Alan Robertson Archive
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Crafty System Administrators who want to conserve energy need to learn the fine art of looping.
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Recent news has put quantum computing into the spotlight. Is quantum computing almost here?
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Worldwide, data is growing at a tremendous rate. However, one recent study has pointed out that the size of files is not necessarily growing at the same rate; meaning the number of files is growing rapidly. How do we manage all of this data and files? While the answer to that question is complex, one place we can start is with Extended File Attributes.
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In a previous article extended file attributes were presented. These are additional bits of metadata that are tied to the file and can be used in a variety of ways. One of these ways is to add checksums to the file so that corrupted data can be detected. Let's take a look at how we can do this including some simple Python examples.
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Creating shell scripts is the lazy (smart) system administrator's way to automate and build intelligence into repetitive tasks.
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As you might have noticed, we love talking about file systems. In these discussions the term "inode" is often thrown about. But what is an inode and how does it relate to a file system? Glad you asked.
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If you're using Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) or an older distribution, Natty Narwhat is a whole new animal.
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In this series we've been working over the 2.6.32 kernel, which is a bit old. Let's kick the tires on a 2.6.38.2 kernel to see if it helps or hurts performance of the SandForce SSD.
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Email is not unlike MPI. The similarities may help non-geeks understand parallel computers a little better.
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If you'd like to try a new twist on virtualization, FAUmachine might be the next cool thing.
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Based on a reader comment, we take iotop for a spin to see if it can be used for monitoring the IO usage of individual processes on a system. The result? It has some interesting capability that we haven't found in other tools.
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What's better than the command line and Facebook? How about combining the two?
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In this installment of our series examining the performance of SandForce-based consumer SSDs we dig into the IOPS performance of the drive. How does it stand up to an enterprise-class SSD? Let's find out.
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Video effects walkthru of the desktop webcam application, Cheese. With commentary.
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Our last two articles have presented an initial performance examination of a consumer SandForce based SSD from a throughput and IOPS perspective. In this article we dive deeper into the throughput performance of the drive, along with a comparison to an Intel X-25E SSD. I think you will be surprised at what is discovered.
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Drupal is a simple but powerful CMS. However, you'll probably want to configure it. Learn how to tweak Drupal's settings to your liking.
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SandForce has developed a very interesting and unique SSD controller that uses real-time data compression. This affects data throughput and SSD longevity. In this article, we perform an initial examination of the IOPS performance of a SandForce 1222-based SSD. The results can be pretty amazing.
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Need to setup Drupal CMS but don't have the time to learn how? Try this 30 minute quick start guide.
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The Top500 list is a valuable measure of HPC progress, but the race it has spawned maybe over for many organizations
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This probably won't come as a surprise to many, but the "social Web browser" has thrown in the towel. Don't cry for the Flock team - they're flying the coop for Zynga to go make Facebook games or something. But Flock's loyal fans are out in the cold. Why'd Flock fail? There's a few lessons to be learned.
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We look into some of the new features/additions/changes in the 2.6.38 kernel. In a nutshell: think performance enhancements, additional capability, and additional management options.
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CentOS bills itself as an alternative to RHEL or Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, but can you trust it to run your business?
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If you're looking for a way to beat the high cost of application publishing, look no more, 2X has it under control.
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Raise your (phone's) voice as we build out our Text To Speech app for Android.
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Yet another parallel programing rant. Has the cluster market all but killed parallel tools development?
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Cheese Webcam Booth will make you smile because it's fun and free and it works.
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Looking for a good, cheap Android tablet? Lots of folks recommend grabbing a Barnes & Noble Color Nook and then rooting it to make an Android tablet. Is it worth it? Depends on what you expect from a tablet computer.
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SandForce has developed a very interesting and unique SSD controller that uses real-time data compression. This can improve performance (throughput) and extend the life of the SSD but it hinges upon the compressibility of your data. This article is the first part in a series that examines the performance of a SandForce 1222-based SSD and the impact of data compressibility.
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There's nothing quite like solving your own problems with Linux. Using Linux-based DD-WRT solved a big one for me.
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Now that we've completed our initial examination of the basics of RAID levels (including Nested RAID) it's time to turn our attention to RAID functionality on Linux using software. In this article we will be discussing mdadm -- the software RAID administration tool for Linux. It comes with virtually every Linux distribution and has some unique features that many hardware RAID cards don't.
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Google took a step backward with Honeycomb last week. Instead of locking the source they should start treating Android as a real open source project and start enforcing the Android trademark.
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More cores mean better performance, right? That's not what Amdahl says. Learn one of the foundations of parallel computing in "Amdahl's Law." Prepare yourself for math. And lawn mowing.
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Tell us what top three things you believe make Linux better than any other operating system for a chance to win a Linux Magazine t-shirt. We'll judge submissions on originality and creativity and select a winner the week of April 4th. See the video for more details.
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Google Desktop is the best personal search engine that money can't buy.
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Firefox is coming to Android devices. Does Android need another browser and can FF and it's add-ons displace the default software on the growing mobile platform?
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Adding speech to Android apps isn't nearly as difficult as you would think. "Text to Speech" is a snap with the android.speech.tts package.
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Do you have a brand new SSD? Do you plan to partition it? Let's talk about the best way to set up your SSD so partitions -- and the resulting file systems -- align on page boundaries, thus improving performance and minimizing the number of rewrite cycles.
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This little known "law" is a corollary to the more famous Moore's Law of semiconductor growth.
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Recent changes to how RHEL kernel patches are distributed is creating barriers for developers. Why did Red Hat make this change? To stay competitive.
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Learn how to mix sound and voice to create professional and audacious effects for your next audio project.
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Android moves pretty fast. It's important to know when, how and what to expect when you upgrade your device. Let's step through a recent upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread on a Nexus One.
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The battle going on at the low end may have consequences at the high end.
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As the move to multi-core accelerates so does the need for parallel programming, but first let's look at what is causing this trend.
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The iPad 2 isn't a "magical" update of the iPad, but it's an incremental update that's good enough to keep Apple on top of the tablet market for another year. Sad panda for Android.
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Linux Magazine's Senior Software Editor Brockmeier, talks with Ted Gould of Canonical about the upcoming release of Ubuntu Unity. In this interview Ted touches on Unity's UI design decisions, hardware drivers and bundled software.
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Thus far we have talked about single-level RAID configurations and Nested RAID configurations. But we've artificially restricted ourselves to only two levels in Nested RAID. Couldn't we have three RAID levels or more? The answer is yes, and in this article we'll talk about three levels (the proverbial "Triple Lindy") and have some fun with a couple of examples.
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The audacity of developers who create, maintain and support an advanced sound editor free of charge is unfathomable but appreciated.
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In our never ending-quest for reasonable storage management and monitoring tools, we examine a simple tool in the sysstat collection: nfsiostat. Coupled with iostat, the combination creates a nice set of tools for monitoring NFS.
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Finding applications just got a lot easier thanks to the enhanced Android Market by Google.
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The key to good SSD performance is the controller. One SSD controller that has received good reviews is the SandForce SF-1200. However, a recent test of a SF-1200 SSD reveals some interesting things about what this controller does and just how it does it. Depending upon your point of view and, radically, your data, performance can be amazing.
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Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Case in point: Vendors can take a hefty cut of the profits from applications sold through their app stores or shipped by default. But should they?
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If you can get past the "Emperor's new clothes," it's the same old Debian.
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Class is in session! Professor Eadline walks us through the concepts of Concurrency and Parallelism and how they will apply to all computer programs in the future (not just High Performance Computing).
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Patching and updating have their limitations but, if you want support, you'd better have the latest and greatest.
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In real estate it's about location. In storage it's about capacity. The next crop of high density drives are available but there are some gotchas related to some 3TB drives that you need to know before making a land grab.
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Who has two thumbs and isn't at all surprised at Nokia throwing MeeGo under the bus? This guy. The Nokia partnership with Microsoft is appalling and bad news for MeeGo, but not a surprise at all. What comes next? That's up to Intel.
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The Android Market gets a much-needed updated and makes some important strides forward in how apps are distributed.
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Say goodbye OpenOffice.org and say hello to new freedom with LibreOffice.
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One of the open source refugees from the Oracle/Sun takeover finds a welcome home.
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If you're looking for excitement, the openSUSE 11.4 release is probably not for you. On the other hand, Linux users who like boring, dependable, and usable should look a bit more closely. While openSUSE isn't chock full of changes, it does provide a solid no-nonsense distro for the adult in you.
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Less is more. More performance, that is. Learn how to use less of your hard drive (even though you paid for all of it) to get an I/O boost.
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While BlackBerry may not be getting all the press these days, it's possible that BB will be around and "running forever." Building on that theme, we take a look at techniques for launching BlackBerry applications that need to run continually.
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While 2.6.37 might be considered a quiet release, there are some very nice scalability improvements for file systems and one cool new feature that warrant a review.
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Forget Godot, we're waiting for CentOS 6. If you hoped to have a shiny new CentOS release under the Christmas tree, you were disappointed. 2010 slipped by, still no release. Hoping to surprise your honey with CentOS 6 on Valentine's Day? Maybe. If you're lucky.
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After a quick session of Angry Birds, Senior Systems Editor, Ken Hess, gives us a tour of how you can turn your iPad into a handy Linux terminal.
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We finish up our investigation into jQuery Mobile with a look at one of the most important elements of mobile app design: event handling.
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Lately, I've been hearing system administrators and managers ask about solutions to keep people from accidentally removing their data. These are very smart and dedicated people asking for a solution so that data isn't lost either by accident or on purpose. A wild idea I've heard to solve the problem is getting rid of user access to the rm command. Is this truly a crazy idea?
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A look at the good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of Oracle's latest incarnation of VirtualBox.
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It's not the best-known distribution, but Mepis still has its fans. The Debian-based distro is getting very close to its final 11 release. With a major version bump (last release was 8.5) Mepis 11 has a lot to live up to.
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How can the benefits enjoyed by large shared memory systems exist in a distributed cluster world?
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Need to capture some data from you users? jQuery Mobile forms differ from traditional forms in a couple of ways but can save you some headaches when building your app.
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LibreOffice's first release is near, but what comes next? It's time for LibreOffice to distinguish itself as more than a clone of Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org.
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If you like the way snapshots work for virtual machines, you'll love that same physical system functionality with Redo.
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Linux Mint Debian Edition 10 is out, and it's just what the doctor ordered for Linux gearheads who want a rolling release with the extra touches that make Mint unique.
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A Nested RAID configuration is built on top of a standard single-level RAID configuration in order to address performance and data redundancy limitations. Digging deeper into Nested RAID, we check out RAID-5 and RAID-6, which have some truly amazing features (if you have enough drives).
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The eventual move from multi-core to many-core is on the horizon and it looks to be a real doozy.
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We whip up a small sample app to see just how much heavy-lifting jQuery takes off a mobile developer's hands.
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Will the iPad gain acceptance among staunch Linux supporters or will the mere mention of such cross-species contamination stir up thoughts of lighted torches and pitchforks? Truth be told, it's a great device for some administrative tasks.
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In the last article we reviewed the most basic RAID levels. In this article, we take things to the next level and discuss what is called "Nested RAID Levels". These concepts can provide both performance and redundancy for a data-rich world. We then look at RAID-01 and RAID-10; two of the most common Nested RAID configurations.
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Time to ring in the new year with old school applications. Web 2.0? It's old and busted, and Mutt is back in style.
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RAID is one of those technologies that has really revolutionized storage. In this article, we'll review the six most common single RAID levels and describe how each works and what issues surround them.
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A look at some disappointments and highlights of 2010 HPC season
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Once you go graphical with KVM's Virtual Machine Manager, you might never go back to the command line.
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JQuery is going mobile
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We're tapping the Linux Mag hive-mind this week for Android-based apps that deserve an install. Share your favorites.
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Though MeeGo shows a lot of promise, the project is not making the most of the open source developer community. Here's what's wrong, and what MeeGo needs to do better in 2011.
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Continue your dive into KVM virtualization, Ubuntu style.
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The world of Linux storage tools for both monitoring and management just stinks. But that doesn't mean that there is absolutely nothing to help with monitoring. One such tool, iostat, can be used to watch what your storage devices are up to.
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Some of the quieter stories may turn out to be the most interesting in the near future.
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Yes, it's that time of year. Eggnog, fruitcake, tangled lights, crowded stores, bad weather — and the annual industry retrospectives. You can't argue with tradition, though, and 2010 was a very interesting year for Linux and open source. Let's take a look back at 2010 and see whether it was naughty or nice.
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KVM, Red Hat's darling enterprise virtualization solution runs on Ubuntu. Let's not tell Red Hat.
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Two kernel releases have gone by since we last checked in with the check-ins. While the storage related changes are seemingly minimal, it's always good to review what changed; you might be surprised.
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Linux Mint is back and better than ever with the Linux Mint 10 release. Though it's not a massive update on Linux Mint 9, this comes with enough polish and new features that it's well worth the upgrade.
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Who cares about the FLOPS. The real story is about who and how.
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Ever wonder who contributes the most to the Linux kernel? Of course you have. Here's a hint: It's not Canonical, certainly not Microsoft, and you might be surprised which companies crack the top 20 and where.
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Android 2.3 SDK has arrived
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SME Server is a no-nonsense approach to providing advanced network services to a large user base.
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If that someone special in your life has storage on their mind come the holidays, we may be able to help with gift ideas. With ideas ranging from the very affordable (free) to very expensive (skipping a few mortgage payments), we've combed the world of storage procurement so you don't have to.
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The OpenOffice.org fork continues to move forward. The Document Foundation recently released LibreOffice beta 3, with a set of modest user-facing improvements, and more under-the-hood work. Can LibreOffice overtake OpenOffice.org? Chances look very good.
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My yearly check-in with Intel's lead software director/evangelist covers compilers, AMD processors, new tools, benchmarks, and other developments that make ordering your bits a bit easier
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The SuperComputing Conference is THE international conference and expo for all things HPC (High Performance Computing). The astute attendee of this year's conference could see that storage is a big part of this year's show. Two major storage trends from this year's conference: really fast storage and really dense storage.
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The TSA gets into the Mobile App Game.
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I love coffee, I love tea. I love the Java Jive and it loves me.* If Java is giving you jive, put your fears aside. You'll soon love it sweet and hot. Or maybe not.
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Attachmate buying Novell came as a bit of a surprise to industry watchers, but now that the deal is inked (but not closed) what does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE, and the rest of the Linux industry?
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One of the big challenges in HPC is not at the top, but at the bottom
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is a comprehensive virtualization solution that solves performance, scalabilty, security, cost, and ecosystem challenges to bring the value of virtualization to the enterprise datacenter.
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Subclassing for fun and function.
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A new and improved Debian installer awaits for Debian 6.0, but is it better than what's gone before? We take a tour of Squeeze's installer beta and find out.
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Having just discussed replication in Linux -- what it is, how it can be used and how it's not the same as a backup -- it's time to tackle a simple example of one of the replication tools: rsync. You will be surprised how easy it is to use rsync to replicate data to a second storage pool.
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As SC10 fast approaches, you may have little incentive to read this column, which is why I include my latest personal drama.
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Find out if those TCP streams on your network are filled with C monsters or if it's smooth sailing for your Internet surfers.
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Canonical's announcement that it would not adopt GNOME Shell for Ubuntu 11.04 has not been universally loved. But is Unity divisive or just a typical development decision being given too much weight?
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If you love the aroma of network packets, you'll love capturing a snifter full of your favorite network-scented morsels with Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.
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The promise of a sofa at SC10 has all the hallmarks of a successful trade show.
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The often forgotten community aspect of HPC gets remembered each year at the fall Supercomputing conference.
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Display data with the BlackBerry ListField
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Need an easy and powerful storage solution? Openfiler is one excellent option. Let's check it out.
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Now under VMware's wing, Zimbra has released Zimbra Desktop 2.0 productivity client. Zimbra Desktop 2.0's main feature is email, so we decided to see how it stacks up against Gmail. The verdict? Google probably isn't too worried.
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Commodity controls such as sudo are often used to limit root-level access to specific actions on the basis of an individual user's identity -- but when it comes to enterprise requirements for security or compliance, sudo is often incomplete.
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Data can be the currency, Intellectual Property, and life blood of many a company. One technique to make sure that your data is readily available is data replication. Not quite the same as data backup but can be equally important.
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Ready for the HPC MMA battle? Of course I mean a Memory and Messages Assessment
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Every time you log into a Linux system, you're using the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). Let's take a closer look what's going on under the hood.
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If VMFS-3 has you blocked, help has arrived in the form of magic SAN and an attentive Wizard.
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Is there a place for Artificial Intelligence on your cluster?
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All clusters are not created equal. Building an efficient HPC cluster requires a careful match between hardware resources and application needs. Cluster designs based on core count or clock speed are likely to underperform, cost too much, or both.
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Itching to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10? Not so fast! Look before you leap, you may want to stick with Ubuntu 10.04, especially if you're a netbook user.
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Subclassing built-in classes can add color to otherwise blah BlackBerry apps.
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What you do with your disks after you're done with them does matter. Find out how to properly prepare them for the next owner.
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Where do all good ideas go? Into the CPU of course.
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The world is awash in data. This fact is putting more and more pressure on file systems to efficiently scale to handle increasingly large amounts of data. Recently, Ric Wheeler from Redhat experimented with putting 1 Billion files in a single file system to understand what problems/issues the Linux community might face in the future. Let's see what happened...
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Users sick of waiting on Amazon to provide current downloaders for Linux will be pleased with Banshee 1.8. Just released, the new version can browse the Amazon MP3 store and act as a downloader for Amazon's .amz files, plus a number of other new enhancements and features.
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Android Patently Challenged, Blackberry steps to the table(t)
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GParted is an essential system administration tool. Learn to use it wisely.
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This month we have been testing a new kernel patch named bcache that takes SSDs and uses them as a cache for block devices (with the typical device being hard drives). This article wraps up the testing with an investigation of the throughput of large files and summarizes all the testing to date (and there's a lot of that).
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App Inventor, beta (imagine that!) software from Google that provides near-WYSIWYG Android app development.
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Every good Linux System Administrator has a set of tools they reach for again-and-again. Here are ten must haves for your virtual utility belt.
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Have an old PC sitting around with nothing to do? Just add VortexBox and you can have a Linux-based streaming jukebox in no time.
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The lessons of cluster HPC may prove valuable to the mainstream
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With storage becoming increasingly complex, being able to monitor what's happening with your servers has taken on a critical role. To truly understand what is happening with your storage you may need to monitor what is happening within the kernel.
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Mobile innovation is heating up the North.
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Shell In A Box gives you simple web-based terminal access to your Linux system.
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An HPC product review featuring the Appro 1U Tetra GP-GPU server
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Our two prior articles have detailed the performance results from a new patch, bcache, that uses SSDs to cache hard drives. We've looked at the throughput and IOPS performance of bcache and -- while it is still very new and under heavy development -- have found that in some cases it can help performance. This article examines the metadata performance of bcache hoping to also find areas where it can further boost performance.
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Just a few weeks after Oracle put OpenSolaris out to pasture, the OpenIndiana folks have pushed out their first release. Is it worth a look? Depends on how exciting you find OpenSolaris, but it's not going to knock Ubuntu off the desktop.
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Multi-core has made it to cell phones. Doug follows up on some recent stories about low power cell phone clusters and high power multi-core memory performance
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Publishing an application to the Android Market
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Forty free, working and relevant turnkey appliances with unbreakable cloud-based backup and restore.
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Linux Mint is going old school with a new release based directly on Debian rather than Ubuntu. Want all the fun of Debian testing, with much less hassle? Mint may be what you're looking for.
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An opportunity to run some simple yet telling tests on a 12-core Intel Gulftown server presents itself
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Preparing an application for the Android Market
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Previously we looked at the throughput performance of bcache by running IOzone on a common SATA disk, an Intel X25-E SSD, and Bcache using the SSD to cache a single drive. This article explores the IOPS performance of the same configuration hoping to find areas where bcache might shine.
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Ever-changing IP addresses are an annoyance but you can clear up your remote connectivity static with Dynamic DNS services.
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Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw.
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Recent news and product releases could be cause for concern for the future of the open source Oracle/Sun Grid Engine.
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Use dynamically registered BroadcastReceivers to create intelligent GUIS for Android
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If you use several computers, sharing files between them is a pain but Dropbox takes the pain away--for free.
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It's hard to believe that Debian has 17 years under its belt, but the project celebrated its 17th birthday on August 16. Though Debian may not be quite as well hyped as other distros, it's still one of the most important FOSS projects around.
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Get your wetsuit on, we're going data diving. Throughput benchmarks using IOzone on a common SATA disk, an Intel X25-E SSD, and Bcache, using the SSD to cache a single drive.
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Cell phone processors are getting more powerful. Is a cell phone cluster possible?
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Three ways to configure click handlers in Android UI Code
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Thin provisioning sounds like a good idea in theory, and sometimes it is, but when it goes bad, it really goes bad.
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The days of DIY system administration are rapidly coming to a close. Why? Because the open source tools available are just too good not to use. Presenting Bcfg2, Cfengine, Chef and Puppet.
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Caching is a concept used through computing. CPUs have several levels of cache; disk drives have cache; and the list goes on. Adding a small amount of high-speed data storage relative to a large amount of slower-speed storage can make huge improvements to performance. Enter two new kernel patches -- bcache and flashcache -- that leverage the power of SSDs.
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Your mileage may vary with mpg123 but your MP3 listening enjoyment never will.
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One the coolest file systems in User Space has got to be GlusterFS. It has a very unique architecture that allows it to be configured for specific storage requirements and scenarios. It can be used as a high-performance parallel file system, or a cloud based file system, or even a simple NFS server. All of this in user-space. Could GlusterFS represent the future of file system development for Linux?
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Leveraging built-in Android Apps to make your app better
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Cloud and Multi-core offer new modes of High Performance Computing. Will it suit your needs?
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There's no such thing as a crystal ball for business, but there is IBM Cognos Express, an integrated business intelligence and planning product purpose-built and priced for midsize companies. Watch the demo on "What-If" scenario modeling, where you combine data, dimensions, assumptions and scenarios to test various business outcomes.
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After months of silence, OpenSolaris supporters have had enough and launched the Illumos project. Described as a "spork" of OpenSolaris, rather than a true fork, Illumos is a misguided attempt to keep the Solaris legacy OS alive for another generation. Too bad it's doomed from the start.
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Have too many tabs to deal with in Firefox? You can tame your tabs with a bleeding edge Firefox build with a brand-new feature called Tab Candy.
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This white paper discusses the drivers for data centers moving to the cloud, the role of virtualization in both public and private cloud infrastructures and outlines the security and compliance implications of cloud computing -- providing insight into the protection of sensitive data in the cloud via administrative access and privileged delegation.
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A new way to think about mobile applications.
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The new Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance may be a game changer in HPC
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The quest to save labor makes us do some crazy things but when you're expecting, there is an easier way.
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Have you ever wanted to look inside a tar.gz file but without expanding it? Have you ever wanted to just dump files in a .tar.gz file without having to organize it and periodically tar and gzip this data? This article presents another REALLY useful user-space file system, archivemount. It allows you to mount archives such as .tar.gz files as a file system and interact with it using normal file/directory tools.
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Creating a simple application debug tool out of an App Widget
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Where does the time go? If you've ever had to ask this question, NTP can give you the answer time and again.
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Userspace file systems are one of the coolest storage options in Linux. They allow really creative file systems to be developed without having to go through the kernel gauntlet. This article presents one of them, SSHFS, that allows you to remotely mount a file system using ssh (sftp).
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The R statical language is more than a plotting tool.
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Firefox has been taking heat from Google Chrome over speed for some time, but the world's most popular open source browser is getting ready for a comeback. Can Firefox 4.0 woo back some of the early adopters who've embraced Chrome? It looks like it will have a very good shot.
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Have you been looking for open-source storage management tools that are easy to use and provide a graphical representation of your storage. Alas, there are no comprehensive tools but there are graphical tools that you can pair with command-line wizardry, particularly LVM.
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A recent paper by Intel provides some hard data on CPU vs GP-GPU speed-up numbers.
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We have to face it. Linux isn't going to win the desktop war any time soon, but perhaps we don't need to. With products like MeeGo and Android, Linux is going to complete its domination of the embedded space, and find itself in every single home.
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It's common knowledge that Linux has a fair number of file systems. Some of these are unappreciated and can be very useful outside their "comfort zone". OCFS2 is a clustered file system initially contributed by Oracle and can be a great back-end file system for general, shared storage needs.
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Will the antenna problem with the iPhone 4 derail Apple or is it just a speed-bump
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If your system time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future -- or the past -- it's time to fix it with NTP.
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Opera 10.60 beta is out the door, and they've reinstated Linux as a first-class citizen for releases. The latest release has more speed, WebM support, and Geolocation for users who want everyone to know exactly where they are when posting from Twitter.
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Having file systems in the kernel has its pros and cons. Being able to write file systems in user-space also has some pros and cons, but FUSE (File System in Userspace) allows you to create some pretty amazing results. This article takes a very brief look at user-space file systems and FUSE.
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Has the big multi-core Xeon and Opteron server jumped the HPC shark?
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Building on what we already know about Android development, we take a look at adding App Widget functionality for your phone's "desktop."
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Disk space is always at a premium but how do you handle it when you have a disk or filesystem that's full? After today, you'll know how to boldly go into that dark realm.
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Flock has undergone a major evolution in the last year. From the Swiss-Army knife of social media to a slimmed down browser that tackles Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube only. Even more shocking, the project has dumped Firefox for Chromium. Was the switch worth it?
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The Linux desktop has come a long way, but are there still improvements to be made? At least one group of dedicated hackers thinks so, and is working with Ubuntu to improve it.
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If something doesn't work, try something else. That's a lesson that the FSF needs to embrace, if it wants to succeed with a mainstream audience. Being the Party of Gno, and trying to tell users to just avoid Windows, Cloud Computing, iPads, and proprietary software isn't cutting it. It's time to come up with credible alternatives or be satisfied with remaining irrelevant to the majority of users.
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In a recent walkthru we outlined the steps for taking an existing server and converting it into a NAS box. That article assumed that you already installed Linux on the server and you will maintain that installation (i.e. updates, security, etc.). This article takes examines an alternative: a dedicated NAS distribution called OpenFiler that allows you to very simply create a stand-alone NAS box that can be administered over the web.
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Passing data with Handlers, Messages and the ProgressDialog
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When you install the Ubuntu Netbook Edition in October, don't look for Firefox on the desktop — it won't be there. Chromium, Chrome's open source cousin, is going to be taking its place. After years of desktop dominance on Linux, is Firefox losing its foothold or is this an anomaly?
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You'll always know what time it is with swatch, a real time monitoring tool for your logs.
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Red Hat is the king of commercial Linux support, no doubt about it. Canonical has entered the market and with some refined support products could present a very compelling alternative. Is it enough to make the company profitable long term, though?
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If you blinked you might have missed the announcement of the new 2.6.34 kernel. Things have been happening very quickly around file systems and storage in the recent kernels so it's probably a good idea to review the kernels from 2.6.30 to 2.6.34 and see what developments have transpired.
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The low power Intel Atom offers some interesting possibilities for HPC. Does it make sense to try this approach?
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Take some of the headaches out of managing sever farms with Cfengine 3. Use this automation introduction to save time, money and spare yourself crippling manual mistakes.
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iPhone is becoming the standard-bearer, but Android is more versatile
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Q: What did one lumberjack say to the other lumberjack? A: Watch those logs.
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With Facebook stomping all over users' privacy, there's been a lot of interest in open source and privacy friendly social network tools. The good news is that Mozilla is getting involved with a new platform called sudoSocial. The bad news is that sudoSocial is very new, and not quite sure what it wants to be when it grows up.
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When the Linux Foundation announced the MeeGo project earlier this year, they said it would "bring the magic to Linux." Now that it is finally here, does it deliver on its promise? It sure does.
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Standalone Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers provide file level storage to heterogeneous clients, enabling shared storage. This article presents the basics of NAS units (NFS servers) and how you can create one from an existing system.
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Business as Mission requires localization.
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Increasing total cost of ownership (TCO) may make throw-away nodes an option in the future
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If pork is the other white meat, GPUs might just be other "other silicon." Want to get started writing code for your graphics processor? Use this intro to NVIDIA's CUDA to get started.
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You win some, you lose some. The Mozilla project has won big with Firefox, but not so much with Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 is a decent mail user agent, but it doesn't seem to have the right stuff to break out into widespread usage.
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Mmmm.... bacon. This article examines two mechanisms to prevent data loss -- write barriers and check summing. Both can be particularly important for drives with larger and larger caches. Pay attention: This can save your data bacon.
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Android continues its march towards the top of the smartphone market.
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Can't bring yourself to love logs? You should take a second look.
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The long struggle for open video on the Web may finally be over for Linux users. Last week, Google announced WebM at its Google I/O conference. What's it mean for you? In the long run, a totally open media format for the Web, plus the backing of enough companies and organizations to push open media over the top online.
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There are positive situations where open source solutions like sudo will work for small scale enterprises. However, you need to be aware of the red flags and understand that much of what sudo provides is an illusion of control over access to a company's critical assets.
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Now that Songbird has abandoned Linux, where will we turn for a browser-based music fix? Not to worry, you can still find plenty of add-ons and extensions for Firefox and Chrome to turn them into excellent tools for finding and listening to music.
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Last article we introduced the SMART capabilities of hard drives (who knew your drives were SMART?). In this article smartmontools, an application for examining the SMART attributes and trigger self tests, is examined.
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A trip to New York City to discuss HPC is a nice diversion from the basement life style.
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Fedora 13 is on the way and while it innovates in its own right, it also borrows some major features from other distros such as Ubuntu and Mandriva. This is looking to be yet another great release from the Fedora community!
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The ethtool utility provides ethernet card information and management to die for.
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The 5 things I hope Google unveils in Android 2.2.
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Many organizations have attempted to use open source sudo as their privileged identity management solution. While sudo might be a viable solution for small scale organizations, CSOs managing large IT environments are consistently discovering that sudo creates security, compliance and productivity challenges to large enterprises seeking to protect critical assets.
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Tired of slogging through Facebook's interface? Sick of seeing the Fail Whale? Cut through the cruft and simplify your social services with Gwibber -- a microblogging client for Linux that supports Identi.ca, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
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Intel recently released an experimental processor that resembles a cluster on a chip.
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Did you know your drive was SMART? Actually: Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. It can be used to gather information about your hard drives and offers some additional information about the status of your storage devices. It can also be used with other tools to help predict drive failure.
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Using the Application object to cure a case of the Android flip flops
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Know your rights. Protect your rights. Another lesson from the ACLU.
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It seemed like they'd be ice skating in Hades before Apple would bless a real competitor to Safari on the iPhone, but Opera Mini has made its way into the App Store. Now that Opera has sailed past the gatekeepers, what's the verdict?
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The growth of clustered HPC is do in part to the freedom to choose (and toasters).
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Sometimes you just have to get excited about what you can buy, hold in your hand, and use in your home machines. Let's look at some cool storage technology that the average desktop user can tackle.
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Will the best Android tablet actually be a jail-broken iPad?
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It has been well over ten years since the first Linux clusters arrived in the HPC market. What's next?
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If user and group management has you in a quandary, it's time to take the advanced filesystem security class at the ACLU.
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Stick a fork in the desktop, it's done! Recently Google demoed a port of Quake II to WebGL and HTML5, showing that even first person shooters are suitable applications to run in the browser. While the tide isn't going to turn all at once, it seems more likely than ever that a browser-based desktop is a viable option and ultimately the way many users will experience all applications.
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Learn how to snap a picture and display it in your application
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System Administrator Dilemma #942: Send a Data Center Service Tech out to pop open the case to tell you what's in your system or use two simple commands.
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It's Google's Internet, we just use it. Well, maybe not, but some days it seems that way. Google's gone from searching the Internet to being a big chunk of it. The latest moves from Mountain View include adding OAuth and contextual gadgets to email. Good on the surface for Google users, but what do they mean for everybody else?
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Songbird, the popular open source cross platform music player, has decided to dump support for Linux. Such a move could be fatal and here's why.
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Combing things in parallel often has unexpected consequences and outcomes.
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Did you ever see one of those terrible Sci-Fi movies involving a killer Octopus? Ceph, while named after just such an animal, is not a creature about to eat an unlucky Spring Breaker, but a new parallel distributed file system. The client portion of Ceph just went into the 2.6.34 kernel so let's learn a bit more about it.
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Dig deep into the performance of the new 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 series processor and how to maximize its features for your applications.
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Apple ups the ante against Android with iPhone OS version 4 -- but first they have to answer to the 3.3.1 worm.
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Whether you're new to managing users and groups or just need a quick refresher, this tutorial will sharpen your sys admin chops.
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Emerging technologies are making it easier to build and consume analytical applications. A core component of this advancement is the application of in-memory analytics to speed the processing of very large data sets. When coupled with interative visualizations, these emerging technologies allow businesses to eliminate costly data warehouses, discover new insights and link insights to future actions. Download this resource to learn more.
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Metadata performance is perhaps the most neglected facet of storage performance. In previous articles we've looked into how best to improve metadata performance without too much luck. Could that be a function of the benchmark? Hmmm...
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Tell us about how you manage superusers on your Linux and Unix servers and be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a Western Digital My Book Office 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive.
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Making my Nexus One usable as a day-to-day phone
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If you think smart is intelligent or if you think yum is tasty, aptitude will expand your thoughts with attitude.
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If you develop Linux applications for commercial use, it's critical that your software installs correctly the first time. Learn how the world's biggest software companies are building error-free installers for their Linux applications.
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Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux.
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Sony removes choice from the PS3 and personal HPC takes a hit
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Apple takes a turn in the social network scene
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If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution and you aren't familiar with the apt-get packaging system, you're apt to fall in love with it.
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Opera is finally making with the snapshots for 10.50 on Linux, but is it really as fast as they claim? Opera's upcoming release gets a shakedown this week, and the results might surprise you.
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Time to kill? Check. Running Linux? Check. Now, here's the last piece of that puzzle: 15 current and future gaming options that don't require Windows.
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Is HTML5 going to put the hurt on Flash? Rumors of Flash's demise may be greatly exaggerated, but the long term prospects for Adobe Flash seem pretty dim indeed.
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Still deeper into the dot (.) with an dive into access permissions. Study up because there's going to be a quiz.
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InterSect360 shares some valuable marketing insights about the HPC market and invites HPC leadership
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The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 is on the way and with its new theme, looks simply stunning. With an online music store built in, integrated cloud backup services and a strong focus on social networking, could this finally be the release consumers have been waiting for?
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In the last couple of articles we have talked about using strace to help examine the IO profile of applications (including MPI applications; think HPC). But strace output can contain hundreds of thousands of lines. In this article we talk about the using a tool called strace_analyzer to help sift through the strace output.
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Beginning with a brief tour of the filesystem, we take you deep into the dot (.) of your directory listing so you can get the most from your CLI.
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Rumors of a Google TV appliance continues to blur the lines of platform and market -- and perhaps brings App developers yet another opportunity to sell their 'wares
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GoAhead Software, high-availability middleware vendor, shifts to an open source business model.
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According to the company, Novell would consider being acquired should the right buyer come along. Could that buyer be Microsoft? And what would that mean for SUSE and the Linux ecosystem?
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When it comes to system security, there's no single correct solution. But with vigilance and these techniques, you will be five steps closer.
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When other mailers aren't doing the trick, it's time to break out Claws: An extremely configurable and extensible GUI mailer that gives you all the control you'd ever want over your mail without sacrificing ease of use.
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Some of us are still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. Some think it's already here. One thing is certain however, Linux does not have a majority desktop market share. By the time we get there, perhaps the entire idea of what a Desktop is will have been re-defined, thanks to "The Cloud".
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New additions to Sun Grid Engine allow integration with Clouds and Hadoop (map-reduce) jobs
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In the last article we looked at using strace to examine the IO patterns of simple serial applications. In the High Performance Computing (HPC) world, applications use MPI (Message Passing Interface) to create parallel applications. This time around we discuss how to attack parallel applications using strace.
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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is competing with XML as the data encoding format of choice.
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It's popular to hate on IE8, and easy to do! But the truth is, Firefox could take a few cues from stodgy old Internet Explorer. From user-friendly features to deployment tools, there are still a few things that IE does better.
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Do you think your systems are secure? Install DenyHosts and you'll realize that you were in denial.
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Bring the mightiness of Vim to Firefox! If you're ready for a fully keyboard-driven browser, the Vimperator add-on for Firefox can help you do away with mouse-based drudgery and add the awesomeness of vi-like keybindings to Firefox 3.5 and later.
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The inability to play the latest off the shelf commercial games has been a thorn in the side of Linux for a long time. With companies such as Valve starting to embrace other platforms, will that be the catalyst Linux needs to become a first class citizen?
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nVidia CUDA may be the rage, but OpenCL is a standard that has some features you may need.
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One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications. This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain.
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Appcelerator ups the ante for mobile developers
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It's been a few days but the latest kernel, 2.6.33 is out. There are some changes that affect the storage world that you probably need to check out.
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Download and use Nikto before an attacker reduces your website to a burned-out cinder.
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Google Chrome has only had extensions available for a few months, but it already has a great collection of add-ons that will boost your browsing experience. We look at a handful of extensions that let you manage tabs effectively, learn more about the sites you browse, and read feeds with panache.
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This month we are supposed to hear about new multi-core processors from both AMD and Intel. Should we be happy?
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In the land of Linux, there are three giants. Three distributions which have stood the test of time and from which most others have come. What makes these three unique and how have they shaped Linux as we know it today?
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POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is the portion of the standard surrounding IO. But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die.
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Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the user decide how to optimize their system in many ways and includes building for a specific CPU architecture. Linux Magazine benchmarks four such options; i486, i686, pentium3, core2, and throws in Ubuntu for good measure.
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Building a scrollable, dynamic user interface for iPhone.
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A confirmed GNOME superfan takes a new look at KDE 4.4 and likes it.
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Managing power can save money especially if it is from your wallet
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Chrome is catching up to Firefox pretty quickly in the extension department. The Chrome Extension Gallery has added more than 2,700 extensions in just a few months. Meanwhile the Mozilla team is busy perfecting Jetpack to make life much easier for add-on developers. With the 0.8 release out the door, let's look at what the road ahead looks like for Mozilla Jetpack and the future of add-ons with Mozilla.
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The nouveau project has done it! Finally, an open source 3D driver for NVIDIA video cards has arrived and will ship with Fedora 13. Let's take a look (including a few benchmarks).
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Introduced less than three years ago, the rapid growth of the CUDA software model is no accident
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Beef up your sysadmin toolkit by extending the powerful monitoring features of Nagios.
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A look at an alternative means of constructing user interface elements for Android developers
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Psst. Hey, would you like to hear an Ubuntu secret? OK, how about five secrets?
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Google is having another go at a social media offering, and this time it looks like the company may be on the right track. Google Buzz was rolled out en masse this week, to largely positive reviews. The service has a few rough edges, but has quite a bit of potential.
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Can a solution for HPC software live within MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, and/or Ct?
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The major derivatives of Ubuntu are well known, but what about the others? Just because they aren't as popular doesn't mean they don't have something to offer! We introduce five of the least known, yet simply outstanding distributions.
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When you're hot, you're hot. And SSD's are hot right now. Let's review recent developments in SSD hardware and to see where the technology is headed. Prepare to drool over new hardware!
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February has been a strong month for open source on mobile devices, including the release of the Symbian OS source code, an Android update and Linus giving a nod to the Nexus One.
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The Android SDK is strictly for Java Programmers -- however, the Native Development Kit cracks the door to let some "C" inside
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Save time and gain functionality by starting your GUI apps from the command line.
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When 140 characters is all you need, the command line does it better.
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Looking for a new flavor of Web browser? If the mainstream favorites aren't doing the trick, or you just want to test drive something new, we take a look at several of the "alternative" Web browsers for the Linux desktop.
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This week the first milestone release of openSUSE was made available. Together with the KDE 4.4 release candidate and excellent integration of GTK applications such as Firefox, openSUSE simply provides the greatest KDE experience available to date. Here's why.
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Commodity trends at the low end are generating interesting ideas in HPC
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Turning from Metadata performance to throughput performance, we examines the impact of journal size on ext4 when the journal is disk-based. Dig into the numbers and see what you can do to improve throughput performance.
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Is it just an iPod on steroids or does the iPad from Apple represent the future of mobile computing? Perhaps a bit of both.
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Last week we looked at Firefox 3.6 from the user perspective. This week we'll take a quick look at some of the under-the-hood improvements for Firefox 3.6 for developers.
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Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered.
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Linux developers, are you tired of building RPM and DEB packages that don't install properly? Try InstallAnywhere, the Linux and multiplatform installer solution trusted by the world's top software companies.
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Is the success of Linux directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software developers be spending more time integrating with it instead of building better software for free platforms?
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Our final videos include Appro, 10GigE, and making sense of it all
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The past couple of weeks we ran the numbers on metadata performance for ramdisks and hard drive-based journals for ext4. Now let's compare/contrast the two journal devices and see what trends emerge.
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Using the EventLogger feature of the BlackBerry to record important events
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Are you bewildered by disk management in Linux? Don't be. Here are the nuts and bolts of adding a new disk to your system.
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Data is only data until it can be used to drive business outcomes.
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Overcome the challenges of growth with business intelligence and business performance management.
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It's finally here! After about six months of development, Firefox 3.6 has landed. A bit too late for the original 2009 release date, Firefox 3.6 is worth the extra bit of development time.
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By linking insights to action, performance management has enormous potential to transform midsize business.
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Canonical is looking into selling proprietary software like Adobe's Photoshop and Apple's iTunes within its distribution, Ubuntu. This would undoubtedly be helpful for certain end users wanting to switch to Linux, but is it good for free software in the long run?
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Let's all help the Haiti relief effort and then watch some cutting edge videos
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Previously, we examined the impact of journal size using a separate disk on metadata performance as measured by fdtree. In this follow-up we repeat the same test but use a ramdisk for the journal, thereby boosting the best performance. Or does it?
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Android has been updated again, but the list of phones waiting for an upgrade continues to grow. There is one lesson Apple can teach Android
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Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI).
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Spending most of your workday in Firefox? Most of us live in the Web browser for day to day work, so it's important to make it as productive as possible. With the help of a few add-ons and Web services, you can easily double your productivity in Firefox.
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Cray Upgrades “Kraken” Supercomputer
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Cray XT5 – Green Computing
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I get the latest from AMD, talk with Don Becker, and then get disruptive
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Bill Gates said he would get China addicted to Windows and then "collect sometime in the next decade." Now they are indeed coming to collect, but thanks to Linux their plan could backfire, badly.
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Recently we saw that the journal device location, unfortunately, didn't make much of a difference on ext4 metadata performance. But can the size of the journal will have an impact on metadata performance? The first in a series of articles examining the journal size and performance.
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Eclipse is not the only game in town when it comes to compiling Android applications.
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Contrary to popular belief, virtual machines are no more secure than physical machines. They are also no less so.
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Picture a "test pilot" and you'll probably imagine a dashing personality ready to risk life and limb in order to test the latest technology. The Mozilla Test Pilot program is a lot like that, except you don't have to risk life or limb, and it might not give any great stories to tell at the bar. But you could help the project with very little effort, and isn't that almost as good?
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Microsoft still has a stranglehold on the desktop and servers for small business. While wheels are in motion for the former, the answer to the latter may already be here.
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A new year is upon us, but wait, I'm not done with the old one yet!
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Cloud computing, virtualization and mobile devices take the 'proprietary' out of computing--at least for the consumer. Just think of the possibilities.
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In the quest for more performance there are two new standards for SATA and SAS focused on doubling current throughput to 6 Gbps. While the standards may sound like a nice potential boost don't expect individual hard drives to increase in performance.
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Who needs a Dell when you can have a VirtualBox?
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If at first you don't succeed, try again. Opera hasn't cracked double digits in the desktop browser market, but that doesn't mean the company is giving up. A few days ago, Opera released alpha builds of Opera 10.5 and made them available for download. If the alpha release is any indication, Opera is going to give Firefox and Chrome a run for their money, speedwise.
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The next twelve months will be good to Linux and Free software, but we won't capture the market just yet.
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In the never-ending quest for more performance, we examine three different journaling device options for ext4 with an eye toward improving metadata performance. Who doesn't like speed?
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Truth is stranger than fiction. The connection that helped end HPC careers and companies in 2009
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There's a front moving in and it looks like long overdue drought relief. Keep your umbrella handy--it looks like a virtual deluge.
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Wouldn't it be cool if I could plug a keyboard and monitor into my phone....
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Break out the Champagne and get ready to celebrate the winners of the Web in 2009, and give a few shots to the losers. Looking back on 2009 on the Web, we saw some tectonic shifts in the market and major developments that are going to make 2010 very interesting indeed. Grab your tickets and we'll see if you picked the winners for 2009, but if you bet heavy on Microsoft, you might be disappointed.
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This week we hear from Intel, Numascale, and Mellanox. Plus some thoughts on single node HPC solutions
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Linux's history can be measured in both releases 2.0, 2.6, and so on, and in its major distributions, which brought these releases to the masses at large. Here's my list of the top five major Linux distributions that had the most impact in the operating system's brief history.
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Another year goes by without the "Year of the Linux Desktop" (whatever that means) but that doesn't mean that Free software is standing still. What highlights have there been over the last year and what is still holding us back?
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It's the end of the year and that means it's time to either make predictions for the coming year or review the highlights from the past year. This article takes a look at the cool things that happened around storage in the past year and perhaps hints at some things in the coming year.
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One of the challenges facing HPC are I/O rates and new clusters designs are paving the way to new levels of performance.
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Android is maturing, both for developers and consumers. Will it dominate the mobile market? 2010 may bring the answer.
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Do you think that converting your clunky, maintenance-burdened physical desktop OS to a clunky, maintenance-burdened VM will save you some money? Think again.
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Manually extracting relevant information from repeated incantations of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS while trying to figure out what InnoDB is doing is not only error prone, it's just plain hard to do. And since MySQL doesn't expose the data you really want in an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table (yet?), the option is use an external program to help: innotop.
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Not to sound like a Luddite, but sometimes the old ways are best. When it comes to Web browsers, that's not very often, but knowing your way around a text-mode browser like w3m does come in handy from time to time. You probably won't want to switch, but after taking a look at what you can do with w3m, you might want to add it to your toolbox.
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Mandriva is a long surviving Linux distribution, often touted as the best for new users. Is this really so? With an ever changing game, will Mandriva's methods last long term?
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Looking back on 2010 and what's ahead for 2011.
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The first videos from SC09 are here. We take a look at the Beowulf Bash, SCinet, NVidia, and Adaptive Computing (previously Cluster Resources
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Increase your speed to market by building a hybrid application for iPhone
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With the year winding to a close, it's a good time to look back and think about what some of the most interesting and useful resources were. This includes software tools, web sites, blogs, and so on.
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If you like Google Chrome's speed, but miss the extensibility of Firefox, you're in luck. The Chrome team announced the developer program around Chrome Extensions this week, and unveiled part of the site that will eventually serve as the official mothership for Chrome add-ons. If you can't wait until then, we've got a round-up of resources for unofficial scripts and extension that should keep you occupied until the wraps come off.
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Everyone loves a shiny new kernel. The latest one, 2.6.32, was released on Dec. 3 and there are some nice updates/fixes for file systems and IO in general. But there is a very important change for the CFQ IO scheduler that you need to understand.
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Google recently released the source code for their upcoming operating system, Chrome OS. Many who tried it have felt that it leaves a lot to be desired. So, is their head in the clouds, or does it actually deliver what was promised?
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The big show is over and now all that remains is to make sense of it all
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The SuperComputing Conference/Exhibition is always a great conference for learning about storage trends in the HPC world. This year the alert attendee could spot two emerging trends: smaller companies developing innovative storage solutions and the rise of flash storage units.
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Today’s OS and platform engineers are between a rock and a hard place. Application and other enterprise dependencies have never been more varied, dynamic and complex, which makes it difficult to standardize on a single OS or middleware platform. At …
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It's time for a little VM recreation and you don't even have to get sweaty in the process.
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Web Development for Mobile Devices is the latest rage. But what if you want an "off-line" web application? No problem!
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Server virtualization is a tremendously valuable technology, but as it becomes widely adopted, organizations face new obstacles to managing enterprise storage that have significant impact upon Total Cost of Ownership. The Taneja Group examines these challenges and reviews Citrix StorageLink, a solution that maximizes the use of existing networked storage.
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With the new year right around the corner, it's worth thinking about where you can get the biggest bang for your buck--quite literally. In a lot of organizations, budgeting is a funny exercise that requires you to "use it or lose it" at the end of the year while also having surprisingly detailed plans for next year's money.
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Providing a little taste of honey to would-be intruders could save the whole hive from greedy paws.
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The mobile web is maturing -- but be careful to not stuff your application chock-full of "features."
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OS groups are under pressure to tailor off-the-shelf Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms -- but, today, it's flexibility at the expense of control. Application, middleware, security and other specialized requirements spawn new platform variants that create "complexity hell," making ongoing management a major challenge. It leads to duplicate effort in maintaining common OS components, inefficient and fragile update and patching, and transparency issues that put compliance at risk. In an age of flat or declining resources and pressure for customization, today's management models no longer work.
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Upgrading MySQL can be a bit of a leap of faith. You hope for everything to go well but really don't want to rely on mere hope to ensure that you don't find yourself with a nasty surprise late one night.
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Jaguar, the Cray XT5 supercomputer located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has achieved another supercomputing milestone and been recognized by the Top500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer. “We are pleased that the upgraded Cray XT5 system at ORNL has added this new honor to its growing list of achievements,†said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray.
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At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference, Cray announced the newest upgrades to the company’s industry-leading Cray XT supercomputer series. The high-end Cray XT6 supercomputer system and its fully-compatible Cray XT6m midrange counterpart will combine Cray’s unmatched scalability and architecture with AMD’s newest innovations in processing for high performance computing. Scheduled for general availability in the second quarter of 2010, the Cray XT6 and Cray XT6m systems will continue to set the standard for HPC performance, productivity and energy efficiency.
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The big news of the week: Google Chrome OS is out in the wild. Sort of. If you're willing to roll up your sleeves a bit and do some work, you can get your hands on Google Chrome OS, but it's not quite ready for everybody just yet.
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Adoption of server virtualization has helped organizations deliver IT solutions faster and at lower cost. But while adoption of virtualization has been strong for lab and second-tier applications, its use for business-critical apps has lagged.
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This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database and infrastructure device throughout enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system, PowerKeeper is the only solution in the market that is fully heterogeneous out-of-the-box.
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The latest release of Fedora is out, offering a number of major improvements over its predecessor. Just exactly what does it have to offer the end user, and is it worth the upgrade?
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Cloud Storage -- while perhaps not the best label ever invented -- holds promise for the massive future storage requirements looming on the horizon. And does it at a very good price/performance ratio. This article takes a quick look at the concepts and the challenges of Cloud Storage.
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It doesn't get too much press these days, but the BlackBerry platform still holds appeal for enterprise applications.
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What's better than virtualization? How about free virtualization?
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After nearly a year in development, openSUSE 11.2 is ready to be unleashed! A peek under the hood shows a lot of new and interesting changes since 11.1, including updated desktops and a preview of WebYaST.
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Out of the box, MySQL isn't exactly tuned for resilience on a busy network where things occasionally go haywire.
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Mozilla Labs is continuing in its quest to make it as easy to extend the browser as it is to write a Web page. The latest update to Jetpack came out this week, and brought a few new APIs and a gallery of community contributed Jetpacks. There's been quite a bit of progress, but Jetpack isn't quite there just yet.
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As Ubuntu's popularity increases, how can we help to ensure that new users get the best experience possible?
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Let's use the HPC fist bump this year.
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Hardware failure, viruses and user errors can strike any time. Maintaining regular backups of data is crucial for recovery after such a disaster. But manual processes such as tape backups can be time-consuming. Automate regular backups with IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack™ and gain the ability to restore data almost immediately. All the details are here in this informative article.
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iSCSI is one of the hottest topics in Storage because it allows you to create centralized SANs using TCP networks rather than Fibre Channel (FC) networks. Get a handle on the main iSCSI concepts and terminology.
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iPhone has created the market, but Android has the potential to own it.
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Working with CouchDB is very straightforward. There's virtually no setup involved and no complicated libraries to hassle with.
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Firefox 3.6 development is moving along nicely, if a bit tardy. The first beta was expected in mid-September, but it finally dropped right before the end of October. How's 3.6 look? It's not a major leap from Firefox 3.5, but it has a few nice features and is showing decent improvement in JavaScript performance.
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Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. Too often, however, these efforts pay far too little heed to the risks posed by poorly controlled access to administrative privilege in IT, which can have a hugely disproportionate impact on the business.
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Ubuntu's new Karmic Koala 9.10 release has been highly anticipated as the greatest release ever. In truth, it falls flat on its face in a time when Linux really needed to shine.
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Your guide to navigating the coolest tradeshow on the planet.
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The last article talked about the anatomy of SSDs and the origins of some of the their characteristics. In this article, we break down tuning storage and file systems for SSDs with an eye toward improving performance and helping overcome some of the platform's limitations.
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And now for something completely different for Windows: Virtual Hard Drives.
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Sprint hosts major mobile players at Open Developer's Conference in Santa Clara
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CouchDB is one of the most popular and mature document-oriented databases. Let's have a look at the features that make it so popular, get it installed, and start putting it to use.
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You don't have to take the Web as-is, you have the power to change it! With a few handy add-ons for Mozilla Firefox, you can take control of the sites you visit and make them look and work the way that you want to.
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Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the user decide how to optimize their system in many ways. Linux Magazine benchmarks three of the most common GCC optimizations; -Os, -O2 and -O3, and throws in Ubuntu for good measure.
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This technical presentation will focus on the promises and perils of building a dynamic infrastructure for a true HPC cloud environment. As a case study, the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc. (RMSC) offers a Supercomputing Platforms as a Service (SPaaS) model for Cloud Computing. The challenge facing RMSC is to provide a range of standard software packages and HPC services to their clients in a robust and automated fashion. These services require a flexible infrastructure as clients have a wide range of needs.
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Are you a Geek or a Droid? Take the simple quiz to find out!
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SSDs (Solid-State Drives) are a hot topic right now for a number of reasons; not the least of which being their power to performance ratio. But to better understand SSDs you should first get a grip on how they are constructed and the features/limitations of these drives.
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Windows 7 arrives virtualization enabled. And a free copy of Windows XP to boot and reboot.
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Learn how to use the HTML5 database for storing client-side data. Client side storage is enabling the next generation of mobile applications.
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When dealing with large distributed systems, knowing some basic performance and failure numbers helps you understand what you can reasonably expect both in terms of performance and reliability.
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Small to medium-sized businesses often find themselves forced to do more with fewer resources. IT optimization strategies such as consolidation and virtualization help reduce complexity, free up resources and support growth. This article explains how optimization enables agility and maximizes efficiency, so your business can be more competitive.
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With pressures mounting both to keep IT infrastructures running optimally and to reduce costs, IT optimization promises to relieve companies struggling to meet both goals. This white paper explains how IT optimization allows midsize businesses to respond rapidly to changing business priorities and align their IT infrastructure with the strategic goals of their company.
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Opera recently released a beta of its next browser update, Opera 10.10. Of note in this release is Opera Unite, finally enabled by default. Opera is showing signs of progress, but is Unite all it was initially cracked up to be?
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Here it is, the last photo of Linus you'll need for the year.
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If personal computing is moving to the web, then where are all the lightweight Cloud focused distributions? Meet xPUD, a brilliant little distro that boots straight to a fullscreen browser. It uses a simple, unique interface, and includes everyday software such as a media player and more! We talk with the lead developer about what makes this operating system unique.
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How can users protect themselves from the loss of important data when a computer goes missing? Well, the latest release of Ubuntu makes this not only possible, but frighteningly easy!
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Preserving program state is necessary for parallel computation, but should we keep doing it the hard way?
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A fairly common Linux storage question: Which is better for data striping, RAID-0 or LVM? Let's take a look at these two tools and see how they perform data striping tasks.
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Make your WebOS application look like the built-in applications with Widgets
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The search for the answer to this ultimate question is a noble yet daunting quest. Licensing obfuscation makes the answer the stuff of Sherlock Holmes novels and fortuneteller quarry.
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Privileged access is critical for smooth ongoing administration of IT assets. At the same time, this access exposes an organization to security risks, especially regarding insiders. The right solution will provide centralized visibility into policies as well as actions taken related to privileged access control. This will ensure that there is complete awareness of the security posture at each stage of the Privilege Access Lifecycle Management process.
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Non-SQL oriented distributed databases are all the rage in some circles. They're designed to scale from day 1 and offer reliability in the face of failures.
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After chomping at the bit to get a Google Wave invite, the reality leaves a bit to be desired. While Wave has some interesting features and a slightly new take on collaboration, the current implementation has little to offer beyond what you'll already find in tools like EtherPad and Google Docs.
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In 2008 the Gentoo Foundation ceased to exist, sending rumors of Gentoo's demise and ultimate death circulating around the Internet. Almost two years on, the distro is still here and celebrating its 10th anniversary. How close did the distro come to disaster, and where does it stand now?
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The New Fermi GPU shows NVidia has been listening to the HPC crowd
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The last article was a quick overview of the 4 schedulers in the Linux kernel. This article takes a closer look at the Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) scheduler and how you can tune it.
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The only thing changing faster than mobile devices is the business model for distributing your applications
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Programming in a higher-level language, it's often easy to forget about using lower-level Unix facilities in tricky situations. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of what you might be missing.
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Syncing bookmarks? That's for amateurs! If you're ready to get real, you can sync your bookmarks, passwords, history, tabs, and more with Mozilla Weave Sync for Firefox and Fennec.
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Gentoo, the most popular source based distribution, has turned ten years old. What benefits does a such a system provide over its binary distros? As Linux becomes more and more popular, is there still a place for source based distros?
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Dynamic infrastructure is the future of HPC. Instead of locking specific software to hardware, IBM customers are using the next generation of dynamic cluster management to reduce administration overhead and increase cluster utilization and efficiency.
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The Linux kernel has several different IO schedulers. This article provides an introduction to the concept of schedulers and what options exist for Linux.
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An inexpensive classroom is as close as your local hypervisor.
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Integrate Flex and Java with your PHP application.
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The List widget is central to webOS applications -- master the List widget and you're well on your way to creating great webOS applications
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Consistent Hashing is a useful technique for horizontal scaling while also protecting yourself against future growth as well as server failures.
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Hitching a ride to a fast moving technology is a welcome trend
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Work smarter, not harder. It's a good motto, and one that applies well to SmarterFox, an extension for Firefox that makes common tasks much easier to perform.
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The netbook phenomenon was going to hail in the reign of Linux on the desktop. It hasn't, yet. Now however the Moblin project is changing the game, so much so that we just might see Linux take back that market share which it lost in the very beginning.
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We finish off our IOzone performance exploration of the major Linux file systems. This time adding ext2, jfs, xfs, btrfs, and reiserfs. Let's take a look at the numbers.
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Supercomputers Accelerating Innovation (ORNL Jaguar video)
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Big Science Seeks Big Solutions (ORNL Jaguar video)
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Cray XT5 Demo
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XT5m Supercomputer: Making Petaflops Performance Affordable
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Meeting the Demands of Computer Cooling with Superior Efficiency
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University of Stuttgart's High Performance Computing Center Utilizes Cray XT5m Supercomputer to Push the Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge
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The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has taken a significant step forward to petascale computing by upgrading its current Cray XT3 system to a Cray XT5 supercomputer. The recently completed 20-cabinet upgrade resulted in a system that is the most powerful supercomputer in Switzerland and one of the largest high performance computing (HPC) systems worldwide. CSCS is leveraging the petaflops computing architecture of the Cray XT5 supercomputer to provide the Swiss scientific and industrial community with computing resources necessary to stay competitive on an international level.
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The Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Japan has put a Cray XT4 supercomputer and a Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer into production. RTRI is currently using both of its Cray supercomputers to accelerate large-scale simulations that push the boundaries of innovation in railway technologies. Based in Tokyo, RTRI places great importance on the application of supercomputer-based simulation technology in its R&D efforts. With the goal of driving computing simulations in parallel environments, RTRI is now tapping into the technical expertise offered by Cray to set up a large-scale, efficient computing environment.
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Cray has received a contract from the Department of Energy to upgrade the Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The upgrade to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors will increase Jaguar's peak performance to more than two petaflops of compute power, solidifying its position as the world's most powerful supercomputer. The contract to upgrade the Jaguar system will increase the number of the Cray XT5 supercomputer's processing cores to more than 224,000.
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Cray has won the contract to install a next-generation supercomputer at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The contract includes delivery of a Cray XT5 massively parallel processor supercomputer, which will be upgraded to a future-generation Cray supercomputer. When completed, the new Cray will deliver a peak performance of more than one petaflops. Like NERSC's current 355-teraflops Cray XT4 system, nicknamed "Franklin," the new supercomputing system will help advance open science research in climate modeling, biology, environmental sciences, combustion, materials science, chemistry, geosciences, fusion energy, astrophysics, nuclear and high-energy physics, and other disciplines, along with scientific visualization of massive data sets.
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Put your virtual machine footprint on a diet with appliances.
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Cray has signed a multi-year, multi-phase contract to provide the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) with a next-generation supercomputer. Valued at more than $40 million, the award is one of the largest in the area of operational numerical weather prediction in the world to-date, and will provide KMA with the necessary supercomputing, storage and data management technologies to reinforce its position as one of the world's premier weather forecasting and research centers.
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Google recently cracked down on popular Android MODer Cyanogen. Does this mark the beginning of the end for Android or just a speed-bump on the way to market dominance?
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How can you help to ensure availability of a of a web site or other network service? We'll look at some of the techniques at our disposal.
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Coding is often just a small part of software development. There are lots of other tasks to attend to. Here are some tools to help with all aspects of the job.
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Gmail has changed the way we think about email, mostly for the better. Lately, though, Gmail has become notorious for its problems rather than speedy search and its "never delete mail again," storage allotments. It might be time for a tough love approach.
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Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size.
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Every company analyzes ROI slightly differently – depending on their own priorities and their own interests. This document gives an overview of these results and some helpful considerations when conducting an ROI analysis of Steelhead products.
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Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.
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Linus recently stated that Linux is "bloated and huge," but what does that really mean? He is, of course, talking about the code in the kernel itself, rather than the wider implementation as a desktop. Even so, does this really need fixing, and is it even possible?
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In stark contrast to one year ago, this year's show was well-attended and upbeat.
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One of the hottest topics in the enterprise storage world is deduplication. We take a look at the technology behind the concept and discuss where it is best applicable in your storage strategy.
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When function surpasses form, the operating system drops out of the equation.
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With the release of Android 1.6 a.k.a. "Donut", Android continues its path towards main-stream mobile acceptance
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Relational databases are not necessarily the best choice for modern Web applications. A new generation of alternatives is emerging. MongoDB is one of the best emergent solutions. And it's open source.
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Sometimes you need answers to important questions quickly. When benchmarking new disk and disk-like subsystems, how can you get relevant and useful info without a lot of time?
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After far too long in development, Thunderbird 3.0 seems to be nearing the home stretch. We take a look at the latest test builds for Thunderbird 3.0 beta 4. Is it worth the wait? Despite the sluggish development cycle, signs point to yes. Read on for how Thunderbird can help you manage your inbox.
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Who did what when and to which? Don't guess. Track changes with this Rails add-on.
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If you've been looking for a lean, sleek, well supported operating system for your netbook then look no further. Due out next month, Karmic Koala Netbook Remix has a cleaner interface, complete hardware support and numerous other improvements. Let's take a look.
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While metadata performance is important, another critical metric for measuring file systems is throughput. We put three Linux file systems their paces with IOzone.
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Will a new feature make C the answer to the parallel programmer's dreams?
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When will someone develop an operating system that's virtualization optimized?
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Where to go when the docs don't help, or if you're just plain curious about what is brewing in Mojo.
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When developing on Linux platforms you want to make sure you have quick access to fully-provisioned environments. Each iteration of Agile Development -- from unit through integration testing -- requires a consistent infrastructure available at a moment's notice. Learn how Parallels server virtualization can allow you to standardize and optimize your development environment.
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This week we continue on the trek to locate the source of failing MySQL connections and uncover a solution.
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Having trouble keeping up with your social media? The TweetDeck crew released a major update to the "social dashboard" this week that adds support for Facebook and MySpace. Now you can update several major services and bring order to your social media universe.
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Some complain that there is simply too much choice in the free software world and far too many Linux distributions. Well, now there's another called Lubuntu. A derivative of Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop, it's super light and very fast. Finally, there's an Ubuntu perfectly suited to those older, low end machines!
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More performance: We add five file systems to our previous benchmark results to creating a "uber" article on metadata file system performance. We follow the "good" benchmarking guidelines presented in a previous article and examine the good, the bad and the interesting.
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Let's roll up our sleeves and dig around inside webOS to find out just what's available to the developer looking to make modifications on a rooted device.
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The 10 GigE train is on its way. Simplicity and low cost have left the station.
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Will pressure from Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat prove to be too much opposition for VMware's now precarious lead position?
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Troubleshooting is often an adventure that takes you to unexpected places and teaches you a lot along the way.
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Opera 10 is finally final. It has lots of great bells and whistles, and a much nicer user interface compared to the Opera 9x series, but can it compete with Firefox and Chrome?
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Hybridizing MPI applications with cores and GP-GPUs. Is this a good idea?
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A new kind of startup—a font service provider—turns Verdana into Vavoom!
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Slackware is one of the first Linux distributions ever and the oldest surviving. With the recent release of version 13.0, the project has announced official support for 64-bit systems. Linux Magazine talks to Eric Hameleers, the man behind the port, about what motivated him to create it and what Slackware has to offer you.
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You can save considerable money migrating from archaic Solaris systems to Linux. In this webcase, IDC analyst Al Gillen provides insights on Linux migration and real-world benefits of leaving the Solaris platform.
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Using the principles of good benchmarking, we explore the metadata performance of four linux file systems using a simple benchmark, fdtree.
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If you are concerned about the future of your proprietary RISC platform, you need to consider a migration from proprietary to open, from UNIX to Linux while you still have options. You do not want to be forced to pour good money after bad upgrading an obsolete architecture in order simply to stay afloat.
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The move from UNIX to Linux makes sense in almost any environment, and now, with today's economic environment and every budget being cut, it makes more sense than ever before. The TCO of the proprietary RISC/UNIX data center is going up. With the ROI of migrating to an open systems platform being measured in months, you can become a corporate hero. The time to change the data center paradigm is now!
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Building on our Android-based TicketResponder applicatoin, we add a new screen and data persistence.
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Apache 2.2 has some great hidden treasures in it that a lot of folks are simply unaware of.
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Need a key/value store that doesn't compromise functionality for performance? Have a look at redis.
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What does the next-generation feed-reader look like? Probably a lot like Snowl, a project out of Mozilla Labs that bills itself as a tool to follow and participate in online discussions. We take a look at early release of Snowl to see how it's coming along. It's not perfect yet, but the long term future for Snowl looks good.
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The acquisition of Sun by Oracle raises many questions and recalls some past experiences
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With the integration of the Telepathy framework into GNOME, most distributions are dropping the old instant messaging favorite Pidgin, for the new upstream application Empathy. It's a reminder of the important role that distributions play in making choices for us all.
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Hijack can debug most any running Ruby process. Here's a hands-on introduction.
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Backups are a technology or process that everyone -- everyone! -- needs to consider. This article looks at some on-line backup options for Linux that can apply to the spectrum of home to enterprise-class users.
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Roll up your sleeves, start up the Android Emulator and debug your application line by line.
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Which virtualization technology would you choose if you owned a hosting company? The answer by those who do might surprise you.
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The inside look at Edge Rails rumbles on.
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As technology evolves, it's often worth re-thinking how we do things. A small group of engineers is doing just that for MySQL.
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Github hosts thousands of projects. But you may be surprised what projects are the most forked. Here's a look at some of the top packages.
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Social media addict or social media newbie? Either way, we've got four must-have Firefox extensions that will make using popular social media sites much easier and more seamless within the world's most popular open source browser.
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Edge Rails has more treats in store for early adopters and lazy developers.
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What's new in Rails? Lots and lots. Over the next week, peek into Edge Rails and look forward as Rails 3 chugs to release.
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The state of web multimedia on Linux is pitiful. Proprietary codecs, plug-ins and closed standards are helping to keep Linux a second rate citizen. What Linux needs is not another proprietary framework like Moonlight, but more open standards. Can Google help by making YouTube a Theora-fest?
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Hiding the details of the multi-core and GP-GPU hardware is a really cool goal
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Linux comes with software-based RAID that can be used to provide either a performance boost or add a degree of data protection. This article gives a quick introduction to Linux software RAID and walks through how to create a simple RAID-1 array.
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It's the ultimate JVM Web Framework Smackdown! Three will enter the cage. Only one will exit the victor. Will it be JRuby on Rails? Groovy on Grails? Or Helma?
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Booting into Hyper-V R2 not exciting enough for you? How about booting it from a USB drive?
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Dig into the code as we continue down the path of creating a real-world Android application
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It's the ultimate JVM Web Framework Smackdown! Three will enter the cage. Only one will exit the victor. Will it be JRuby on Rails? Groovy on Grails? Or Helma?
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What are the first things you should look at after learning of a sudden change in MySQL server performance?
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Firefox just keeps moving on. After hitting the billionth download, you might think the project would sit back and relax a while, but not so much. This week, the Mozilla Project released 3.6 alpha 1, which mostly focuses on speed improvements. Is it better than 3.5, or Google Chrome? Let's take a look!
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Arch Linux is a unique distribution, offering the latest free software via a super fast package manager coupled with a "keep it simple" philosophy. It is fast becoming a very popular distribution and now thanks to their split packages, you can install a lightweight KDE 4.3 desktop for even more flexibility and speed.
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How big of a cluster can you build? With a little math and the speed of light you can find out.
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Benchmarking has become synonymous with marketeering to the point it is almost useless. This article takes a look at a very important paper that can demonstrate how bad it has become and makes recommendations on how to improve the situation.
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How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise -- and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level?
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Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy.
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Microsoft's Hyper-V lives comfortably on a USB Flash Drive.
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This is the first in a multi-part series of articles on building real-world mobile applications with Android.
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The PBXT storage engine for MySQL is nearing a stable release. What's so special about PBXT, anyway?
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Technical book authors now post source code archives and even entire books on GitHub. Here are some of the best.
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Meet the new boss, not quite the same as the old boss. While Google Chrome isn't likely to unseat Firefox as the browser of choice for most Linux users very soon, recent development builds are showing a great deal of promise.
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As high performance computing shifts away from single core processors to multi-core and parallel processing, InfiniBand interconnects have emerged as the clear leader in all new HPC shipments especially at the high end.
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The way we use computers is changing, but Linux isn't standing still. Tiny Core is a minimal Linux distribution that boots a complete live system for every day use. Its foundation and unique approach to the desktop helps it achieve certain goals like preventing system rot and ensuring your system is fresh every time it boots.
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Matching the right solution with the right problem takes skill, flexibility, and a little luck.
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Logical Volume Management (LVM) on Linux: A great tool for creating pools of storage hardware that can be divided, resized, or used for snapshots.
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A great team of system administrators can move mountains (of data). Here, learn how to form, norm, and storm with your colleagues.
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A Beowulf pioneer provides insights and experience from the HPC trenches.
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The first InsideMobile conference brought together about 100 developers, product managers, entrepreneurs and even some hobbyists to discuss the future of mobile.
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Is Microsoft's latest Hyper-V incarnation track-ready? We take it for a spin to find out.
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Believe it or not, there are servers specifically designed to run MySQL -- not to mention other hardware that help to accelerate your databases. Here's a look at what's out there.
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The Mozilla Project's long-awaited calendaring app is about to see 1.0. After five years of development, the project released 1.0 beta builds this week. We took Sunbird for a spin to see how it manages our time.
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The Fedora Project is one of the most popular Linux distributions, however its position on non-free software and proprietary codecs isn't for everyone. But thanks to Fedora's ability to create Remix versions of the disto with anything you like, Omega attempts to bridge the divide.
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Not all sites proffer slick RESTful interfaces and XML feeds. In those cases, collecting data requires some good, old-fashioned scraping. This week, let's look at some of the tools and techniques required to scrape a site.
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Protecting your data has become more important than ever. Let's look at some options for encrypting Linux file systems.
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Commodity hardware is the norm in HPC. What about commodity software?
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How can the community help create better HPC software?
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Palm's new webOS and its accompanying toolchain provide a strong testimony to the role Linux can play in the mobile arena.
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Install isolated side-by-side MySQL instances right the first time with this time-saving virtual manager.
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Everything old is new again, goes the saying, and I guess it's true. This week the Seamonkey Project released the first beta for the Seamonkey 2.0 Internet suite, a project that continues the tradition of the Netscape Suite with code from the latest releases of Firefox and Thunderbird under the hood.
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Rails is a productive environment -- once you install gems, plugins, and initializers, configure routes, generate code, migrate databases, and tune your environments. Rails templates can automate all of that busy work.
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Following up on the first webinar in this series (Optimizing the Nehalem for HPC) covering HPC performance and optimization for the new Intel Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem), aspects of the InfiniBand interconnect will be examined.
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Microsoft has released code for inclusion in the Linux kernel, but should it be accepted? Linus Torvalds gives his perspective.
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Diving deeper into UnionFS: walking through how to create and manage large file systems using the principles of ChunkFS and UnionFS.
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Large insect populations synchronize globally, but communicate locally. Is there a lesson for parallel computing?
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There is a never ending debate about which platform is best: Android, iPhone, Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, or Symbian. But what if the correct answer is ... JavaScript? Is this a joke? Not according to an open source project named PhoneGap.
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A pocket-sized hypervisor is the stuff of dreams and sometimes dreams do come true.
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PHP 6, the next major revision of the popular Web application development language, looms on the horizon and promises many changes. Learn what's new and what's obsolete and how to prepare your code for tomorrow.
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Here's a look at some of the most useful MySQL tools you've probably never seen (or heard of).
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The why behind going green. Midsize companies speak.
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For midsize companies, the next generation of data protection is now.
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Unexpected disasters threaten organizations across the globe daily. Surprisingly, many businesses are not prepared for such disasters.
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Ever had problems finding Firefox extensions? Want to tell the world about the extensions you find most useful? Now you can, using the Firefox Add-on Collector.
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Ruby is a very dynamic language. You can turn the language inside out, give objects a frontal lobotomy, and stitch the whole thing back together again, all at runtime. Here are some examples.
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SWIG makes it easy to write an extension for your favorite scripting language (or languages). Learn how it works.
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Google has announced their very own Linux based operating system, but is anyone surprised? What will it mean for other Linux distributions who are vying for a piece of the pie?
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SGI/Rackable Walks away from a PFLOP deal. No, this is actually good news.
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Jeff Layton talks to Valerie Aurora, file system developer and open source evangelist, about a wide range of subjects including her background in file systems, ChunkFS, the Union file system and how the developer ecosystem can chip in.
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Seriously? A Smalltalk web framework? While you might be skeptical at first, this just might be the the ultimate developer tinkertoy.
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Are the days of IT's ultra-geeks are numbered with the introduction of virtual data centers and cloud computing?
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During software projects, you often have to eat some bugs. Just try not to chew on them.
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Bypassing Windows altogether, Mark Shuttleworth has stated that OS X is the operating system to beat. With Ubuntu's 9.04 now in wide distribution, we look at how it stacks up with the competition.
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What are a few of the things you really need to keep in mind when starting that next big MySQL project?
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Firefox is the perfect browser, right? Well, it's probably the best on the market -- but that doesn't mean that it's perfect. Firefox has several annoyances -- some large, some small -- that we'd like to see fixed for 4.0.
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One day, we won't have to worry about browser eccentricities. (I have a dream.) Until then, tools like Browserlab make the horrible realities of Web development tolerable.
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Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time. Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?
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Pick one: portability or efficiency. Neither is guaranteed when writing explicit parallel code
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Calling all mobile software developers! What kind of apps are you writing? What platforms are you targeting? Take our mobile developer survey and let us know!
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Ksplice is an amazing new technology which allows patches to be applied directly into a running kernel, without needing a reboot. Linux Magazine talks with co-founder and Chief Operating Officer and discusses the origins of the project and what it has to offer.
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Need to have write capability on your SquashFS compressed filesystem? UnionFS to the rescue!
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Long shot or sure thing -- what's it like to go "all in" with Hyper-V?
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Can a project originating from San Francisco State University bridge the digital divide and bring true open source development to the iPhone platform? It looks promising, but the climb is steep and the gap is wide.
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Harness the power of distributed computing using everyday Unix command-line tools and a clever little bash script.
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Mozilla is at it again. Not content to slug it out on the desktop, the Moz folks are taking a run at the mobile market with Fennec. The betas released last week suggest that they're on the right track.
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Here are ten or so invaluable resources for software developers.
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Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it? Now there's Ksplice, technology that applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to their free Uptrack service it's free for users of Ubuntu!
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How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing?
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Go get a copy of these books. The investment will pay huge dividends.
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There is a new file distributed file system in the staging area of the 2.6.30 kernel called POHMELFS. Sporting better performance than classic NFS, it's definitely worth a look.
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The platform that has defined "cool" for years has not had a reputation for being an open platform, but that hasn't discouraged a number of open source projects for iPhone/iPod Touch.
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I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. 'Twas something virtual and free, as in ale or speech, to me.
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Now it's time to get serious and look at writing some simple code that can query a running Sphinx index and take advantage of its advanced query features.
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Github offers something for every developer. This week, read about some obscure and not so obscure software recently posted on Github.
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Opera has stepped up the browser heat with Unite. The fledgling technology launched on top of the Opera 10 beta is an interesting collaboration tool that might just change the way users look at the Web browser.
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Appro is the first to offer two QDR 40Gb/sec InfiniBand (IB) ports with two independent QDR chips per server on board providing excellent network bandwidth and low latency to many HPC workloads.
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Novell has announced plans to make openSUSE more community driven by opening up their Online Build System which controls Factory to contributors outside their staffing ranks. What does it mean for the project and community at large?
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SMPs may have cores, but clusters have bandwidth.
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Webby is ideal for a content archive, a small business or governmental website, and even small catalogs that link to PayPal for commerce. Here, learn how to use Webby to create a site fast.
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Once the leader and innovator in all things mobile, in recent years Palm has barely kept up with the pack, let alone acted as a leader. With the introduction of the Palm Pre it appears that open source technology is helping bring Palm back from the edge of irrelevancy.
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Do you need to deliver your appliances in smaller packages or do you have an OVF and don't know how to use it? This how-to unravels the OVF mystery.
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Ramdisks can offer a level of performance that is simply amazing. More than just a tool for benchmarking, there are new devices that utilize ramdisks for a bit of the ultra-performance.
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A continuing look at putting the Sphinx search engine to use.
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The resume gets you in the door. The interview determines if you stay. Here are five tips to help you talk the talk.
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If you manage a system, you need Chef. Here are some of the best Chef resources and cookbooks on Github.
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In this wide world of Linux, there are primarily just two package management systems which reign: RPM and Deb. Most binary distributions use one or the other and there has long been tension between the two. So which system performs better?
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Tired of juggling Ruby gems? Try Rip. It's a one-size-fits-all, no fuss, powerful package manager.
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Data locality is the key to efficient code.
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FS-Cache along with CacheFS is now in the 2.6.30 kernel and can be used for local caching of AFS and NFS.
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Consolidation through server virtualization is a powerful agent for datacenter change, but shrinking your server footprint is just a part of the value that server virtualization bring to your IT organization.
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Get up and running with the Android Scripting Environment. Whip up a Twitter update app in a matter of minutes and tell everyone what sandwich you're eating from within Android!
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Drizzle is a re-thought and re-worked version of the MySQL kernel designed specifically for high-performance, high-concurrency environments. In this exclusive article, MySQL guru Jeremy Zawodny takes an inside look at the goals and state of Drizzle development.
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By releasing Safari on Windows, Apple is doing more than providing a rich browser experience for Mac users -- it's making a land grab for the Internet, and may pose a threat to Firefox as it attempts to displace IE. Does Safari 4 measure up to Firefox 3.5, and should the Moz folks be worried?
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Virtualization is a serious technology solution that might run up a serious tab if you aren't minding your P's and V's.
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Downtime is a big part of systems administration, but downtime doesn’t have to be painful. A well-planned and well-executed downtime is part of a job well done.
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Think writing a compiler is difficult? It is—unless you use Parrot, a complete compiler construction kit. With Parrot, crafting a new programming language is as easy as authoring a new website.
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Looking for ways to overcome indexing bottlenecks at Craigslist lead to an investigation of Sphinx, a powerful, free full-text search engine that works extremely well with MySQL.
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The hiring manager is usually a very busy person. Make his or her decision easy to make.
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Opera has done well with mobile, but can it take the desktop by storm? Opera 10 beta 1 was released last week, and Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier takes a look at Opera 10 to see if it can make some noise next to Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome.
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The release of Fedora 11 promises numerous new improvements. One such improvement is an updated and more efficient package manager. How does it compare to the previous release, version 10?
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Typical browser applications cannot access the local filesystem. However, Adobe AIR applications can, giving those applications a distinct advantage. Learn how the AIR File API works and build an application that can read and write from a local disk. Someday, your browser will do the very same thing.
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For many software developers, Apple’s iPhone prints money. For other developers, it’s a vexing mess. If you’re just getting started with iPhone coding, GitHub can help. A lot.
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Will multi-core split HPC into two programming camps? Which one will you join?
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Who knew that compression could be so useful in file systems? SquashFS, typically used for embedded systems, can be a great fit for laptops, desktops and, yes, even servers.
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"Build it and they will come?" Try "Embed it and they will stay."
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In this new weekly column, longtime Linux guru Matt Frye gives readers the full monty, the real trials and triumphs of a system administrator. This week: The care and feeding of software developers.
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The free Android phone was a splash at the 2009 Google I/O Conference, but the company's introduction of six novel technologies was something more like a tidal wave. Here's Linux Magazine's report. The future starts now.
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Is Android an iPhone killer or is it just another failed attempt at taking Linux mainstream on a mobile phone?
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This new weekly column, entitled "Open Sorcerers", provides guidance and tips to help you land a job and build a career in open source.
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Percona's XtraDB is a fork of InnoDB with a ton of extra options and enhancements. Here's a look at what it can do for your busy database.
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Xtreme-X Solution Brief
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HyperGreen Solution Brief
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Highlights and Recap from Opening Night at the Appro Booth in Austin, Texas.
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The HPC cluster universe has shifted decidedly toward blade-based clusters, especially as blade technology has matured.
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The use of hybrid cluster designs that combine standard CPUs with GPUs, accelerators and FPGAs is on the rise.
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The HyperGreen cluster is an Intel Cluster Ready certified solution that simplifies and accelerates HPC cluster deployment.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has selected the first round of vendors for its new Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. Triton is scheduled to enter production early this summer.
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One of Firefox's great advantages is the ability for users to create custom extensions. While add-ons have historically been non-trivial to write, Mozilla Labs is looking to make this considerably easier with JetPack.
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As open source burgeons in popularity, contributors are flocking to websites to share and borrow code. Github is one of the most popular. This inaugural installment of "This Week in Github" introduces the service and highlights some of the best projects available.
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As multi-core solutions continue to grow, a new power saving single-core server approach takes hold
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KDE 4 creator Matthias Ettrich, envisaged a Unix desktop with a common look and feel. KDE 4 has been released for over a year now, has it met this goal?
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The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance.
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A new tool, Mockups, models graphical user interfaces and Web applications. Here’s a hands-on review.
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Robust development from outside the Sun/MySQL sphere, new storage engines and the return of Monty are just some of the signs that MySQL is healthy, despite may reports to the contrary.
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Search can make or break your website. Sunspot and Solr give you an intuitive engine that maps directly to your Ruby objects.
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Need details on your file system's data? FS_scan allows you dig deep into your storage, giving you the ability to perform trend analysis on the results.
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As you spend more-and-more of your time on the Internet and connecting with others, Flock can help to streamline repetitive social activities.
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Mozilla Labs continues to turn out interesting projects. Prism, a single-serving browser for web apps, extends and protects your online applications.
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Can Intel's Moblin revive the ailing Linux netbook market? The Moblin v2.0 beta release is giving it a try with a very slick update.
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The vast of amount of data being stored in this day and age, naturally leads to files sitting unused for longer and longer periods of time. A new app, agedu, can quickly tell you what data on your filesystem is lying fallow.
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"Making the world's knowledge computable" -- Sounds like a job for parallel computing.
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Tired of Arial and Verdana? Add some sizzle to your Web pages with a new open source project that can render any font in a page. (Flash not required.)
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Download, install and go to work in less than an hour.
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The Nehalem processor has several new micro-architecture features that can dramatically improve HPC users application performance as well as reduce power consumption. Join Intel and IBM experts as they provide their insight into the new Xeon 5500 series quad-core processor design benefits for HPC.
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To the casual observer, cloud computing often looks like grid computing, but from an HPC perspective it is not even close.
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The Globus Alliance is an open-source, open-architecture Grid Toolkit as well as an enabling middleware.
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Gearman enables a new level of software abstraction. With this lightweight infrastructure you can to outsource work to better-suited computers, run tasks in parallel, and combine code written in different computer languages.
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Does your datacenter need a power boost? Looking to deploy Linux in the near future? Let us know and be registered to win an HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Server Blade powered by an Intel Xeon processor, pre-loaded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Register now!
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The founder of btrfs talks about features, terabyte raid arrays and comparisons with ZFS.
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As Cloud Computing hits the mainstream, people are wondering: How mobile are my VMs?
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The latest Firefox may still be in beta but it boasts a number of behind-the-scenes features that will make developing for the web easier as well as end-user changes that add new functionality, like private browsing and support for drag and drop.
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The TomTom case exposed a long-simmering problem resulting from the combination of patents, proprietary software companies and open source. Andrew Tridgell recently patched Linux's VFAT implementation, but the cult of silence that surrounds intellectual property will bedevil open source projects for some time to come.
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Are Rails, CakePHP, Django, and Catalys too big for your taste but you still want the benefits of DRY programming? Maybe it's time to get small with micro-frameworks.
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As GPU Clusters hit the market, users are finding small code changes can result in big rewards.
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Question: Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix -- do any of them have it right? Answer: Only if you could combine all three into a single product.
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Linux cracks 1% of the OS client market. But does this represent the path forward, or the beginning of the end?
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With Firefox marketshare now above 20% and rising fast, can the KDE Project's browser, Konqueror, compete? Recently I started running KDE 4.2.2 and decided to use Konqueror in place of my default browser — Firefox. Let's see how Konqueror stacks up.
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Are the "Two Ps" (print statements and prayer) all that comprise your debugging strategy? It's time you were introduced to the Interactive Ruby Debugger.
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HPC without coding in MPI is possible, but only if your problem fits into one of several high level frameworks.
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Touted as a Cloud OS, vSphere enters the cloud computing fray with a bang.
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In part 2 of our interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.
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Looking for a mature, open source database that's not owned by Oracle? Whether you're already a fan or are looking for alternatives, now might be a good time to take a look PostgreSQL. The latest release of Postgres has a slew of built-in features that allow you to improve both performance and systems administration. Learn how you take advantage of them.
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Linus reflects on 18 years of working on Linux, the developer ecosystem and his goal for Linux on the desktop.
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Despite some of the concerns floating around the MySQL Conference this week, there's some good news coming out of the event. The MySQL developers are returned to a "release early, release often" schedule and the pending 5.4 release has a number of features worth keeping an eye on.
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ZFS may be locked into the Solaris operating system but "Butter FS" is on the horizon and it's boasting more features and better performance.
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What happens when large-scale forces re-think the traditional solution? The shipping container has become the new supercomputer case.
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Does VMware still win in desktop-level virtualization? Easily, but not without a caveat or two.
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Oracle picks up SUN for $7.4 billion and gets MySQL in the bargain. Did the world's most popular open source database just get put on life support. Or have it's plug pulled?
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One of Firefox's greatest strengths is that it can be extended to provide additional functionality to the end user. However, the vast number of extensions available for Firefox can be a bit overwhelming. We look at that top 10 Firefox add-ons that can improve your productivity on Linux.
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Nothing is scarier than the prospect of having to recover an entire site after a disaster. VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is designed to simplify and accelerate disaster recovery. This article discusses the challenges of DR planning and how VMware SRM -- in conjunction with NetApp storage functionality -- can simplify DR for virtual infrastructure.
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Many companies over the last year have been moving forward with server virtualization and storage consolidation to better support their engineering, manufacturing, and business needs. Deploying a combination of Citrix XenServer and NetApp® storage using NFS, can help accomplish this. This article describes the reasons to choose these solutions for your organization.
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Protecting the sanity of Rails developers is job #1! Reduce new project setup time and speed the installation of essential gems and plug-ins with new application templates.
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If you don't know text, you don't know Linux. There are a host of methods for reformatting plain text -- including the text used by graphical applications like spreadsheets and email programs.
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This document is intended for IT professionals and managers who are considering deploying
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Novell has had a number of requests from customers looking for help specifically in moving from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. In addition to what customers have told us, we will share insights that Novell has gained, having helped numerous customers transition to the most open, most interoperable and most manageable Linux platform.
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"I had not yet finished my first cup of coffee and I was convinced that the world was ending, but for the saving grace of open source."
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By exploiting frictionless deliverables, the real story of SGI can be told through architected and integrated convergence
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Ubuntu Server has one of the cleanest and easiest Linux distribution installers. However, in many cases, its designers choose to ignore security in favor of ease-of-use. The result? An install that is not secure by default.
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Two Linux desktops step into the ring. But in the end, there can be only one...
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The Debian team implements a Linux kernel-less, FreeBSD mashup. Say goodbye to your single-kernel operating system.
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Looking for more Linux and open source apps in your life? Then pick up your phone. Check out the newest smartphones and netbooks announced just last week that the discerning penguin will be craving before the year is out.
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No one likes writing -- or reading -- HTML. Thankfully there are tools like Markdown, HAML and SaSS to make your hypertext life easier.
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Linux performance monitoring historically relied on ported versions of standard Unix tools such as netstat, vmstat, and ps. These local tools take performance snapshots when executed on a system but provide no insights into performance trends, peaks or valleys nor do they offer enough information for predictive or in-depth analysis. System performance is more valuable when viewed over time and in various states of load.
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Aside from a new processor for cluster vendors to sell, the Nehalem represents a more subtle change in the market.
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Economic downturns have a tendency to accelerate emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions, and punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry trends. IDC research finds that Linux users are clearly satisfied about their choice to deploy Linux, and during trying economic times, the potential for those same customers to ramp up their deployment of Linux is strong.
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Parallels Workstation: Unparalleled coolness or virtual bust?
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John Lee, VP of Advanced Technology Solutions for Appro talks about Appro HPC Solutions.
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John Lee, Appro’s VP of Advanced Technology Solutions describes how the Xtreme-X delivers superior performance, scalability and easy deployment with Intel Cluster Ready.
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Text plays a central role in the Linux operating system. Take better control of your system with a firm understanding of what text is and how best to handle, format and convert it.
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Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution: Designed for High-Value and Attractive Price/Performance
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From a cost and ROI perspective the Appro GreenBlade™ System surpasses the traditional 1U rack mounted server.
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Take a screenshot tour of Novell's latest release of SLED. Get the scoop on what's new and what works (and what doesn't).
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Yet another multicore rant. This one is triggered by the recent Multicore Expo.
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Checking out improvements to Rails' ActiveRecord object, including dynamic scopes and batches.
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Migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an easy process and starts with a simple step-by-step plan. More importantly, your migration to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an opportunity to identify quick wins that will begin to provide immediate returns.
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Small, simple, stable and priced right: Is Microsoft's Virtual PC a good introduction to the world of virtualization and a great way to pull Linux into a Windows environment?
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Open call for nominations: Whether you're a systems administrator in a datacenter, a software developer, or just really like to use the latest open devices we want your feedback.
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Jeff Layton talks with Theodore Ts'o about getting the best performance out of your file system, painless migration and the work still to do.
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Destined to become the default file system for the more popular Linux distributions, ext4 is out of experimental mode and gearing up for production environments. Here's what you need to know.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell delivers interoperability and mission-critical support for the complete computing environment to help you reduce cost, complexity and risk. It has been especially designed for: Interoperability , mission-critical computing, and ubiquity.
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Looking to build ties with open source developers, the company launches an OSS marketplace.
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Learn how Mine Safety Appliance (MSA) used Citrix XenServer and NetApp storage to better support their engineering, manufacturing, and business needs which yielded improved application performance, an 80% reduction in physical space requirements, and a 30% reduction in power and cooling.
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Determining how fast your application will run on multi-core based systems all depends, And, it may not depend on you.
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Server virtualization is cool. VDI is not. Desktop virtualization is hot.
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Proven cloud or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) computing solutions such as IBM’s Computing on Demand (CoD) are very attractive for many commercial enterprises especially in today’s environment of flat or shrinking IT budgets. With a spectrum of flexible offerings and pricing models, IBM’s CoD solution provides secure, affordable, elastic, and risk-free access to IT infrastructure resources for companies that need to quickly scale-up or scale-down their IT needs to adapt to their business demands.
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The Mozilla-based music player get an update with a number of improvements.
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Relax. It is just a catchy headline to draw your attention to some classic insights into the HPC cluster market.
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Are OS Templates really worth the trouble and disk cost or is it just hype?
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Peek behind the curtain to see how proprietary software views the competitive threat of B2C FOSS.
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Next release -- "Fichte" 11.2 -- scheduled for November 2009.
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Has Chancellor Palpatine given the go ahead to execute Order 66 or is the TomTom lawsuit about nothing more than GPS?
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A simple game gives some insights into the complex uses for clusters and cores.
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Putting XenServer 5 through its paces; getting hands-on with Citrix's latest virtualization solution.
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Are you in the market for a ultra-portable but don't want to pay the Windows tax? We round up seven possible options for anyone looking to purchase a Linux-based netbook.
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John Carmack and id Software try shaking up the PC gaming platform.
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Did you know there are two projects that can give Ethernet a performance boost?
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XenServer is now free and Citrix is partnering with Microsoft. What does it all mean?
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Using text and utilities to organize and access files.
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Everyone is saying recessions benefit open source. Is the same true for job seekers?
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Would a Cluster By Any Other Name Be As Cool
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Is your distorted view of virtual reality keeping you from adopting virtualization?
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Mozilla Labs lauches Bespin, a cloud-based, collaborative code editor.
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Sun rolls out their web stack as a complete portfolio of middleware tools. It's like LAMP. With a pricetag.
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Have a great idea? Cuban has the money if you have the visibility, accountability and profitability.
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Should you rely on a single virtualization technology or should you diversify?
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Forget the glossy data sheets and single number benchmarks. Get the right information to make the right decisions.
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Once the hallmark of the data center, HPC hardware is beginning to find its way to the desk side/top. Multi-core, efficient design, and even application scalability have combined to clear the way for personal HPC.
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However, the new position takes aim at the Linux desktop.
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"I've Got A Penguin in My Briefs" Live: A full-day seminar presented by the Seattle chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
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Silence the struggle around cluster software stack configuration. Caos NSA is a distribution that focuses on making things simple, easy to install and upgrade, and easy to manage.
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What's your level of involvement in the Cloud? Are you a casual observer or do you dig in and develop, taking an active role?
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Talking operating systems deep in heart of Windows country.
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Sun never fully recovered from the dot-com bust of 2001. With the company attempting to rally around open source software, is now the time to get out of the hardware business?
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Can HPC be more fun? Maybe a little more intelligence and graphics can put a smile on your face.
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The ever-increasing demand for storage, network and compute resources for instant access of data and computational requirements lead to the continued growth of the variety of networks found in the data center. HPC is no exception to this trend.
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The perfect storm for Linux in the netbook market.
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Even though Barack Obama was only just sworn in as President of the United States on Tuesday, his administration already appears to be showing an interest in open source.
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In the big picture HPC hardware is a small part of the economic equation. What are the big parts?
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"It's a bunch of scientists that don't know enough about system administration to realize that systems need administration." -- Daniel O. Cummings on scientists with supercomputers.
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This brief looks at the challenge of harnessing storage growth within growing VMware environments based on input from third parties, analysts, as well as current VMware users. It also explores reports from NetApp and NetApp customers that claim the ability to shrink and reclaim VMware customer storage footprints by anywhere from 50% to 90%.
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The 21st century equivalent of Frazier vs. Ali?
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My next software nightmare: the convergence of cloud, GP-GPU, and multi-core.
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YES WE ARE! While 10-Gigabit Ethernet is still considered and emerging technology in some sectors, HPC users are often early adopters of such technologies. This webinar will cover the latest developments with 10-Gigabit Ethernet for the HPC market.
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Setting expectations in a fast moving and fast computing market sector.
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Combining and separating virtual machine workloads is often frustrating and time-consuming. Here are some tips to help you sort through it and maintain your balance.
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The Ubuntu founder gets the NYTimes treatment.
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Coming soon to an Ubuntu release near you?
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Once again -- with remarkable clarity -- we peer into our crystal ball and pick which companies in and around open source are going to grab your attention in 2009.
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Is the HPC market big enough to drive new products and processors?
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The wait is over. Next generation Gigabit Ethernet has hit the ground running
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This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware ESX solutions since the product began shipping in 2001. During that time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server.
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Distributed vs. parallel? Emerging vs. stable? Join the discussion.
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As a high performance computing specialist, what challenges will you face and what opportunities will present themselves in the coming year?
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Keep your balance with simple workload analysis and remember that not everything that can be virtualized, should be virtualized.
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As we expand Linux Magazine in the new year, we'd like to get your opinion on the topics that matter to you.
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This week we jump ten years into the future to see how it all plays out.
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As the year winds down we take one last look back at 2008 with the very best of LinuxMagazine.com writing.
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Enterprise-level clusters? It's time we start thinking about them.
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Convenience and ease-of-use were NOT design goals of MPI. Learn how to avoid some common pitfalls.
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This week we look at some preliminary HPC econimy survey numbers and intoduce a chance for you to smackdown the HPC experts
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Whether you're walking a physical tightrope or maintaining a virtual infrastructure, you need one key element for success: Balance.
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The University built a new 3360-core supercomputer -- called BlueCrystal --based on IBM System xTM servers with ClearSpeed acceleration cards, housed in a new data center designed and constructed by IBM Global Technology Services and incorporating APC InfraStruXure water-cooled racks.
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Nine years is a very long time to be doing any one thing -- and as of December 2008, that will mark the length of time I've been writing for this publication.
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Open Discussion: Are the experts to be believed?
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Short on horsepower? Less is more when it's powered by Linux.
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This week it's your turn. How has the economy effected you HPC plans for next year? You are invited to participate.
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Which computing resources can be classified or sold as services? Maybe the better question is which ones can't be.
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Does Cloud Computing have a play in HPC? Join us for a pragmtic view of "the cloud" and how it may expand the horizons of HPC.
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Collecting the best system administration articles posted to Linux Magazine in 2008.
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Still more from our series on how to take full advantage of your filesystem with tips and tricks for the newbie and old pro alike.
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A snapshot of the HPC market from IDC and the dreaded "wall" is here.
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Will Cloud vendors make a hit in 2009 or will we decide that two's a crowd?
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Software developers take note: We look back at 2008 and select the best Linux Magazine features of the year.
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Back from SC08. Recovery from the HPC discovery is in order.
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The easiest, quickest, and cheapest virtualization method is at your fingertips -- you'll want to get to know OS-level virtualization.
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Steven A. Reisler explains his experience with GNU/Linux, and how he has completely freed his computing environment from proprietary software.
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Perhaps the most versatile, feature-rich web browser available today is on your Desktop and you may not even know its name.
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Live from SC08 -- from the fast, to the small, to the piano bar, Doug remembers most of it.
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When submitting your content for an email blast, please provide the following two files: HTML FILE Fully built HTML creative — 600 pixel width maximum ASCII format 80k maximum file size Submit as .html file. NOTE: Any formatting or font …
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Can you do backups on a shoestring without sacrificing their integrity? Do it with the tools you have but be careful -- there are some gotchas.
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As you carve into the turkey next week, be sure to give thanks to all the people that make the Penguin possible.
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What's the easiest way to get more people using Linux? Start them young.
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Cluster Administration is possible and even easy if you focus on the basics.
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Virtual appliances deliver focused services in a lightweight package. With all of the talk around virtualization being large system optimization, why single-purpose machines getting so much attention?
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Got security? TrueCrypt allows you to create and use encrypted volumes and reduce the risk to your sensitive data.
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Billed as the "Microsoft Access for Linux," Kexi is an integrated data management application that allows you to easily work with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.
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How to rub elbows with the crew who started it all (and get some free beer)
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Travel with Linux Magazine's HPC editor as he finally learns why everyone is fussing over the the IBM iDataPlex.
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Could Microsoft become the next Consolidated Edison? It could happen.
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With power and cooling costs becoming a serious concern, enterprises need strategies and technologies to take HPC green.
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Continuing our series on how to take full advantage of your filesystem with tips and tricks for the newbie and old pro alike.
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For as much time as you probably spend in an email client, you should be using an app with the features that help you get your work done and plays well with other (possibly proprietary) applications. Evolution fits that bill.
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StorNext is a file system software that enables multiple servers to access a common pool of storage regardless of OS type. It supports Windows, SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X (via Apple Xsan), Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, and/or AIX. Typical uses are in media, government, HPC and science & engineering organizations. Download a product brief to learn more.
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Since we are already talking about packaging, let's consisder those forgotten breakthroughs that help make it all possible.
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Curiosity about computing's future can be found in its past: The mighty Mainframe (MF) lives again.
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Do the glowing vendor claims surrounding server blades still stand if you cut out the marketing hype? Let's find out.
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Trip up spammers with greylist-milter, a method of temporarily rejecting questionable email.
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The case for a personal cluster case. Can HPC growth be enhanced with only a few pieces of bent metal?
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NFS frees you from proprietary file systems and, coupled with Infiniband, is the only standard file system that can be used for high-peroformance distributed processing.
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Cloud Computing is the future of computing but resistance is high due to the presumed lack of control and ownership. These jitters will pass.
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Get more control over how file differences are found and displayed with some lesser-known options, and other techniques for getting the output you need.
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Learn to take full advantage of your filesystem with tips and tricks for the newbie and old pro alike.
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Today machines manage what we cannot. Are we dependent upon results or processes we do not understand?
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Prolific virtualizaton blogger, Andrew Kutz, on VDI, dark horses, and if virtualization is taking us back to the era of mainframes.
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When I last wrote to you, the world was going to Hell in a handbasket. Well, it's a month later little has changed. So unfortunately, I don't have any good news for you.
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BANGALORE, India, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced that its full range of embedded processing and XtremeDSP(TM) solutions, including recently announced silicon and software products, will be showcased at the Embedded Systems Conference in Bangalore India from October 14 to 17, 2008. Designers can experience first-hand the power and flexibility of Xilinx(R) Virtex(R) and Spartan(R) platform FPGAs for embedded system and DSP applications at the Xilinx booth. Throughout the exhibition period, Xilinx application engineers will be on-hand to address customer specific applications and solutions.
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SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is pleased to report its 2008 Night of Solutions events have set record attendance and received countless accolades for delivering real business value to both solution providers and manufacturers.
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WCM 4.0's editorial-friendly work environment increases productivity,
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation today announced that more than 50 partner organizations have joined the Xcel (Xiotech(R) Channel Expansion Launch) partner program since it was introduced six months ago. This success stems from a deliberate Xiotech strategy of expanding its channel partner program to support significant growth opportunities with both its game-changing Emprise(TM) storage line, featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE(TM)) technology, and its new Virtual View single-console storage management software for virtualized IT installations. With the new additions, Xiotech currently has more than 130 active partners in its Xcel program.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm(TM) (www.pdgm.com), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, announced today the scheduled opening of its new training facility in Aberdeen, Scotland. Guests are invited to the official opening ceremony on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM BST.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, today announced the commercial availability of GXS Product Information Manager (PIM) 8.3. New features now available include business process management (BPM) functionality to support greater visibility and control over workflow processes; management of master data associated with products or product categories; expanded web services API support for integration within a service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure; ability to apply mass updates across a set of products or categories; and embedded GXS Application Integrator for tighter integration and data sharing across internal systems (i.e., enterprise resource planning, merchandising, warehousing, etc.). The product is available in two versions, Retailer Edition and Supplier Edition, to meet the unique data management needs of each company type.
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WIL, Switzerland, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- FileWave, a technology leader for software management on the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux systems, announces the release of FileWave 3.6 for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. In addition to distributing, installing and configuring operating system upgrades, FileWave permits users to efficiently mass deploy and manage all other types of software, from large ready-to-use applications such as Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Microsoft Office to vital security patches, both in a single- and a multi-platform environment.
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If you're already using Subversion for version control, extend it with commit hooks to make it a more integrated part of your development workflow.
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BURNSVILLE, Minn., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Barry & Associates, Inc. today announced a new site that can help with the design of your enterprise architecture. The site provides a free service that helps designers work through the design decomposition process. A feature of the service is the Decomposition Matrix on which you identify the relationships between inputs and outputs for the system being designed. The Decomposition Matrix then generates an optimal decomposition that is shown as either a business process diagram using BPMN notation or a data flow diagram. The site is at http://www.designdecomposition.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The second annual Web 2.0 Expo Europe will define the current state of Web 2.0 and, more importantly, outline its future. The three-day conference, co-produced by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, will attract the largest pan-European community of international technical, design, marketing, and business professionals, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and VCs building, leveraging, and driving the European Web economy. Each will bring a unique and insightful perspective to the dynamic state of innovation happening on the Web. Scheduled for October 21-23, 2008, Web 2.0 Expo Europe will be held at a new venue, the Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is shipping its high capacity 32GB DataTraveler 150 (DT150) USB Flash drive. The DT150 offers the largest capacity in Kingston's entire line of DataTraveler(R) USB drives and allows users to conveniently combine work-related content and personal digital content on the same drive with plenty of room to spare. Users can now transport and share entire libraries of music, photos, large business documents, and even video without ever having to change USB drives or search other portable storage devices containing specific content.
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In this session, HP and ESG Storage Virtualization experts will share real HP customer case studies who have deployed virtualization in their environments and realized significant business benefits as a result.
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The recent AMD split seems to be a sign of the times. Is sharing the new business model?
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PHOENIX, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- BROADSOFT CONNECTIONS 2008 -- BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) application software today announced their support for the IBM Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE) Framework, building on their partnership success of hundreds of telecom service providers who currently use the IBM BladeCenter and BroadWorks(R) platform.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Software Development West (SD West 2009) today announced it is accepting speaking proposals for the 22nd annual conference -- presented by Dr. Dobb's Events, a division of United Business Media. The event will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center March 9-13, 2009 and will attract the software development industry's top experts, visionaries and technology gurus. Speaking proposals can be submitted at: https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw9/a.asp?option=N&V=3&CPid=237 and the deadline for the speaking nominations is October 10.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- When Brazil announced its Digital Inclusion program called "Computador para Todos" (Computer for Everyone) in November 2005, the goal was to offer the population computers with a free operating system and computer programs for Internet access, sending/receiving e-mails, and listening and recording music, among others.
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ANDOVER, Mass., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentillion, whose identity and access management (IAM) solutions are the most widely implemented in healthcare, today announced that it has been positioned in the "challengers" quadrant by Gartner, Inc. in its 2008 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software and support for the R open source statistical computing language, today announced it has launched ParallelR version 1.2. ParallelR enables R users to complete statistical analyses much more quickly by taking full advantage of multiprocessor systems and network systems.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that Cedarville University, an accredited Baptist university of arts, sciences, professional and graduate programs in southwestern Ohio, has implemented SonicWALL(R) E-Class NSA E7500 firewalls to provide high-speed gateway firewall protection for over 3,000 of its college students, staff and faculty.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software and support for the R open source statistical computing language, today announced it has launched ParallelR version 1.2. ParallelR enables R users to complete statistical analyses much more quickly by taking full advantage of multiprocessor systems and network systems.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NETGEAR(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced an addition to its award-winning, high-performance line of security solutions for small businesses, the new ProSafe(R) Wireless-N VPN Firewall (SRXN3205 -- the first product to combine dual-band Wireless-N with SSL and IPsec VPN. By incorporating these advanced features, NETGEAR is providing small offices with an enterprise-class networking solution that addresses both top security and wireless performance needs, but at a fraction of the cost.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Clerity Solutions, Inc., a leading full-service provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today announced that it is adding the isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (isCOBOL APS) from Veryant to the list of COBOL platforms supported by its UniKix rehosting technology suite.
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TORONTO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Enomaly, a pioneer in cloud computing products and services, today announced that Doug Levin has joined its board of advisors. Levin is the founder and a board member of Black Duck Software, a leading software compliance management company.
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ROUSSET, France and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has enrolled BitSim AB as an expert design center for projects based on its AT91CAP Customizable Microcontroller. BitSim will contribute its expertise as an ASIC and FPGA developer to provide design services to the companies' mutual clients. In addition BitSim can offer its BADGE 2D graphics accelerator as an IP (intellectual property) core that can be integrated into the CAP(TM) MP (metal programmable) block. BADGE provides 2D graphics acceleration with single or multiple video streams (including text and graphics overlay), and is an Intellectual Property (IP) core that can be used in both FPGAs and ASICs. It includes an API, and drivers for both Windows(R) Embedded CE(R) and Linux(R).
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TORONTO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Enomaly, a pioneer in cloud computing, today announced Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP). ECP is the next generation open source, programmable, cloud computing infrastructure for businesses looking to design, deploy and manage virtual applications in the cloud. The new release makes IT managers more productive by significantly reducing administrative and systems' workload while dramatically increasing computing power. ECP is the result of years of R&D. With its official product launch, Enomaly is shifting its business from a services organization to a software products and support company.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading storage solution provider QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its All-in-One TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS was honored as the "Editor's Choice" from CNET France for its high-speed performance, simplicity of use, low noise level, and a full range of features.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Funambol, the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today announced it has added mobile ads to the myFUNAMBOL portal. The result is the first live proving ground for understanding how mass market users accept and respond to a free open source Mobile'We' service that is funded by mobile advertising.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Redpine Signals, Inc., a leading developer of ultra low power multi-standard OFDM and MIMO silicon-based solutions for Wi-Fi(R), WiMAX(R) & 3GPP LTE, today announced that it has released to market a set of three Wi-Fi SiP modules based on its ultra low power Lite-Fi(TM) 802.11n technology. The modules offer a unique set of small form-factor and low-cost solutions for current and next generation battery constrained mobile handsets, digital still cameras, consumer electronics devices and industrial data communications.
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HAVANT, England, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Xyratex, Ltd. (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, today announced significant performance and data protection enhancements for its OneStor(TM) Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) family. OneStor is a modular, standards-based architecture designed to drive diverse workloads leveraging extreme storage density, 8Gb/s throughput, intelligent platform management and power efficiency in the industry's most versatile, adaptable storage system design.
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HELSINKI, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Finland-based Sesca Mobile Software Oy, a leading developer of customized software for the mobile telecommunications industry, has launched iDial Mobile Community for mobile phone users. Users can download and install a free, mobile-operator independent iDial Mobile application to their compatible mobile handsets from http://www.my.idial.fi website. Users who are registered to the website can create mobile communities and communicate within the community by using iDial Mobile application's rich communications tools.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: ONStor will demonstrate its latest clustered NAS gateways featuring heterogeneous storage virtualization at Storage Networking World 2008. The ONStor Cougar 6000 Series provides enterprises with the flexibility to grow quickly and respond to storage need fluctuations without business disruption while maximizing power and cooling efficiency. Storage Networking World is the world's largest and foremost storage networking event where IT management and professionals learn, network and maximize their company's storage capabilities. WHEN: Oct. 13-16, 2008 WHERE: The Gaylord Texan 1501 Gaylord Trail Dallas, Texas Booth # 208 MORE: ONStor provides clustered NAS solutions for both primary and value-tier storage, focusing on enterprise data centers and content-rich organizations, and giving customers the ability to cost-effectively manage the accelerating growth of unstructured data. ONStor's award-winning solutions deliver flexible data management, protection, and file server consolidation for a new generation of data-intensive applications through a combination of advanced technologies including virtualization and energy-efficient design. Proven at customer sites worldwide, the ONStor Pantera clustered NAS systems plus Cougar and Bobcat clustered NAS gateways offer the broadest choice of storage and enable customers to easily scale storage with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). ONStor solutions are available through a global network of resellers and distribution partners. More information about ONStor can be found at http://www.onstor.com. SOURCE ONStor, Inc.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
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MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today announced that IBM is integrating its RAID Storage Processor (RSP) technology into the highly- successful IBM BladeCenter S, creating the industry's first fully redundant, shared blade storage system. The Adaptec RAID technology being deployed by IBM is part of the technology portfolio of Aristos Logic Corporation that Adaptec acquired in August 2008.
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PARIS, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) and Sodifrance (Euronext: SOA), a French systems integrator specializing in IT modernization, today announced a technical partnership agreement aimed at helping organizations simplify their legacy modernization efforts -- including helping these organizations move to service-oriented architectures (SOA) more easily. According to the agreement, the two companies will market a joint solution based on ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) that will enable organizations to extract, map and re-use the business rules written in COBOL software code to enhance flexibility and improve business response times.
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MT. ZION, Ill., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagerman & Company, Inc. today announced a new strategic partner in the software business -- SoftMEMS, LLC of Santa Clara, CA, a pioneer in the high tech world of MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems). Hagerman & Company has nationwide rights to distribute the software as a value added reseller.
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When "true-up" time comes, you may need a nitroglycerin pill instead of having a glass of champagne.
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HAIFA, Israel, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Come2Play, a developer of a unique platform for multiplayer casual Flash games, today announced the release of an open-source application program interface (API) that enables game developers to turn single player flash games into social gaming networks.
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), (http://www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today issued findings from new research focused on the advancement of "Green IT" initiatives. The study reveals an astounding 100 percent of surveyed IT professionals indicated plans for new Green IT deployments during the coming year. The complete results of the research are discussed by EMA study leader, Steve Brasen in the new report "The True Value of Green IT: Quantifying the ROI of Energy Efficiency."
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FREDERICK, Md., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI) announced today that the Department of Defense (DoD) Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Independent Test Authority (ITA) certified the VisuaLinks software (current version 5.1) for Protection Level 3 (PL3). Protection levels are internal certifications of information systems by agencies operating throughout the Intelligence Community (IC) and Common Criteria (CC) is used as the basis for evaluation of security properties of IT products and systems.
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TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasus Imaging Corporation, the leader in digital imaging technology, today announced the release of a substantial upgrade to Prizm(R) Viewer, the browser-based image viewer in use by thousands of organizations around the world. Prizm Viewer allows users to navigate, view, annotate and share images, CAD and PDF files residing in document management or enterprise content management systems via a web browser. The viewer works with numerous image formats and includes powerful administrative tools for user interface customization, deployment and annotation storage. These features make it ideal for use in document-intensive industries such as financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, design and architecture, and many others.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Stonebranch(R), Inc., www.stonebranch.com , the innovation leader in Enterprise Systems Management, has been recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of Atlanta's Best Places to Work.
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In cases where NFS or SMB/CIFS won't fit the needs of your Linux network, Network Block Devices (NBDs) may provide superior performance over traditional network filesystems.
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AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- GarageGames, a leading provider of game development tools and technology, and Green-Ear, a developer of voice technology for online games, are pleased to announce Green-Ear's Software Development Kit for Torque. Green-Ear for Torque allows game developers to easily add voice and text chat, voice morphing, voice fonts, conferencing, and other features into games. Developers can rapidly deploy voice capabilities inside games without the costs and complexities found in competing alternatives by using Green-Ear's managed services and Tier 1 voice network.
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WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Mono(R) project, an open source initiative sponsored by Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), today announced the availability of Mono 2.0, an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework. Mono 2.0 provides all the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux*, as well as other operating systems. The new Mono 2.0 release is now compatible with the desktop and server components of version 2.0 of the Microsoft* .NET framework and features the Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA), an analytical tool for .NET-to-Linux migrations.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a leading provider of global intelligence and business resiliency services, today announced the appointment of Sean Gibson to Vice President of Sales and the promotion of Mark Griffith to Vice President of Operations Technology. The appointments follow steady company growth and strong demand for iJET's industry-leading products and services.
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IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Neudesic, a leading Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner that is currently ranked on both the Inc. 500 and CRN Fast-Growth 100, announced today that it has been ranked the 9th fastest growing private company in Orange County, CA by the Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ).
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Through the creation of a highly tailored managed hosting solution, PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX) helped enable the launch of Sitemasher, a revolutionary Web site development service that combines ease of use with the power that enterprise users demand. Sitemasher provides a fully managed, hosted Web site solution that seamlessly integrates the Web site building and publishing environment, content management system (CMS), analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within single platform.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving the interoperability and mainstream adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced Bluenog is the latest company to be added to a growing membership roster. Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, joins the organization with a commitment to advance interoperability between commercial open-source applications by providing thought leadership and best practices.
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CINCINNATI, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- xpedx(R) today said it has begun upgrading its U.S. distribution network with a radio frequency (RF)-enabled warehouse management system that will bring important new advantages and expanded services to xpedx customers worldwide.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Scheidell, chief technology officer for SECNAP(R) Network Security Corporation, will address delegates of the ITEC Conference at the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. October 7-8, 2008. The Conference features seven hot-topic tracks including security, virtualization and data centers, cloud computing, unified communications and VoIP, green IT and the next workplace, enterprise and social media software, and consumerization.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Evocative, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based colocation and managed services provider, has been named one of America's fastest growing private companies in 2008 by Inc. Magazine.
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SINGAPORE, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -. Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced that its programmable solutions enabled the second straight win for Xi'an Jiao Tong University in the seventh international Robocon competition, hosted in Pune, India. Robocon is a prestigious event in which engineering students compete to design the best robot for a specific challenge. Initiated by the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union in 2002, the annual competition is designed to foster strategic thinking, leadership and team-building skills. The Xilinx sponsored team, from Xi'an Jiao Tung University, first won the right to represent China earlier this year at a national competition held in Beijing. The team advanced to the finals where they defeated 16 other teams from across the Middle East and Asia to win the Robocon 2008 competition. The first-place winners will be featured on the China Central Television Network over the National Day holiday this week.
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ESPOO, Finland, October 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today sees the introduction of S60 5th Edition, the latest release of the world's leading, open smartphone platform, S60 on Symbian OS. The S60 5th Edition has the most advanced set of features that enable new innovations and new experiences for consumers that want to fully embrace the use of smartphone products.
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Based on MySQL Code Base - Extends SQL and Helps Admins Monitor All Database Activity.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SourceLabs, the company innovating support and search technology for open source software, today announced the top ten most prevalent support issues and search data for supporting Linux and Open Source Java for the month of September 2008. The report is compiled from monthly searches performed by users of SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite (http://webui.sourcelabs.com).
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- FireScope, a leading developer of innovative Service Management solutions, today introduced the FireScope Grid, an open source jQuery plug-in that adds datagrid behaviors to tabular data, regardless of the server-side technology being used.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today announced that its SuperServer 6015W-NTR earned the top honor from GCN (Government Computer News) over competitive product offerings from HP, Dell and Fujitsu based on GCN Lab test results. Supermicro's SuperServer 6015W-NTR was the only server to earn straight A's and proved superior to the others on both performance and value.
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COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurotech Inc., a leading provider of application-ready embedded and packaged computer systems for low power and high performance applications, today announces a new strategic focus on the transportation industry. As part of the transition, Eurotech Inc assumes responsibility for the transportation market from its sister subsidiary, Parvus, based in Salt Lake City, UT, which maintains its focus on its core markets, defense and homeland security. The transition allows Eurotech Inc to place a strategic focus on the transportation market to create and deliver highly capable systems for progressive transportation companies to encourage ridership and deliver a loyalty-building rider experience.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- New Idea Engineering (http://www.ideaeng.com) has reviewed Dieselpoint Search (http://www.dieselpoint.com/products.html). OpenPipeline is open source middleware for crawling, parsing, analyzing, and routing documents.
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The oldest interface is still one of the best. Learning about shells and utilities can pay off for jobs where they're the fastest or most flexible.
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SAN FRANCISCO and PARIS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Box.net, a leading provider of online file storage and collaboration services today announced the release of its Box.net services for France. This release provides French consumers, small businesses, and enterprise users with the Box.net site and experience completely localized to French-speaking users.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Exegin announced the certification of its ZigBee(R) stack software and Q52/Q53 bridge/gateway hardware as a ZigBee PRO compliant platform.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDepot (www.netdepot.com), a premier brand of Global Net Access, LLC. (www.gnax.net) rolls out Virtual Private Servers (VPS) as another cost effective solution for their customers who are in the server market.
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CANTON, Mass., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology, has named Chris Brogan to its list of 2008 All-Stars. Now in its 13th annual awards program, the Mass High Tech All-Stars award recognizes the region's leaders in New England's innovation economy.
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CLEAR LAKE, Iowa, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamQuest Corporation, the global leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO) software, today released an update to its TeamQuest Performance Software suite. A new version of TeamQuest Model, the company's flagship capacity planning product, is a key part of the release. The product includes new capabilities that greatly simplify predicting performance when a workload is moved from one vendor platform to another.
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What Every Small- to Medium-sized Business Needs to Know About Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
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Crossbeam Dominates the Market for the Fourteenth Consecutive Quarter
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a world-class provider of entry-level and midrange storage innovations for OEMs and system integrators (SIs), today announced that FalconStor, the global leader in TOTALLY Open(TM) data protection solutions for Enterprises and SMBs, has core-certified Dot Hill's 2730 and 5730 RAID arrays for use with the FalconStor(R) Virtual Tape Library (VTL), FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector(TM) (CDP) and FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), resulting in proven performance and scalability for businesses looking for storage virtualization, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
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After the Past 2 Days it's all About Return on Information. Xenos ES Enables Organizations to Reduce Reuse Recycle Structured and Unstructured Electronic Data and Documents
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REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following the broad product, partner and customer announcements from its "Get Virtual Now" launch last month, Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer today announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 in front of a crowd of 700 IT professionals during a TechNet Server and Tools event keynote address in London. To further assist customers with the adoption and deployment of Microsoft virtualization solutions, Microsoft announced a new offering of specialized assessment and implementation services available from the Microsoft Services organization that help customers use server virtualization, and separate new training and certifications from Microsoft Learning for IT Professionals.
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Rehosted CICS-Based Application to Play Major Role in Helping Deutsche Rentenversicherung Meet 350 Million Euros Annual Cost Reduction Goal
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Visionman Computers, a manufacturer of servers, gaming systems and notebooks for small business and home users, today announced the release of their new water-cooled gaming systems.
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Awards recognize agency's world-class design capabilities
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Niceware(R) International is excited to announce the release of LabelClinic(TM) Print Server version 2.5. LabelClinic is an on-demand database and printing software that conforms to the ISBT-128 standard for blood product identification from the International Council for Commonality in Blood Banking Automation, Inc. (ICCBBA).
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Another voice of concern over parallel programming. Plus a wild idea.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mastech Holdings, Inc. (Amex: MHH) ("Mastech"), a national provider of Information Technology consulting services, is pleased to announce the completion of its spin-off from parent company iGATE Corporation effective October 1, 2008 (Nasdaq: IGTE) ("IGATE").
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announces that Scott Hoffpauir, BroadSoft chief technology officer (CTO), will serve as a panelist at Telephony Live: The 2008 Telecom Summit.
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BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (http://www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of October 2008.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineers of audio, medical, industrial and emerging applications have traditionally implemented floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs) because they offer dynamic range and high precision for data accuracy and easy algorithm programmability. Today, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) announced three new devices that transcend traditional floating-point processors, enabling engineers to easily design more portable, connected, cost-efficient and high-precision end products. The three new devices, based on TI's new C674x DSP core, merge the inherent advantages of floating point with a combination of connectivity peripherals, low power and low cost that, until now, has only been available with fixed-point devices. Giving developers the flexible solutions they need to design both basic and advanced product lines, TI's new processors include the industry's lowest power floating-point DSPs -- the TMS320C6745 DSP and TMS320C6747 DSP -- as well as the OMAP-L137 floating-point-DSP-plus-ARM applications processor. For more information, go to http://www.ti.com/lowpowerprocessors.
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LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- TriCipher answers the demands of the new mash-up generation of online business with secure, fast and flexible federation delivered as an on-demand service. Using myOneLogin Federation, businesses can now build secure, dynamic communities of users and partners, creating their own private clouds to deliver service mash-ups and engage customers and partners in new ways. myOneLogin Federation eliminates the uninvited user, delivering rock-solid security and fast integration, without the burden of additional hardware, software, and heaps of hard-to-remember passwords.
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SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Achievo(R) Corporation, a software outsourcing and information technology services provider, today announced plans to make available its broad expertise across multiple technology platforms in deploying software solutions in support of data center migration for the Banking, Insurance and Financial Services (BIFS) sectors in the Middle East. Achievo offers its clients local account management and project delivery capabilities through its regional offices in Japan, North America, Europe and Greater China that are integrated with and supported by its offshore delivery centers in China and its headquarters in the United States.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- VOXOFON, the internet telephony service offering the widest range of options for low-cost international calling, has become the first VoIP company to provide service for the new Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. The new service, which offers transparent cost optimization for roaming and international calls, will be available for use on Android phones when they become available later this year.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation today announced that it has entered into an alliance with Xcedex, Inc., a leading provider of virtualization consulting services. Under the agreement, Xiotech is now able to offer Xcedex's proprietary X_Factor Virtualization Readiness Planning (VRP) and Virtualization Readiness Design (VRD) analytics tools to its customers, allowing them to assess their IT environments for the approval, preparation and planning of virtual projects. This added level of detail will pay off for clients in increased control, higher return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) throughout their data centers.
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ESPOO, Finland, September 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qt Software today announced that Qtopia, a platform for creating user interfaces and applications for advanced consumer electronics based on Linux, has been renamed and launched as Qt Extended 4.4.
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BRISBANE, Australia and COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AtMail, a leading provider of easy-to-use, Linux-based email management appliances and software, today announced the availability of AtMail Open via FreeBSD Ports. Installation via FreeBSD ports is charmingly simple and allows users seamless access to AtMail Open, a recently launched webmail offering based on the company's highly successful messaging platform that is used by more than 15 million users worldwide.
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BOSTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-E, Inc., a leading provider of unified IP storage management software, today announced that Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS(TM)) has been certified for use with Virtual Iron's server virtualization software. Environments deploying both Virtual Iron and Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS(TM)) will benefit from streamlined virtual infrastructure, improved server and storage utilization and robust business continuity.
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BOSTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-E, Inc., a leading provider of unified IP storage management software and VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program member, today announced general availability of Data Storage Server (DSS(TM)) for VMware ESX 3.5. VMware provides TAP program members with tools to develop products that are complementary to VMware virtualization software and help deliver high-value solutions to joint customers. Data Storage Server for VMware ESX 3.5 will provide mutual customers with enhanced capabilities for consolidating storage environments.
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BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Zapatec, Inc., a leading provider of Web 2.0 development tools, today introduced 6zap, a full-featured, Web 2.0 collaboration suite that integrates e-mail, calendar and contact functionality. The open source communications platform is available as a pre-configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) making it simple to deploy on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). By using 6zap in the cloud, Zapatec is providing an intuitive and easy-to-use web-based alternative to Outlook that offers users full control and the ability to customize to their unique needs.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Building on its heritage of embedded microcontroller innovation, Zilog, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZILG) today introduced its new Encore! 32(TM) Series Microcontroller for home or industrial control, connectivity and security embedded applications. Zilog is a leading supplier of embedded System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for consumer and industrial applications, and an industry leader in remote control and universal infrared database solutions.
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New Autodesk Feature Data Object (FDO) Providers for GE Smallworld and Microsoft SQL Server 2008; Open Source Community Develops New FDO Providers for IBM Informix, KML and PostGIS
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PARIS and JULICH, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
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You've heard the hype, now it's time to measure if you really need to jump into the virtualization fray.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ONStor Inc., a leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for primary and value-tier storage for enterprises and content-rich organizations, today announced its new Pantera 3110 and Pantera 3110-HA integrated NAS solutions, which are designed to be sold exclusively by IT solution providers. The simple-to-buy, simple-to-sell, file data storage products are offered at entry level price points and deliver data center class performance in an energy efficient, small 1u form factor ideal for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as enterprise workgroup environments. The new Pantera filers integrate ONStor's unique virtual file server functionality with Nexsan's SATABoy RAID storage system. The products will enable channel partners to offer their SME customers a turnkey NAS solution with the flexibility to grow quickly and respond to storage need fluctuations without business disruption while maximizing power and cooling efficiency.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleversafe Inc., the leading provider of Dispersed Storage(TM) technology, announced today that the Wall Street Journal has awarded the company with a 2008 Innovation Award in the Software category for its innovative approach to storing and archiving digital content.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced the availability of IC Compiler 2008.09, delivering a dramatic boost in IC designer productivity. The latest release features faster runtimes across the board, leading to a 2X to 3X speed-up in overall turnaround time. This release also introduces new technology that speeds design closure including improved timing, variation-aware clock-tree synthesis, lower power, enhanced DFM, and signoff-quality incremental design- rule checking. With this release, the recently-announced Zroute technology delivering a 10-fold speed-up in routing is now available as a standard feature to all IC Compiler customers.
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Independent Testing Lab Opus One Validates that Crossbeam's Next Generation Security Platform Powers IBM Proventia Network IPS to 40 Gbps Even Under Extreme Load and Attack Conditions
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CARY, North Carolina, September 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX), the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced that it has signed a major new modernization project to migrate 4GL and COBOL applications to Java for one of the leading financial institutions in the United States. As part of this project, the organization will migrate from DB2 to Oracle and downsize off the mainframe (z/OS) to HP UNIX and LINUX.
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JINAN, China, Sept. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jinan Yinquan Technology Co. Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVDT), today announced that it has signed a contract to establish jointly a Virtualization Technology Lab (the Lab) with Qilu Software Park Development Center.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that Carriage Services, of Houston, Texas, has implemented a high-performance virtual private network (VPN) and high-speed Unified Threat Management (UTM) by integrating SonicWALL E-Class NSA E7500 and distributed SonicWALL TZ 190 appliances.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced its line-up of speakers for the 20th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. Ron Tolido, CTO of Continental Europe & Asia Pacific, Capgemini, and Peter Hustinx, Data Protection Supervisor, European Commission, will deliver keynote speeches at the conference, to be held October 20-22, 2008 at the ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel Munchen in Munich.
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Using Amanda allows you quickly and easily implement a robust Open Source backup solution to almost any device, or even multiple devices simultaneously.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadband World Forum 2008-- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new generation of xDSL customer premises equipment (CPE) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions that support the VDSL2 protocol, with seamless ADSL2+ fallback. This single-chip multimode residential gateway solution brings unparalleled, standards-based silicon and software to the industry addressing all aspects of sophisticated digital subscriber line (DSL)-based services including Wi-Fi(R), voice over IP (VoIP), Ethernet switching and IPTV.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- nPulse Network Systems LLC, a leading OEM designer of powerful network sensors for monitoring and security applications, has announced PCAP Express 10G, its latest hardware-accelerated implementation of the popular PCAP API. The product extends the functionality of nPulse's PCAP Express technology up to line-rate 10Gbps monitoring and packet capture.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapters and ASIC solutions and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced its software drivers have been integrated in the latest release of Oracle(R) VM server virtualization software. Chelsio has taken a leadership position in connecting virtual servers to the converged data center network, enabling end users to more effectively utilize their server and storage resources and more easily adjust to changing demand.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- iJET International, a leading provider of global intelligence and business resiliency services, today announced it has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Maryland, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in the area. The rankings, developed by leading professional services organization Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, are based on revenue growth over the past five years.
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AMSTERDAM, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to further encourage the use of the PHP programming language and to further enhance the quality of PHP programmers, Ibuildings will start a PHP Centre of Expertise this year. The centre will be lead by Cal Evans, a world-renowned PHP expert. He is, among many other things, the editor-in-chief of one of the most important portals for PHP developers. His transfer to Ibuildings caused quite a stir in the PHP community. In October Evans will move from his current residence in Nashville (Tennessee - US) to the Netherlands.
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The hotspot in the current IT world is optimized Web Services. Now the enterprises have started their vision towards next generation Web Services. This white paper gives information for the business managers and engineers in developing and deploying Web Services using Rational Application Developer (RAD) and WebSphere Application Server (WAS), respectively.
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The time has come to leave Hogwarts, young wizard! We wrap up our ten-part series on becoming a command-line wizard with a look at more utilities you should know.
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BIRMINGHAM, England, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardent Solutions, a CRM and ERP consultancy, http://www.ardentsolutions.co.uk has been selected by Microsoft as the Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year for Europe, Middle East and Africa - EMEA. Originally singled out for recognition at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, the European Microsoft Dynamics team has now presented Ardent Solutions with its accolade at its prestigious head office in Fort Dunlop, Birmingham.
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PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ORACLE OPENWORLD News Facts -- In a keynote address to nearly 43,000 OpenWorld attendees, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison unveiled the HP Oracle Database Machine, a system designed for extreme performance data warehouses. -- The HP Oracle Database Machine consists of a grid of Oracle Database Servers and a grid of new HP Oracle(R) Exadata Storage Servers packaged in a single rack ordered as a complete system from Oracle. -- The latest offering resulting from Oracle's and HP's long-time engineering relationship, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers break the performance bottleneck between database servers and conventional storage by shipping less data through larger pipes. -- No changes are required to existing queries or business intelligence applications to deliver extreme performance for large Oracle data warehouses. HP Oracle Exadata Product Family: -- The product family consists of two components. o HP Oracle Database Machine is pre-configured for performance, pre-tuned, and certified for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition tools and Oracle Real Application Clusters. Complete configurations can be ordered from Oracle, with hardware support by HP. The HP Oracle Database Machine is a high-performance system configured for data warehousing that includes a grid of eight database servers featuring: 64 Intel processor cores, and Oracle Enterprise Linux; and a grid of 14 HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers that include up to 168 terabytes of raw storage and 14 GB/sec data bandwidth to the database servers. o HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers are key performance enablers for the database machine and can be ordered separately if customers have an existing data warehouse and merely require the storage enhancements. Customers can build data warehousing solutions using HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, which feature industry-standard components including two Intel processors, up to 12 TB of raw storage and InfiniBand connectivity delivering 1 GB/sec of data bandwidth per storage server. o The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server uses a massively parallel architecture to dramatically speed up Oracle data warehouses by shifting the data-intensive part of query processing away from Oracle Database Servers and closer to the data. o HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers deliver 10x or more performance improvements in data-intensive query processing, have unlimited I/O scalability, are easier to optimize for data warehousing, and provide mission-critical availability and reliability. Availability & Delivery -- The HP Oracle Database Machine and HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers are available today. -- Complete configurations can be ordered from Oracle. -- Oracle is responsible for sales and system support. -- HP is responsible for hardware delivery and hardware service. Supporting Quote(s) -- "For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage designed for Oracle data warehouses, that is ten times faster," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Supporting Resources -- Oracle.com/exadata About Oracle
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Informatica in the Leaders quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools report(1). In June, Informatica was also positioned in the leaders' quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools report(2).
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A key benefit of Complex Event Processing (CEP) is the ability of companies to rapidly respond to potential problems or take advantage of emerging opportunities. TIBCO BusinessEvents(TM) detects business behaviors, provides contextual insight to help companies mitigate risk and generate additional profits. Companies can set TIBCO BusinessEvents to act automatically on opportunities to increase customer satisfaction, build loyalty, sell more products and increase efficiency. Unlike many traditional CEP solutions that focus on a limited scope of problems and uses, TIBCO BusinessEvents continues to benefit multiple industry segments and applications.
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LOMPOC, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Zettabyte Storage (ZBS) continues to expand its integrated data management solutions with the announcement of the Zettabits Datacenter Edition(TM) (DCE). This newest member of its Zettabits family of managed storage and online backup products is packed with up to 12TB of raw storage space, dedicated backup processing hardware, and includes Zettabits proprietary External Share Synchronization (ESS) software. The DCE provides small and mid-sized IT departments with a powerful and cost effective new way to effortlessly integrate enterprise class storage and fast, secure backups into their existing infrastructure.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Continuing to demonstrate the superior performance and scalability leadership of Oracle(R) Database, Oracle (http://www.oracle.com/index.html) today announced a leading 16-core result on the three-tier SAP(R) Sales and Distribution Parallel (SD-Parallel) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP ERP 6.0 application(1). -- Running HP-UX 11i v3 on a 4-node HP Integrity Blade BL860c server cluster, each with two dual-core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 1.66GHz processors, Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters achieved 4,325 SD-Parallel Benchmark users, achieving the leading 16-core result on the three-tier SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark on an Intel(R) Itanium(R) -based platform. The three-tier configuration also utilized HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array. In addition, Oracle and HP delivered outstanding single system and 2-node results on this platform. When measured from one-, two-, and four-node configurations, as documented and certified by SAP AG, Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters on HP Integrity BL860c server blade running HP-UX 11i v3 shows an extraordinary 95 percent scalability, achieving 1,165, 2,220 and 4,325 SAP SD-Parallel Benchmark users while maintaining superior performance and availability(2,3). -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Supporting Quotes -- "This benchmark further solidifies Oracle Database's leadership in delivering a scalable, high-performance platform for complex enterprise applications," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "When it comes to meeting the mission-critical demands of enterprise customers, Oracle continues to outpace the competition." -- "Customers that need a reliable, energy-efficient infrastructure can look to HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks EVAs to cost-effectively manage their growing data," says Lorraine Bartlett, director of server marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "This benchmark result is more proof that HP Integrity server blade and StorageWorks solutions, together with the Oracle Database, deliver high availability, scalability and reliability to help protect customers' mission-critical data." Supporting Resources -- Oracle Database (http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html) -- Oracle Benchmarks (http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/index.html) -- Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g (http://tinyurl.com/5oszgv) -- Download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Database 11g (http://tinyurl.com/2xk6bn) -- About SAP Standard Application Benchmarks (http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx) Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. About Oracle
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Collaboration is a hallmark of research and education, especially at Umea University, where a unique collaborative effort has led to the development and implementation of Akka, the fastest Windows-based system in Europe.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Online data manager SpiderOak is taking personal data into the cloud, enabling users to store, backup, access, share and sync files to their personal 'SuperCloud' from any combination of Windows, Mac and Linux computers as well as external storage media. No other service offers this full range of capabilities, along with essential usability features such as advanced de-duplication that cuts backup/sync time by as much as 90%. This also drastically reduces storage costs by conserving space.
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A journey into the heart of Wall Street HPC. It is still ticking.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Funambol Inc., the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today announced the world's first open source mobile sync app for the Android G1 phone from T-Mobile USA. The Funambol Android Client syncs contacts from a Google gPhone with a Funambol Server.
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PARIS, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced a new and streamlined version of JasperETL(TM) that is specifically optimized for business intelligence customers.
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PARIS, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI) and the world's most widely deployed BI software, today announced a number of milestones representing its commercial success and increasing priority on the European market. Recent customer deployments include EnergySys Limited, INTECO and La SACEM, contributing to over 200 percent growth in subscriptions for Jaspersoft's Professional Edition products in Europe. Jaspersoft today serves more than 9,000 customers in 96 countries worldwide.
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SAN FRANCISCO and JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/-- The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, has convened a global collaborative to set enterprise architecture standards for the exploration, mining, metals and minerals industries. The Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Vertical (EMMMV) initiative is the first of its kind worldwide, and will see the creation of enterprise architecture reference models specific to the industry.
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HPC is just beginning to warm up to the idea of green computing. But can green give you a faster, better and cheaper high-performance cluster?
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SAN JOSE, Calif. and PARIS, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAP (NYSE: SAP) and Business Objects, an SAP company, today announced they have been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools" report (1). This report was based on an evaluation of Business Objects and SAP's completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- While large public universities and their ERP software vendors theorize how Higher Education can embrace social networks and open source, a small but innovative junior college in West Virginia is already delivering education through a one-stop-shop web portal that integrates with Moodle and Second Life. Results so far suggest stronger student persistence in its distance education programs -- and happier faculty.
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NEW YORK, September 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of video games on mobile phones and consoles, today announced plans to develop 10 plus games for Android, an open source mobile platform. Bubble Bash will be the first title scheduled for launch in Q1 2009.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions and one of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), today announced that its chipset will enable the first Android-powered mobile phone -- the T-Mobile G1, manufactured by HTC. By integrating its chipset hardware and software capabilities with Android, Qualcomm has played an integral role in bringing the first Android handset to market.
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Industry-leading Software Helps Customers Drive Greater Value from Current and Future Oracle Investments
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld --
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld --
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation today announced that several new customers purchased Xiotech(R) Magnitude 3D(R) 4000 storage systems. New customers include Albion College (Albion, Mich.), Assurance Group, Inc. (Dublin, Ohio), Dakota County (Minnesota), East Central College (Union, Mo.), Netsmart Technologies, Inc. (Great River, N.Y.) and Salem State College (Salem, Mass.).
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Serena Software has acquired Projity, Inc., for OpenProj, its free, open source desktop project management software, and Project-ON-Demand, its Software as a Service (SaaS)- based project management software. With this acquisition, Serena significantly bolsters its Serena(R) Mariner(R) Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) offering. Serena Mariner was rated by Forrester as a leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Project Portfolio Management Tools, Q4 2007 (December 2007) with "top-of-the-line portfolio management software, robust reporting, and a unique implementation road map process."
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CHANTILLY, Va., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development's (HUD) National Housing Locator System (NHLS) was recognized among the 2008 CIO 100 Award winners chosen by CIO Magazine. These awards honor 100 organizations that are creating new business value by innovating with technology.
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DALLAS, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its power management portfolio targeting embedded processor designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) introduced today three fully integrated power management and signal chain companion chips to support all system power requirements of an OMAP35x processor-based design. Combining leading power management circuits with TI's low-power embedded processors results in optimized power and performance, leading to longer battery life and system run-time. See: http://www.ti.com/tps65950-pr.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Today CenterBeam, Inc., an award-winning provider of managed IT services, announces the release of two additional service offerings to help mid-size companies lower operational costs. CenterBeam's Virtual Server Management service allows businesses to increase utilization of hardware they already own, and its Remote Database Administration (DBA) service allows customers to offload many complexities associated with database management that typically require in-house staffing to provision and maintain.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class entry-level and midrange external storage solutions for OEMs and systems integrators (SIs), today announced it will acquire the RAIDCore(TM) and NAS (Networked Attached Storage) intellectual property assets from Ciprico, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPCI). The assets to be acquired include all of Ciprico's rights to its RAIDCore technology and products along with specified rights to Ciprico's NAS intellectual property.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- OpTier(TM), the leader in business transaction management, today announced that it has raised an additional $47.5 million in funding from new investors Index Ventures and Morgan Stanley and existing investors Pitango Venture Capital, Carmel Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gemini Israel Funds and strategic partner Cisco. The company has also secured a $15M credit line with Plenus Venture Lending.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Brocade(R) (Nasdaq: BRCD) is announcing continued collaboration with Oracle to help optimize Oracle applications and databases running Oracle(R) Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM with advanced capabilities delivered through Brocade's Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and its broad portfolio of data center networking products.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today introduced the Snap Server(R) 620, a scalable, high- performance addition to its Snap Server NAS family along with major enhancements to its award-winning GuardianOS(TM) (GOS) operating system and Snap Enterprise Data Replicator(TM) (EDR) software. The turnkey NAS solutions further extend Overland's end-to-end data protection strategy with significant improvements in the movement, management and protection of data.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for the Future (IFTF), an independent non-profit research organization, has launched a new research platform composed of Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Games (MMFGs). MMFGs are collaborative, open-source simulations of imagined future scenarios. Designed to address real world problems by harnessing the wisdom of crowds, IFTF's new MMFG platform launches with multiple games this fall that invite diverse global groups of people to contribute to futures research through games. Unlike predictions markets where answers fall within a finite range of outcomes, the Institute has created MMFGs to gain insight into situations where the outcome is unknown.
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HELSINKI, Finland and WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- SSH Communications Security Corp. (OMX:SSH1V), a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol, today announced the issuance of a key patent covering a new, streamlined process of issuing certificate revocation lists (CRLs) and eliminating the need for private keys to be present during the periodic publishing of CRLs.
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VDI, you have been measured. You have been weighed. And you have been found wanting.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT), a global leader in IT Operations Management, today announced multiple new offerings allowing IT managers to get spiraling energy costs under better control by making real-time energy measurements that can lead to rapid remedial actions from the desktop to the data center. Not only do these solutions help IT administrators monitor and reduce energy costs associated with the desktop, server room and data center, but they also help organizations launch or sustain their green-IT programs. Today's move by Avocent is also a direct response to demands by IT directors and data center managers for systems that can more closely align IT objectives with strategic business objectives.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Stantum Technologies (http://www.stantum.com), a pioneer developer of multi-touch sensing technology, today introduced a demo, evaluation and development board based on its patented PMatrix(TM) resistive multi-touch technology, which lets users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers, nails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ORACLE OPENWORLD 2008 -- News Facts -- The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Forum (http://tinyurl.com/4k5wpr) kicked off the week for partners attending Oracle(R) OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco on Sunday. More than 1500 partners from around the globe gathered to hear about expanded opportunities for business growth and profitability from top Oracle executives and network with other partners. -- Charles Phillips, President, Oracle opened the event, welcoming partners and emphasizing the importance of partners to Oracle's ecosystem and Oracle investment to facilitate partners' success. -- Safra Catz, President, Oracle joined the event in the afternoon, thanking partners for their contributions to the Oracle ecosystem and outlining the broad opportunities for them based on Oracle's growing product line. -- Guest speaker, Robert DeMarzo, vice president and editor, Everything Channel delivered the guest keynote, providing insight into the future of partnering in our industry. -- Providing the Oracle keynote address was Judson Althoff, group vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels, who thanked partners for their contributions, provided highlights from last year and shared the company's new partner enablement strategy. -- Partners also listened to an panel focused on Partner Enablement featuring Oracle executives: -- Mark Keever, Group Vice President, Accelerators.Oracle.Com -- John Gawkowski, Vice President, Platform Technology Solutions -- Mark Johnson, Vice President, Accelerate Applications Marketing& Business Development -- Joel Borellis, Vice President, Partner Enablement -- These executives highlighted specific strategies to help partners broaden their business with Oracle and provided an update on enhanced systems to help facilitate interactions. -- Following this, a panel featuring regional alliances and channels executives shared best practices and top priorities for specific geographies. The following regional executives joined the panel: -- Ted Bereswill, Senior Vice President, North America Alliances & Channels -- Bronwyn Hastings, Senior Vice President, APAC Alliances & Channels -- Stein Surlien, Vice President, EMEA Alliances & Channels -- Sandra Vaz, Vice President, Latin America Alliances & Channels -- Afternoon breakout sessions provided specific content addressing priorities for the Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America (LAD), and North America (NAS) regions. Additionally there were sessions held with specific information for the Communications industry and Global Value-Added Distributors (VADs). -- The program wrapped up with the North America OPN Titan Awards (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017517_EN.doc) -- Additionally, Oracle acknowledged partner excellence globally. (http://tinyurl.com/4cjja) Supporting Quotes -- "The partner channel is absolutely critical to the global sales and implementation of Oracle's more than 9,000 products," said Oracle President, Charles Phillips. "As Oracle continues to grow and scale, we increasingly look to our partner ecosystem to help deliver value and expertise to our diverse, global customer base." -- "Together with our partners, we can meet our customers' needs," said Oracle President, Safra Catz "Frankly, alone we can't. The breadth of Oracle's product line is pure opportunity for our partners." -- "We've expanded the scope of the OPN Forum to encompass our global partner network," said Judson Althoff, group vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels, Oracle. "Globally, more than 80 percent of our sales transactions are done by Oracle partners and we welcome this opportunity to share our strategy and direction with them, encourage networking and gain invaluable feedback to keep our collective businesses growing." -- "Each year we look forward to starting our week at Oracle OpenWorld with the OPN Forum. It's a great time for us to meet with Oracle and discuss go-to-market plans based on priorities unveiled at the event. Equally important, the Forum gives us an opportunity to network with other partners in the Oracle ecosystem." Kristin Copenhaver, VP of Marketing and Alliances, CedarCrestone -- "I was particularly interested in the continued emphasis Oracle is placing on partner enablement. If our staff can get training tailored to their needs, and better understand where to focus their product efforts, they'll be more productive -- which helps us all. The client receives a higher quality service and we can all be more profitable". Jan Richards-Foate -- Vice President, Capgemini Australia Pty Limited -- "The global focus this year at the Partner Forum made this event particularly relevant to me. And being able to hear directly from Charles Phillips and Safra Catz drives home the importance of partners to Oracle." Maureen Clifford, CEO, Ndevr Pty Ltd -- "The content enhancements that have been implemented on the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal will allow us to quickly access product repositories that are aligned to our client's business needs. The additional functionality of RSS feeds will help ensure that we are receiving up to date news and product content that are most relevant to us. Lastly, the Knowledge Zones will enable us to more efficiently share information with one another, to Oracle and to our clients." Cherie Gartner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Supporting Resources -- Oracle PartnerNetwork (http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html) -- Oracle Partner Solutions Catalog (http://solutions.oracle.com/) -- Oracle Partners (http://www.oracle.com/partnerships/index.html) -- Oracle Enables Partner Enablement 2.0 (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017508_ESA.doc) -- Oracle Partners Respond to Customer Demand for SOA-based Integrations (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017509_EN.doc) -- Partner Activities Highlights at Oracle OpenWorld, including replays (http://tinyurl.com/4k5wpr) -- Oracle North America Titan Awards release (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017517_EN.doc) -- APAC OPN Awards release About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
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IRVINE, California, September 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer of application streaming and virtualization technology, today announced that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle's global partner program. Through this new membership, Endeavors Technologies has access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support to better help Endeavors align its technology solutions with Oracle. The company will be showcasing a range of Enterprise applications delivered on-demand at Oracle OpenWorld(R) from the 22nd September 2008.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Quickly after outlining its Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware strategy and product roadmap, Oracle today announced that it has achieved major milestones in the integration of BEA across the combined middleware product family.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Less than three months after formally welcoming BEA customers and partners, Oracle continues to demonstrate rapid progress in combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into a complete, open and integrated Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html) product offering. -- The company has added 5,000 new customers, and 1,200 new partners. -- Since the initial Oracle Fusion Middleware strategy briefing in July, Oracle executives have participated in strategy briefings in 70-cities, visiting more than 5,000 BEA customers and partners in 36 countries -- Alibris, Ascensus, Chick-fil-A, Inc., Embarq, China Pacific Insurance, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Guangdong Mobile, Intercall, Kelly Services, Mead Westvaco, MSC Software Corporation, NetApp, Televisa, Universite Laval, and Wind River are using, or recently selected software from the combined Oracle and BEA middleware product family. -- Novartis Pharma, Logitech, Ingersoll Rand Company, USi, an AT&T Company, and First American Corporation, as well as partners comment (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea-quotes.html) on Oracle's combined middleware strategy. -- Hundreds of partners around the world have participated in Oracle's partner training and enablement programs, including: CedarCrestone, Fujitsu Consulting, Perficient, Sierra Atlantic, Zanett, and Zirous. Supporting Quotes -- "As a long-time business partner of both BEA and Oracle, we are pleased to see progress across the integration of these two offerings," said Evan Jafa Corporate Chief Technology Officer, The First American Corporation. "First American's WSP (Web Services Platform) SOA initiative is built on key BEA technologies such as WebLogic Server, so we are excited to see our choice of middleware as a strategic component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. As a leader in Grid technology, Oracle understands that high availability and scalability are critical for us. Any enterprise looking for a best-in-class middleware stack has to consider Oracle Fusion Middleware as a front-runner." -- "As a long time BEA partner, we have been impressed with the rapid integration and level of support Oracle has provided in transitioning Enterpulse into the Oracle partner ecosystem," said Jerry Eickhoff, Enterpulse Chairman and CEO. "The integrated, standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware platform allows us to further enhance the value we provide to our customers, while providing Enterpulse new revenue and growth opportunities." -- "We are a long-time systems integrator of the market offerings from both BEA and Oracle, and are pleased to see the integration of the two company's offerings," said John Guda, Vice President, Global Technology Consulting, CSC. "Together, Oracle and BEA are expected to provide a compelling portfolio of middleware capability for our customers to consider. Oracle's efforts and investment to integrate these capabilities is anticipated to reduce risk for our customers and allow them to quickly derive the value this combination brings to bear." -- "With a long time relationship with Oracle, we are encouraged to see continued progress across the integration of the Oracle and BEA offerings," said Gordon Aspin, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, "in their efforts to create a complementary middleware portfolio that spans Java Application Servers, transaction processing monitors, SOA, business process management, user interaction and Web 2.0, identity management, business intelligence, and enterprise content management. The preintegration of these components should take some of the heavy lifting off of our shoulders. As we understand the products are standards-based and, therefore, hot-pluggable, which should enable us to have more discussions and productive engagements with more clients." Supporting Resources -- Information and Updates on the BEA Integration (http://www.oracle.com/goto/july1/index.html) -- What customers are saying (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea-quotes.html) -- What partners are saying (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea-quotes.html#partners) -- Oracle Mix: BEA Product Information, Downloads, Discussion Forums on July 1 (http://tinyurl.com/3hhnp7) -- Independent Analyst Reports Regarding Oracle Software (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/index.html) -- Download Oracle Software (http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html) About Oracle
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Oracle today announced that customers can license Oracle(R) Database 11g Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in a cloud computing environment.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Delivering on its commitment to the Java developer community, Oracle today announced the immediate availability of Oracle TopLink (http://www.oracle.com/tools/toplink_adf.html) 11g, a component of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html). -- Oracle TopLink 11g, an advanced object-relational persistence framework based on the open source EclipseLink project, introduces seamless integration with Oracle Coherence, flexible Object-XML binding, and provides out-of-the-box compatibility with Oracle WebLogic Server and Java frameworks including Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) 11g. -- Oracle will also now provide professional commercial support for EclipseLink. -- EclipseLink is based on a previous version of Oracle TopLink, which Oracle contributed to the Eclipse Foundation in 2006. -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Comprehensive High-Performance Java Persistence Platform -- Oracle TopLink 11g enhances the industry standard Java Persistence API (JPA) with advanced object-relational features for flexibility, performance, clustering, and scalability required for enterprise application deployments. -- Highlights of Oracle TopLink 11g include: -- JPA-enabled Data Grid: Provides seamless integration with Oracle Coherence, allowing applications to leverage in-memory data grid capabilities through the standard JPA programming model, and developers to leverage extreme performance without having to learn a new programming model. -- Flexible Object-XML binding: Supports efficient manipulation of XML through a Java domain model using JAXB and the ability to interact with unstructured data through Service Data Objects (SDO) -- reducing the need to integrate multiple point solutions. -- Hot-Pluggable Enhancements: -- Support on Oracle WebLogic Server for both application and container managed JPA applications, JAXB, and SDO, with continued support for Oracle Application Server as well as IBM WebSphere and Red Hat JBoss; -- Out-of-the-box compatibility with Oracle ADF 11g and Spring Framework -- allowing reduced training costs and providing rapid application development; -- Leading integration with advanced features of Oracle Database 11g -- including support for VPD, Proxy Authentication, XDB, Object-Relational, Spatial, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures/Function and advanced query extensions; -- Continued support for a wide range of commercial and open source databases including IBM DB/2, Sybase, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL, Java DB, and others. -- Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle TopLink with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities. Supporting Quote -- "Oracle continues to demonstrate it's commitment to Java and open source, while recognizing that support services and commercial extensions can make a strong, positive impact on enterprise adoption," said Dennis Leung, vice president Software Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle. "With its enhanced persistence features and compatibility with other key infrastructure software, Oracle TopLink 11g helps developers significantly ease the development process." Availability and Pricing -- Under the Oracle Technology Network license, Oracle TopLink 11g is free to download (http://tinyurl.com/4enavv) for evaluation and use during development. A production license is included with all editions of Oracle Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server, or can be licensed separately. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Supporting Resources -- Oracle TopLink (http://www.oracle.com/tools/toplink_adf.html) -- OTN: Oracle TopLink (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/index.html) -- TopLink Q&A (http://tinyurl.com/3mxb94) -- Oracle Becomes Board Member of Eclipse Foundation (http://tinyurl.com/4akvfy) -- Oracle Proposes Open Source Persistence Project at Eclipse Foundation (http://tinyurl.com/2nfvwh) -- EclipseLink (http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/) -- Eclipse Announces EclipseLink Project to Deliver JPA 2.0 Reference Implementation (http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080317_Eclipselink.php) About Oracle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ORACLE OPENWORLD -- News Facts -- Delivering on its commitment to help customers optimize data center resources while reducing hardware, energy, and facility costs, Oracle today announced the latest release of its Oracle(R) VM server virtualization software. -- Oracle VM release 2.1.2 offers built in high availability features and also provides secure, encrypted live migration capabilities. -- Additionally, this release of Oracle VM is certified with Oracle Real Application Clusters, adding to the list of Oracle products certified with Oracle VM. -- Oracle combines the benefits of server clustering and server virtualization technologies to deliver a complete Grid Computing infrastructure, enabling customers to easily deploy and support their virtualized enterprise applications. -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Enabling Rapid and Secure Virtualized Deployments -- Consisting of open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use, rich, graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems across an enterprise. -- Within the first year of its introduction, Oracle VM has delivered significant enhancements based on an aggressive technical roadmap. Key features of the new Oracle VM release include: -- Oracle VM Guest High Availability: Enabling customers to minimize or eliminate planned and unplanned downtime. -- Secure Live Migration with SSL-Encryption: Eliminating outages associated with planned downtime by allowing quick and easy migration of running VMs from one physical server to another. Oracle VM is the first major virtualization solution to SSL-encrypt migration traffic by default to protect sensitive data. -- Clustered HA Oracle VM Manager: Using Oracle Clusterware, the Oracle VM Manager can be configured for maximum availability. -- Physical-to-Virtual / Virtual-to-Virtual Machine Conversion: To quickly convert existing Linux physical servers or VMware virtual machines to Oracle VM virtual machines and capitalize on more efficient and faster server virtualization with Oracle VM. -- Together, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle VM extend Oracle's support for grid computing with the ability to virtualize within, as well as across servers. Oracle's grid computing-based solutions together with Oracle VM are capable of virtualizing all infrastructure resources, data and applications to provide a complete virtualization solution. -- Results of a recent performance certification by The Tolly Group indicate Oracle VM delivers an exceptionally low, six percent, performance overhead even under heavy workload. This further demonstrates Oracle VM's outstanding performance amongst available server virtualization solutions where 20-30 percent performance overhead has previously been considered typical. -- In addition, Oracle offers Oracle VM Templates. Oracle VM Templates provide a time-saving approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by providing pre-installed and pre-configured images of enterprise software. Supporting Quotes -- "Oracle is committed to enabling customer to run their data centers in a more cost-effective, ecological, risk-free way -- while maintaining the high availability and performance they require to run their mission critical applications," said Wim Coekaerts, vice president Linux Engineering, Oracle. "Oracle VM delivers scalable, low-cost server virtualization for the complete software stack, helping customers deploy and support their enterprise applications. With the new high availability and live migration features, customers can more confidently deploy their enterprise applications in a virtual environment." -- "We are pleased to announce Oracle Real Application Clusters support for Oracle VM, the first platform RAC will support for an x86 virtual machine environment. Customers can now realize the high availability and scalability benefits of Real Application Clusters in their Oracle Virtual Machine environments," says Angelo Pruscino, Oracle's Senior Vice President of Clustering technology. Availability and Pricing -- The latest release of Oracle VM is available for free download at: http://www.oracle.com/virtualization. -- Pricing for 24x7 enterprise-class support for Oracle VM is priced on a per-system basis. A system with up to two CPUs is $599 per year per system and a system with unlimited CPUs is $1,199 per year per system. -- Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle VM with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings, including Linux operating system support, thereby providing customers a single point of support for their virtualized environments. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Supporting Resources (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_nov/ovm-ga-111107.html) Oracle VM Press Release (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/docs/ovm-faq.pdf) Oracle VM FAQ (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html) Oracle VM
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Mobile Applications Extend the Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel CRM for Managers On the Go
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Building on Oracle's 'Applications Unlimited' program, Oracle today previewed the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite Release 12.1 at Oracle OpenWorld. -- The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is expanding upon the global foundation established with Release 12 by delivering 9 new products and significant functional improvements across human resources, financials, supply chain management, procurement, projects, master data management and customer relationship management applications. -- Customers who rely on the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 will be equipped to conduct business globally with the ability to respond to global customer demands and competition, streamline operations across geographic regions and source and retain talent on a global scale. -- Oracle's strategy is to deliver complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Thinking Globally to Make the Most Informed Decisions -- The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a single, global view of customers, employees, suppliers, partners and operations, equipping organizations to make the smartest, most timely decisions. -- With the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1, customers can expect to benefit from the following: -- Oracle Deal Management should enable sales executives to maximize profits, optimize the deal process and control price erosion with key decision support tools embedded within the deal negotiation process. -- Pre-built dashboards and robust scenario modeling in Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center are designed to provide supply chain executives with the real-time business insight needed to make better supply chain decisions. -- Oracle Service Parts Planning enables customers to accurately forecast service parts to help increase customer service and boost profits. -- Oracle Demand Signal Repository captures, cleanses and harmonizes large volumes of external demand data to give users insight to consumer and supply chain behavior. -- Enhanced talent management capabilities specifically in the areas of recruiting and performance management help organizations improve operational efficiencies and turn employees into knowledge workers and competitive assets. -- Oracle Price Protection orchestrates business processes involving price protection agreements, helping to reduce errors and save money for distributors. -- Oracle Landed Cost Management estimates and then tracks the total landed cost of an item/shipment -- a critical factor in making global sourcing decisions given the increase in indirect costs such as logistics and duty. -- The migration of standard reports to Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher offers increased efficiency to our customers' compliance with local reporting obligations. Work Globally to be More Competitive -- The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is intended to help customers address the increased complexities they face when operating in a global economy with the following capabilities: -- Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center to increase the visibility and alignment between shop floor and ERP systems by managing the real-time data flows from shop floor systems and equipment, and transforming this into valuable business information. -- Oracle Supplier Ship and Debit to simplify complex ship and debit transactions in a proactive manner for distributors. -- Oracle Sourcing enhancements to support more complex two part RFP sourcing scenarios, better spreadsheet integration and cost factor improvements. -- Oracle Site Hub provides master data management linked to property and asset management for sites, such as retail store locations. -- Oracle Warehouse Management enhancements to support mobile UI personalization, dock and load sequencing, forward pick replenishment and other usability and high volume processing capabilities. -- Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub enhancements to support retail as well as other high product volume requirements. Manage Systems Globally to Lower Operating Costs -- The Oracle E-Business Suite continues to make it easier and less expensive to implement/upgrade, manage, and use global applications. -- Relying on this latest applications release, customers will be able to address the increased complexities they face when managing systems with the following planned capabilities: -- User Productivity Kit (UPK) provides pre-delivered training on key business flows with specific content to accelerate user adoption and productivity. -- Continued SOA investment specifically in the area of composite web services to better support business process integrations. -- Improvements to the lifecycle management capabilities include instance provisioning, system monitoring, configuration management, and root cause analysis -- all designed to reduce IT costs. Oracle Customer Services -- Oracle Customer Services (http://www.oracle.com/support/index.html) provides complete coverage of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities. Supporting Resources -- Oracle E-Business Suite Overview (http://tinyurl.com/5hn4pw) -- Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Brief (http://tinyurl.com/5udmv5) -- Independent Analyst Report Regarding Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 -- Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/) -- Oracle E-Business Suite Blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/applications/) -- Customer Snapshots and Videos (http://www.oracle.com/applications/e-business-suite.html) About Oracle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Oracle today announced a new pre-built, open standard-based integration for new product introduction (NPI) from Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (http://www.oracle.com/applications/agile/index.html) to the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite. -- Oracle also unveiled Oracle's Agile PLM Business Intelligence 3.0 to provide better decision-making during NPI. -- Oracle's Agile PLM has achieved a four star CMII Rating by the Institute of Configuration Management (ICM) (http://www.icmhq.com/), which required independent certification and validation by CMII graduates. This recognition confirms Agile PLM's superior capabilities in managing engineering and manufacturing configurations. -- Expanding the global reach of Agile PLM to midsize manufacturers, Domain Systems (http://www.domainsi.com/), J-Squared Technologies, Inc. (http://www.jsquared.com/) and Sierra Atlantic (http://www.sierraatlantic.com/) deliver industry-specific, pre- configured Oracle Accelerate solutions. -- Oracle's strategy is to deliver complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Latest Integration Enables Business Agility -- Oracle's Agile PLM Integration Pack for the Oracle E-Business Suite, Design to Release leverages Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) (http://tinyurl.com/5hhwqv) to provide a pre-built, open standards-based, service oriented architecture (SOA) that is completely extendable to customers' current enterprise architecture. -- This pre-built integration for the design to release process from Agile Product Collaboration (http://tinyurl.com/4nt9rl) to Oracle Manufacturing (http://www.oracle.com/applications/manufacturing/intro.html) and Oracle's enterprise resource planning applications enables customers to improve overall design for manufacturability, product quality and cost while minimizing supply chain disruptions. -- Leveraging AIA, this integration is the first release of an ongoing roadmap to create a highly configurable, extensible and sustainable platform that will support next generation enterprise PLM process integrations to Oracle Applications -- as well as SAP's offerings and other third-party solutions. Timely, Informed Product Decisions Drive Profitability -- Oracle's Agile PLM Business Intelligence 3.0 equips customers with more insight to improve decision-making and achieve greater value from their existing Agile investments. -- The latest release includes multi-dimensional analytics that provide decision support for Agile Product Quality Management to help continuously improve performance management across global quality operations and processes. -- Agile PLM Business Intelligence 3.0 has also been designed to enable integration with Oracle Business Intelligence applications including the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's Siebel and PeopleSoft as well as third-party applications such as SAP. -- Pre-built role-based dashboards, functional dashboards and reports provide: -- Timely visibility and comparative analysis on key metrics and trends across product quality management processes. -- Focused view of resource utilization and management insights to drive value across customers, suppliers and products. -- Drill-downs and analysis to proactively identify and investigate potential product quality risks. Compliance Certification Demonstrates Product Leadership -- Oracle's Agile PLM achieved a four star CMII certification rating from the Institute of Configuration Management (ICM), the leading provider of research, education, training, and certification in the field of configuration management. -- ICM's extensive software certification process included a comprehensive solution evaluation and direct feedback from CMII certified personnel as well as insight from Agile PLM customers across hi-tech, industrial and A&D segments. -- This certification validates Oracle's Agile PLM strengths in configuration management of product design engineering and manufacturing information. Agile PLM has shown leadership in managing all aspects of enterprise PLM from deep engineering design and CAD information to the quality, cost and project portfolio management. Industry-Specific PLM for Midsize Manufacturers -- Midsize manufacturers today require industry-specific PLM solutions that offer a lower total cost of ownership and provide best practices to enable innovation. -- Working with Certified Partners in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle Accelerate provides midsize organizations with pre-packaged, best practices application bundles that pair Oracle's enterprise software with partners' knowledge of specific industries allowing for rapid, fixed cost implementations. -- Leveraging Agile PLM, Domain Systems, J-Squared Technologies, Inc. and Sierra Atlantic have built industry-specific Oracle Accelerate solutions for midsize manufacturers around the world. Oracle Customer Services -- Oracle Customer Services (http://www.oracle.com/support/index.html) provides complete coverage of Agile PLM Integration Pack for the Oracle E-Business Suite, Design to Release and Oracle's Agile PLM Business Intelligence 3.0 with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle- based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities. Supporting Quotes -- "Similar to large enterprises, midsize manufacturers face product design and delivery challenges but they are also hindered by limited resources and tight budgets," said Randy Pettit, President, Domain Systems. "With Oracle Accelerate, we are able to quickly implement enterprise-level PLM capabilities that are industry-specific, quick-to- deploy and easy-to-maintain. This enables customers to focus on driving innovation, increasing profitability and getting products to market faster." -- "After a meticulous software certification process that relied on direct input from CMII certified practitioners and Agile PLM customers including Harris, Brocade and Echostar, we have validated Oracle's Agile PLM with a four star rating for CMII processes," said Vincent Guess, President of the Institute of Configuration Management. "This is an important achievement that demonstrates the value that Agile PLM brings to customers, providing comprehensive configuration and change management capabilities across the product lifecycle." General Availability -- Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Integration Pack for the Oracle E-Business Suite, Design to Release and Oracle's Agile PLM Business Intelligence 3.0 are currently available. Supporting Resources -- About Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (http://tinyurl.com/6hgqp6) -- Press Release: Oracle Expands Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management Offerings (http://tinyurl.com/4ha9ds) -- Press Release: Over 120 Oracle Accelerate Solutions Now Available From Oracle Partners (http://tinyurl.com/3g75fz) -- Analyst Reports: Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (http://tinyurl.com/4rvmbz) -- Analyst Reports: Oracle Accelerate (http://tinyurl.com/4l9xzt) About Oracle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Continuing its commitment to further educate and enable its growing partner base, Oracle today announced a new and improved partner enablement strategy to provide expanded training and education choices through new Boot Camp formats, enhancements to the OPN Competency Center, new Partner Solution Kits and an updated Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork (OPN) portal. -- This strategy also utilizes new Web 2.0 constructs to enable more interaction and collaboration between Oracle and its partners as well as between partners. -- Today's announcement represents an increased emphasis by Oracle to educate and train partners to be better equipped to sell, develop with or implement Oracle products. New Partner Training Strategy and Boot Camp Details The new partner training strategy is comprised of three levels: -- Tier 1 - Delivered by Oracle University and includes Oracle's Premium Education offering, instructor-led training and live web class, and an exclusive Oracle Certification Track -- Tier 2 - Delivered in-person by third party delivery partners in each geographic region and includes Open Source Boot Camp content managed by Oracle Alliances & Channels, online Guided Learning Paths, and assessments. -- Tier 3 - Delivered by Oracle via Live Web Classes, leverages identical content to Tier 2 Boot Camps, includes Online Guided Learning Paths and assessments Boot Camps are training programs developed exclusively for partners that deliver consolidated, concise, intensive and focused training by specific product area and are:
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Enhancements Illustrate Leading Momentum for Oracle SOA and Rapid Integration of BEA Technology with Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Resulting from the rapid integration of BEA Technology with Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware, organizations are expected to benefit from expanded Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software from Oracle including Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3 and Oracle Enterprise Repository 10g Release 3. -- Planned enhancements to Oracle SOA Suite 10g R3 include integrations with Oracle Service Bus and Oracle WebLogic Suite, based on BEA AquaLogic Service Bus and BEA WebLogic Server respectively, as well as certification with Oracle WebLogic Application Grid. -- Oracle Enterprise Repository 10g R3, the core element of Oracle SOA Governance, is planned to be certified with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite. The release is also expected to feature expanded governance capabilities that span Oracle and non-Oracle SOA applications. -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Comprehensive SOA Software -- Oracle SOA Suite features the following components: -- Oracle JDeveloper - provides a unified design time environment to design services, access services from existing information systems and Business Applications and to design composite applications and business processes. -- Oracle BPEL Process Manager - allows organizations to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business processes. -- Oracle Service Bus - delivers standards-based integration for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. -- Oracle Web Services Manager - governs the interactions with shared services through security and operational policy management and enforcement. -- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring - offers a solution for building interactive, real-time dashboards and proactive alerts for monitoring business processes and services. -- Oracle Business Rules - enables business analysts and non-developers to easily define and modify business logic. -- Oracle Complex Event Processing - provides a rich, declarative environment for developing event processing applications to improve business operations. -- Adapters - A broad range of technology and packaged adapters provide high performance and native connectivity to a broad range of information systems, Business Applications, mainframes, TP-monitors and other systems. -- Oracle Enterprise Repository provides a solid foundation for delivering governance throughout the SOA lifecycle by acting as the single source of truth for information surrounding SOA assets and their dependencies. -- Oracle SOA Governance products include Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Service Registry, Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle Enterprise SOA Management Pack. Supporting Quote -- "Following the acquisition of BEA, Oracle outlined a comprehensive integration roadmap," said Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Product Development, Oracle. "The new releases of Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Enterprise Repository illustrate our rapid progress in unifying leading software from the two companies." Supporting Resources -- Oracle SOA Governance Data Sheet (http://tinyurl.com/46mpl3) -- Oracle SOA Blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/davidchappell/) About Oracle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Today, Oracle announced a world record Dual-Node SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark result for Oracle Fusion Middleware(1).
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Today, Oracle announced world record SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark results across two categories for Oracle Fusion Middleware. -- Oracle Application Server (http://www.oracle.com/appserver/enterprise_edition.html)(1) and Oracle WebLogic Server (http://www.oracle.com/appserver/index.html)(2), components of Oracle Fusion Middleware (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html) -- together with Oracle Database 11g (http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html) running on HP servers -- delivered world record multi-node and single-node benchmark results respectively. -- These benchmark results further demonstrate Oracle Fusion Middleware's leadership in Java application server performance and efficiency. -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Benchmark Details -- World record multi-node benchmark result: Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 together with Oracle Database 11g achieved 17,046.40 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 was running on 12 HP Integrity BL870c server blades, each with four Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 1.6 GHz processors. The database server was running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 56 Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 1.6 GHz processors and HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays. Both application server and database tiers were running HP-UX 11i v3. -- World record single-node benchmark result: Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 with Oracle Database 11g achieved 4,410.07 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 was running on a HP ProLiant DL580 G5 four socket server with the new Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor X7460 2.66 GHz with 6-cores and 16M L3 Cache and HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Arrays. Oracle Database 11g was running on an identical hardware configuration. Both application server and database machines were running Oracle Enterprise Linux. -- For more than five years, Oracle has submitted record-setting application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer2001(3) and SPECjAppServer2002(4) benchmark categories and also holds the world records for best performance and price/performance in the Ecperf(4) benchmark of J2EE application servers reported in July 2002(5). -- SPECjAppServer2004 is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers and the system network. For more information, visit http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/. Supporting Quote -- "These world record benchmark results are an excellent measure of Oracle Fusion Middleware's leadership in Java application server performance, scalability and manageability," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers a comprehensive platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications, which is why customers increasingly choose it as the foundation for their Service Oriented Architecture environments." Supporting Resources Oracle Benchmarks (http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/index.html) Oracle Fusion Middleware (http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html) Oracle Database 11g (http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html) Oracle Enterprise Linux (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/index.html) About Oracle Fusion Middleware
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Over 600 Leading ISV Applications Are Certified on Oracle Real Application Clusters
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Demonstrating its commitment to help customers increase data center efficiencies and reduce costs, Oracle today announced that Oracle(R) VM (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html) server virtualization software achieved "Up-to-Spec" performance certification by The Tolly Group, a leading third-party information technology testing, research, and certification organization. -- In a comparison test between a bare-metal server running an instance of Oracle Enterprise Linux and an Oracle VM Server, hosting an identical single Oracle Enterprise Linux virtual machine (VM), the Oracle VM Server achieved 94 percent of the bare metal server transaction level using an Oracle Database 11g instance supporting 50 concurrent users. This result indicates an exceptionally low six percent performance overhead, even under heavy workload, demonstrating Oracle VM's leading performance amongst available server virtualization solutions, where 20-30 percent performance overhead has previously been considered typical. -- Tests also showed that Oracle VM continued to scale strongly as additional VMs were added to the server to increase the load. When adding a second, identical virtual machine with 50 users to the same Oracle VM Server, the throughput reached 160.9 percent of the single virtual machine result with 72 percent more database transactions on two virtual machines under heavy workload compared to a single virtual machine. -- The tests were conducted using freely available Swingbench and LMbench testing tools, allowing customers to easily validate the results using their own workloads and to compare Oracle VM's overhead with other available server virtualization products in their environment. -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility. Lower Overhead Enables Greater Consolidation and Reduced Costs -- Oracle VM's next generation architecture supports the use of virtualization-aware paravirtualized guest operating systems to allow more efficient, lower overhead operations in areas critical to performance such as memory and I/O management. This not only enables higher performance, it also supports excellent scaling as workloads increase, due to the addition of virtual machines, or an increase in workloadload on existing VMs. -- With Oracle VM, it is now practical to consolidate a greater number of physical servers on to a single Oracle VM Server, as compared to other commercial server virtualization offerings, lowering costs associated with power, cooling, and real-estate. Additionally, customers can now plan to consolidate production database and other servers with heavier workloads than were previously possible, further reducing costs and increasing quality of service. -- In addition to lowering costs, Oracle VM's included advanced management features such as Secure Live Migration and Guest VM high availability restart also improve service availability and operational agility for consolidated workloads. Supporting Quotes -- "Oracle VM is clearly demonstrating the advantages of its next- generation architecture," said Wim Coekaerts, vice president Linux Engineering, Oracle. "With its leading price/performance and low overhead, Oracle VM users are able to consolidate servers that in the past would not have been practical and can achieve increased savings and performance previously unattainable. The Tolly Group benchmark results are further proof that Oracle VM can deliver performance on par with a bare-metal server without the expense of deploying and supporting additional hardware." -- "We used publicly available test suites to measure the performance of Oracle VM so that the same test suites can be used to evaluate other virtualization technologies. In our testing, Oracle VM delivered impressive performance, scalability and efficiency for server virtualization software," said Kevin Tolly, Founder and CEO of The Tolly Group. "Enterprise customers should have Oracle VM on their short list." Supporting Resources -- Tolly Group Report (http://tinyurl.com/3hn8ty) -- Oracle VM (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html) -- Free Download of Oracle VM (http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm) -- Oracle VM Templates (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/vm/templates.html) -- Oracle Expert Blog: Wim Coekaerts (http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/) -- BitMover Lmbench 3.0 (http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/) -- Swingbench 2.2 (http://www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench.php) About The Tolly Group
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- In response to growing customer demand for validated integrations, Oracle today announced that more than 60 new integrations have completed testing through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners (http://tinyurl.com/3gdsgk) (AIAP) initiative. -- This initiative provides partners tools and best practices for integrating to Oracle's broad portfolio of applications. Over the past 18 months since the launch of Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Oracle has seen an increase in cross-application business process integration validation requests. These integrations utilize Oracle(R) SOA Suite (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/index.html) and Oracle Application Integration Architecture as the integration platform. -- Oracle PartnerNetwork (http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html) members who have recently validated their SOA-based integrations include: En-soft, Gesplan, Informatica, Softway-Softcomex, New Soft Intelligence, Nexo, Techware, Xactly and XRT. -- Oracle also formed the Oracle Application Integration Partner Strategy Council in November 2007. Council members contribute to the future direction of Oracle's partner initiatives and provide Oracle with a deeper understanding of the challenges ISVs face while gaining unique insight into Oracle's go-to-market strategy. This in turn helps ensure that partner products are aligned with Oracle product directions, while giving each partner's customers assurance that their needs are being represented. Charter members of this council include: 170 Systems, 3i Infotech, Acxiom, APPLIMATION, Cisco Systems, CRM IT Solutions, Data Systems International, Enigma, Development Dimensions International, Enwisen Inc, Genesys, HCR, IFS, InFact Group, MavenWire, Motorola, Nakisa Inc, New Soft Intelligence, Open Text, Trillium, Zebra Technologies. -- Based on feedback from council members, initial changes have been enacted, including additional educational webcasts, updates to integration best practices documentation, and easier web access to an increasing amount of integration related information. Benefits of AIAP-Validated Integrations
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- News Facts -- Recognizing the innovative solutions and business achievements of its partners, Oracle today announced the recipients of the fifth annual Oracle PartnerNetwork (http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html) North America Titan Awards. -- The awards acknowledged 14 leading partners across 17 categories for solutions and best practices developed or delivered in fiscal 2008. These awards recognize partner excellence in a number of categories, including sales, marketing, and solution development. -- Partners submitted a record number of nominations this year, with entrants competing in both solution and momentum categories. -- Honorees were selected by a panel of 66 judges including IDC analysts, Everything Channel media and Oracle sales, marketing, and development executives. -- The awards were presented at the closing ceremony of the Oracle PartnerNetwork Forum (http://tinyurl.com/45zbhq) of Oracle OpenWorld(R), held Sunday, September 21 at the Hilton San Francisco. 2008 North America Oracle Titan Partner Award Winners -- E-Business Suite Solution - Deloitte Consulting This ambitious solution involved transforming a manufacturing company and its production and business processes - positioning it for aggressive future growth. In addition to the full Oracle E-Business Suite, the ultimate solution includes Oracle Configurator, Demantra Demand Planning, Oracle Transportation Management, Oracle Identity Management, and SOA. The customer is positioned to save up to $140 million in operational costs over the next 10 years, while increasing their share, all on a single instance of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. http://www.deloitte.com/us/oracle -- Edge Applications Solution - Hitachi Consulting Corp. Costs were increasing faster than sales when this media company selected Hitachi Consulting to lead the implementation of Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) as part of a larger planned migration to an Oracle IT infrastructure. Selected for its transportation industry expertise, experience, and knowledge of OTM, the winning Oracle partner, Hitachi Consulting, successfully completed the implementation on schedule. Their product knowledge technical skills and leadership exhibited throughout the initiative helped keep the project on track. The initiative has already delivered cost savings 65% greater than anticipated and showcased the flexibility and future potential, not only of OTM, but also of the larger-scale Oracle implementation to come. http://www.hitachiconsulting.com -- JD Edwards Solution - CSS International Inc. This solution fit right into the sweet spot of Oracle's JD Edwards' product capabilities: construction and engineering. When two firms in the industry merged, the winning integrator had to quickly convince the acquiring company to expand the JD Edwards implementation already in progress at the acquisition target, and then expand the scope of the project to include the newly merged company. The final implementation is scheduled to cover 30 operating units across North America, while pushing SQL Server out of the business in favor of the Oracle stack. On time, on budget, and with tremendous payback, this project exemplifies the strengths of Oracle technology and the expertise of this partner. http://www.cssus.com -- Applications Momentum - Deloitte Consulting This Global Partner doubled its Oracle license co-sell revenue FY08, driving 75 initiatives and marketing activities that resulted in Oracle leads in GRC, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Executive Compensation, among other areas. Deloitte Consulting helped generate more than 100 leads alone in Oracle's white spacing effort for applications, secured a leadership position in Oracle E-business Suite, Oracle Agile, OTM, Demantra and Oracle Hyperion space, participated in 1,100 Oracle training classes, was a key partner in Fusion development, and was an instrumental partner in go-to-market strategies during Fiscal 2008. http://www.deloitte.com/us/oracle -- PeopleSoft Solution - CherryRoad Technologies Inc. This county sheriff's department customer made the decision to implement a new ERP system. A key decision point in choosing a software and services vendor was the customer's need to move billing for officers' revenue-producing assignments from a manual, papers-in- triplicate system, to an automated one. The full suite of PeopleSoft applications, along with PeopleSoft Portal, went into this competitive win over SAP. CherryRoad Technologies worked with Oracle during the sales cycle to demonstrate how the customer's needs could be met around Payroll and Billing, and then delivered - all with a clear audit trail - to make this a successful implementation. http://www.cherryroad.com -- Enterprise Performance Management Solution - interRel Consulting This solution combines Oracle Essbase with Hyperion Web Analysis, Financial Reporting, Planning, and Enterprise, to deliver sales budgeting - down to the SKU - to a manufacturing customer with more than 60,000 products. The solution, built and deployed in the United States, serves more than 100 countries around the world. SKU-level calculations of entire gross margin statements happen in less than 15 seconds - more than twenty-five percent faster than the customer's target. The entire solution was delivered in less than six months, more than $100,000 under budget, and forms the front end of a larger and continuing Hyperion implementation. http://www.interrel.com -- CRM Solution - Deloitte Consulting A lack of standards and limited tracking around marketing campaigns drove this communications industry client to seek a better way to optimize their marketing spend. Oracle Siebel CRM and Oracle Business Intelligence were the focal points of this solution, but the partner was selected for industry knowledge, global delivery scope, ability to link marketing and sales, and their role as a trusted advisor at the customer. The project's first phase was delivered early, and resulted immediately in a 30 percent increase in marketing campaign response and conversion rate, while allowing the customer to reduce the number of external vendors for data collection by more than 30 percent. http://www.deloitte.com/us/oracle -- Midsize Business Applications Solution - SYSTIME This solution was a competitive win over SAP in the consumer packaged goods industry. The customer was running its business on eight different applications and needed rapid consolidation ahead of a planned sale of the company. The solution allows the customer to adapt its order fulfillment in real time, with a wide and changing variety of pricing mechanisms. SYSTIME delivered the full Oracle JD Edwards suite in 270 days and is currently working on the next phase of the project, which includes JD Edwards HR/Payroll, plus Demantra and Oracle Business Intelligence. http://www.SYSTIME.net -- Industry Solution - Deloitte Consulting Driven largely by rising service costs, the healthcare services industry is a major target for an IT overhaul. The customer, a major player in this industry, selected Oracle Siebel as part of a larger initiative to launch a new service offering for two of their business's while replacing an aging IT system, in a third business. The solution encompasses drug reimbursement, plus disease and medical therapy management, to provide enhanced service to patients and to help drive efficiencies in, and costs out, of the business. Six months after implementation, benefits include a 65 percent reduction in support costs, a 50 percent reduction in time to drug reimbursement, and lower call center costs. http://www.deloitte.com/us/oracle -- Financial Services Industry Solution - SmartDog Services LLC Consumer financial instruments are exploding and the customer for this solution is a primary provider of the plastic cards that transfer buying power to people without bank accounts. This customer needed an automated system to track distribution of its cards to replace the manual, labor-intensive process it was using. The solution found a way to treat distributors as internal sales people, implement a single new system with an interface that looked just like the old, all using Oracle Financials and Incentive Compensation. Commission payments are more accurate, cost savings come from automated systems, commissions are paid quicker, and the system is scalable for future growth. http://www.smartdogservices.com -- Manufacturing Industry Solution - Terillium Inc. SAP, Microsoft, and JD Edwards went toe-to-toe in this power transmission customer before JD Edwards EnterpriseOne was selected. Terillium Inc. worked closely with the Oracle sales team to make sure JDE was the final call to replace the customer's aging technology infrastructure. An Accelerate solution helped ensure the implementation would be done rapidly and with the smallest possible risk. The 600- script Accelerate solution went in on time, on budget, with immediate cost savings and a satisfied customer. http://www.terillium.com -- Business Intelligence Solution - Piocon Technologies Inc. This system integrator took this oil-and-gas industry engagement from a data warehouse to a full-scale BI solution that included Oracle Warehouse Builder, Application Server, Application Express, BI Publisher, Portal and Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The solution allows the customer to provide reliability metrics and reporting on more than 100,000 pieces of equipment to hundreds of operations throughout a refinery with more than 120 plants. Prior to the implementation, the customer went an average of 35 days between unplanned equipment shutdowns at one of its key plants. At the time this nomination was submitted, they were at 200 days - and counting - with no shutdowns due to equipment failure. http://www.piocon.com -- Technology Momentum - Accenture In FY08, this company focused on developing differentiated Oracle technology solutions and made significant investments in Oracle's Application Integration Architecture, SOA, BI, and Security. They grew their Oracle Tech revenue significantly, partnered with Oracle on 75 RFPs, provided 360 customer references, and invested heavily in marketing, training, and joint solution development with Oracle. They continue to invest in their Innovation Centers at Oracle Headquarters in California and Reading, UK, both as a sales tool and joint solution development centers. Finally, their support of Oracle has extended to BEA, where they continue to make solution development investments and drive revenue in key accounts, both established and new. http://www.accenture.com or http://www.accenture.com/oracle -- Grid and RAC Solution - TUSC This company developed a solution that leveraged Oracle Grid and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to help deliver all the right tangible benefits: scalability, high availability, ease of management, improved customer services, and better use of existing assets to deliver higher processing power. This award-winning Oracle Solutions Provider worked closely with the customer to deliver the foundation elements of Oracle's computing infrastructure: Database, RAC, Enterprise Manager, DataGuard, and Automated Storage Management, all in an environment that the customer can manage on their own going forward. http://www.tusc.com -- Integration and SOA Solution - CedarCrestone Inc. CedarCrestone's higher-education customer saw an opportunity to extend new government education financing to its population of more than 120,000 adult students, but lacked the systems to evaluate which students were eligible and determine how to extend this additional financing to them. The solution incorporated PeopleSoft, Oracle JDeveloper, and the core components of Oracle Fusion Middleware architecture, and was implemented in 4 months, to allow the customer to automate a massive, complex, and dynamic process. The result was the customer was able to provide its students with access to millions of dollars of government funding to help them further their education, all on a platform that will scale to meet extensive future needs. http://www.cedarcrestone.com -- Identity Management Solution - Entology Inc. This company developed a solution that leveraged Oracle Grid and RAC to deliver all the right tangible benefits: scalability, high availability, ease of management, improved customer services, and better use of existing assets to deliver higher processing power. This award-winning Oracle Solutions Provider worked closely with the customer to deliver the foundation elements of Oracle's computing infrastructure: Database, RAC, Enterprise Manager, DataGuard, and Automated Storage Management, all in an environment that the customer can manage on their own going forward. http://www.tusc.com -- Content Management Solution - LS Technologies LLC This retail customer relied on the winning SI to deliver the integration expertise they needed across their technology portfolio - not just content management, but a cohesive, integrated environment where the Content Management solution is leading to expansion of Oracle technology throughout the entire enterprise. The solution involved completely upgrading their content environment with Oracle, deployed on totally new hardware platforms and integrated with PeopleSoft. Delivered on time and on budget, this project has already resulted in cost savings of more than $20,000 a month in manpower alone, and is considered "an overwhelming success" by the customer. LSTechnolgies is an Oracle Certified Managed Partner for Oracle in the Application and Technology space. LSTechnologies has vertical expertise in the area's of Financial, Life Sciences and Distribution Markets. http://www.LSTechnologies.com Supporting Quote -- "The record number of nominations we received this year demonstrates the value and expertise our partners have to create and deliver Oracle- based solutions and services to customers," said Ted Bereswill, senior vice president, North America Alliances & Channels, Oracle. "We were greatly impressed by the innovative business approaches and unique technologies exhibited by all of this year's nominees and will continue to work in tandem with our valued partners to deliver business-changing technologies and services to our growing customer base." Supporting Resources -- Oracle PartnerNetwork (http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html) -- Oracle PartnerNetwork Forum (http://tinyurl.com/45zbhq) -- North America Oracle Titan Award 2007 Winners (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_nov/titanawards.html) About Oracle PartnerNetwork
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Participating companies detail steps taken to address climate change and to measure and monitor carbon emissions
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Resonate Inc. (http://www.resonate.com), the leading provider of award winning traffic management, high availability, and load balancing solutions, today announced that it is offering free Resonate Central Dispatch(TM) licenses to users of Microsoft's Network Load Balancer (NLB).
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) and Oracle today announced a new Oracle Optimized Warehouse based on SGI(R) servers, supercomputers and storage solutions optimized for the world's most popular database.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle Open World, Booth 3418 West, -- At Oracle Open World today, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGIC) showcased new third-party applications that extend the ecosystem of the SGI(R) Adaptive Data Warehouse Solution.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced it has released to manufacturing its newest server -- Windows HPC Server 2008, giving Wall Street firms an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective and scalable high-performance computing (HPC) solution. Today's event kicks off a series of global launch activities in the coming weeks to support the new product.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) continued its market leadership in the fast-growing Complex Event Processing (CEP) space, according to a new report from IDC. TIBCO thus marked another year as the undisputed CEP leader, with a market share of 40.2 percent -- twice the share of its closest competitor-while experiencing 52 percent year-over-year growth, according to the IDC study.[1]
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Bay Microsystems, Inc., a worldwide leader in high performance datacenter extension across wide-area networks, today announced that its ABEx(R) 2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway platform was named a finalist in the Best of VMworld 2008 Awards at the VMworld 2008 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bay's ABEx 2020, which enables Wide Area Virtualization, was named as a finalist in the "Hardware for Virtualization" category by the editors of TechTarget Inc.'s SearchServerVirtualization.com(TM) for innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease-of-use.
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WALL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety and a member of the Oracle(R) Partner Network, is showcasing its fingerprint biometric solutions at the Oracle(R) OpenWorld 2008 conference being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from September 22-25, 2008. BIO-key will provide hands-on product demonstrations of its state-of-the-art identification technology in Oracle's Security, Risk Management & Compliance Pavilion.
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Facing tough times? Now might be a good time to turn to Open Source.
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Since find(1) came into being decades ago, programmers have been adding new features. Here's the fourth of a series about some of those.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ONStor, Inc., a leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for enterprises and content-rich organizations, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Beijing Futong, a leading distributor of IT products in China, adding them to its growing channel program in the Asia-Pacific region. Beijing Futong, the largest distributor and the chief agent of IBM China, will sell and support ONStor's clustered NAS solutions, including the recently released Cougar 6000 series. Beijing Futong addresses the rapidly uncontrolled growth of content by offering solutions through a distribution network of value-added resellers throughout the People's Republic of China.
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FORT BELVOIR, Va., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) are moving forward with their goal to provide warfighters the best information technology tools for supply and transportation. The effort to converge DLA's Integrated Data Environment (IDE) with USTRANSCOM's Global Transportation Network (GTN) is about to become reality. The program is called IGC, with I and G representing the two existing systems' acronyms, and C reflecting their convergence. The contract award was issued June 26, but work was delayed due to a contract award protest that was recently withdrawn.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As software developers the world over prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the GNU System, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGIC) today announced it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B. The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI(R) graphics software that has set the industry standard for visualization software and has proven essential to GNU/Linux(R) and a host of applications.
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ZHUHAI, China, Sept. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS), one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) and multimedia digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced that it has entered a strategic software agreement with China's leading GPS map provider, Ritu Information Systems, Inc. (Ritu).
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ZHUHAI, China, Sept. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS), one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) and multimedia digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced that it has entered a strategic software agreement with China's leading GPS map provider, Ritu Information Systems, Inc. (Ritu).
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REvCo also recognized as one of 100 Technology "Companies to Watch"
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Energid Technologies Corporation today announced a major upgrade to its popular software for controlling and simulating robots. Based on software developed for NASA, Actin 2.0(TM) will enable new robotic designs across industries and support development from conception through productization and fielding.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation announced today integration with VMware(R) Site Recovery Manager (SRM), an application that makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable and manageable so organizations can better meet recovery objectives. Xiotech's storage systems will be certified to support VMware SRM later this year, enabling customers to accelerate disaster recovery processes in virtual environments, while reducing the risk and complexities associated with implementing a disaster recovery process.
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ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech today announces the latest release called NEWARK for their NT family of 1 Gbps high-performance network adapters for PCI-Express. The NEWARK release includes these new additional features to the earlier announced ANAHEIM and TUCSON software releases:
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- SECNAP(R) Network Security Corporation, a leading provider of network and email security solutions, today announced that an interview with its president and chief technology officer, Michael Scheidell, has appeared in the September/October issue of Hakin9 Magazine. A lifelong innovator, Scheidell founded SECNAP Network Security Corporation to protect client information assets from hackers and other cyberthreats by raising the standard for intrusion detection and prevention solutions. Three patents are pending for his award-winning IDS/IPS technology, and his email security gateway solutions have also won widespread recognition.
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