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Managing CPU-Intensive Work on Uniprocessor LPARs

Uniprocessor systems may exist as either an LPAR on a single-engine physical processor or as a "Small LPAR" on a larger n-way physical processor. For this discussion, a "Small LPAR" is one that is guaranteed less than 50% of an engine based on its assigned weight when the processor runs...

Tags: Single Processor, CPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2006-12-18

Real World Adventures in Server Virtualization

The consolidation experiences on this virtual platform have been many. There has been some pain involved. Virtualization is a learning process. More servers are enabling a proper balancing and management of the platform. The appetite for new windows servers across development, QA, and production environments is forever growing. New build...

Tags: Single Processor, OpenSource, SMP, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2006-10-17

Clark Memorial Hospital Delivers Top Quality Healthcare Using VMware

Clark Memorial Hospital, a 241-bed, acute care hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana, is focused on becoming the nation's best community healthcare provider. Clark Memorial had a large number of servers leased from different vendors. As the leases ran out, the IT department wanted to standardize on one server maker, and considered...

Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Server, VMware Inc., Single Processor, EMC Corp., Healthcare, Storage, Hardware

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News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace

Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform

Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...

Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Patent reform dead for 2008

The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...

Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)

Yesterday I posted Xbench benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer against the latest shipping Mac mini and all three Apple notebook computers and the Open Computer beat the Mac mini 147 to 99. Some suggested Geekbench 2 benchmarks should also be run. If you're not familiar with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple MacBook, RAM, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-15

VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board

Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...

Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-15

More on the Vista DVD playback issue

I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...

Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510

As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

EMC's Next Generation Backup and Archival Strategy

We have watched enterprise backup and archive environments continue to rise in both architectural and management complexity. When we look under the covers, it seems companies no longer have a single data protection strategy, but rather multiple point strategies for various functional areas, locations, or processes. We believe this is...

Tags: EMC Corp., Storage, Backups, Strategy, Hardware, Management

White papers 2008-05-15

Happy Family Electronic Album (rar)

Happy Family Electronic Album help you manage your pictures, photos, with 150 transform effect, and generate a complete electronic photo albums or VCD, DVD format paper to facilitate burning of CDs. The CD which will be able to directly broadcast. It is simple that Happy Family Electronic Album operate ,...

Tags: Theme, Picture, Photograph, GuangZhou HwaFull Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP

I've been busy all day and just haven't been able to get to it until now, but Aviv Raff is a seriously bad man.  I follow his blog religiously as he always has some cool stuff going on and a lot of it tends to be thought provoking for other...

Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Aviv Raff, Blogging, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Putting Workday on SAP's radar

Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-14

HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service

Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Dell Inspiron desktop now $300

Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP. The deal is part of a Dell tax rebate marketing gambit...

Tags: Desktop, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rebate, Graphics, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-14

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?

Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...

Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Inspector FX Home Inspection Software (exe)

Professional home inspection software report includes pre-inspection agreements, invoicing, scheduling, marketing, and photo manager. The easiest to use home inspection software program in the industry. Digital photo management in a single location no need to save photos once imported, easy exchange of data with multiple users, store related documents, create...

Tags: Software, Photograph, New Image Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Profiler for VMware (exe)

Profiler for VMware provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, with a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources...

Tags: VMware Inc., Tek-Tools Software, Profiler

Software downloads 2008-05-14