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- BCube: A High Performance, Server-Centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers
- This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the BCube architecture is its server-centric network structure, where servers with multiple network ports connect to multiple layers of COTS (commodity o-the-shelf) mini-switches. Servers act as not only end hosts,...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Network Architecture, High Performance Server, BCube, Data Centers, Networking, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-08-21
- Stopping Illegal Mobile Phone Usage - With the Latest High Performance Servers
- Mobile phone theft is a growing problem. In the UK a mobile handset is stolen every three minutes, impacting the lives of an estimated two million consumers per year1. When lost and stolen phones end up in the wrong hands, consumers and service providers bear the brunt of unauthorized service...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Server, High Performance Server, Mobile Phone Theft, Business Services, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Kuo Hua Life Insurance Uses Intel Quad-Core Processors to Shoulder the Load of Its Expanding eBusiness Services
- Kuo Hua Life Insurance Kuo Hua Life is a forward-looking Taiwan insurance company that recognizes the important role of technology in managing its business. Over the past 45 years of its history, the company has turned to technology to serve its needs in operating an efficient business. To better serve...
- Tags: Server, Quad-core Processor, Intel Corp., High Performance Server, E-business, Web Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- High performance server sales up 30% in 2004
- Following the economic downturn in 2001 and 2002, and modest growth in 2003, the worldwide market for high-performance technical servers - a category that includes supercomputers - grew by 30% in 2004 to reach $7.25 bln, IDC found. The largest growth categories were for clusters and low-end servers. In 2004,...
- Tags: sales, high performance server
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
- High performance server sales up 30% in 2004
- Following the economic downturn in 2001 and 2002, and modest growth in 2003, the worldwide market for high-performance technical servers - a category that includes supercomputers - grew by 30% in 2004 to reach $7.25 bln, IDC found. The largest growth categories were for clusters and low-end servers. In 2004,...
- Tags: serverS
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
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- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Is it time to go quad-core?
- Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...
- Tags: Processors, cloud computing, quad-core, laptop computer, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Open Search Server 1.1.2r665 (Mac)
- Open Search Server OSS is a search engine software developed under the GPL v3 open source licence. Built using the best open source technologies available, Open Search Server is a stable, high-performance piece of software. It is both a modern search engine and a suite of high-powered full text search...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Full-text Search, Open Search Server, Document Format, XML, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- Disks: why size means performance
- OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...
- Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Xlight FTP Server 3.5 (Windows)
- Xlight FTP Server is an easy to use high performance FTP server with very low memory and CPU usage. It has many features and advanced features such as remote administration, SSL, SFTP,ODBC, LDAP, Active Directory, e-mail notification, and IPv6 support.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Xlight FTP Server, E-mail, LDAP, Remote Administration, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Ssl/Tls, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Security
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Mac)
- innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Apple Macintosh, Innotek GmbH, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Synology Disk Station DS409slim - NAS server
- Synology Disk Station DS409slim is a true miniature powerhouse in the network-attached storage device market. It's the first 2.5-inch hard drive-based NAS server we've reviewed that offers hot-swappable capability. However, that is its least impressive feature. The server did well in our performance tests and, like other Synology products we've...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, disk, DS409Slim, NAS, NAS server, hard drive, server, RAID
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build
- Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- VSuite Ramdisk (Server Edition) 4.2.8031.1308 (Windows)
- Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Server, Microsoft Windows, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- 1st Clock 5.0 (Windows)
- See the date as well as the time from multiple time zones in your taskbar clock. Find today's date and time around the world with a glance! Specify what and how to display in the clock, select any color, size, font and background. Monitor computer's CPU performance and memory load....
- Tags: Alarm, Green Parrots Software, Monitor Computer, Clock, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Microsoft Windows 7, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- WD TV Live HD Media Player
- The first few rounds of network media streamers we tested weren't necessarily recommendable. Sure, this was partially because most of these devices depend on Windows Media Center for connectivity and content, but we also had issues with their interfaces and performance.Fast forward a year and it's safe to say that...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, Microsoft Windows Media Player, TV, media, HDMI, USB
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
- OpenLink Lite Edition ODBC Driver for SQL Server (TDS) 6.02.3280 (Mac)
- High-Performance ODBC Drivers provide transparent access to remote databases from any ODBC-compliant application. Desktop Productivity Tools (i.e., Spreadsheets, Word Processors, Presentation Packages, Desktop Databases, Personal Organizers, etc.), Client-Server Application Development Environments, Web-based Database Publishing Tools, and Computer Telephony Integration packages, are just a few of the many products that can...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Server, OpenLink Software Inc., ODBC Driver, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
- The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network into Hyper-V virtualized environments helps organizations capitalize on new Hyper-V capabilities, including live migration, hot-add storage, and storage platform features...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Microsoft to raise prices, add more high-end editions with SQL Server 2008 R2
- More likely to ship with Visual Studio 2010?Is it not more likley that SQL 2008 R2 will ship with Visual Studio 2010 as it has done with previous releases? I understand VS2010 is likely to be available in March (Mix 2010?). In this way, SQL is likely to be...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Corp., price increase
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
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