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- Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes
- Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a "shake table," more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...
- Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Interop '07: First, Sun's datacenter in a trailer. Now? Armarac's wall-mounted datacenter
- Datacenters are showing up in the strangest places. Two weeks ago, while in San Francisco, I took you for a video walkthrough of Sun's Project Blackbox. Project Blackbox is basically a shell of datacenter in a shipping container the kind hauled around by tractor trailers. It's got everything that's needed...
- Tags: Video, IT Management, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Events
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- A video tour of Sun's Project Blackbox: a complete datacenter in a shipping container
- A video tour of Sun's Project Blackbox: a complete datacenter in a shipping containerSeems to meSun just can't figure out what type of company it wants to be.Decade old ideaSiemens, Ericsson, Nokia and others have been doing this for over a decade. Many of these have been delivered in 3rd...
- Tags: Data centers, Corporate communications, Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center, Project Blackbox, video
- Discussion threads 2007-05-12
- Photos: Taking the lid off Project BlackBox
- Sun showed off its Project Blackbox, a portable data center, at JavaOne in San Francisco this week.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Project Blackbox, JavaOne, data center, San Francisco, photograph, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Image galleries 2007-05-11
- How important is "Blackbox"?
- Just in case you dont know what blackbox is, heres how Sun describes it on the product marketing page 17.October.2006 - After today, youll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the worlds first virtualised...
- Tags: General, Hardware, single Project Blackbox, Project, Project Blackbox, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Sun's data center in a box
- Sun announced its data center in a box today. Stephen Shankland (news.com) and John Markoff NYT were given the scoop by Sun. "Project Blackbox" stuff racks of servers, power and cooling equipment into a standard shipping container 8x8 wide and tall and 20 feet long pictured below. One Blackbox can...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Suns, BlackBox, data center
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
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- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea
- Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...
- Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?
- Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?I only had a quick look at the spreadsheet so I may be wrong. However it looks like this is bug counting exercise with a bit of 'how long were we exposed?' thrown in....
- Tags: Patches, patch-counting nonsense, security metric, Mozilla Corp., nonsense, security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?
- In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull left Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to -- we can only hope -- put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture. The idea is...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Rich Mogull, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- 5 more reasons IT projects fail
- 5 more reasons IT projects failOn the other sideof the equation is the customer. It has been my experience that, in non-technical businesses, the manager who makes the decisions with regards to the company's IT needs, knows least.Remove the word "IT" andthe article applies to everything in the worldOf course!That's...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Projects Fail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- 5 more reasons IT projects fail
- How doth my project fail? Let me count the ways. With apologies to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, there are myriad ways that IT projects fail. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Project Management, Strategy, Change Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- DJ your Independence Day party with your Mac
- If you're having people over to your house this weekend to celebrate Independence day (04 July, here in the U.S.) – a few tunes are probably in order. Luckily the Mac is one of the best platforms for creating a great party environment thanks to its vast music playback options,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Radio, Apple iTunes, Music, Pandora, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold Edition (exe)
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold can change your voice in real time to sound like the voice of a young or old man, a sexy woman, the lovely voice of a baby, or an infinite number of variations. With these altered voices, you can complete any audio project such as...
- Tags: Software, Voice, Avnex, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Virtual Desktop (exe)
- Too many open windows on your desktop at a time? Virtual Desktop will create new desktops for you and let you to switch between desks and windows quick and easy. This project consist of two applications: one NT service which manage desktops and another which create desktops. This version is...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Free Soft, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE8 security, beta, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, notch, security, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- 78% of cell buyers say they felt they had the right amount of information in considering their purchase
- 78% of cell buyers say they felt they had the right amount of information in considering their purchase and 87% are either somewhat or very satisfied with the cell phone they bought, according to Pew Internet Project. Notably, there is not a lot of chatter online for cell phone users...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Laser-aided software for tunnel construction
- If you ever have cruised on California's Highway 1, you know it offers spectacular views of the Pacific ocean. But several areas of this road are potentially dangerous because they can be affected by landslides. This is why the U.S. National Science Foundation NSF is helping the California Department of...
- Tags: Software, National Science Foundation, Tunnel, Laser, gVT, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?
- Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failures
- No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failuresRe: exit stragegiesI think that, in regards to the first point of making it possible to pull the plug easily, that piece of advice should be given considerable thought before being acted upon. It is a sound, responsible thing to do to...
- Tags: Backups, information technology, backup plan
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Rage against Adrian
- Rage against AdrianWell ...[i].. calling your colleague a dumbass violates this forums rules.[/i]When you constantly shill for Microsoft this could be interpreted as posting "advertisements" which also violate forum rules since you are offering a service to advocate a product. Does Microsoft pay well? Many here would like to know....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Adrian, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
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