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Intel readies massive multicore processors: Intel readies massive multicore processorsApplicability: Top 5...PleaseThis is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant...; Tags: Processors, Borkar, Polaris, processor, Intel Corp., FP MAC, memory, multi-core processor; Discussion threads 2007-06-14
Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?: Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?A few notes . . ."To create that user experience, we have to go from 6 hours per frame to 124th of a second per frame"Why 1/124th? 30 frames/sec is a decent framerate, last I heard,...; Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, Borkar, game, Polaris, FP MAC, computer, memory, animation; Discussion threads 2007-02-21
Polaris Points the Way to Terascale Computing: Polaris Points the Way to Terascale ComputingPotential for AI?Just think - if you could service that with huge amounts of the NAND memory you talked about earlier and drop the assembly into an iPod sized container - can a real Robbie the Robot be far behind? Seriously, when designs like...; Tags: Handhelds, Processors, Terascale Computing, Polaris; Discussion threads 2006-12-20
Polaris Points the Way to Terascale Computing: Two months ago at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, unveiled a 300mm wafer that contained hundreds of massively multi-core prototype processors each consisting of 80 simple, but programmable floating-point cores. While it was an early wafer fresh from Intel’s Fab 24 in Ireland, it generated a lot...; Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Polaris, processor; Blog posts 2006-12-18
Polaris Software Lab Triples Developer Productivity With Microsoft: Polaris Software Lab delivers technology solutions and services to global banking, financial services, and insurance companies. Polaris has a number of products that it developed on the Java development platform, and that run on Oracle databases. But development cycles were long, and customizing products for individual customers was difficult. Polaris...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Polaris Software Lab, Polaris, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Java, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Data Management; Case studies

Polaris Turns to CA's Unicenter Desktop Management Solution to Support the Smart Management of Its Dynamic Infrastructure: Polaris is organized into six Solution Engineering Centres SECs, with each SEC housing expertise in one of the domain areas, with multiple Centers of Excellence CoEs across different functional and transactional areas. To ensure connectivity between Polaris and its customers, an integrated network is in place that connects global offices...; Tags: IT Infrastructure, CA Unicenter, Desktop Management, Computer Associates International Inc., Polaris, It Management, It service Management; Case studies

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Polaris World Supports Rapid Business Growth and Centralizes Operations With Integrated, Scalable Solution: Polaris World wanted to create an IT infrastructure that can support the company's rapid growth, geographical expansion, and diverse business activities and manage a high volume of complex operations with minimal errors and within tight deadlines. The challenge was to optimize efficiency and effectiveness of the management of 63 companies...; Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Finance, Software; Case studies 2008-05-01
Open source business model reaching tipping point: Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-23
Library management software...open source or not?: Library management software...open source or not?SageBrushWe currently have some of our elementary/middle schools running Athena. The high school upgrade to InfoCentre last year. It does get pricey with the renewal/maintenance fees. I think our media specialist would be very interested in open-source alternatives.Personally...I'd be tempted by "Koha." Not that I...; Tags: software, Koha, Athol PL, school library, open source; Discussion threads 2007-08-13
HTC may be announcing more TouchFLO devices soon: So let's continue rumor Monday with a couple of articles found at MoDaCo. Their first article takes us to Smart Mobile Gadgets page on the HTC TyTN II that has specs to make any gadget fan drool, including Windows Mobile 6, 3 megapixel camera, tilted 2.8 inch display, 256MB ROM...; Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2007-08-06
Google disconnects Google Phone chatter: Is Google really disconnecting the Google Phone?Should we take Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, at his Googley word that:“WE’RE NOT DOING A MOBILE PHONE,” as cited by Bloomberg.Google Phone frenzy is almost as intense as the GBuy mania last year forecasting an Ebay-PayPal online payments category...; Tags: Google Inc., telephone, Google Phone; Blog posts 2007-03-26
Snowmobile Manufacturer Improves Customer Service and Staff Productivity: Polaris Industries is one of the world's largest manufacturers of all-terrain vehicles and the recognized leader in the snowmobile industry. Various organizations within Polaris used disparate systems, so when customers and dealers called for support, they frequently experienced a bumpy ride. A series of nonintegrated customer relationship management solutions built...; Tags: Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Polaris Industries, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing; Case studies 2007-03-01
OpenSolaris says it's a success: I had a very pleasant chat today with Laura Ramsey, who calls herself "vice president of fun" over at Sun the official title is OpenSolaris Community Marketing Manager. The picture at right comes from another Sun executive-blogger. It's time to call Sun's "open source experiment" a success, she said. "The...; Tags: OpenSolaris; Blog posts 2006-01-19
Robot Puzzle (zip): Captain Corbett has a problem. He can't recall the correct assembly sequence for the XTR-4 activation disks. Without it, the robot will fail to activate, and the Polaris mission will be a failure. Can you help activate the XTR-4 robot?; Tags: Captain Corbett, Robots, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2005-12-07
Sun's Schwartz says AJAX to play a role in OpenOffice. Here's my bet on how.: Sun's Schwartz says AJAX to play a role in OpenOffice. Here's my bet on how.maybe a different approach to spreadsheetsHow about you pressed a button "new dataset", and entered in a small spreadsheet a set of results. As part of the creation wizard, you enter "Sales figures" year "2003"...; Tags: Sales strategy, Groupware, PRODUCTIVITY, Sun Microsystems Inc., AJAX, sales, sales figure, collaboration, OpenOffice; Discussion threads 2005-10-24
Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management: This paper summarizes the soft skills that can possibly improve the success rate of software projects. These projects, if not managed properly can lead to escalation of budget and time schedules beyond expectations. Deterioration of quality may be inevitable while deploying efforts to deal with cost overrun and schedule extension....; Tags: Software, Skill, Software Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Project Management, Management, Human Resources, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2005-04-16
Venture capitalists with most deals in 2004: New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Intel Capital: In January 2005 PriceWaterhouseCoopers completed a report on the most prolific venture deal makers in the United States in 2004. New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Intel Capital all made more than 50 deals in 2004.Venture capital firmLocationDeals in 2004New Enterprise AssociatesBaltimore, MD73Draper Fisher JurvetsonMenlo Park, CA61Intel CapitalSanta Clara,...; Tags: Intel Corp., New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital; Blog posts 2005-04-03
After years of struggle, GPS is taking off: After years of struggle, GPS is taking offAfter years of struggle, GPS is taking offIts about time. GPS has been used for years by the military. I wish it was available a few years ago when I was delivering pizzas. It would have been so much nicer...; Tags: Handhelds, GPS Just, GPS, satellite, tax; Discussion threads 2004-04-09
HP BladeSystem and HP Management Tools Together With HP SAN Help Propel Polaris Through the Rough Terrain of IT Consolidation: Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets snowmobiles, All-Terrain Vehicles ATVs, RANGER Utility Vehicles and Victory Motorcycles. Polaris started to consolidate their IT infrastructure by moving to the HP BladeSystem, VMware ESX, and HP's Virtualization Management Software in the spring of 2005 at their data center in Medina. The initial number...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, SAN, IT Consolidation, Tool, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; Case studies
Polaris Software Shrinks Costs, Lead Times, and Time to Recovery by Consolidating on Network Appliance: Polaris Software Lab is a leading provider of products and solutions for banking, financial services, and insurance companies. An outdated IT infrastructure with direct-attached storage and site-specific backup and recovery systems jeopardized the company's ability to introduce and ramp up IT services, meet stringent SLAs, and keep pace with a...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Recovery, NetApp, Polaris Software, Polaris Software Lab, Storage, Hardware; Case studies

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Polaris Industries Inc.: Polaris Industries designs and manufactures all-terrain vehicles ATVs, snowmobiles and motorcycles, and markets them, together with replacement parts, garments and accessories, through dealers and distributors...; Polaris Industries Inc. company page on BNET »