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- Parking Solution Company Reduces Hardware Costs by $160,000 With Virtual Servers
- T2 Systems offers a unified, hosted solution for parking management - a unique offering for the industry. As demand for its solution grew, the company had to add physical servers to its environment - a costly, time-consuming process. T2 implemented Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology and virtual servers, eliminating...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- T2 Server Virtualization Case Study
- T2 Systems offers a unified, hosted solution for parking management - a unique offering for the industry. As demand for its solution grew, the company had to add physical servers to its environment—a costly, time-consuming process. T2 implemented Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ virtualization technology and virtual servers, eliminating 32 physical...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
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- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!
- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- P570 vs T5220
- P570 vs T5220IBM 1, Sun - all the restOne point in the "favor" of IBM is the way you can get "pay as you go" pricing. IBM would routinely provide DOUBLE the CPUs/Memory that you paid for - they would be in the chassis and unconfigured. If you wanted more...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- So what can Sun do?
- So what can Sun do?I have a couple of suggestions.Now doubt you wont like them, Murph, but here they are anyway:- Work with Microsoft to get Windows Server running on SPARC. Why? There are a lot of small businesses on Windows servers for whom the migration to Sun hardware is...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you'll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you're going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don't actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Â A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Sun revs its data center efficiency message
- Sun Microsystems, which was the first major server company to qualify for utility company rebates for the energy efficiency of its technology, has upped the data center server ante with two new models in its CMT SPARC Enterprise server line. The two new systems, the T5140 and...
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works betterIt is one thing to lie ....... to the people here but don't lie to yourself. You are most definitely against Windows and Intel. You have made enough anti-Microsoft and anti-Intel statements to prove that point beyond doubt.All niceBut you almost...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- The 2007 IT top ten list
- If I had to pick one word to describe 2007 it would be "emergence" - lots of things that were building up to change, changed. In politics George Bush got his mojo back: from stem cells and Iraq to his policies on Russia, climate change, and oil devaluation...
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Wide finder redux
- Here's a comment from frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht: Until Tim Bray started his Widefinder discussions I was a big believer in Coolthreads. The principles behind the technology just make sense. But then I noticed how badly my Intel based laptop beat the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86CoolthreadsI'm beginning to doubt whether Coolthreads is really all it's cracked up to be. The problem is the performance boost seems to assume that you have a very parallelizable problem. In practice, this means you either have code that has been intentionally written to...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- I ran into a little story on siliconrepblic.com last week which started like this: Cost drives firms from UNIX to Linux 28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for...
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Linux vs. Unix (Cost)
- The MacOS X server discussion here two weeks ago included a comment from someone pushing the Linux/Unix distinction, my response pointing out that Linux is Unix and that people changing from something like HP-UX to Linux are changing Unix suppliers rather than OS architectures, and this response...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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