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In praise of good governance

There is some concern out there these days about the use and misuse of the term “governance.” As Ed Horst, VP of Marketing for AmberPoint, puts it, “Everybody wants control and the term ‘governance’ pushes that button.” There are issues around “run-time governance”: How are the systems performing? Are they...

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Blog posts 2005-10-24

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IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...

Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Something strange in your SOA... who you gonna call?

In the US presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's ads have been asking who is the most qualified to be picking up that 3am emergency call. Why is a service malfunctioning? Who knows? When it comes to SOA, who should be picking up those 3am SOA...

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

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.

Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.Is this a testamentTo their inability to gain hardly any traction at all in the Mobile device environment, starting to use a java based solution?? (It's not the full implementation anyways, it has some proprietary add ons and misses some of the functionality). Furthermore does Danger...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows NT, Danger Inc., Microsoft Corp., SideKick

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

To controversy, NSF taps IBM, U of Illinois for supercomputer

The National Science Foundation has chosen to IBM to help it build the world's fastest supercomputer at a cost of up to $400 million, The New York Times reports.The news of the contract award only escaped because relevant documents were mistakenly placed on a federal Website for a short time...

Tags: National Science Foundation, Supercomputer, IBM Corp., ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Ring tones--the new protest songs

Ring tones--the new protest songsRing Tones - The Billion Dollar IndustryDoes anyone else think that unlimited cell voice service will soon be a small flat rate/free, with carrier's making all their money on filling your phone with crap and allowing other's on their network send more crap to you...possibly charging...

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Discussion threads 2005-10-20

Watch your fuel burning in 3-D

You've probably noticed that it costs you more to fill the gas tank of your car than a year ago. There are many reasons for this, but it's important to remember that 85 percent of U.S. energy needs are fueled by combustion, as reminds us Horst Simon, for Scientific Computing....

Tags: combustion, Horst Simon

Blog posts 2005-10-13