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- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes
- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemeshmmm.... Abundance, Asia, and automation""What developers need to realize is you can't sit on your laurels. If you just write the same thing you'll be commoditized."TRUE, THE PRESSURES MICROSOFT IS FACING TODAY FROM OSS (EG LINUX, OPEN OFFICE ..)"The goal should be to eliminate...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OSCON, virtualization scheme, Qlusters, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
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- Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional)
- The best thing to happen to Microsoft's public relations in years, Windows 7 is more than just spin. The public testing process, involving one limited-availability beta and one release candidate, too, constitutes what some are calling the largest shareware trial period ever. Although the look of Windows 7 may...
- Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, Jump Lists, Microsoft Windows 7, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-07-07
- EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data
- How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...
- Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata
- Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers. ...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Health Services Provider Cuts Costs, Improves Web Site Continuity With Virtualization
- Caja de Compensacion Compensar is a health services provider in Colombia. Along with Cenet, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Compensar created MiPlanilla.com, a government-authorized Web site providing social security payment and management services. With a 150 percent increase in MiPlanilla.com users in 2008, the site required more server capacity and...
- Tags: Web, Continuity, Virtualization, Health Service, Microsoft SQL Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Web Site Development, Servers, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- When is virtual machine technology the wrong choice?
- When is virtual machine technology the wrong choice?Message has been deleted.Stop drinking the Kool AidVirtual Machine technology is ONLY a "good" choice when you need to run server applications on "old" poorly designed M$ OpSystems i.e. pre-M$server2008. This is especially true for Exchange.When VMs are used with UNIX including Linux,...
- Tags: Servers, cloud computing, Virtual Machine Technology, server, virtual machine
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- Rumors about changes in Microsoft Licensing
- Rumors about changes in Microsoft LicensingWhy does the hardware matter?VMWare and Citrix have developed a lot of wonderful GUI tools around moving virtual machines. While these tools seem to exist solely to fix problems that exist with Windows servers, they do work for their intended application.However, since it is inherently...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., PoV, Microsoft Windows, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET criticFantastic post JohnI'd give you two thumbs up if I could. :)[i]This is what one might consider a thesis statement, to be followed by details as to why .NET is "bad" and / or "simplistic and inflexible." At least, that is what one would expect if...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., environment
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Just in time for Linuxworld: Some argue that Linux distributions are essentially the same, and you should just pick the one with the color scheme you like the best. In reality however, distributions are different and some will suit your company’s needs better than others. In this IT Dojo video,...
- Tags: Linux Distribution, Video, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams
- The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to deliver large numbers of Video-On-Demand VOD streams through the cloud. Unfortunately, capacity planning for the QoS-constrained delivery of a large number of VOD streams...
- Tags: Reservation, VoD, Boston University, Video, Video Stream, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2008-07-01
- BTL podcast: Stock shock, iPod saturation, open source tipping points and more...
- This week on the Between the Lines podcast, Larry and I try to make sense of the wildly gyrating stock market good luck. Larry also tries to parse what's going on with Apple's stock, riffing on iPod saturation. We also discuss the change in leadership at eBay,...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Open Source, Stock, Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- For 2008 expect more Linux applications
- For 2008 expect more Linux applicationsLinux Desktop is pretty amazing ...It has shown an ability to thrive with a hardly measurable marketshare. It has easily the most highly energized fan base and the most highly motivated detractors of any computing technology in existence bar none. Each year it...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux desktop, Linux, Linux Applications, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation
- This paper, presents an approach for software rejuvenation based on automated self-healing techniques that can be easily applied to off-the-shelf Application Servers and Internet sites. Software aging and transient failures are detected through continuous monitoring of system data and performability metrics of the application server. If some anomalous behavior is...
- Tags: Software, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-10-26
- Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them
- Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...
- Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...
- Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Microsoft firms up its Viridian hypervisor rollout plans
- Microsoft firms up its Viridian hypervisor rollout plansMore expensive because what?????What do you mean when you say that VMware is more expensive because you have to buy another OS? VMWare Infrastructure 3 runs on a customized version of Redhat Linux, but you don't pay Redhat for that, it comes...
- Tags: Virtualization, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, VMware Inc., hypervisor, Viridian, server, hypervisor rollout plan, Microsoft Corp., rollout plan, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- null
- nullVirtualization is not a solution. It's a small feature.The problem with salesman is that they act like sound-byte dumb processing machines.If the current trend was (God Forbid! :) :) ) placing Windows Vista on mainframe no matter how dumb, irrational that would be, they would move mountains to make it...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Servers, kettle, TCO, server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries (prologue): The Good, the Bad, and the horribly Ugly
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyWorkstation 6 can show battery statusGo to VM > Settings > Options > Power and select Report battery information to guest. Then, in the VM, make sure your OS is set to display the battery status.You need to...
- Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Engineering, Workstations, VMware Workstation, innotek VirtualBox, O/S, VPN, operating system, Unix, battery, workstation, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Web threats to surpass e-mail pests
- Web threats to surpass e-mail pestsAdvicea) Stick to trusted websites.b) If you use Vista, make sure UAC and IE's Protected mode are always on, even if you don't use IE.c) If you use Firefox, use NoScript.d) Don't click links from emails. Always use your bookmarks or type the URL directly.e)...
- Tags: Web browsers, Firewalls, e-mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, firewall, applet, VMware Inc., security, Mozilla Firefox, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers
- Off late enterprise data centers are shifting towards a utility computing model where many business critical applications share a common pool of infrastructure resources that offer capacity on demand. Management of such a pool requires having a control system that can dynamically allocate resources to applications in real time. Although...
- Tags: Performance, Capacity, Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-04-24
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