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AMD Says 'Shanghai'-Based Servers To Hit Market In 4Q
The chipmaker said that rollout of its first 45-nm server chip is ahead of schedule and that it learned from its mistakes in launching Barcelona.
SaaS Vendor Offers Free E-Mail Continuity For Exchange
LiveOffice launches a free e-mail continuity offering as a loss-leader for its archiving service.
Samsung Samples 'Smallest' 2 Gb Memory Module
The next-generation memory style is expected to increase from 29% of the DRAM market in terms of units sold to 72% by 2011, according to IDC.
CTL Launches Two Sub-$500 Netbooks
The 2go Classmate PC is aimed at the education market, while the IL1A mini-notebook targets consumers and businesspeople.
Nero Launches TiVo For PC, Multimedia Software
The company announced software that brings TiVo to PCs, a digital media transferring tool, and an upgraded burning and ripping suite.
Running A Business In The Cloud
Everybody is talking about cloud computing these days, but a few intrepid companies are actually walking the walk. To find out what it's like, bMighty.com goes out and meets this growing, vocal contingent of cloud computing "completists" who are more than happy to surrender their IT concerns to the cloud.
A Definition Of Cloud Computing
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unloaded on cloud computing yesterday, using the words "idiocy," "crap," "gibberish," "crazy," and "stupidest" to describe all the buzz over clouds. It was a classic Ellison rant, but ironic because Oracle is moving into cloud computing even as its leader rails against it.
Toshiba Unveils 256 GB Drives For 'Netbooks'
The new category of mini-notebooks was popularized this year by the computers makers including Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Which Video Editing Program Should You(Tube) Use?
Our software smackdown compares Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio, with tips on the best package for creating your digital camcorder movie masterpiece.
Oracle Unveils New Products, Then Drifts Into The Cloud
Deal with Amazon means customers can subscribe to Oracle databases as a service.
Toshiba Expands HDD Lineup For Mini-Notebooks
The Serial ATA products also are available with Toshiba's free-fall sensor option that parks the disk head before impact when a notebook is dropped.
Single Sign On For Multiple SaaS Apps
A startup has launched a cloud service that offers identity management for SaaS apps. IT can enforce user authentication, manage compliance, and speed deprovisioning.
Rolling Review: Windows Server 2008 Makes Upgrade Sense For Some
Sites that need basic terminal services or server consolidation have the most to gain--for now.
Using Oracle Database In The Cloud
Two of the biggest announcements from the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco this week were that customers could run some Oracle products within Amazon.com's AWS cloud computing environment, and that the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant would be supporting other cloud environments in the future.
Oracle, Intel To Accelerate Cloud Computing
The companies are looking to connect private clouds to those of partners or third-party companies offering storage, server capacity, middleware, and other services.
Dell, EMC Offer Pre-Configured Oracle Data Warehouse
The initiative reflects the emerging interest among BI customers in data warehouse appliances that deliver high-speed data mining.
Cloud Computing Reality Check
I met recently with more than 50 business technologists to talk about cloud computing, and two things became clear. First, the interest level is very high, and IT pros have plans that go well beyond Web-based applications. Second, everyone has their own list of issues to resolve before they take that step.
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I'm reluctant to declare that real-time events are the Next Big Thing on the Internet, because it seems like a Next Big Thing comes along on the Internet about once a month, and they're mostly forgotten the next day. Still, I've seen firsthand how powerful virtual events can be. They're an emerging trend. And InformationWeek is in the middle of it all.
Sony Launches Pricey Lightweight Vaio Notebook
The computer includes a Blu-ray disc player and an HDMI-out connector, and weighs less than three pounds.
HPC Helps Wall Street React Faster To Market Volatility
As the top-tier financial firms consolidate, their focus will turn inward, while second-tier firms are likely to turn to technology as a game-changer, not a cost-center.
SanDisk 'SlotMusic' Card Offers DRM-Free Music
With the help of the record industry, SanDisk is hoping to put an end to CDs and give music downloads a run for their money.
Oracle To Sync With Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
Oracle's overall cloud plans include investing $3 billion on integration this year across 20,000 developers with access to 30,000 servers.
Microsoft Opens $550 Million Data Center In San Antonio
The data center is one of a network of massive facilities being built to support Microsoft's push to offer cloud services.
Web 2.0 Expo: Zoho To Launch App Store, Support For Offline E-Mail
Developers will keep 100% of revenue from app sales, while Zoho will make its money by charging users to host large instantiations of the apps.
Interop: Cloud Computing Faces Many Management Challenges
One of the main things many cloud computing vendors lack today is a sense of visibility into the infrastructure running the cloud, say a sampling of Interop attendees.
Sony Launches PlayStation Life Service
The launch reflects the company's strategy of making the PlayStation 3 more than just a console for gamers.
Citrix XenServer 5.0 Upgrades For High Availability, Cloud Computing
The latest version contains 130 new features for high availability, performance, and ease of use, including disaster-recovery features for a failed virtual machine.
20 Cloud Computing Startups You Should Know
Young companies are emerging as software and service providers in the cloud. These newcomers can help you deploy and manage IT resources in new ways.
10 Ideas To Power Up Your Green IT Agenda
As IT teams scramble to figure out a green strategy, here are some ideas to fuel the brainstorming.
Interop: Green Strategies Needed For Storage
Storage industry leaders call for metrics and best practices for businesses to use to cut down on storage energy costs, similar to what the Green Grid has begun doing for data centers.
Smartphone Users Want To Have Fun
Applications that kill time were downloaded more often than business and productivity apps, according to data from Handango.
Interop: Oracle Predicts Cloud Confusion To Continue
In a young market, there is also confusion being sown by companies that aren't committing entirely to Internet-based computing, including Microsoft, an Oracle exec suggests.
Second Life: Megatrend-In-Waiting Or Just A Dumb Fad?
During the Second Life boom not too long ago, enthusiasts predicted it would take over the Internet. Is that still a likely outcome, or is Second Life becoming as irrelevant as pet rocks and leisure suits?
Second Life Dropouts Return To Real World
Most people who try Second Life give it up and don't come back. We talked to two disaffected users.
Second Life Faces Otherworldly Competition
A slew of companies, ranging in size from tiny startups to Google, are springing up virtual worlds of their own to challenge Second Life's dominance of the small but growing market.
Second Life's Popularity Rests On Breadth Of Activities
Here's a quick guide to what goes on in Second Life, a lively virtual world full of music, dance, travel, games, and cybersex.
Second Life Tries For A Second Act
The online virtual world has weathered a boom-and-bust cycle. Now it has a new CEO. Can this social networking phenom attract a new wave of consumers and enterprise users?
Video Games Are Good For Kids, Experts Find
With titles like "Guitar Hero," a Pew Internet survey refutes some common confusion about games -- that most are violent and teens tend to play alone.
The New Open Virtualization Format 1.0
At VMworld 2008, VMware's user conference held this week in Las Vegas, the Distributed Management Task Force announced a new virtual-management initiative VMAN, aimed at making it easier and cheaper to manage virtual environments.
T-Mobile To Introduce 'G1' Google Android Phone Sept. 23
The handset made by HTC promises to reinvigorate the smartphone market and provide a mobile application platform to rival Apple's iPhone.
Lenovo Enters Global SMB Server Market
The ThinkServer line is aimed at the 80% of small and medium-sized businesses who aren't currently using servers.
Tech Spending Will Be Weaker In 2009 Than Predicted
The good news is that tech spending will be better than expected this year. The bad news is that next year things will be worse, said Forrester Research.
Intel Launches 'Dunnington' Six-Core Server Processors
Designed for virtualization environments, the latest Xeon-branded products offer frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power levels starting at 50 watts.
Cloud Computing Adoption Grows Despite Concerns
Online-powered storage and applications were generally favored by nearly 77% of people between the ages of 18 and 29, according to a new Pew Internet survey sample.
EA, Eidos Team For Mobile Games
The deal gives EA exclusive rights to the mobile versions of games like "Tomb Raider" and "Minesweeper."
Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye?
Yesterday, I wrote about the war -- more like the Armageddon -- that's on the verge of eruption in the mobile space. Given how critical third-party software developers are to the strategic success of any platform ecosystem, we can fully expect Apple, Google, RIM, Sun (with Java), the Symbian Foundation, Adobe, and others to fight tooth and nail for every mobile developer on the planet. More than one will
Western Digital Ships 500 GB Notebook Drive
The 2.5-inch drive is designed for laptops needing to show and edit storage-hungry video and pictures, as well as play music.
SanDisk Unveils Its Highest Capacity CompactFlash Card
The latest Extreme III CompactFlash is double the size of SanDisk's previous largest product and has read/write speeds of 30 MBps.
No End In Sight For Mix-And-Match Virtualization
IT managers for some time will be cobbling together software to get the performance they want.
AMD Unveils Low-Priced Graphics Processors, Upgrades SDK
The GPUs, which start at $69, include 512 MB of memory, support HDMI 7.1 surround sound, and feature AMD's TeraScale graphics engine, which has 320 55-nm processing cores.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
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