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- Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseRE: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseIt's difficult to see any advantage over what I could buy from HP or any of the major vendors. It appears to be an HP box...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Vyatta changes the networking game
- Vyatta changes the networking gameIs this new?It seems to me that this article is ambiguous on several levels. First you seem to compare a $50 software product to a $5000 hardware and software product and claim you save 75%. Obviously that can't be right, because you can't use...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection
- Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth
- Last night's inaugural, Skype co-sponsored webcast of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering multitudes resulted in 242 Gbps of information moving over the 'net at the same time. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Google makes its infrastructure move; Buys chunk of Trans-Pacific undersea cable
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- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
- The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router is Cisco's next-generation, modular, highly services-integrated routing platform designed with the flexibility to support a wide range of 4- to 8-Mpps packet forwarding, 5- to 10-Gbps system bandwidths at the time of First Customer Shipment FCS, performance, and scaling. The overall system...
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
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- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Light-Trail Testbed for Metro Optical Networks
- Telecommunication networks have rapidly added staggering amounts of capacity to their long haul networks at low costs per bit using DWDM technologies. Concurrently, there has been a wave of new access technologies that are driving customers to demand high-speed, robust and customized data services. These dynamics have led to what...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Exploiting Stateful Inspection of Network Security in Reconfigurable Hardware
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- White papers 2008-01-01
- DataDirect's "sleep mode" for green storage
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- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- 120 Mbps upstream? Even 30 Mbps? Come on- who really needs it?
- Note: I've amended this post with corrective information, including this from our networking guru, George Ou. George,an actual engineer, points out: You cannot claim DOCSIS 3.0 is 160/120 down/up service and compare it to 50/30 down/up FiOS service. That is grossly misleading. 160/120 down/up in...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 Architecture
- The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 is the latest addition to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Family of supervisor modules. Designed primarily for access layer deployments, the Supervisor Engine 32 provides Layer 2 bridging and Layer 2 through 4 services with Layer 3 routing optional hardware-accelerated services. It provides connectivity...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E CenterFlex Technology
- Cisco CenterFlex technology, innovations enabled by the centralized Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIC complex at the heart of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E, addresses the need for improved network performance, investment protection, and innovative new features. Cisco CenterFlex technology provides for system bandwidth of up to 320 Gbps...
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?There are still jobs for CobolAlways a problem basing conclusions on one-off anecdotes or personal experience. There are still plenty of jobs for COBOL programmers too.Java was too slow, too late and too much trouble. Just as there are die-hards...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2
- Sun Microsystems launched their brand new "Niagara 2" UltraSPARC T2 8-core CPU last Tuesday August 7th 2007 as the successor to the UltraSPARC T1 8-core CPU launched in November of 2005. During the launch Sun's executive VP David Yen took a few shots at big iron competitors IBM and Intel...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Twisted-Pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking
- Ethernet has become the default network communications protocol and has evolved from first generation 10 Megabits per second Mbps speeds that were predominant in the early 1990s to the 10 Gigabits per second (10 Gbps) of today's networks. According to Dell'Oro, by the end of 2007, it was expected that...
- White papers 2007-09-06
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