Articles Archive for November 2009
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Order a lot, buy a few?
Korean flash-memory manufacturers are grumbling that Apple is gaming the NAND market.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Falling less fast
The server market was down but not out in the third quarter.…
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At last
Federal authorities have imposed almost $19m in fines on an enterprise accused of spamming the world with billions of emails advertising male-enhancement pills and other pharmaceuticals.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Single system image
The wheel is turning full circle. In the 1980s and 1990s, the HPC crowd pioneered scale-out processing and advanced parallelism in response to cost and scalability limitations imposed by the shared-everything systems of the day, ushering in an era where huge numbers of small computers were harnessed to solve large-scale problems.…
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Big Picture
As we talked about in our last post, a handful of vendors are pushing technology that lets users tie bunches of smaller systems into large, shared-everything SMP servers.…
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Kindle selling merrily in meantime
Amazon has sold more of its Kindle e-reader than any other products, it claims, boding badly for Barnes & Noble whose Nook won’t even be seen in stores until 7 December.…
Security »
Malefactors debut Hacking as a Service
Hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Storage »
SuperSpeed it is not – yet
USB 3.0’s SuperSpeed rating is a dismal joke if magazine tests are anything to go by, with transfers at a laggardly 127MB/sec at best, only three to four times faster than good USB 2 products. So why is USB 3.0 so slow?…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Hardware »
SuperSpeed it is not – yet
USB 3.0’s SuperSpeed rating is a dismal joke if magazine tests are anything to go by, with transfers at a laggardly 127MB/sec at best, only three to four times faster than good USB 2 products. So why is USB 3.0 so slow?…
Security »
Patches bestow chocolate teapot status on Windows PCs
Microsoft’s most recent release of security patches is causing some computers to freeze and display a, er, black screen of death.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing