network processors in comment and analysis
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses... [09 Jan 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The industry in the past has measured its progress by faster processors, bigger hard drives and ever smarter smart phones, oblivious to their energy consumption. Gigantic centralised data centres cannot get sufficient juice from the electricity... [03 Dec 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Drop those bad habits
Comment Here, a single chassis contains a number of 'blades', containing one or more processors, memory and storage capabilities, along with network connections. When we want a new service, we typically develop a new application, put it on its own server... [13 Jun 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment For example, the company hasn't got rich selling network processors and boards but it has learned how to build chips that can run reliably for long periods in demanding environments, and some of that knowledge can help designers of its server... [07 Jun 2006]
Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco
Leader The Oyster scheme was a chance for the payment processors to sneak a little bit more of the cash market into electronic form. And when Tesco starts cutting the banks out of their own business, the payment processors might wish they'd been just as... [09 May 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment So one way to collaborate with Microsoft is to first ensure control of an important market sector, such as processors. In Google's favour are its very strong grip on the search market, its established advertising network and its pile of cash. [20 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: In search of wireless nirvana
Comment While thin screens are drastically reducing consumption, processors are going in the opposite direction. Offering this through the ethernet link has attractions but only if the network link is a cable. [22 Mar 2005]
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment And as processors regularly double in power, we do not buy fewer of them. We finish up, for example, with a complex food distribution network, operated by the major supermarkets, that results is most of our purchases travelling hundreds of miles... [14 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: A standardised PC on every desktop?
Comment They were intended as embedded processors for peripherals. Once Intel saw how their products were being used, they started to design processors suited to the purpose. But there was a reason for these deficiencies: the Intel processors used in the... [18 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment It is interesting to note that in the launch material Intel explicitly mentions the potential use of servers built using both of these processors tackling, head on, jobs that have traditionally been undertaken on RISC computers. [16 Sep 2003]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment Until recently, Fibre Channel has been the only networking technology ideally suited to storage, with speeds between processors and disk arrays of 1 or 2Gbps. Generally, FC is run over a dedicated network to a storage centre, with a maximum radius... [02 Sep 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Technologists don’t know best
Comment Idle PC processors tempt people into proposing grand schemes. A huge number of computers are more or less permanently connected to a vast, resilient network. Is it possible to work on a technology blindly, without considering its proper use? [02 Jun 2003]
What will make or break Wi-Fi?
Comment Cutting the voltages and power consumption of processors is therefore only a partial solution to extending battery life. Chip makers AMD, Intel and Transmeta have been responding to this challenge with low-voltage processors for a number of years. [25 Mar 2003]
What if... we didn't have modern communications and IT?
Comment We also take fundamental things like PCs, word processors and corporate applications for granted. Most of us have seen whole offices come to a stand still when someone declares that the phones are out or the computer network is down. [12 Jun 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload
Comment At the same time as providing this migration path for Unix applications, Microsoft also confirmed it does plan to release its own 64-bit operating system capable of exploiting Intel's McKinley/Itanium 2 processors. [20 May 2002]
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