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Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

PowerPC, x86, and Apple pricing

PowerPC, x86, and Apple pricingCheaper hardware makes no differenceYou are arguing pennies here. 6 grand for an Apple, 9 grand for a Sun, and 12 grand for an IBM, sounds like there's a price advantage, but add a 15k Websphere package with a 20k Oracle database and you quickly see...

Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, hardware, Hardware cost, Apple Inc., Intel x86, IBM PowerPC, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2005-10-25

Construction firm extolls virtues of Dell's blades

Construction firm extolls virtues of Dell's blades10 serversDoing nothing but email and print spooling (I did see some SQLserver - but not how much). That's 10 M$ Windoze licenses and with Citrix, 10 Citrix licences (plus 10 Exchange and 10 SQLserver licenses). That adds up to quite a bit of...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Hardware cost, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., blade, Dell Computer Corp., hardware, server, disaster recovery

Discussion threads 2005-07-13

Ballmer: We need a $100 PC

Ballmer: We need a $100 PCMore interested in MS interests in hardwarelose significant enough for MS anyways software clients, will they expand into 0wning the box by buying up hardware sources? Nuts and bolts and dollars and cents, they could have a finger in almost everybodies pie. Be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, hardware cost, Microsoft Corp., PC, hardware, piracy, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2004-10-20

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Moxi introduces three-tuner HD DVR, reduces prices on dual-tuner version

TiVo isn't the only company trying to entice people to choose its DVR solution over one you can get bundled with your cable or satellite programming. Moxi is going the extra step with the latest version of its HD DVR, unleashing a new model that incorporate...

Tags: TiVo Inc., Moxi, DVR, Digital Video, Development Tools, Network Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-10

XP/VS Terminal Server 1.0.356 (Windows)

Turn Windows XP, Vista, Small Business Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 into a full-blown terminal server. Adding Thinstuff's XP/VS Terminal Server software to a Windows workstation enables you to establish an unlimited number of RDP connections to it. This turns your Windows workstation into a complete Terminal Server and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, Thinstuff, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-08

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Walmart unveils 15.6" HP Pavilion G60 laptop for $298

hmmfor once, i agree with you. why are they still making the celeron...? shouldn't the atom replace that?Intel Celeron?is Inhel still making this 10 year old crap?surplus maybe? ntnti feel 298 is bad for celron processor..but still good option for ppl who r new to these creepy labtops..RE: Walmart unveils...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives

Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...

Tags: Flash memory, IronKey, D200 USB flash drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Whitepaper:  EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab

This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage DAS, Fibre Channel storage area network FC SAN, and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity). After testing EqualLogic storage in the lab using...

Tags: EqualLogic, Analysis, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware

White papers 2009-11-04

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible

There are many more advantages to consolidation... Virtual switch technology... Virtual switch technology, is far faster than anything Ciscoor other hardware router vendors can push through your INTRAnet.... In the era of mashups... and multi database applications, you want internet connections that are at memory transfer speeds, not...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, data center consolidation, data center, hub/Switch, IP, hardware, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype

Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components

Another ideaThe KH family must look forward to Santa's arrival if those are your ideas of gifts!One I think worth considering is and external drive and a back up program. You know which friends need those. (Sorry Zack :- Well, those choices were...... different.Why the i7 extreme, when you can...

Tags: Games, Holiday Gift Guide 2009, Holiday Gift Guide, Holiday gift, hardware component, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-02