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- Insuring Online Sales
- A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A storage I/O bottleneck hampered performance online application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Area Network SAN enabled safeway to eliminate the bottleneck, add new...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Storage I/O, Sales Strategy, Storage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part Deux
- Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part DeuxWell I imagine..That XPSP2 will STILL be faster than VistaSP1 regardless of how modern the hardware is...Good point"I would like to see your tests done on the minimum spec systems for each OS as you yourself suggested in your reply to me."That benchmrk...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, storage I/O, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- HP-UX 11i V3 Mass Storage I/O Performance Improvements
- HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new mass storage subsystem which provides improvements in manageability, availability, scalability, and performance. This paper discusses the corresponding mass storage I/O performance improvements and related capabilities, including native multi-pathing, which automatically takes advantage of multiple hardware paths to increase I/O throughput, boot/scan improvements, which decrease...
- Tags: HP-UX, Performance, Oracle11i, Performance Improvement, Storage I/O, Storage, Performance Management, Databases, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Evaluating the Impact of RDMA on Storage I/O Over InfiniBand
- Recently, several protocols such as iSER iSCSI Extension for RDMA and SCSI RDMA Protocol SRP have been proposed to improve the performance of storage I/O. These protocols promise a better performance by taking advantage of Remote Direct Memory Access RDMA operations. The need for design and development of new hardware...
- Tags: I/O, Remote Direct Memory Access, Storage I/O, Remote Access, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Hardware
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- Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
- Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...
- Tags: Servers, MicroServer, server, Mini-ITX, Intel Corp., HP MediaSmart
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1", 14-hour battery
- Processor is a Z550 (2GHz)I went to the Sony ordering page and that is what it shows as the processor.RE: Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1If I were going to go to the PC route, I would definitely get a Vaio. They are the best PC laptops...
- Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., Vaio X, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, lightest laptop, laptop computer, battery, OEM, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City
- Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...
- Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- SSDs are getting better, still not there yet
- To date, the solid-state disk has been a tech mirage. The vision is great, but it always seems to be just over the horizon. SSDs have struggled to live up the performance promises, and they remain too expensive to provide any real competition to hard drives. But...
- Tags: Performance, NAND, Intel Corp., SSD, Corsair, X128, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Enterprise review: Fusion-io ioDrive
- The Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB) is really fast---and really expensive---but if you need a lot of performance it's worth the money. ZDNet Australia has reviewed the Fusion-io ioDrive. If you recall Fusion-io it's a startup that has lined up server heavy hitters like IBM, garnered VC funding and...
- Tags: Performance, Enterprise, CAD, Performance Management, Storage, Storage Management, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Virtual Instruments customer profile
- I always enjoy the opportunity to communicate with a representative of a company using technology to counter balance discussions I have with the suppliers of that technology. On some occasions, the company does not want its name mentioned. This commentary on Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom is a case in point. I...
- Tags: Disk, Performance, Virtual Instruments NetWisdom, Performance Management, Backups, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- EMC rolls out new high-end storage lineup; Aims to push data center flash adoption
- EMC on Tuesday will unveil a new high-end storage lineup and a new architecture that's designed to be a bridge between legacy data centers and the newfangled virtual ones. EMC, along with Cisco Systems, IBM, HP and a bevy of others, has been busy pushing the next...
- Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Data Center, EMC Corp., Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.
- Last year, EMC was the first major systems vendor to get solid state drives SSDs into both its enterprise and its midrange-class storage products. Quite a step up from the consumer applications, such as cameras, for which SSDs traditionally have been used. (I'm sure Sun will say they introduce the...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solid State Disk, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-11
- News to know: Neeris, Sun-IBM, Storm 2, Sprint ad
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM Sam Diaz: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive...
- Tags: Apple Xserve, Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sprint Communications, IBM Corp., 3G, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Fusion-io lands more funding; Names CEO
- Enterprise storage company Fusion-io said Tuesday that it has raised $47.5 million in venture capital and named David Bradford, a former Novell executive, as CEO. Fusion-io's Series B funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with New Enterprise Associates, Dell Ventures and Sumitomo...
- Tags: Novell Inc., CEO, Fusion-io, Storage, Data Centers, Business Structures, Venture Capital, Investment, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Cool as a cuccumber: Produce warehouse offers real-life insight about demand response
- It's not often that companies in the green tech or green IT space offer up customers who can talk about their actual experiences with their technology, but now that some businesses have been experimenting with this stuff for a while, maybe that will change. Powerit Solutions was...
- Tags: Monitoring, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformV FICON Express 4 Mainframe Systems Performance
- The performance results presented above demonstrate how the fourth generation of Universal Star Network Crossbar switch architecture has been built to scale and perform in the most demanding situations. It shows the overall the test series shows that that not only can the USP-V handle extreme IO conditions in a...
- Tags: Performance, Hitachi Ltd., Mainframe, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-21
- Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformV FICON Express 4 Mainframe Systems Performance: A Performance Brief
- The performance results presented just demonstrates how the fourth generation of Universal Star Network Crossbar switch architecture has been built to scale and perform in the most demanding situations. It says how without saturating the Microprocessors in the Host Channel PCB it have achieved read and write cache hit IO...
- Tags: Performance, Hitachi Ltd., Mainframe, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-21
- News to know: Windows 7; Facebook and OpenID; Patch Tuesday preview
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Ryan Naraine: MS Tuesday heads-up: Critical IE, Exchange flaws Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Quality, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Business Operations
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Steve Wozniak: Chief Scientist - of a storage company?
- You'd think after co-founding one of the great success stories of the last 35 years - Apple Computer - Steve Wozniak would be done with startups. And you'd be wrong. But a storage startup? How sexy is that? The Woz gets storage Really,...
- Tags: Steve Wozniak, Disk, Apple Inc., Woz, Steve, Fusion-io, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Woz goes enterprise storage; Becomes chief scientist at Fusion-io
-  Steve Wozniak, best known for creating Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, has a new gig now: Chief scientist at Fusion-io, an enterprise storage company. Wozniak had been an advisor to the company. According to a statement Techmeme, Wozniak will be an advisor to...
- Tags: Steve Wozniak, Enterprise Storage, Woz, Fusion-io, Storage, Research & Development, Investment, Hardware, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
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