server software in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Likewise, do techies wander around parks with blade servers under their arms asking joggers: "Need a server farm built? In other news this week, you may think your server room is the business. So what's... [06 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Throw in that green-tinged Gollum tan that many IT people develop from spending too much time hunched over a screen and add in those odd, bearded sysadmins that lurk dwarf-like in the server room, and you get the feeling... [30 Oct 2009]
Jim Whitehurst
AS Profile Following this theme, Red Hat invested in server and desktop virtualisation maker Qumranet to the tune of $107m just over a year ago in order to compete more effectively with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel which formed the basis of operating systems driving desktop and server technology, as well as being embedded... [29 Sep 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile And 2009 was no exception as Oracle secured its biggest acquisition in the shape of a $7.4bn megadeal for server and software maker Sun Microsystems. Ellison has been a distinctive presence on the global... [29 Sep 2009]
Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment While products exist to run Windows applications on a Mac in a virtual machine or from a server, these add cost and complexity. Some have specific Mac-only software they need to run. Some insist the... [21 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up Cricket and cream teas in the air-conditioned oasis of the server room, while the boss thinks you're doing a major systems upgrade. One IT chief claimed he had to take time out of his own holiday to visit an employee in... [21 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment Along with these definitions, people are now talking about 'private clouds', which as far as I can tell either means hosting computing resources in a central server within your business, or having it hosted on servers... [20 Aug 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment If the hardware is an energy hog (like a CRT) or woefully inefficient (like an old server), an upgrade might be the 'greenest' course. All manner of sensors, senders and software are available at all... [19 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing: Is it worth the legal risks?
Comment But this means there are additional security and legal issues to address, as the licensing model is quite different and information is no longer contained within one server. The traditional model is the standard ROI... [22 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the desktop, the server room seems to have been won by Red Hat) has delivered the Linux community a serious advantage in its ongoing war against the incumbent Windows and... [08 Jul 2009]
Do small businesses need BI?
Comment Wilkinson chose not to run the app online, instead running it directly on his Sage server. Boris Evelson, a principal analyst at Forrester research, says that for many smaller organisations, these reporting tools can... [07 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uncommon mode failure
Comment There is obviously some network or server fault that has me locked into an endless loop of log on and drop out! To be precise: a common network/server/ISP failure has taken out a clutch of wi-fi services... [29 Apr 2009]
The dawn of unified communications
Comment Microsoft has been making inroads into the UC market with its Office Communications Server (OCS), which effectively combines email, voice and other traffic and presents it to the user through a unified interface:... [19 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Thin clients dealt Defra death blow?
Comment This is just wrong - a server can be made far more efficient. Last but not least - is putting all your software in the cloud nothing but folly? Despite a new-found love for cloud computing, Microsoft... [05 Mar 2009]
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