Parallel gets a Sun shine
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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
Being ready to scale
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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.
The `Crunch
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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
The wait begins for the PSI legacy
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When it comes to IT, the word `monopoly
IT needs user-friendly carbon sums
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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?
Microsoft and Racing Cart datacentres
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I love analogies, and two immediately come to mind following Bill Gates
Waiting for Infrastructure 3.1
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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.
EMC, the Cloud, and the fog of fear
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It was good to see both Joe Tucci, EMC chairman, president and chief executive, and Howard Elias, president of EMC
The Parallel Bridge
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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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