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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:17 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
He (or she) who VoIPs with the most power ports wins
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:17 am
Categories: General, Products
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Although I hail from Portland, Oregon, today I am here to talk to you about other ports.
Those are the Ethernet and fiber ports on the back of Internet telephony back-up power switches.
One of the more robust such products is Zultys Technologies Power-over-Ethernet Zultys EPS24, a switch with 24, 10/100 Ethernet ports and a 1 Gb/s fiber port. The device is sold separately, as well as in tandem with a -48 volt power supply such as the battery-operated Zultys BPS12.
Zultys says that a single BPS12 can provide backup power for five hours. The company is specifically targeting the tandem for smaller businesses who, in the words of Zultys p...
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Posted by David Berlind @ 11:01 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
HP ships oddly positioned AMD64 notebook in the name of choice
Posted by David Berlind @ 11:01 am
Categories: General, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Podcasts
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If there ever was a case study for the uphill battle that AMD must face to get its chips into the marketplace (64-bit or not), todays announcement of the $999 Turion 64-based nx6125 notebook computer by HP is probably it. The Turion is AMDs most power-aware and conservative mobile chip to date that includes the AMD64 technology a 32-bit/64-bit hybrid architecture that supports traditional 32-bit applications as well as ones written to take advantage of AMDs 64-bit extensions. To get the lowdown on the announcement, I interviewed AMDs director...
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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:00 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
Kilby was here
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:00 am
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Its likely you havent heard of Jack St. Clair Kilby, who passed away on Monday.
But every time you click your computer mouse and your PC responds,make a digital phone call (VoIP or otherwise) or for that matter, use any modern consumer electronics appliance, you honor Kilbys memory.
For, you see, some 45 years ago while at Texas Instruments, Kilby invented the monolithic integrated circuit. Today, you know the breakthrough as the microchip. And, as his bio says today on TIs website:
"It was this breakthrough that made possible the sophisticated high-speed computers and large-capacity semiconductor memories of todays information age."
In 2000, Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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Posted by Britton Manasco @ 10:28 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
Commoditizing processes
Posted by Britton Manasco @ 10:28 am
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Business process are in the process of being commoditized, according to a recent article by Thomas Davenport in the Harvard Business Review. Thats an important trend as far as the continuing evolution of SOA is concerned. It promises to help lay the groundwork and build demand for new Web services that will enable the redesign, refinement and execution of standard business practices that deliver repeatable and predictable levels of business performance.
As I see it (and have written it), the fates of the SOA and BPM (business process management) movements are intertwined. After all, the services we speak of in this space (and in many recent business technology conferences)...
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 9:52 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
PPC vs. Intel: Top 500 shows whos right
Posted by Paul Murphy @ 9:52 am
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The latest listing of the top five hundred super computers was released in today.
Number five, behind two other PowerPC based machines, an Itanium, and NECs custom earth simulator, is the MareNostrum machine at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. It runs Linux on a cluster of 4,800 PPC 970 CPUs running at 2.2Ghz and gets score of 27910 (R/Max =Maximal LINPACK performance achieved (in gigaflops) and 42144 (R/peak =Theoretical peak performance (in gigaflops).
Number 14 on the list is Virginia Techs System X. It has 1,100 dual processor X-servers with the same PPC970 chip used in Barcelona. Virginias Mac cluster runs at 2.3Ghz and received scores of 12250 a...
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 9:52 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
PPC vs. Intel: Top 500 shows whos right
Posted by Paul Murphy @ 9:52 am
Categories: General, Apple
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The latest listing of the top five hundred super computers was released in today.
Number five, behind two other PowerPC based machines, an Itanium, and NECs custom earth simulator, is the MareNostrum machine at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. It runs Linux on a cluster of 4,800 PPC 970 CPUs running at 2.2Ghz and gets score of 27910 (R/Max =Maximal LINPACK performance achieved (in gigaflops) and 42144 (R/peak =Theoretical peak performance (in gigaflops).
Number 14 on the list is Virginia Techs System X. It has 1,100 dual processor X-servers with the same PPC970 chip used in Barcelona. Virginias Mac cluster runs at 2.3Ghz and received scores of 12250 a...
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Posted by Joe Brockmeier @ 9:46 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
More on software patents
Posted by Joe Brockmeier @ 9:46 am
Categories: General, Software Licensing, Legal, Patents
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Software patents are still in the news. The European patent directive continues to lumber forward, despite overwhelming opposition from groups on all corners excepting the big software companies that will win big if sofware patents become law in Europe as well as the U.S.
Not surprisingly, Richard Stallman has no kind words for software patents. In response to Stallman, fellow ZDNet blogger and Microsoft employeeJohn Carroll, however, does have a few things to say about the benefits of software patents.
He hits on three alleged benefits for software patents, which Id like to touch on here. The first is boost to small business. Carroll sa...
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Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 8:54 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
Powerpointware can be expensive
Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 8:54 am
Categories: General, Business ROI
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Theres a reason why we, as a society, have chosen automobiles over jetpacks, though jetpacks are a far more sophisticated and sexy technology. Likewise, were increasingly pushing back against over-engineered and over-hyped middleware and integration platforms in favor of cheaper, simpler solutions.
Yesterday, I had privilege of co-presenting a Webcast with Gartner analyst Frank Kenney, who made some very eye-opening observations about the state of the middleware market (the heart, soul, and brains of service-oriented architecture). The Webcast was sponsored by FusionWare. (Note: A full recording is available here.)
Many middleware needs are tactica...
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 3:36 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figure
Posted by Paul Murphy @ 3:36 am
Categories: General, Not Linux, Infrastructure, Database Management
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I got an email recently from a fellow deriding Suns UltraSparc and Solaris. Heres part of what he said:
Solaris was always meant for high-end servers, that is to be expected. However, Windows 2003 server often sits on top of the TPC benchmarks well above Solaris. Go figure.
The transactions processing council maintains a rich variety of benchmarks. Taken literally, the comment is not true of any of them, because there are no recent Sun entries for the only test in which Microsofts results are competitive: the TPC/C order processing benchmark.
In the more complex TPC/H, for example, the SPARC/Solaris combination...
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 3:36 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figure
Posted by Paul Murphy @ 3:36 am
Categories: General, Not Linux, Infrastructure, Database Management
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I got an email recently from a fellow deriding Suns UltraSparc and Solaris. Heres part of what he said:
Solaris was always meant for high-end servers, that is to be expected. However, Windows 2003 server often sits on top of the TPC benchmarks well above Solaris. Go figure.
The transactions processing council maintains a rich variety of benchmarks. Taken literally, the comment is not true of any of them, because there are no recent Sun entries for the only test in which Microsofts results are competitive: the TPC/C order processing benchmark.
In the more complex TPC/H, for example, the SPARC/Solaris combination...
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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 12:10 am Year:June 22nd, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 22nd, 2005
4% of IT managers do not use anti-virus
Posted by ZDNet Research @ 12:10 am
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90% of IT managers surveyed by Maritz reported that computer performance levels were affected by up to 50% due to security issues. 75% of small and medium businesses were hit by at least one virus, with some affected over 100 times, 40% of respondents have been hit by hackers at least once, with some targeted more than 200 times, 29% dont use anti-spam software, 34% dont use spyware software, 4% dont use anti-virus software and 9% dont have Internet firewalls.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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