So we know many fish species are in trouble due to over-fishing. Heavy production of corn in the American Midwest is killing off life at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Poor farming methods lead to desication and soil erosion. Some areas of tropical rainforest are being...
- Tags: Planet, Environment, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- All the things Sun Ray won't do
- All the things Sun Ray won't doNopeI can't, maybe i'm biased too. But when you hear senior IT-ers go on about helpdesks the size of 2 to 3 headstrong, instead of the at least 10 to 25 to 100 you have nowadays with the Windows environments.The problem with Wintel desktops...
- Tags: Linux, Thin clients, Microsoft Windows, environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, server
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- How to maximize performance in virtualized environments
- How to maximize performance in virtualized environmentsvm historyWhile virtualization does allow users to 'expand or reduce' capacity on demand, most real life requirements are to expand and seldom reduce. A few applications have seasonal peaks but 99% are always growing.The major bottleneck which arises with virtualization is that of I/O...
- Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, I/O, hardware, IBM Corp., performance, environment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-21
- VMWare and HP align products to bring greater management and insight to virtualized environments
- I was just having breakfast yesterday with two systems architects from Seattle, who said they were exploring virtualization, including both VMWare and Xen hypervisors. The liked the potential benefits but were put off by the complexity of setting the stuff up and maintaining it. Their choices, they said, pretty much...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, VMware Inc., Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Data Management, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- PCDJ Reflex (exe)
- PCDJ Reflex is the all encompassing, real-time performance PC software solution for every type of professional DJ. Whether youre a Club DJ, Turntablist, Producer, or Mobile DJ - Reflex offers the rock solid features youve been asking for, with the flexibility youve only dreamed of. Mix, scratch, remix, use VST...
- Tags: Environment, Controller, USB, Digital 1 DJ, PCDJ Reflex
- Software downloads 2008-06-18
- Rumpus (dmg)
- If you need to allow people from within your office or across the Internet to send, receive, and manage files on a central Mac, Rumpus FTP is what you are looking for. Whether you need to accept graphics files from remote locations, manage content on a Web server, or coordinate...
- Tags: Ease, Environment, Maxum Development, WebDAV Service, Internet, File Servers, Web Servers, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- 'Instant replay' helps software developers fast-forward to application problem areas
- As virtualization becomes more common, these replay approaches may be necessary as instances of apps and runtimes may come and go based on automated demand response provisioning. These left-over breadcrumbs of what once happened in a virtualization container will be quite valuable to then prevent recurrences. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software, Application, Environment, ReplayDIRECTOR, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Storage, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Mokafive Version 1
- I recently had a chance to speak with Dr. John Whaley, Co-founder and CTO of MokaFive. His company has developed a different approach to desktop virtualization (read a combination of virtual machine software, application virtualization and streaming) that, he hopes, will revolutionize how organizations create, deliver and administer desktop environments....
- Tags: Environment, Virtual Desktop, MokaFive, Professional Solution, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Data centers: Friend to the environment or foe?
- At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., on June 6, Forrester Research Senior Vice President Christopher Mines moderates a discussion on data centers. IBM's vice president of marketing management, Elaine Lennox, and VMware's data center product marketing manager, Rob Smoot, weigh the pros and cons of building...
- Tags: Data Center, Environment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, IBM, VMWare
- Videos 2008-06-13
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
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