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RSS workload in newsNasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future missions and scientific research. The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second... [09 May 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News You can shift a workload from server A to server B but if the security policy doesn't follow, [virtualisation] has broken it. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus [16 Apr 2008]
Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change
News He explained the tech allows the team to show passenger peaks and flows graphically and that the airport has sufficient resources to take on the extra workload. Manchester Airport is using business intelligence (BI) software to help manage... [07 Jan 2008]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News The chip has been engineered so under-utilised sections of the core can be powered down to optimise power efficiency for the workload that's being run on the server at that time, explained Meyer. Chip-makers reckon their next generation of... [14 Sep 2007]
VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation
News The cool thing (is) that this works with any workload," he said. If your workload is maxing out, anything you do to copy (the data store) would show some degradation," he said. Technology called virtualisation is transforming servers, higher-end... [14 Sep 2007]
Negative image hinders Russian IT outsourcing
News This fundamental type of education is quite complex for students because it is a huge workload. Russia is bidding for a bigger slice of the lucrative global offshore outsourcing market but is being hindered by the continuing negative international... [15 Feb 2007]
Intel puts Nokia's HSDPA inside
News That bus can also now dynamically scale down its operating speed, as required by the operating workload. Intel's next-generation laptop will have an integrated 3G chip from Nokia and improved graphics support for Microsoft's Windows Vista, the... [28 Sep 2006]
HP to bolster its Integrity
News At this point, Itanium seems to have built a large enough ecosystem, at least in an HP-UX context, to support virtually any customer workload. HP plans to announce today that it is upgrading its high-end Integrity server line with Intel's new... [07 Sep 2006]
AA in £10m network outsourcing deal with C&W
News The AA today also separately revealed that a project to provide customers with better online information has dramatically reduced the workload of its call centre staff - enabling them to respond more effectively to customers. [28 Jun 2006]
CIOs and CEOs get closer, says survey
News Responsibility for mobility technologies such as mobiles and PDAs, office equipment such as printers and multi-function devices, and records management were all increasing the workload on CIOs, the survey found. [28 Apr 2006]
Warnings "ignored" as gov't IT project cost doubles
News We are concerned that the nature of the contract agreed between the RPA and Accenture apparently allowed for the costs to increase so dramatically, and thus seemingly ignored the practical workload implications of the SFP [Single Farm Payments... [24 Jan 2006]
British Airways eyes up Indian IT suppliers
News The framework agreements will set in place a pricing structure for future offshore application development work and give BA 'on-demand'-style access to the resources in India depending on the internal IT workload. [24 Nov 2005]
Big Blue bulks up email and server software
News In terms of performance gains, the company said Domino 7 will allow some of its customers to run up to 50 per cent more users per server, requiring up to 25 per cent less processing capacity in order to handle the same workload. [08 Sep 2005]
Tech companies outsource more development work
News In terms of overall workload, 45 per cent of respondents to the Evans survey said they outsource less than a quarter of their development operations, with only 7 per cent reporting that they farm out better than 50 per cent of that sort of work. [30 Aug 2005]
Supercomputer tackles severe weather warnings
News The first part of the NEC supercomputing system was installed in 2003 and the Met Office has this week gone live with the first 128-processor SX-8 off NEC's production line, after it passed a 28-day reliability acceptance testing period where a... [13 Apr 2005]
