Monday, April 23, 2012
How clustered workstations kept Scorsese happy With clusters of workstations and a rendering cloud, animators in the U.S., Europe and Asia could all work on a shot for the notoriously demanding director's animated masterpiece Hugo while Marty slept peacefully. WITH VIDEO
Monday, February 07, 2011
Oracle offers file management package for cloud The Oracle Cloud File System repackages two Oracle technologies, a cluster file system and storage management software. The company said such a clustered file system could be useful for organizations building internal clouds or testing cloud applications
Monday, November 15, 2010
Amazon takes advantage of GPUs in the cloud The company's Amazon Web Services offering can now run HPC apps faster if they are compatible with Nvidia's CUDA architecture. Amazon added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
IT leaders must raise their voices, CIO says SHOWCASE ONTARIO 2010: Ken Kawall, CIO with Ontario’s Economics and Transportation IT team, outlines why IT shops should be communicating its successes with the business more often. Plus, why a failure report can actually gain the trust of business executives
Monday, February 11, 2008
Australian sigint department ups server infrastructure Australia's signal intelligence and information security department is buying 50 more servers to boost its computer network vulnerability team.
Monday, July 30, 2007
An education in strategy A B.C. university learns what it takes to add an identity management system to its IT infrastructure
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Thin is in at Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless is hip deep in a project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems' thin client terminals. And the carrier is already counting up the savings. With about 5,000 Sun Ray terminals installed at three Western call centers, and a fourth in progress, Verizon has seen a 60 percent to 70 percent drop in desktop problems and a 30 percent decline in electrical use at each center. 
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Database glitches leave 400000 UK workers without pay Database problems at the Bacs clearing system have left up to 400,000 people awaiting their salary payments. Bacs provides a central clearing house for automated payments and clears 30 million a day. It is one of the largest automated payment systems in the world, processing more than 20 million salaries a month, 70 per cent of U.K. household bills and the majority of state benefits and pension payments.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Windows Clustering a costly option Exchange clustering requires Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or Datacenter Edition for each system in the cluster, as well as the more expensive Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. In addition, hardware choices are limited if you want Microsoft support.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Sydney school gets serious about storage In a sign that storage area networks (SANs) are extending their reach in to mid-tier enterprises, a Sydney high school has deployed 10TB of capacity for its data management and disaster recovery requirements.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Unified presence offers messaging the modern way In the enterprise world, implementing IP communications and a unified messaging (UM) presence isn’t a matter of “if” but “when,” according to one industry observer. Forrester analyst Brownlee Thomas made the statement at a Cisco Unified Communications seminar in Toronto last month.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Microsoft snags Cray's chief scientist The chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. is leaving to take a job at Microsoft Corp. Burton Smith will leave the company on Dec. 7 to take the Microsoft job, he informed Cray last Sunday. He will also cease to be a director of Cray on Dec. 7, the company said
Thursday, November 10, 2005
CommuniGate opens up to SIP voice platform CommuniGate Systems recently released the newest version of its messaging platform designed to provide users with improved voice support. The company, formerly known as Stalker Software, released CommuniGate Pro 5.0, which includes VoIP features that allow customers to cluster servers to create scalable infrastructure to support voice, along with call logging and bill-back features.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
high performance technical computing manager for EMEA, HP What do animation flick Madagascar and a 2005 Formula One (F1) racecar have in common? The answer is Hewlett-Packard's (HP) utility computing technology that the company says provides enterprise customers additional computing resources on demand. By linking up to the HP Utility Rendering Service, a scaleable offsite server farm, artists at DreamWorks Animation optimized graphic technology with flexible computing capacity, according to Lynn Anderson, vice-president for marketing at Mississauga-based HP Canada Co. 
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Veritas expands service offerings Uutility computing infrastructure isn’t bought — it’s crafted slowly over time through a careful IT strategy that includes discovery, consolidation and virtualization. 
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Opteron customers show AMD in new light Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. The company’s Opteron chip has opened doors of corporate server rooms for AMD, and many enterprises are flirting with the new kid on the block.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
MySQL readies preview of clustered database Looking to boost its presence in enterprise applications, MySQL AB on Wednesday will make the clustered version of its open source database available in a preview version, with the production version set for release in the third quarter of 2004.
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Abebooks finds clusters affordable, scalable After exponential growth in its rare book business, the Advanced Book Exchange Inc. (Abebooks) desperately needed an advanced IT system. 
Friday, November 07, 2003
Mining message metadata At InfoWorld's CTO Forum in April, BEA Systems Inc.'s Adam Bosworth talked about missing pieces of the Web services infrastructure. 
Friday, September 12, 2003
Advanced network mgmt. features bolster blade servers Vendors are stepping up the network capabilities of their blade servers to make it easier for corporate users to combine the slices of computing power into server clusters designed to handle critical business applications.
Monday, June 23, 2003
Provisioning software improves Veritas Software Corp. on Monday began following through on efforts to join the utility space, although the storage software giant isn't alone. 
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
CEBIT: Oracle extends 'Unbreakable Linux' to UnitedLinux Oracle Corp. will provide technical support for businesses running its software on operating systems from the UnitedLinux group, it announced at the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany on Thursday.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
IBM serves up Unix booster In the midst of continued competition in the server sector, IBM Corp. recently announced a strategy in which Linux and Unix factor heavily into the mix.
Monday, September 02, 2002
Filing it away File systems organize the data stored on computer hard drives, keeping track of the physical locations of all data elements on disk while allowing users to quickly and reliably retrieve files when needed.
Sunday, August 11, 2002
IBM rolls out Solaris to Linux migration program IBM Corp. this week at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco continues its ongoing attempt to rip customers away from arch-rival Sun Microsystems Inc. using Linux as its crowbar by announcing a new Solaris-to-Linux migration program.