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Smead Deploys PeopleSoft Applications Streamlining IT With Unisys ES7000 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Faced with several major IT issues including the proliferation of standalone, complex, and expensive servers; a significant architectural upgrade to PeopleSoft 8; and the need to consolidate and enable their IT environment with the flexibility, scalability, and reliability needed for future business intelligence, data warehousing, and integration initiatives; Smead turned...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Unisys Corp., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Unisys ES7000, Smead, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware

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MSNBC: Planning for the Future With Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

With rapidly changing technology, MSNBC recognizes that it can never stop striving for better, less expensive, faster, and more reliable ways to support its customers and into the future. MSNBC is looking to Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server to provide the reliability, scalability, flexibility, and manageability they need to maintain...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Server, MSNBC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

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Finding Efficiency Through Consolidation

The Central Administration Office for Exceptional Care (CAK-BZ) in The Hague was one of the first organizations to take the step of consolidating a multitude of operating systems within the IT environment into one Unisys ES7000 enterprise server. The objective was to create more flexibility and to simplify the complex...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Unisys Corp., Consolidation, Unisys ES7000, Microsoft Windows 2000, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

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Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V

In a direct stab at his old employer, VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched today the next generation OS: the virtual datacenter operating system from VMware. Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. VMware's future 'Virtual Datacenter OS' is a set of services that will allow customers to "pool...

Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-16

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

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

Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try

At the Heroes Happens {here} event in LA yesterday which saw the launch* of Windows Server 2008, one of the relatively hidden gems of the event in my opinion was Microsoft's free** Search Server 2008 Express.  It's is a streamline install of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with almost all the...

Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Search Engine, Enterprise Search Engine, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Search Result, Microsoft Windows, Search, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted

As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, General Motors Corp., Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'

Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'yes, MS should leave Yahoo infrasture as isA waste of time, money, stability to port to Windows. Will even further alienate the few Yahoo engineers who will remain after the acquisition.No way will they leave it LinuxAnd there simply is no reason to. Everyone...

Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SERVER 2008 64-BIT, AutoPilot, Microsoft-run, Server 2008, Unix, data center, virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Wanted: New information on XP SP3

Wanted: New information on XP SP3Underpromise and overdeliver...isn't that the mission statement for all folks in the IT field? M$ is lame.AutopatcherFor those of you looking to easily deploy all patches from XP SP2 until now. Consider using Autopatcher (http://www.autopatcher.com). As an IT manager it makes my life WAY...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

Apple puts a leash on its Leopard

Apple puts a leash on its LeopardThe real reason Leapard is lateThey need more time to copy Vista.Look at the iPhone commitmentIt's a huge commitment on Apple's part because of their agreements with ATT/Cingular. The iPhone is also a lot more complex than the original iPod plus it has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows NT, Apple Inc., Leopard, server, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-12

Costs relative to client-server

Costs relative to client-serverProduct mixA large corporation (say Fortune 5) can have 200,000 computers. Approx 20,000 Unix workstations (more like 10k) and 2000 Lunix servers (and 200 mainframes). This mirrors the M$ market penetration where 90% = Windoze and most of those computers are PCs.In order to change this product...

Tags: Operating systems, Thin clients, Workstations, Unix, Murph, thin client, PC, client-server

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

In a world of virtualization, should Windows host Linux or should Linux host Windows?

In a world of virtualization, should Windows host Linux or should Linux host Windows?VMware experienceI currently run a Linux machine and VMware Windoze. I can't understand your using of multiple Windoze VMs! I run my Mail and Web browser under Linux - and I only use Windoze for games. This...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-03

The performance debate: Linux vs Windows

My January 13th blog To beat Linux: scam the customer drew quite a lot of talkback comments. One of the themes there was fired off by a comment from No-Ax-To-Grind to the effect that the Linux community is somehow afraid of a direct performance comparison against Microsoft. I'm pretty sure...

Tags: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-01-26

With new OS, Microsoft seeks couch potatoes' eyes

With new OS, Microsoft seeks couch potatoes' eyescouch potatoes- "without a TV tuner"I going to connect a DVD-R/VHS VCR cable-ready, S-video in and out box (Panasonic DMR-E75VS)costing about $400 to my 10 year-old PowerMac 7100/AV which also has S-Video in and out to a 17" monitor and a TV with...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Games, Consumer electronics, Network technology, TV, Microsoft Corp., TiVo Inc., Media Center PC, S-Video, cable, operating system

Discussion threads 2004-09-16

Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs

Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCsWindows XP - eXtra Permeable NTNTFP!!!haha...seriously... more signs that putting IE inthe kernel space was a bad idea and needs to GO!!!!Verbage here seems a little slantedThere's a couple of lines here that are rather vague and borderline on misleading. Particularly the line about:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, graphics, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, flaw, Microsoft Corp., JPG, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2004-09-14

Microsoft expands mainframe pitch

Microsoft expands mainframe pitchYes, give an incompetent company even more business.No thanks..Guess what, Microsoft?.. you don't have a mainframe monopoly.Translation: You will fail.Microsoft mainframes??BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Whatever.."Mictrosoft" "Mission Critical" ===> Oxymoron;-)It will fail as usual. This futile pitch is already 5 years old.Remember the pitch since Windows 2000 Datacenter on Unisys almost...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Now Let, turret, mainframe, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-08-25

When standards don't apply

When standards don't applyWelcome to Linux.... uh no standards periodThe world of Linux is one of no standards, buggy junk programming and about a thousand useless applications. ;)At least with Windows the apps are actually used, not promoted by some cult of re-treads.:)When standards don't applyI hope this guy realizes...

Tags: Quality, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows NT, doc, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Windows, standards

Discussion threads 2004-06-29

Microsoft plans laptop tune-up with Longhorn

Microsoft plans laptop tune-up with LonghornOS XSoftware base station for creating Airport wifi networks with the computer as the wireless hub. iSync for synchronizing all external devices. When are these guys going to think up something that Apple users don't already have. Oh I guess they...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Operating systems, DVD, anticipation, laptop computer, Microsoft Longhorn, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-05-05