(1) Contiguous space on a disk reserved for a file or application.
(2) A contiguous set of blocks in a database.
(2) A contiguous set of blocks in a database.
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- Microsoft Dynamics: solid customer stories, quietly confident
- Last week I attended Microsoft's Convergence conference in Copenhagen. This is where Microsoft's business application customers tip up to hear what's new and get their annual infusion of feel goodness. While there was little by way of hard news other than it putting NAV2009 into general availability, customers seem happy...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The history of Windows, from 3.11 to Vista, is one of ad hoc adaptation to market conditions and expectational change among customers. To a large extent it's been about playing catch up to Unix and the Mac - with fascinating devolutions along the way. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China
- A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1
- As I mentioned last week I've started learning more about developing for the Apple iPhone. This week I'll be sharing my experiences during a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. In particular, I'll be pointing out differences between Android and iPhone development. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?
- As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Conversation with Replicate Technologies
- Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they're doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the COO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Live migration across different platforms demonstrated
- A while back I received a note from Red Hat's PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, utilizing...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Twitterank Creator Speaks
- After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I'd like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post. Over to Ryo: I blame the Family Guy. There I was in my...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Sign of the times
- When I saw the above pic I couldn't resist re-printing it. It captures the mood among technology company reps and buyers alike. The caption on the original is poignant: Looks like SAP means business and is cutting back on accommodation expenses for their consultants. Every...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on it
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on itAs long as IE Supports Web StandardsWhy should they turn to WebKit? Imagine a software world where everything was open source? That to me is scary. Where is the innovation in open source? Where is the competition that drives innovation...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Obama community blog redirecting to malware
- Hot on the heels of yesterday's Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat. During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Who will be the nation's CTO?
- John Doerr left and John Heilemann at Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 conference, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr recommended Sun cofounder Bill Joy or tech gadfly Danny Hillis for the position of the nation's chief technology officer, News.com's Rafe Needlman reports. On...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7
- Windows 7 gets all the blogger attention, which makes sense to some extent, as much revenue and developer mindshare is bound up in the success of Windows. Microsoft, however, clearly gave Windows Azure priority at last week's PDC, which is indicative of the importance the company places on its...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Explaining the buzzwords which students will need to know
- In this day and age of expanding technologies, futuristic ideology and plain crazy industries, there are certain key buzzwords being thrown around the place left, right and centre. Before I started writing on Enterprise Alley, I didn't have a clue what half of these things were. If I'm honest, it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Auditude could transform entertainment - but it won't
- Auditude's deal with MTV and MySpace PR is a huge vote of confidence in a business model that transforms today's copyright morass into a win-win-win for all involved. Auditude looks at this huge world of illegal filesharing and sees an untapped resource, just like grid computing sees...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Enough already with the Luddite schools
- Enough already with the Luddite schoolsI think middle school is better for tech than primary.I would rather see hand written reports up to and including 4th grade. Technology is great but so far cognitive scientists have not created a device that rivals the human brain. If you don't develop all...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- JVC Everio GZ-MG730 (30GB, black)
- Standard-definition camcorders tend to have relatively low-resolution image sensors, but JVC bucks that trend with its top-of-the-line Everio G-series hybrid hard-drive/flash-memory camcorder, the GZ-MG730. Instead of a more typical 1-megapixel or 680,000-pixel sensor, the MG730 uses a 7-megapixel model with the goal of giving consumers a combination camcorder and a...
- Product reviews 2008-10-31
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