August 29, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Test Center Tracker: The zen of Web apps and Mac OS X
Have you been thinking to get yourself a Mac for a long time and never did? Then don't miss this week Enterprise Windows where Oliver Rist asks (with his well known subtlety): "Does Mac OS X suck?". Oliver's column is the closest you can get to walking the Apple road yourself, and may be you will after reading it.
Is the Web treating you well? Or more to the point, are Web applications treating you well? Moving an application from the quiet waters of a corporate network to the stormy weather of the Net takes more than being technically savvy, warns Tom Yager in this week's "Ahead of the Curve". In his column Tom explains why, and reveals what's the secret sauce to make good Web apps. A useful reading also for non-developers.
Posted by Mario Apicella on August 29, 2007 08:30 AM
September 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Were I a cynic, I'd suggest that Hewlett-Packard's announcement last week of improvements to its Integrity server line was an effort to get the words HP and Integrity in the same sentence.
OK, cheap shots aside, the company announced last week that it's implanted the Intel Itanium 2 dual-core Montecito chip into the members of its Integrity server line, the HP Integrity rx6600 and rx3600 servers. (Alan Zeichick looked at the Integrity rx1620-2 last year.)
The refurbished servers, HP claims, deliver twice the performance of the previous Integrity servers. Specifically, the company claims that its current HP rx4640 4p/4c with Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition runs at 161,217 tpmC, whereas the forthcoming HP rx6600 4p/8c with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1) runs at 344,928 tpmC.
Additionally, HP reports to have extended the Integrity line's OS support of HP Virtual Server Environment for Integrity servers to help customers grow and shrink virtual servers.
The HP Integrity rx6600 and rx3600 servers also will include the HP zx2 chipset, which the company asserts delivers up to twice the energy efficiency of previous generations and slashes power and cooling costs by up to 50 percent.
"This new server lineup is a key example of HP's Adaptive Infrastructure offerings, which help customers stay ahead of changing business and IT demands and enable them to build cost-effective, next-generation data centers," said Rich Marcello, senior vice president and general manager, Business Critical Servers, at HP.
Later this year, HP plans to add support for Windows to HP Integrity Virtual Machines and allow multiple operating system instances to share a single processor. At that time, HP plans to extend support for HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor and Virtualization Manager to from HP-UX 11i to Windows and Linux.
The new Integrity servers, due out in December, will include HP's latest OpenVMS v8.3 OS.
Go here for more information about HP's Integrity line.
Posted by Ted Samson on September 9, 2006 09:45 PM
May 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
2X announced this week the release of 2X ThinClientServer Version 3, which aims to ease Windows desktop management troubles by letting administrators control what Windows apps users can run via a small-footprint, secure Linux desktop.
2X ThinClientServer v3 deploys a Linux thin client with integrated desktop to PCs and thin client devices, which can run any Windows application via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). The Windows apps are tunneled to the desktop via 2X ApplicationServer or Citrix Metaframe.
2X ThinClientServer v3 eliminates the need to patch or update software, install anti-virus or anti-spyware software, and back up data on desktop machines, offering significant cost savings while reducing end-user support and enhancing security.
2X ThinClientServer pricing starts at $595 for up to 25 thin clients and ranges to $9,595 for up to 1,000 thin clients. Five thin clients can be downloaded for free from
http://www.2x.com/thinclientserver/free-thin-clients.htm.
Posted by Caroline Craig on May 25, 2006 08:16 AM