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- Is Apple going back to the PowerPC?
- Hardware independence as a strategic weapon The Forbes magazine scoop that Apple is buying P. A. Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley company that designs high-performance, power-sipping PowerPC chips - the very chips Apple just migrated away from - raises a host of questions. But the people who need to worry...
- Tags: Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Vista SP1 highlights in 60 seconds - The reasons why I'll be applying the service pack
- Vista SP1 highlights in 60 seconds - The reasons why I'll be applying the service packFile copy and read times readThese are the improvements that I think most people will welcome.[i]Improves performance over Windows Vista’s current performance across the following scenarios: o 25% faster when copying files locally on the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, RAM, service pack, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...
- Tags: Kit, Network, Home Network, Supercomputer, Adapter, Pricing Strategy, InfiniBand, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book. IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now called cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is claiming they'll get rid of all their data centers by 2015....
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Computing, IBM Corp., Syllogism, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- 10-Gigabit Ethernet - The Next Generation Network Infrastructure
- Since any opportunity to improve performance is a plus for IT administrators, the dawning of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GigE) is good news. Questions regarding costs, benefits, cabling, and timing are top of mind as administrators try to plan technology upgrades and new network deployments. Rest assured that if...
- Tags: 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Network Infrastructure, Network, EqualLogic, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-24
- FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutrality
- FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutralityHow about waiting for the decision ....... before condeming it? Shouldn't you be posting for the Huffington Post or Moveon.Org instead of a tech site? That is where I expect to find the Liberal spin. Not here!Explain to me......How it's "neutral"...
- Tags: FCC, BitTorrent, Net Neutrality, Comcast Corp., bandwidth
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gige switch
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switchWhy would google's custom switch. built for internal use...affect the pricing of switches ???"he Storage Bits takeGoogle’s focus on power is paying dividends for the entire industry today. Their focus on cheap, high-speed networking will also drive 10 gigE down the price curve faster than...
- Tags: PCI, Manufacturing, Google Inc., Juniper Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- News to know: AMD Spider; Amazon Kindle; Visual Studio 2008
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season Robin Harris: Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Building a Windows Home Server - the easy way! Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2008 to...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Google Inc., David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Development Tools, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gige switch
- Has Google has built its own 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch - one far cheaper and power-efficient than existing switches - as it seeks to widen its infrastructure cost advantage over Yahoo, MSN and AOL? Andrew Schmitt, an analyst at Nyquist Capital makes the case. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Server, Ethernet, RAID, Networking, Network Technology, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer
- My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy What does it take to power the world's most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google's new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google's tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Rack, Pricing Strategy, Computer, Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Vista "Out of Memory" errors
- Vista "Out of Memory" errorsPratchett, Unseen University, Anthill InsideSo That's where I'd come across that termthought it sounded familiarRE: Vista++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++Yay for pterry and yay for Hex.Of course you have every right ...[i]I’d expect...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, HEX, Cheese Error
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Supercomputing Costco-style In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Today you can build a more powerful machine for less than $2,500 in an 11" x 12" x 17" box. That works out to less than $100 per gigaflop as of January, 2007 ...
- Tags: Performance, Supercomputer, Microwulf, Millicomputing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...
- Tags: RAID, Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, Blade servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deep Blue, Cray Inc., supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- SOA done right: the Amazon strategy
- I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful. I met some fellow bloggers and a lot of smart folks from massive scale websites, and some that hope to become massive scale websites.What is the...
- Tags: Software, Infrastructure, Clusters
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime
- Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Uptime, Allocation, Sanbolic Inc., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Warp speed file serving with pNFS
- Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop.Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file servingThe Network File System NFS is the oldest NAS Network Attached Storage protocol. Developed by Sun in the '80s and made an open standard, NFS makes files on the network available...
- Tags: Clusters, Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home Server
- Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home ServerLinux gives you a better server. For free!Linux gives you a better server. For free! For example Ubuntu 7.04 server edition: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/products/WhatIsUbuntu/servereditionPlus the hardware requirements are dramatically lower. And old Pentium 2 with 192 MB RAM will do.Trust Linux on your server:...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, data recovery, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Back channel communications and blogging
- Last week a guy named Ben Rockwood, whom many of you will know as a key player at Joyent, published a personal blog harshly critical of Suns hardware and services delivery process. His title: Getting Fed Up With Sun: Cant Get Systems, Breaking...
- Tags: Sun, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Others concur: SMBs should be outsourcing (and good vendors mention the alternative)
- Others concur: SMBs should be outsourcing and good vendors mention the alternativeOutsourcing will also spread to large corporations whose primary businesshas nothing to to with computers. In a matter of time there will be no good reason to have email servers, web servers, database servers, workgroup file servers,...
- Tags: small and medium business, outsourcing, Eng, Manf, outsource, e-mail, server
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
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