A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance.
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- Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0
- Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureAccretionThe substantial number of miscellaneous applications appear to be unlinked. The IBM-linked approach is e-commerce, replacing another old and working system.Is what you're describing a slow-moving IBM takeover? You've included indications that IBM is gaining administrative authority.This approach is description by strobe...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computingSun already HAS a DW ApplianceDana,Actually, Sun already has a data warehousing appliance: the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, as it's named, based on Greenplum and Sun's Thumper. It's been quite successful, with several large commercial deployments and some...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- When you look at staffing for the typical iSeries based data center the one thing that's most striking is that relative to the mainframe data center positions are broader, people less constrained, and whole customer facing versus internal distinction is completely missing. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- HP Acquires LeftHand Networks, Virtualized iSCSI Storage Vendor
- Today, HP announced the intention to acquire iSCSI storage vendor LeftHand Networks for $360 Million in cash. LeftHand makes virtualized storage array software that can turn just about any server, PC or subset of disks on a device into a full featured IP based SAN array with features like space...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Paula Skokowski, VP of Marketing for Accellion, and I had a lovely debate, err, conversation over the need for her company's product, a file transfer "virtualization" product. In the end, she won me over and I was forced through gritted teeth to agree that Accellion's managed file transfer solution could...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Woods Services Gains Advanced Web Filtering Technology with Bloxx
- With its automatic Tru-View categorizations, and as a manageable, all-in-one appliance, Bloxx proved to be the most efficient and cost-effective solution for Woods Services' (a residential, educational, and vocational support provider for children and adults with exceptional needs) network, staff, and students. The Bloxx Web filtering appliance with Tru-View Technology...
- Case studies 2008-09-29
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureYou may want to edit the "More Terminology" section.In it you state and hopefully this is not your own understanding of it: [i]“T1″ is an North American telco designation for a single cable provisioned to carry up to 24 concurrent telephone conversations but usually...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- When you look at the iSeries what you see is business computing as it should have been about 1976 - it's the path not taken, the thing that works for business but not IT - and today's costs (although the data is actually from 2004/5) reflect that. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Oracle's Second-Ever Hardware Product: In the Beginning, There Was The Network Computer
- Larry Ellison can be forgiven for sometimes making a mistake, particularly when it comes to marketing new, or not so new, concepts. His statement yesterday that Oracle was unveiling its "first-ever" hardware product is factually challenged by the 1996 launch of the Network Computer, Oracle's real "first-ever" hardware product. The...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment
- Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- HP and Oracle team up on 'data warehouse appliances' that re-architect database-storage landscape
- The reason for the 10x to 72x performance improvements cited by Ellison are do to bringing the "intelligence" closer to the data, that is bringing the Exadata Programmable Storage Server appliance into close proximity to the Oracle database servers, and then connecting them through InfiniBand connections. In essence, this architecture...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. Oracle and HP also launched a...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?How is the curriculum ...... the responsibility of the IT director? Shouldn't you stick to supporting what the educators determine is the appropriate curriculum.RE: CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?A bug in a drawing is going to be more obvious than a bug in...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture"Ate wheatiness..." is obscureHow long since the ad campaign about Breakfast of Champions(?), with the cereal having the effect of spinach on Popeye. (And how many younger people know of Popeye?)The use in connection with "serialization" is clever, but seems a stretch in...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The system 38 exemplified appliance computing and had the potential to become the best business information system ever - but pushing that forward would have hurt IBM financially in its other markets. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- PacketTrap gives enterprise 'Perspective'
- PacketTrap, a leading company in enterprise network analytics, have created Perspective which allows any administrator to keep tabs on any network, node, server and appliance on the network, all in one simple view. by Zack Whittaker
- Image galleries 2008-09-16
- Notes from VMworld
- Here are some random notes from VMworld. Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
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