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Google goes down, questions about cloud computing arise

On Thursday, a major outage affecting 14% of Google users caused widespread panic, and raised questions about cloud computing in general. This outage happened just when the US Goverment began discussing how cloud computing fits into their $78 billion IT budget for 2010. Running companies (and...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud, Leat, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Manufacturing, Hardware, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-05-16

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Obama's 100-day tech review

Obama's 100-day tech reviewWaiting on ....Well, I know one thing wait till the 2010 elections, we will see how wonderful it is when auto-makers are producing Yugo's and electricity has a 25% tax on it to pay for the 'free' healthcare for people WHO don't work...IF the country is around...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, NOW IT, Obama, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database

Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseRE: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseIt's difficult to see any advantage over what I could buy from HP or any of the major vendors. It appears to be an HP box...

Tags: Servers, Databases, Oracle Corp., hardware market, Launches storage server, shotgun, storage, Launches, storage server, hardware, database, server

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Saying goodbye to ZDNet

Saying goodbye to ZDNetAgreed, Where I noticed a problem..I think a while a go most of the blogs referenced ZDnet News Articles, then after a while the ZDnet blogs began to reference other blogs and now the News articles are becoming harder to find and less informative. This is...

Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Blogs, New Web Site, blog, blogger, goodbye

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

The+secret+recipe+inside+Intel%27s+latest+competitor

The+secret+recipe+inside+Intel%27s+latest+competitorAs you see more cores, I think you'll see more of thisAs they try to fit more and more cores onto a microchip, expect some of them to become specialized. You might have some general purpose cores, some graphics cores, some physics cores, etc.I think the vast majority of cores...

Tags: Semiconductors, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

SAP license and price negotiation dynamics

SAP license and price negotiation dynamicsSAP vs ORACLE PricingAnd you think you have a problem with SAP pricing. Try navigating the new ORACLE CPU based Pricing metric....RE: SAP license and price negotiation dynamicsVery true but may be too late for some and that's too bad.TracyRE: SAP license and...

Tags: Free trade, Pricing, SAP AG, price negotiation dynamic, negotiation dynamic, negotiation

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Vista MMCSS gigabit throttling a victim of hard-coding, jumbo frames to the rescue!

Vista MMCSS gigabit throttling a victim of hard-coding, jumbo frames to the rescue!Your logic doesn't fly...You say: "Even most so-called gigabit NAS Network Attached Storage devices have a performance cap of around 120 mbps so very few people will even notice the MMCSS induced throttling in the first place."If true,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Dishonesty, Microsoft Corp., Vista MMCSS, Microsoft Windows Vista, gigabit

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Dishing out power with a solar engine

Dishing out power with a solar engineStirling EngineWhat about using the waste energy from power stations as a heat sourceHuh?Not sure who's house only requires 3KW but my house sure uses more than that at any given point. My stove uses about 4KW for its broiler element alone....

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Intel, Sprint connect on WiMax

Intel, Sprint connect on WiMaxWhoop-dee-do...As far as I'm concerned, Intel is second rate iron. I guess they figure since most PC's use Intel chips, that's the way to go. I call that playing it safe. Let's not be innovative and use something that could really take them to the next...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Sprint Communications, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-05-05

Report: Netflix, TiVo close to movie deal

Report: Netflix, TiVo close to movie dealSounds good, but...Assuming the downloads will happen via the Internet, what about the amount of bandwidth that will be consumed? I know Comcast users that use too much bandwidth are warned, then punished. I also wonder if the video quality will be decent.the good...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Consumer electronics, NetFlix Inc., bandwidth, DVD, TiVo Inc., movie

Discussion threads 2004-09-07

'Critical' patch sent out for Office flaw

'Critical' patch sent out for Office flawi still don't get itwhat's the big advantage of moving to 2003? all i see are potential lock-ins.Where's bittyWhere is bitty shilling about all the backward compatibility?This baby is a month old and already destroying corporate data. Didn't test for this? And you...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Office, software, S/W, virus

Discussion threads 2003-11-05