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100 datacenters here, 100 datacenters there, 1000 datacenters where?
With a short term project requiring a major federal datacenter consolidation effort, the discovery that there were twice as many datacenters involved gives a whole new meaning to "close enough for...
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IT cost, ignorance, and the race to the bottom
Look at the new crop of "smartphones" in the context of what happened with the PC - and you'll predict a race to the bottom as claims for the things escalate and both price and actual...
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Forces of nature
Answering sparkle farkle - with a detour through history that should be about 10,000 words long but isn't.
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The real meaning of the service level agreement
I believe that outsourcing It is almost always wrong - but it has its uses if you want someone else to take the hit for forcing IT management change.
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Aster Data delivers 30 analytic packages and MapReduce functions for mainstream data analytics
The solution is a massively parallel database with an integrated analytics engine that leverages the MapReduce framework for large-scale data processing and couples SQL with MapReduce.
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The real pros and cons of server virtualization
PC style virtualization, derived from IBM's zVM ideas and now supported in both AMD and Intel hardware, is a revenant of data processing's failure to adapt to the age of digital computing - an...
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Clouds vs. Appliances
Although the evolution of cloud computing toward a kind of connective fog for handhelds and smart phones seems to be proceeding apace it's not remotely keeping pace with the rate at which major...
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A question about Linux
The question the guy really asked was whether Linux successes are bad news for other Unix variants - particularly HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris. My answer is no: when Linux succeeds it's generally good...
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From Windows to Unix: a mental journey
Changing from Windows to Unix isn't so much about changing technology as it is about changing your thinking. From the 1920s through the wintel detour data processing has evolved in a consistent...
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Adapt! (or else)
In the real world corporate financial resources are finite, and bankers reduce the limits as quickly as they can when recessions hit. In response, finding ways to cut IT demand for credit and...
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IT's horsedrawn horseless carriages
Know what it takes to create change? Force majeure: a good swift kick from an external agency - and because data processing has crawled out of its protected position under Finance to take over...
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Advice for 2009: hug your job
Welcome to 2009 -and here's Job One: keep your job. Remember: it's easier to keep a job you've already got by doing it better, than to find a new one from the unemployment lines.
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IE 7 users: stop looking at porn now!
Microsoft has reported sightings of exploitation of the recent vulnerability in IE7 on various porn sites. This isn't really bad news, since no one looks at such improper things on the Internet,...
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From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
The problem IT managers responsible for Windows client-server operations face is that user expectations are set by advertising, not experience, and simply cannot be met with the technology available.
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Working at 99% CPU utilization
If you're reading zdnet blogs you're almost certainly not a typical corporate PC user and thus you won't naturally share that person's perceptions of IT things. To see just how something like...
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The need for a mixed load benchmark
The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change....
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Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
As far as I'm concerned, when an organization buys an IBM mainframe to run Linux somebody should be fired - but not the DP guy who bought it: his boss: the non technical guy who approved it...
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Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!
When Canada's Do Not Call registery came on-line last week it was an instant success - well, it took a bit more than two years to issue the outsourcing contract for it, nine months to get it...
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Why "better" often doesn't sell
One reason that better IT products usually don't sell as well as mediocre ones may be that we tend to move the goal posts for what's better well out in front of market averages - meaning that the...
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From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
The most important thing to know about the appliance computing culture is that it's not interested in computers or computing - these things are seen purely as means to an end: a business end.
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