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- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2008 Audi A8 L W12
- Photo gallery:2008 Audi A8 L W12The 2008 Audi A8 L W12 rests in a premier echelon of cars that combine extreme luxury with exceptional driving performance, cars that make it difficult to decide whether you'd rather be reclining in the back seat while a chauffeur drives or up there where...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, subwoofer, Audi A8, Audi AG, Bang & Olufsen, car, MP3
- Product reviews 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- VMware and common performance myths
- Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...
- Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Open source college revolution?
- Open source college revolution?Blackboard NG "Next Generation"Keynote speaker Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen demonstrated the power and direction of Blackboad NG at today's afternoon session of Blackboard World '08 in Las Vegas.TRULY a Next Generation product that makes any institution's 'learning' go everywhere.+ It will now wrap Moodle & Satai.+ Courses...
- Tags: Angel Learning, Moodle & Satai, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 millionFire HectorThat's where they need to start. This guy has a terrible, terrible track record and it's showing its colors now. AMD has some AMAZING engineers and talent. Probably some of the most talented processor engineers around but bad management =...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Operational accounting, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, processor, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- 2008 Pontiac G8 GT
- Photo gallery:2008 Pontiac G8 GT With a 6-liter V-8 and brawny styling, the 2008 Pontiac G8 GT looks like the return of American muscle, only, it's not. The new G8, an example of International brand engineering, actually comes from Australia, where it's called a Holden VE Commodore. These origins explain...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Pontiac G8 GT, Mph, Pontiac G8, Pontiac
- Product reviews 2008-07-10
- Parallels Operating System Virtualization for HP Integrity Line
- An announcement when out last week that Parallels and HP have chosen to collaborate and offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers. The goal of this partnership is to help HP's customers make the most efficient use of the power of HP's Integrity line all the way up...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Parallels Virtuozzo, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating System, Hardware, OS Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- 2008 Volvo S80 T6 AWD
- Photo gallery:2008 Volvo S80When we took delivery of the 2008 Volvo S80, we immediately opened the boxes, pulled the various panels out, and tried to match up the bag of fasteners with the pictures in the assembly directions. Actually, new Volvos look nothing like flat-pack Ikea furniture, trading in their...
- Tags: Volvo, Volvo S80, driver-alert system, lane-departure
- Product reviews 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Hyper-V: It's here
- As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of usGood stuffI've been extremely impressed with Proxmox VE and the developers are readily accessible and responsive via their forum and mailing list.I was going to install plain base Debian just for Plesk on this crazy new dual-socket quad-core (8-way SMP) box...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, cloud computing, Performance management, Storage management, high-performance, virtualization, KVM virtualization, ProxMox VE
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT
- Photo gallery:2009 Pontiac Vibe GTWe found the economy car efficiency, the tight build quality, and the odd body style all appealing on the 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT. But once we started looking at the details, we realized it was a Toyota. The hard flooring in the cargo area and the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Pontiac, Pontiac Vibe GT, Vibe
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Old DEC code open sourced by HP
- Old DEC code open sourced by HPMove on... why botherWow, and if IBM open sources OS/2, we'd have two museum pieces to admire. AdvFS was DOA five years ago, the last thing we need is another retrieval from the grave.DEC started search enginesFew people remember that DEC started search engines....
- Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Desktops, Olsen, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Equipment Corp., AdvFS, VAX, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- TechNet Webcast: High Availability in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Part 1 of 2): CCR Vs. Other High Availability Solutions (Level 300)
- Digging out backups every time there is a failure? Paying a lot for hardware replication that promises zero data loss? This webcast will show the advantages of Cluster Continuous Replication CCR over other high availability solutions and get a deep dive into CCR internals.
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, Microsoft TechNet
- Webcasts 2008-06-23
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