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Parallel gets a Sun shine

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2008 at 6:03 pm

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The race for leadership of parallel processing into the future is now well underway, and there is a chance that Sun Microsystems

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Being ready to scale

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 at 4:13 pm

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The other week I wrote about the impact of the poor economic situation and the scope for really quite disruptive change in the building blocks of IT infrastructure that might follow as the world gets ready to spring out of the doldrums. It looks as though the IT vendors are gearing up for that eventuality, as new possibilities for inclusion in future infrastructure services are now appearing.

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The `Crunch

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 at 11:57 am

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Musing on the state of the economy over the weekend I recalled the comments of AT&T cloud evangelist Joe Weinman who suggested at the recent Structure 08 conference in San Francisco that, when it came to the future of utility computing and `The Cloud

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The wait begins for the PSI legacy

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 at 2:40 pm

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When it comes to IT, the word `monopoly

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`Employee-owned IT

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2008 at 9:58 am

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There

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IT needs user-friendly carbon sums

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 at 9:31 am

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The question is: do we need some new metrics and points of reference when it comes to the relationship between IT, its users, and its carbon foot-print?

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Microsoft and Racing Cart datacentres

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 at 11:53 am

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I love analogies, and two immediately come to mind following Bill Gates

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Waiting for Infrastructure 3.1

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 at 8:49 am

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There are always lessons in history, if we are prepared to learn from them, and I come from the BW (Before Windows) era, a time which does have some things to teach us, I feel.

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EMC, the Cloud, and the fog of fear

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 at 4:35 am

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It was good to see both Joe Tucci, EMC chairman, president and chief executive, and Howard Elias, president of EMC

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The Parallel Bridge

By Martin Banks in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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A couple of recent announcements out of IBM once again pose questions about not only the future scope of parallel computing but also the timescale encompassed by that word `future

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