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- Apple iTunes goes all DRM free, with three price tiers
- Apple iTunes goes all DRM free, with three price tiersSo it'll be a net price increaseseeing as most downloads are of newer songs.Not that I mind a fair increase every once and a while. But I wish I had known that before I had purchased some iTune gift cards for...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, tier, price tier, Apple Inc., DRM-free
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Are you being gouged on your cable bill?
- Probably, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing how cable customers are paying the same amount for fewer channels. The FCC has sent letters of inquiry to 11 cable companies asking why their customers are paying the same amount each month, even as the...
- Tags: Tier, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Bluestripe to tackle application management in virtual environments
- Today marks the launch of Bluestripe, a Research Triangle Park, NC startup focused on application service management in virtualized data centers. The founders, former execs from Wily and IBM/Tivoli, maintain that most virtual servers deployed today support “non critical†applications such as file and print servers because...
- Tags: Application, Virtual Server, Application Management, Virtual Environment, Tier, FactFinder, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Ip storage, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...
- Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Microsoft creates GWT clone
- While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Tier, CLR, GWT, Volta, Upshot, Silverlight 1.1, .Net, C#, Web Browsers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- End-to-End Application Performance Management
- The particular challenge of maintaining complex applications is that they cut across separate IT silos. An application will often include a Web tier, application logic, a database, and a storage tier. The successful execution of the application - let's say, transferring money from a checking to savings account - requires...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Performance, Information Technology, Tier, Application Performance Management, Symantec APM, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-09-22
- Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier Storage Systems
- Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier organization is cost, as storage tier costs vary considerably. This paper describes a file system called TierFS that stores files at multiple storage tiers while providing high recoverability...
- Tags: Storage System, Tier, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Consistent and Scalable Cache Replication for Multi-Tier J2EE Applications
- Data centers are the most critical infrastructures of companies and they are demanding higher and higher levels of Quality of Service QoS e.g., availability, scalability... At the core of data centers the paper finds multi-tier architectures providing service to applications. Current infrastructure for multi-tier systems has focused exclusively in providing...
- Tags: Data Center, Application Server, Scalability, Replication, J2EE Application, Tier, Data Centers, Application Servers, Middleware, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-04-26
- Anatomy of an implosion
- The Washington Post offers a look inside Tier, the troubled company that specialized in processing child-support payments for state and local governments. Tier went public in 1997, grew steadily, moved to DC in 2004, and showed an ability to win contracts from government. It all came crashing down this year,...
- Tags: Tier
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
- Scaling an Internet architecture
- Any great website eventually runs out of capacity. Horizontal scalability with load balancers between the tiers offers redundancy -- keeping the site up and running.
- Tags: Tier, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology
- Whiteboards 2005-08-03
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- California adopts tough new requirements on HDTV energy use: Visionary or draconian?
- For years, California has had the nation's toughest emissions standards to counter the pollution from its massive volume of cars and trucks. Now it's turned its sites on the energy consumption coming from its residents' HDTVs. The result? Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission unanimously passed new standards to...
- Tags: California, HDTV, Standards, Quality, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- FCC releases broadband agenda
- FCC still not looking out for citizens enoughThe FCC still seems to cater to comm companies FAR more than protecting the interests of customers. The fact that they allow cell carriers to charge thousands of dollars per megabyte for text message data rates is one indication. The fact that they...
- Tags: Federal government, Rural America, FCC, broadband agenda, broadband
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- CodeNGen 2.0.0 (Windows)
- CodeNGen is an n-tier code generation tool which drastically reduces development time to create scalable data driven applications. CodeNGen utilizes table structures and relationships in an existing database to generate C# business entities, data access code, and stored procedures. The result is a combination of base classes and object specific...
- Tags: Business Entity, Stored Procedure, Microsoft Windows, Data Access, CodeNGen
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
- For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., Advertisement, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Target Black Friday HDTV deal: Westinghouse 32-inch LCD for $246
- More Black Friday deals are trickling onto the Web, and while we still don't have info on Best Buy's yet, Target's have leaked, and include a very enticing HDTV deal. You'll be able (if you're an early bird) to snare a Westinghouse 32-inch LCD for just $246. ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., LCD, Blu-ray, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Deck the halls with LED
- Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs
- Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- 40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches
- you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...
- Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- VMware Workstation 7.0 (Windows)
- VMware Workstation is powerful virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VMware Workstation, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
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