application server in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment There are also embedded degrees of intelligence that take care of formatting for differing screen sizes, formats, memory size, computational power, OS and application sets. So it is a matter of routine to be able to access files or control... [22 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment This model will state that the real image needs this operating system, this application server and this application, plus any other dependent functions, and will create this dynamically, on the fly. Here, the general approach is to create a... [30 Jun 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Half of the CIO Agenda respondents said they will be investing in virtualisation and just over a third (35 per cent) are spending on server technologies. A quarter of CIOs said they will be outsourcing this year - mainly on the infrastructure... [26 Mar 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Now virtualisation is mainstream, fears about putting too many apps on the same server are evaporating. The new, consolidated server will consume more power than one of the 10 that it replaced, for example. [21 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. Systems management tools will often include the necessary monitoring... [10 Dec 2007]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment Jacob West, manager of the research group at security specialist Fortify Software, said: "Interactive and dynamic web 2.0 applications push content to the client instead of generating static pages on a server. [26 Nov 2007]
BI for all
Comment The most notable is the Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet which continues to be the most popular application for working with data due to its familiar interface and ubiquitous presence on desktops. Its suite of business intelligence products not only... [18 Jul 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment However, apart from server virtualisation you can also have storage virtualisation, network virtualisation, desktop virtualisation and even application (or service) virtualisation. They originally used it to partition a server to consolidate... [15 May 2007]
Leader: In or out of house?
Leader Today a press release from one company peddling an on-premise email solution carried the line: "Most IT organisations would not consider completely outsourcing a mission-critical application to a third party. [19 Apr 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment For instance, security company Core Security Technologies discovered a vulnerability in the popular VoIP application Asterisk PBX which allowed hackers to create buffer overflows for a denial of service attack. [09 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment SAS now offers analytics directly aimed at non-technical users through WebReport Studio, and is seeing strong growth in sales of its Enterprise BI Server Platform. At the enterprise level both SAP and Oracle are positioning their respective... [01 Dec 2006]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment Linux wins on the server because all servers need is a basic operating system with access to disks and the network. TCO is arguable either way and risks of application-incompatibility make it low down the list of corporate priorities. [08 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.07.06
Round-Up It has also unveiled a free spreadsheet application. Clearly, Sun got the server room, Microsoft and Dell got the desktop PCs, Oracle got the databases and Apple got the reception area. According to Sun's website, the Sun Fire E6900 Server is an... [21 Jul 2006]
SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Comment Software such as VMWare (or open source equivalents such as Xen, if you have compatible hardware) let administrators run a virtual Windows server as simply another software application on top of a Linux box. [11 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment They accumulate a portfolio of products from many vendors that they pull together to comprise a functional IT system for their customers - for example, an accounting system based on HP hardware, running Microsoft Small Business Server and Sage's... [03 Jul 2006]
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