Data Centres Set to Overtake The Aviation Industry’s Carbon Footprint
by Richard Muirhead | 02 Jun 2008 | Permalink | Go Green, Hardware, IT Management, Virtualization
It’s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of distributed computing and data centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in The Economist last week – Buy our stuff, save the planet.
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TKU April Extends Tideway’s Virtualization Coverage to Include IBM LPARs / WPARs and Citrix
by Steve Watts | 04 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Hardware, Home Page, Software, Virtualization
Today we released the April Tideway Knowledge Update which extends Tideway’s coverage of virtualization products to include IBM AIX LPARs, WPARs and Citrix XenServer.
IBM AIX LPARs and WPARs is a great example of how Tideway works with with the software publisher to build patterns. In this case our TKU…
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Whatever happened to distributed operating systems?
by Andy Ormsby | 27 Jun 2007 | Permalink | Featured, Hardware, IT Management, Virtualization
As we all know, the cost of servers has fallen dramatically over the last few years.
Simple economics tells us that when prices fall, demand rises. Sure enough, data centres around the world are now running out of space, power, cooling or all three. If you can cope…
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Macs aren’t Perfekt
by Adam Kerrison | 08 May 2007 | Permalink | Hardware, Macarati
Like most people, when my job takes to out of the office, I use a laptop. I’ve been using laptops for about 13 years now – I’m old enough to remember the early “portable” computers like the Sun Voyager! – and with that one exception, they have all run Windows…
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