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- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.
- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.Virtualizing a Data CenterThe two key impact points I currently see are:1) For an existing Data Center, being that the engineering teams are hyper focused on P-to-V'ing the existing environment, without having a parallel team running trap lines to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Is Apple going back to the PowerPC?
- Hardware independence as a strategic weapon The Forbes magazine scoop that Apple is buying P. A. Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley company that designs high-performance, power-sipping PowerPC chips - the very chips Apple just migrated away from - raises a host of questions. But the people who need to worry...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Backgrounder: The Complementarity of Next Generation Networks and Virtualization Projects
- Virtualization projects currently pay lip-service to the underlying connectivity infrastructure. The current trend is to transition from costly and limited-function "Fibre Channel" and "Leased Line" communication links to more powerful 1Gig or 10Gig Ethernet switched network connections. Whilst Exponential-e can offer the powerful connectivity provided by GigE connections, this is...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Vista SP1 highlights in 60 seconds - The reasons why I'll be applying the service pack
- Vista SP1 highlights in 60 seconds - The reasons why I'll be applying the service packFile copy and read times readThese are the improvements that I think most people will welcome.[i]Improves performance over Windows Vista’s current performance across the following scenarios: o 25% faster when copying files locally on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book. IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now called cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is claiming they'll get rid of all their data centers by 2015....
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- 10-Gigabit Ethernet - The Next Generation Network Infrastructure
- Since any opportunity to improve performance is a plus for IT administrators, the dawning of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GigE) is good news. Questions regarding costs, benefits, cabling, and timing are top of mind as administrators try to plan technology upgrades and new network deployments. Rest assured that if...
- White papers 2008-01-24
- FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutrality
- FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutralityHow about waiting for the decision ....... before condeming it? Shouldn't you be posting for the Huffington Post or Moveon.Org instead of a tech site? That is where I expect to find the Liberal spin. Not here!Explain to me......How it's "neutral"...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switchWhy would google's custom switch. built for internal use...affect the pricing of switches ???"he Storage Bits takeGoogle’s focus on power is paying dividends for the entire industry today. Their focus on cheap, high-speed networking will also drive 10 gigE down the price curve faster than...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- News to know: AMD Spider; Amazon Kindle; Visual Studio 2008
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season Robin Harris: Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Building a Windows Home Server - the easy way! Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2008 to...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch
- Has Google has built its own 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch - one far cheaper and power-efficient than existing switches - as it seeks to widen its infrastructure cost advantage over Yahoo, MSN and AOL? Andrew Schmitt, an analyst at Nyquist Capital makes the case. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer
- My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy What does it take to power the world's most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google's new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google's tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Vista "Out of Memory" errors
- Vista "Out of Memory" errorsPratchett, Unseen University, Anthill InsideSo That's where I'd come across that termthought it sounded familiarRE: Vista++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++Yay for pterry and yay for Hex.Of course you have every right ...[i]I’d expect...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Supercomputing Costco-style In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Today you can build a more powerful machine for less than $2,500 in an 11" x 12" x 17" box. That works out to less than $100 per gigaflop as of January, 2007 ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- SOA done right: the Amazon strategy
- I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful. I met some fellow bloggers and a lot of smart folks from massive scale websites, and some that hope to become massive scale websites.What is the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime
- Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Warp speed file serving with pNFS
- Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop.Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file servingThe Network File System NFS is the oldest NAS Network Attached Storage protocol. Developed by Sun in the '80s and made an open standard, NFS makes files on the network available...
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home Server
- Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home ServerLinux gives you a better server. For free!Linux gives you a better server. For free! For example Ubuntu 7.04 server edition: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/products/WhatIsUbuntu/servereditionPlus the hardware requirements are dramatically lower. And old Pentium 2 with 192 MB RAM will do.Trust Linux on your server:...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
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