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Some general considerations for small systems change

Some general considerations for small systems changeIOW you need an architectNOT a CIO or management drone. NOT a vendor rep. NOT your average sysadmin. NOT the customer/user. Not from one group while ignoring another.Of course, this never happens. There usually IS an architect, but he is brought in AFTER the...

Tags: Processors, Servers, Sun Sparc, SAP AG, V210, V20z, Intel x86

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

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Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position

When Apple's Xserve first came out it stood head and shoulders over the competition on every measure applicable in its markets - markets that were defined by the entertainment, education, and pre-press industries and therefore rewarded extensive optimization for image and streams processing. Thus Apple's Xserve was the first machine...

Tags: General, Apple

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Apple's Mactel woes

As many readers know I've been disconnected for a couple of weeks and it'll be a while before I recognise the important things that happened in our industry over the period. Two, however, seem to stand out: both with respect to Apple's move to Intel - and I'm not talking...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Xserve

Blog posts 2006-08-08

A Sun blogs entry on Power Use

Sun's Marc Hamilton had a personal blog entry on August 29th that I found fascinating. It's about the problems the University of Buffalo has had getting enough power in place to run a new super computer grid made up of 834 dual processor Dell boxes. It seems Buffalo has...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Rpeak

Blog posts 2005-09-09

If Linux is free, why isn't it cheaper?

Here's a paragraph from a register.co.uk report by Gavin Clarke on a Sun/Oracle joint offering to small and medium size businesses: Pricing starts at $8,270 for the Database Pack for up to 100 concurrent users, with the Sun Fire V20z and Solaris but without storage. With storage, the...

Tags: Linux, storage

Blog posts 2005-09-01

The things we know for sure

If you work in IT, particularly if you're a middle manager or otherwise have some responsibility for the future of your organization, try this five-part quiz -- then ask how your boss would do. True or false? (1) It is possible to have over 30,000 fully supported desktops with no...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray

Blog posts 2005-08-09

Sun Fire V20z Server Architecture

This paper describes the Sun Fire V20z server - the first in a new line of AMD Opteron processor-based servers and the first Sun product release resulting from the strategic alliance between Sun and AMD - demonstrates Sun?s commitment to delivering the most compelling x86 based platforms in the market....

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Sun Fire V20z Server, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2004-04-01