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- Knol not one of Google's "urgent" projects?
- Knol not one of Google's "urgent" projects?Googlepedia.comIf you do a search on "Googlepedia.com", it seems that these domains are registered on Google's Name Servers as are "Google.com" and "gmail.com"... ;-)-----------Domain Name: googlepedia.comStatus: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibitedRegistrar: MARKMONITOR INC.Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.comReferral URL: http://www.markmonitor.comExpiration Date: 2008-03-04Creation Date: 2004-03-04Last Update Date: 2007-11-15Name Servers: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Knol, Name Servers
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
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- Seagate's "random freeze" problem: worse than reported?
- Reports that Seagate is having "random freeze" problems on its new 1.5 TB drives may be more serious than the company has admitted: 1 TB Seagate drives may be affected as well. Seagate on the case Seagate spokesman Mike Hall wrote: Seagate is...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...
- Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Server shipments up 4.4%, revenues down 5.4% in Q3 2008
- Server revenue declined 5.4% to $12.7 bln, even as Q3 2008 shipments rose 4.4% to 2.3 mln units, Gartner says. Shipments of RISC/Itanium Unix servers fell 16.1% in the quarter, and 10.8% in terms of revenue. Shipments of x86 servers rose 5.5%. by AM
- Tags: Revenue, Shipment, Server, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Save water, save energy, save money, save manpower
- Click to see full image. Remotely directed irrigation controller. Courtesy HydroPoint. Moving water around uses a lot of energy in the United States and many other agricultural nations. A Petaluma, California, firm is selling digital control systems that can save both water and...
- Tags: Courtesy HydroPoint, Weathertrak, Paul Ciandrini, Caindrini, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Novell updates PlateSpin and rebrands Orchestrator
- Richard Whitehead, one of the interesting people from Novell I speak with on an irregular basis, contacted me to tell me about an update to the PlateSpin portfolio and how Novell the PlateSpin product family and the former ZenWorks Orchestrator have been rebranded. Novell's products in the area of virtualization...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Doh! HP has some "green" data center news, too
- Sometimes, I SWEAR that companies put out green IT-ish press releases on the same day just to divert attention from their rivals. So, here's the thing, after writing about Dell's latest data center proclamations and new optimization services this morning, I would be remiss not to point to some of...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, studyBSThere is no shortage of core IT skills, there is a shortage of people willing to pay for them.Auditing, project mgt, are overwhelmingly financed, while IT skills, or any operational skill for that matter, are considered to be of little value and...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workstations, information technology, core skill, dire shortage, IT Skills
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Breaking the zero-day habit
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Mike Rothman Given that this blog is called "Zero Day," I think it's fitting that I'm calling for most security professionals to ignore most of what comes out of the security research community. To be...
- Tags: Security Professional, Risks, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?Compiz Fusion's magnifier plugins and ADA complianceI've done a test in using a magnifier and enhanced desktop zoom plug-in in Compiz Fusion and it lacked support for input tracking. For example, run openOffice and zoom in until you don't...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating systems, Freedom Scientific, Compiz-fusion, Zoomtext, Linux, Americans with Disabilities Act, desktop, WinDOS, Ubuntu, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome
- Google outlines plan for extensions in ChromeYou are on target, GarettI would enjoy using Chrome if it were not for the features it lacks:☻ It lacks common user controls☻ It lacks needed functionalities (like ad-blocking, JavaScript controls, cross-site scripting controls, etc.)☻ It lacks Bookmark management ([i]including[/i] Sort features)☻ It lacks...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attackThey make devices that quickly mitigate DDOS attacksThe fact that they failed to impliment them, means they are not serious about protecting their business.If i ran a payment processing system, i would have every protection available running on my systems and network. ...
- Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, denial of service, AlertPay
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
- The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...
- Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Oracle 10g R2 RAC Implementation With SLES 10 Linux, IBM BladeCenter and IBM TotalStorage
- The purpose of this paper is to assist those who are implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 running on IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM TotalStorage disk storage systems. The paper describes activities needed to prepare for and successfully install SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 64-bit...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM eServer BladeCenter, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Application Server 10g, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military baseThis isn't news.It's par for the course.RE: Virus hits nearly 75% of systemsHave these people not heard of Linux or Mac OS X?What these reports don't tell you...Is that the great majority of these infected systems are simply email stations for...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, military base, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- Verari signs up partner for Forest data center container line
- I've poked around some during the past two months, trying to get a read on whether or not companies are actually buying the data center containers or "pods" that several of the larger high-tech systems vendors have been piloting this year. So far, the biggest evangelist on the customer side...
- Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Why engage in open source FUD?
- Why engage in open source FUD?WellWell with a screwed up patent system like you got in the USA where you can patent software code, you are bound to have problems.What FUD needs is a schoolto educate the public, in:What FUD isWho uses FUD past and presentHow to use FUDWho is/are/were...
- Tags: FUD, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
- A future so bright Tux needs shadesThe end of aggravationI agree. I'm sure the same can also be said about OS X, but for me, Ubuntu has made my computing life a pleasure again. Windows is just too much work and aggravation.RE: A future so bright Tux needs shadesAh- okay,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, GNU/Linux, bright Tux, Tux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
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