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How green is software as a service?

How green is software as a service?Greenas in lots of money for the company selling the SAASthe ROI however is questionableRedundancies and distributed computingIt'll be fun to see how organizations with a server farm of 150 Microsoft servers can meet the needs of 2000+ workers using insecure, web-based SaaS...Yes and...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, server, server farm, capacity utilisation

Discussion threads 2009-06-06

Memo to Google & Amazon: ‘Cloud Computing’ Really Is Time-Sharing. Next: Will Punch Cards Make A Comeback?

SAS, the North Carolina supplier of business analytics software, last week got a lot of attention from its announcement that it was spending $70 million to construct a “cloud computing’ facility. Chief executive Jim Goodnight, one this nation’s billionaire software magnates, though, was having a bit of...

Tags: Google Inc., Card, Server Farm, SAS Institute, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Servers, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Data Centers and Server Farms Enter a Virtual Reality: Verizon Consolidates, Virtualizes Servers to Help Improve Efficiency and Conserve Energy

Virtualization uncouples operating systems and applications from the physical hardware to allow a server, networking or storage device to run multiple, isolated and diverse virtual environments. In practice, the technology enables businesses to consolidate multiple IT resources, such as operating systems and software applications, on a single server. These resources...

Tags: Data Center, Server Farm, Verizon Communications Inc., Virtual Reality, Servers, Virtualization, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-03-01

Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches

Microsoft has quietly unveiled its much anticipated licensing change to ease virtualization: Application Server License Mobility. The licensing plan, quietly launched in a licensing brief on the company web site tonight, now allows customers to freely move VMs, virtual workloads -- and their respective licenses -- across multiple servers...

Tags: Virtualization, License, Server Farm, Application Server, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Application Server License Mobility Plan, Servers, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-18

News on flash: EcoRAM held up as less power-hungry option than DRAM for server farms

News on flash: EcoRAM held up as less power-hungry option than DRAM for server farmswhat are the possibilites for desktop use ntNTPaul

Tags: Memory, EcoRAM, server farm, DRAM, server

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

News on flash: EcoRAM held up as less power-hungry option than DRAM for server farms

Most people I know who talk tech associate flash memory with mobile phones and other small handheld gadgets, but the technology now is emerging as an option for reducing the power requirements in massive server farms, especially those that are frequently called upon to serve up data quickly and often....

Tags: DRAM, Server Farm, Spansion Inc., EcoRAM, Memory, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-28

The server with the windmill on top

Wind farms and server farms, energy-efficient couple. That's according to a study from a British academic. The study concludes that in-house servers should give way to server farms co-loated in remote areas where wind or solar or other alternative energy can be generated. "There's something...

Tags: Server Farm, Grid, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Farms

When one has installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment, one must complete some key administrative tasks to make the full set of services available to users. Many of these services are managed by Shared Services Providers SSPs, so one of first tasks is to create...

Tags: Server Farm, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Content Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-02-01

Securing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farms

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a platform for users to access, share, and modify business-critical documents and information. One must carefully control who can access this information and take steps to protect platform from malicious users and content. This white paper describes how to help protect and help secure...

Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, Server Farm, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-02-01

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farm Architecture

This white paper introduces server farms and how one can use them to address scalability and reliability issues. It explains how one can use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in server farms and describes typical layouts for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies server farms. Finally,...

Tags: Server Farm, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-02-01

Building a Scalable NFS Server With GPFS

As server farms continue to get larger the need for a scalable network file system based on the industry standard NFS protocols becomes more apparent. Linux NFS will not handle these large server farms from a single server. More robust storage subsystems are prohibitively expensive and therefore defeat one of...

Tags: Network File System, Server Farm, Server, Ip storage

White papers 2007-12-12

Google plots server farm land grab in Europe

Google demands more tax breaks for server farm rule and Google pressures power companies for data center exemptions.BUT, that is just in the United States, the corporate home base of Google, Inc.The Google "mission," though, is a global one: "Organize the WORLDS information." Naturally then, the Google "base" must be...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Google pressures power companies for data center exemptions

Google is "evaluating" an "exciting opportunity" but has not "announced a decision or made final plans."What "exciting" opportunity is Google being so coy about now?Its favorite not so secret endeavor: Building more and more server farms across the U.S., with the gracious financial support of state taxpayers!North Carolina, Iowa, next-up:...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Google demands more tax breaks for server farm rule

Google demands more tax breaks for server farm ruleThey are making money. They should pay their fair share...That this corporate entity was able to get a Bill into place just makes me want to puke.Then again, we've known for some time that our government officials are nothing but puppets...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, server, Google Inc., tax, government, server farm

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

Google demands more tax breaks for server farm rule

Google really is number one, in more ways than one.For the first time, Google has surpassed Microsoft as the worlds most visited Internet property. Online measurement firm comScore Networks found that Google had just over a million more unique users in March: Google had 528 million unique visitors in March,...

Tags: Microsoft, Google, Internet Data

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Server Farm Security in the Business Ready Data Center Architecture v2.1

Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks. Endpoints such as data center servers are key objectives of malicious attacks and must be protected. Attacks against server farms can result in lost business for e-commerce and business-to-business applications, and the theft of...

Tags: Data Center, Server Farm, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Attack, Data Centers, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2006-11-01

MSDN Webcast: Distributed Object Caching and Distributed Sessions for .NET Applications in Server Farms (Level 200)

Distributed object caching can significantly improve an application's performance, scalability, and availability. Additionally, .NET applications running in server farms must cache distributed objects to automatically synchronize the data among servers. Through this webcast one can learn about distributed object caching, and to find out how to use ASP.NET sessions in...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft .NET, Webcast, Server Farm, Server, Session

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Dark Internet Fundamentals

Head in the clouds? Visibility = ZERO"The implications for those relying on the internet to deliver their data through cloud solutions is significant: if the cables are cut you won?t be able to access it."I've been saying this for years. From a security and disaster preparedness standpoint, only...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Dark Internet Fundamentals, Internet, network

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...

Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29