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Dakota Internet Partners Secure Customers Through Check Point Managed Security Services

Dakota Internet Partners, is the largest privately owned Internet Service Provider ISP in southern Arizona. Always seeking opportunities to provide its customers with value-added services that create a competitive edge, Dakota Internet Partners identified network security services as a logical extension of its existing business model. Dakota Internet Partners required...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Managed Security Service, SMP Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Security, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Internet

Case studies 2007-09-25

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SiDiary SMP Diabetesmanagment (Mobile)

Included in this license are the licenses to use SiDiary on PC, Smartphone with Windows Mobile, Java cell phone, iPhone and SiDiary Online at the internetSiDiary 6 enables you to easily track all your relevant diabetes data. This way you can optimize the quality of the medical treatment in co-operation...

Tags: Mobile, Diabetes, Therapy

Software downloads 2009-10-30

What derailed the Windows Mobile 7 train?

One has to wonderwhether Microsoft even knows how to deal with a competitive environment anymore. One also has to wonder how long the Teflon coating will last on its CEO, because while MS will not be declaring bankruptcy any time soon, you cannot seriously argue that this CEO has maximized...

Tags: Microsoft Windows CE, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Mobile, SMP, Microsoft Windows, WM7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Stratus bundles VMware vSphere Essentials

It is clear that the folks at Stratus Technologies understand that virtualized environments are likely to become the norm at organizations of all sizes. Helping smaller organizations realize that vision is going to take some help, however. Stratus appears to be willing to put its "money where its mouth is"...

Tags: Software, Stratus Technologies, Fault-tolerance, VMware Inc., vSphere Essentials, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-11

The SAS Scalable Performance Data Server - Controlling the Beast!

Achieving maximum scalability in order to fully exploit symmetric multiprocessing and parallel I/O hardware has always been a challenge. The SAS Scalable Performance Data Server, a multi-threaded server, answers that challenge by using the capabilities of a Symmetric Multiprocessing SMP platform to provide scalable and high-performance data storage and access....

Tags: Performance, Data Server, SAS Institute, Server, SAS Scalable Performance Data Server

White papers 2009-03-09

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Quelle GmbH Optimizes Analytical and Operative Customer Relationship Management Strategies

As Quelle GmbH continued to grow, the challenge for Quelle's database management team was to integrate various data sources and develop an efficient, high-availability platform for the company's data warehouse application. Quelle replaced its Symmetric Multiprocessing SMP architecture with Oracle Real Application Clusters, achieving higher performance and significant cost savings....

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Mail-order, CRM, Quelle GmbH, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Sales Channel, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Sales

Case studies 2008-08-01

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft Releases Hyper-V

I just received a message from Microsoft about the release of Hyper-V. It has some interesting details about platform support and availability. Here's what Microsoft had to say Tomorrow, June 26, Microsoft will reach a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, VM, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Hyper-V: It's here

As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Adding up Sun's pieces

Here's a comment from last week by occasional contributor Storm14k: Sleeping with the enemy... Is what has kept MS in its position so far. How is MS anything but an enemy to Sun? Why work with the company...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Development Tools, Sales, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-22

An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community

An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE communityIt's not about shellsIt's about where things are and what they're called.Remember we can have the scripts configure gnome to look like windows and pop up wintel like menus too.Put the cart before the horse.You'll need to get them all into the...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Unix, server, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

InfoSight Secures Customers With Check Point Safe@Office and SMP On-Demand

As a leading provider of IT solutions for regulated industries, InfoSight needs to ensure that institutions are always secured and compliant to operate reliably and efficiently. In order to improve upon its existing security offering, InfoSight required a comprehensive, reliable, and flexible security solution that was easy to deploy and...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., InfoSight, Security, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-04-28

A Quick Look at Virtual Iron V 4

Today Virtual Iron is announcing Virtual Iron version 4. John Thibault, President and CEO, and my old friend Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer, took time out of their very busy schedules to chat with me about the new release. I've always been impressed with the innovative thinking shown by...

Tags: Virtualization, Virtual Iron, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Consolidation and utilisation

Consolidation and utilisationIn other words...."Most importantly, there are better options: just running multiple applications on the same OS instance avoids the overheads associated with switching and OS copies, adopting Lintel reduces overheads and failure risks, switching to Sun's CMT/SMP technologies under Solaris offers radically better performance for less money."Instead of...

Tags: Strategy, Servers, consolidation, J2EE, information technology, Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Gas Natural Strengthens Global Business With Enterprise Grid Computing

Gas Natural, the Barcelona-based energy services company, traces its roots back more than 150 years to the days when the streets of Madrid and Barcelona were illuminated with gaslights. Gas Natural's advanced technology group assumed a major role supporting the company's globalization. In 2003 it led a major transformation of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Barcelona, Grid Computing, Gas Natural, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Globalization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Strategy, Management, It service Management

Case studies 2007-08-01

Sell magic

Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...

Tags: Processors, DSP, Cell, CPU, software, processor, Sun Sparc, game

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Mainframes, IFL, and Linux

(Note: This is a re-run - from May 16, 2006)The IFL, or integrated facility for Linux, is a mainframe CPU license that's limited to running Linux.Novel has yet to post SuSe licensing costs for the new z9 series mainframes, but charged $13,999 per year per "processing engine" on the...

Tags: Linux, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-02