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
Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise the day before by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations. The integrated servers re-architect the relationship between Oracle’s 11g database and high-performance storage. Exadata, in essence, gives new meaning to “attached” storage for…
Because I’m not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it’s fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes…
It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide…
It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide…
Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Soon, business executives will have among the most powerful IT tools ever developed at their disposal to…
It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide…
Comcast lays out a new plan that would change its traffic patterns by penalizing heavy users without blocking any applications or content. NEW YORK–Comcast has provided U.S. regulators details of how it plans to change the way it manages Web traffic over its high speed Internet network without blocking…
Comcast lays out a new plan that would change its traffic patterns by penalizing heavy users without blocking any applications or content. NEW YORK–Comcast has provided U.S. regulators details of how it plans to change the way it manages Web traffic over its high speed Internet network without blocking…
Yahoo is moving ahead with a radical redesign of its home page–the most heavily trafficked site on the Web–making changes that give users a personalized view of the wider Web. SUNNYVALE, California–Yahoo is moving ahead on Thursday with a radical redesign of its home page–the most heavily trafficked site…
Outside air blows hot, cold and dusty, but it cools just as well in datacenters as expensive air conditioning, according to Intel. Fresh air could save millions in datacenter cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. …
As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft…
The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories’ allegations that Nintendo infringed Hillcrest’s patents in making its popular Wii video game WASHINGTON–The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories’ allegations that Nintendo infringed Hillcrest’s patents in making its popular Wii video…
One Laptop per Child exec David Cavallo says the organization welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as “unfortunate.” When the One Laptop per Child organization first mooted the idea of a super low-cost laptop aimed at schoolchildren in the developing…
The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here’s…
