Coming Windows Home Server: 'Vail'Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by Jazzamolia 278 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Microsoft said nothing about it's next major version that's called 'Vail', but we know it's going to include more entertainment capabilities. <br />But before Microsoft gets to 'Vail', it has some read more »
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IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 271 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Daniel Kusnetzky has written a great post about IBM's announcement of their Z10 mainframe. He poses the question, "With virtualization technology, do mainframes still matter?" His answer is a reso read more »
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HP Introduces Next-Generation, Liquid-Cooling Rackmount System.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 291 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Heather Clancey reports on the second generation of Hewlett-Packard's liquid cooling system and its small $25k price tag to get started. read more »
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Sun Plans for its Data Centers to Cease by 2015.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 322 days ago (http://gigaom.com)
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Sun Microsystems has announced its intent to phase out its data centers by 2015, instead focusing on delivering on-demand utility computing, creating comparisons between computing power and electrici read more »
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PayPal Says Linux Grid Can Replace MainframesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 329 days ago (http://www.informationweek.com)
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Charles Babcock at InformationWeek reports that PayPal is utilizing a cluster of 4,000 servers running Linux to power its payment processing rather than the traditional methodology of mainframes. read more »
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Pizza Boxes (Small Application Servers) Are Power Hogs.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 348 days ago (http://gigaom.com)
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Om Malik comments on a recent study that indicates that small application servers are using tremendous amounts of power but not out of necessity. read more »
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Sun's Rock chip waves goodbye to 2008 ship dateOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by vogelabv 353 days ago (http://www.theregister.co.uk)
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The new radical SPARC chip from Sun Microsystems, Rock, looks to be experiencing some delays. Apparently the engineers have had difficulty getting the new architecture to work well under Solaris. M read more »
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HP wallops server rivals in Q3 2007.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 370 days ago (http://www.theregister.co.uk)
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Ashlee Vance reports on server sales in the third quarter of 2007 from major server vendors Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Fujitsu. HP is handily leading the pack. read more »
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