Archive for 'Server'
Vista Network Speed-Up Tip
I hate Vista, but since one of the things I do is track operating systems, I keep it running on one (1) system.
One of the things I find remarkably disagreeable about this junker of an operating system is that its network software is just awful. For example, it took me quite a lot of [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2008 under Desktop, Network, Network Services, Server, Windows.
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Shuttleworth starts countdown to Ubuntu 8.04 release
The next red-letter day for Ubuntu fans will be April 24, when Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support) arrives. Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, guarantees that the next version of the popular Linux distribution will make it on time, with something for enterprise, desktop, and Internet users.
In an interview, Shuttleworth [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Desktop, Linux, Operating System, Server.
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Novell strengthens Data Center Play with PlateSpin Purchase
Chances are you haven’t heard of PlateSpin. Trust me, for Novell, which purchased the enterprise data center workload lifecycle management company, this is a major step forward in moving into the data center.
PlateSpin’s software enables system administrators to move workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system. It lets companies [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Business, Infrastructure, Linux, Mergers, Novell, Server, Virtualization.
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Parallel Computing`s Already Here
The future is today. When Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, looked into his crystal ball and predicted that parallel computing would be the next revolution in computing, he was quite correct. It’s just that he was looking into the past. Parallel computing has been here and changing the world for years.
The problem [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 under Infrastructure, Server.
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Windows Home Server: Unbelievably Bad Storage
Add another hard drive and lose your data. What the heck is this?
Believe it or not, recently I’ve seen several Microsoft products – Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V virtualization – that I think are winners. But then, just when I think Microsoft might finally be getting its technology act together, it comes up with [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2008 under Infrastructure, Microsoft, Server, Windows.
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