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The Quest (zip): The Quest is a graphically stunning, engaging and sinister world full of magic. Choose from five customizable races and an array of skills, attributes, weapons, armor and enchantments, then explore a huge non-linear realm of four different cities and a wilderness of mountains, caves, lakes and forests. Play an absorbing...; Tags: quest, redshift, games, personal technology; Software downloads 2008-02-14
RedShift (exe): RedShift enables you to create a very simple, smart looking software installer in seconds: Name your installer & choose a splash image; Type or paste in your software license text; Select your folder of files to be installed; Enter shortcuts to your .exe and help files; and Click Build. RedShift...; Tags: software, redshift, tools & techniques, management; Software downloads 2007-10-18
Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?: Last Redshift redux hopefully: Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?Google will be one of the big five. They will eventually start sellingelastic computing as well. Right now, one of Google's big competitive weapons is that it can build out data centers faster and cheaper than anybody else...; Tags: data centers, sales force management, google inc., redshift, amazon ec2, salesforce.com inc., amazon.com inc., hardware; Discussion threads 2007-07-26
Salesforce: David - When there's only 5 systems left in the world, be sure to take a PaaS: Last week, I posted a video interview, podcast, and blog about Sun's Redshift computing theory-cum-marketing push. Redshift computing is about the sort of scale that servers will one day reach -- so much so that, as Sun's execs put it, there may only be five computers left in the world...; Tags: web technology, software infrastructure, it management, hardware infrastructure, general; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Sun's new mantra: Brutal efficiency at deep scale: At a recent meeting with analysts, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos reiterated what has become the Jonathan Schwartz era strategy--to become the early 21st century version of the IBM mainframe see Nick Carrs post on the topic. Sun CEO Schwartz has been harping on the idea that demand for compute power...; Tags: general, it management, software infrastructure, hardware infrastructure, utility computing, virtualization, sun, broadband, sun microsystems inc., greg papadopoulos; Blog posts 2007-02-11

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Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift: Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...; Tags: sun microsystems inc., data centers, leadership, storage, hardware, data management, management, dan farber; Blog posts 2007-12-04
RedShift V2 RC1 (jar): Re-coded from the ground up, Shift V2 is the perfect theme for those who like their browsing experience dark yet demand that it remain fully functional and accessible. The dark theme that spawned an unexpectedly loyal following just grew up and now stands on its own. Re-coded from the ground...; Tags: theme, web browser, c. nicks, web browsers, internet; Software downloads 2007-11-28
Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com): Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion that was primarily hosted by AMD but included panelists from HP, EMC, and APC and was moderated by Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor. The Uptime Institute earns its keep by playing host to the community of people and technologists with an...; Tags: salesforce.com inc., data center, sun microsystems inc., service provider, uptime, david berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-17
News to know: Microsoft's strategy; Yahoo's search; Torture tests; Twitter funding: Notable headlines:Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share? Gallery right.Mary Jo Foley: Multiple Microsoft search refreshes due over the 12 months. Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers. Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source.Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall. Windows...; Tags: news to know, general; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?: Last week, when I interviewed Sun's Peder Ulander (there's text, video, and audio -- take your pick) about the idea of redshift computing (a Sun theory that all the world's servers will eventually give way to just five or so massively scalable systems), he talked about how Sun's formula for...; Tags: web technology, software infrastructure, legal, it management, general; Blog posts 2007-07-26
When there's only five giant computers left, will one or more of them be Sun's?: The folks at Sun -- the company's CTO Greg Papadopoulos in particular -- have a theory spelled out here about how the world's compute power is consolidating into the network. And judging by Sun vice president Peder Ulander's pictured below complete title VP of Redshift and Web, the company...; Tags: web technology, video, software infrastructure, podcasts, it management, hardware infrastructure, general, audio from testbed videos; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Sun hopes for growth from Project Redshift: Sun hopes for growth from Project RedshiftGreat to see a fierce competitor keeping everybody competing!These guys are innovating.Sun hopes Red, most likely getting Project Pinksliponce a struggler, always a struggler. They're in the AOL category . .; Tags: project redshift, sun microsystems inc.; Discussion threads 2007-03-26
A ten things mashup: My Ten Things List - A mashup of course :-) and in no particular order of importance. Some predictions and some observations.1-In 2006, blogging and the blogosphere will be recognized for being one of the most important contributions to civilization period. And Time magazine got it wrong in their pick...; Tags: media, radio; Blog posts 2005-12-24