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Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization

On-demand computing is the name given to technology which enables an infrastructure where computing cycles are treated as a commodity, and where such a commodity can be accessed upon request. In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable...

Tags: University Of Illinois, On-demand, Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, On-demand Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Virtualization, It service Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-23

Expect to wait up to a decade for 'On-Demand' world, says report

Analyst Views published a report yesterday that rounds up what some analyst firms (i.e. IDC, Gartner, Saugatuck) are saying about on-demand computing and the other names it goes by to see if anything has changed since a previous study done last fall. The verdict is that although on demand is...

Tags: on-demand, on-demand computing

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Once More, with Feeling: We Demand On Demand

The age of on-demand and utility computing is upon us now. This time we really mean it. Okay, okay; we have been hearing about ASPs and other xSPs, and all forms of third-party application sourcing, for almost a decade now. I first heard IBM talk about the concept of computing...

Tags: on-demand computing, on-demand

Blog posts 2004-11-15

IBM: On-demand computing has arrived

IBM: On-demand computing has arrivedmy cablegives me 100's of channels on demand too, and to get the 4 I want, I pay for them allOn Demand - Yet another empty buzzwordIBM doesn't even know what their new marketing buzzword means.Is it ASP? Is it timesharing? No, it's e-Business? Wait,...

Tags: Utility computing, IT Management, on-demand, IBM Corp., on-demand computing

Discussion threads 2003-11-14

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Canadian pensions may be riding on the success of an American company performing computing feats that would be incomprehensible in their own country. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: IMS Health Inc., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-06

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Role of governance plumbed in Nov. 10 webinar on managing hybrid and cloud computing types

Increasingly, governance of hybrid computing environments establishes the ground rules under which business activities and processes -- supported by multiple and increasingly diverse infrastructure models -- operate. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Governance, Webinar, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-05

NVIDIA Inside?

When you think about it, it doesn't."When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense."Not really."ATI has the backing of chipmaker AMD"Frankly, I think it's safer to say that AMD has the backing of ATI, considering how much they were hurt by the Core 2 and never recovered."and...

Tags: Processors, NVidia Corp., CPU, Intel Corp., GPU

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

Macs are expensive - there's really no way to argue that point. But Mac owners - myself included - find enough value in the computing experience to justify the expense. Even with a premium price, Apple has been gaining share, nearing the double-digit mark, but still not...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Blogging, Hardware, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-04

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Cloud computing making new alliances

Built your ownYou can even built your own cloud computing infrastructure with low cost software such as Thinserver and host it on a reliable third party co-locationhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, alliance

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Backup, Apache Tomcat, JumpBox, Application Servers, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)

Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Unified Parallel C, Berkeley Unified Parallel C, Apple Mac OS X, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (Xbox 360)

What the heck?Why does Rockstar Games continue to make the download content only for the XBox 360 which has literally only a fifth of the computing power of the PS3 (I'm a computer programming student, and I've done my research), yet those of us who weren't cheap and bought the...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Grand Theft Auto

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

The perfect computer?

Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...

Tags: Motherboard, Computer, Machine, Chip, Small Business Computing, Watt Power Supply, Productivity, PCs, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-02

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02