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- Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V
- Information Technology organizations are finding that combining today's industry standard servers based on multi-core processors with server virtualization can create highly efficient solutions. A series of tests were run comparing a Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 server using new Intel six-core processors against previous generation quad-core processor servers. Microsoft Windows Server 2008's...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Dell PowerEdge, Information Technology Organization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Virtualization, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Business Value in Virtualization
- Information Technology IT organizations are increasingly implementing server virtualization as a solution to dramatically lower data center costs and increase competitive advantage. Improvements in distributed computing technology - particularly in operating system design - have made it feasible today to operate multiple server applications as "Virtual machines" VMs within a...
- Tags: Virtualization, Distributed Computing, TCO, Intel Xeon, Edison, Information Technology Organization, Roi/Tco, Servers, Processors, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2006-05-10
- TechNet Webcast: Virtual Server: Architectural Best Practices (Level 300)
- Information Technology IT organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and prioritize spending on new equipment. Virtualization technology is emerging as an effective way to increase productivity and deployment flexibility. Virtualization can provide an effective way to consolidate production servers. This webcast provides a discussion of using Microsoft Virtual Server...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Information Technology, Server, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Microsoft TechNet, Information Technology Organization, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management
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- TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Roadmap (Level 300)
- Information technology organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and prioritize spending on new equipment. Virtualization technology is emerging as an effective way to increase both productivity and deployment flexibility. Virtualization technology can play a key role in uncoupling workloads from server resources and enabling a dynamic and automated datacenter....
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Information Technology Organization, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
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- Admin fired for incompetence, not alien search
- Did you say failed to protest...students' and staffs' personal information? I think a similar case could be brought against those using Google. Not much protection there.Reason given is more than enoughInstalling unapproved software that will peg machines at 100% utilization when they have spare cycles is a terminable offense...
- Tags: Public relations, PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, Processors, SETI
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Harvard study: for healthcare, IT doesn't seem to matter
- AgreeThe problem ?is mainly that computer systems are built for the accountants and managers and not built to help doctors, nurses and patients,?That totally nailed the problem. Yes, I work in healthcare and that is exactly the problem. The systems are written, installed and maintained by IT folks who are...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, HEALTHCARE, patient, health care, tool, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations
- In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
- Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-11
- GeneralKB 2.7.402 (Windows)
- GeneralKB is an innovative Knowledge Management software allowing an easy and effective management of all types of knowledge bases. With its intuitive user interface, it is easy to create, capture, and store in one location all types of documents and files and have fast retrieval when required. To improve knowledge...
- Tags: Knowledge, Microsoft Windows, Knowledge Base, Astersoft, GeneralKB, Strategy, Storage, Databases, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum
- On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...
- Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- SharePoint: What's coming when with the 2010 release?
- Maybe the POS will actually workMillions spent and 3 releases later and Sharepoint is still not working.It's JUNK, plain and simple.Maybe if you sayu that enough......it will eventually come true. As things stand, it's hard to imagine SharePoint on a more successful trajectory than it currently is.$1.3B and nothing...
- Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, WSS 3.0
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market
- Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Energy prices are about to permanently alter world history
- Stop this alarmist nonsense, Harry. Write something about IT. Not your pathetic eco-farts.may be you should check this outhttp://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_091013_IONTigerHydrogen powerthe use of Hydrogen to power a UAVActually...He is right. Energy prices will probably push us to use something else. Besides gas is in limited quantity so we will reach a...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy-Price
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces
- The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...
- Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Survey says slow, kludgy business processes hamper competitiveness
- Surveys.... sighI think it will be hard for any manager to say anything other than "yeah we're not there yet, we need to be more proactive etc." when asked "are you equipped to to respond to market or customer changes quickly enough to compete well in a global marketplace?"Right....
- Tags: Marketing research, business process, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Enterprise Advocates launches; Targets IT buyers
- A band of analysts and industry experts have formed Enterprise Advocates, an advisory group geared to the buy side of the information technology equation. The group, which includes ZDNet's Dennis Howlett and Oliver Marks, is a timely addition to the tech buying equation. In addition to Howlett...
- Tags: Roster, Information Technology, Webinar, Analyst, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally
- Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...
- Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet
- ASCII/xerox allianceASCII group the worlds oldest group of solution providers has teamed with xerox in print managed services in the smb spaceRE: Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services betI work for ACS. I was a bit surprised to get this news this morning.What Makes This Deal Different Larry ?...
- Tags: Document management, Outsourcing, Xerox Corp., ACS, big service
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
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