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Google, IBM promote 'cloud' computing at universities Google and IBM have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems with six universities signing up so far. Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk.  September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Researchers build 'desktop supercomputer' What if your desktop computer could run 100 times faster than a PC and were simple enough for a high school student to program? September 10, 7:22 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. June 27, 4:18 a.m. PDT Sun needs AMD chips to launch new supercomputer As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer (HPC) Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer. June 26, 4:39 a.m. PDT Azul turbocharges 'computing appliance' Azul Systems Inc. is doubling the capacity of its "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore processors and is a departure from the typical server-based approach to large scale computing. June 14, 4:14 a.m. PDT IBM targets health care market with grid computing Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a health care industry event. May 16, 4:39 a.m. PDT More stupider user tricks: IT horror stories redux When it comes to royally derailing IT, nothing trumps the stupidity of those whom IT is meant to serve. And though the verdict’s still out as to whether humanity is devolving toward Idiocracy, it’s certain that folks are continually finding innovative ways to screw up IT’s operations. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's grid computing service goes global Sun Microsystems is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the United States to 23 countries in Europe and Asia, the company said Thursday. May 3, 2:02 p.m. PDT Homegrown high-performance computing Once the domain of monolithic, multimillion-dollar supercomputers from Cray and IBM, HPC (high-performance computing) is now firmly within reach of today’s enterprise, thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running commodity Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Many early movers are in fact already capitalizing on in-house HPC, assembling and managing small-scale clusters on their own. April 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT NASA backs quantum computing claim The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February. March 9, 11:45 a.m. PST IBM aims to make computing clusters easier It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBM believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads. February 28, 6:47 a.m. PST Tech heavyweights tackle datacenter power shortage The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. February 26, 7:00 a.m. PST IBM veteran becomes first woman to win the Turing Award The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. February 21, 4:15 a.m. PST Talking R&D with HP's CTO As the IT industry changes to keep pace with convergence and the rise of emerging markets, vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co. have to stay one step ahead of the curve to remain competitive. At HP, the job of directing that effort falls to Shane Robison, the company's executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer, who is responsible for overseeing the company's annual US$3.5 billion research and development (R&D) budget. December 20, 4:51 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Predicting user behavior still not an exact science A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the use of predictive analytics to determine which of Philadelphia’s parolees were likely to commit murder caught my attention. A broad definition of predictive analytics would be the process of matching statistics with historical data in order to predict future events, mainly human behavior. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Azul increases the horsepower of server appliances Azul Systems Inc., a maker of appliances that enhance the performance of servers running Java software applications, is boosting the performance further with new models introduced Monday. December 4, 2:03 p.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Will a 'conscious' machine ever be built? The question of whether machines will be capable of human intelligence is ultimately a matter for philosophers to take up and not something that scientists can answer, an inventor and a computer scientist agreed during a debate Thursday night at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. December 1, 7:54 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST IBM, Cray win DARPA supercomputer contracts IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer. November 22, 4:12 a.m. PST Consolidation power tools Can software management tools help bring your consolidation initiative under control? It depends. Certainly solutions abound that can help with one of the first steps: identifying and analyzing the hardware, software, and infrastructure you already have in place. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM holds lead on Top 500 Supercomputers List IBM Corp. has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world. November 13, 4:33 p.m. PST HP offers cluster computing on Windows Hewlett-Packard's cluster computing products can now run a Microsoft cluster operating system, which should be helpful to end-users familiar with the ubiquitous Windows operating system. November 3, 4:29 a.m. PST Group to study virtualization benchmarks A technology industry standards body is considering setting benchmarks for how virtualization should work in a computer network. October 31, 4:39 a.m. PST IDF Taiwan: Tyan shows off Quad-Core Xeon system Tyan Computer Corp. showed off one of the first hardware systems containing Quad-Core Xeon 5300 processors at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei on Monday. October 16, 4:52 a.m. PDT Sun says OpenSparc is gaining traction Sun Microsystems says its new UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash. October 2, 4:52 a.m. PDT IBM's first Cell computer goes on sale IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks like medical imaging or oil exploration. September 13, 8:35 a.m. PDT Grids help eBay do big business A massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction Web site on the fly while maintaining a 99.94 percent up time, said Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist there. September 12, 8:52 a.m. PDT Open Grid Forum unveils its new mission, board The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made back in June to detail its aims and organizational setup to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C. September 11, 8:36 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM will build new Department of Energy supercomputer The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBM to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday. September 7, 4:22 a.m. PDT Update: US government lab offers grid computing toolkit A new open-source software toolkit is available Tuesday to improve remote online scientific collaboration via grid computing. August 22, 4:30 p.m. PDT Financial services: High pressure, high performance When it comes to sheer IT “bling,” financial services is never outshone. High margins, deep pockets, and intense competition in investment, banking, and insurance have pushed these companies to the edge of just about any technology there is. Storage, grid technology, Web services, virtualization, VoIP -- you name it, financial services companies have bought it. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lessons from the verticals Every industry presents unique challenges, where IT must marshal more than the usual chunk of resources to solve extreme headaches. That may mean walking out to the edge of grid computing to garner greater compute performance, or it may involve management challenges such as accommodating a mobile workforce or connecting hundreds of far-flung offices. The greater the problem to overcome, the greater the potential to learn from successful solutions. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM to supply machines for grid project IBM will supply high-performance Unix-based servers and software for a grid-computing project studying areas such as hurricane storm surges and human genome sequences, the company said Friday. August 11, 7:53 a.m. PDT MS eyes sub-$250,000 clusters in Asia Growing demand for inexpensive, high-performance servers is creating new opportunities for Microsoft Corp. in Asia, a company official said. July 12, 4:14 a.m. PDT Opteron gains ground on supercomputer list The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM's BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year. June 28, 7:32 a.m. PDT IBM, ClearSpeed team up on supercomputing IBM made a move to leap ahead of rival Hewlett-Packard in the high-performance computing market Tuesday, announcing a partnership with semiconductor maker ClearSpeed Technology. June 27, 1:30 p.m. PDT Grid standard groups unite to form Open Grid Forum Two former dueling grid groups Monday made good on their February promise to merge with the mission of speeding the adoption of grid technology worldwide. June 26, 1:13 p.m. PDT Microsoft steps in to VMware's virtualization arena I recently commented to a Microsoft technology manager, "Hey, we're thinking about doing a shootout-style lab test on something in virtualization." June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stanford taps tech for earth sciences Stanford University Tuesday is opening the doors to a new research center that is tapping technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. to better understand earth sciences. June 20, 8:12 a.m. PDT NetApp targets storage for high-performance computing Network Appliance on Monday introduced a new operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems. June 12, 7:25 a.m. PDT Microsoft set to ship Windows for HPC Microsoft has finished work on a version of Windows for high-performance computing (HPC), it announced Friday. June 9, 4:24 a.m. PDT Sun offers 100 free CPU hours to grid developers Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco. May 18, 10:12 a.m. PDT Clustering the Microsoft way I can't talk about the embargoed Longhorn meeting I had Tuesday, except to say that I got one Microsoft rep to say that Redmond doesn't think there'll be any more service packs after Longhorn sees daylight. But then he burst out laughing, so I'm not sure how reliable that is. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization fever at LinuxWorld Expo The most prominent names in open source descend on Boston this week for the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Highlights of the show will include a new Mobile and Embedded conference track and a Grid Solution Showcase, but the hottest trend seems to be virtualization, with several new offerings set to debut throughout the week. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sonic Software revs enterprise service bus Sonic Software today announced Sonic ESB 7.0, an upgrade to the company’s SOA platform. It brings the Sonic Workbench to the Eclipse IDE; incorporates support for advanced Web services standards WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy; and introduces a lighter-weight approach to high availability through a new mode in the Continuous Availability Architecture, which the company says provides highly reliable and available brokered communications without the latency of persistent messaging. Sonic ESB 7.0 will be available in April. Sonic ESB 7.0, Sonic Software March 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun to light up public grid on Monday Sun Microsystems is set to light up on Monday its long-delayed public computing grid allowing users to book CPU (central processing unit) hours with a credit card through a Web-based portal, company officials said. March 15, 11:21 a.m. PST IBM's Cell processor shows its potential IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade show in Hanover. March 13, 4:50 a.m. PST IBM pitches a supercomputing Fastball IBM on Thursday said it had developed technology to speed up the way large computer networks access and share information. March 9, 8:31 a.m. PST Germans unwrap Europe's fastest supercomputer The German Research Center Jülich unveiled Europe's most powerful supercomputer this week, an IBM Blue Gene system that will be used by European scientists to do environmental and particle physics research. March 8, 4:33 a.m. PST Sun blames US department concerns for grid delay Security concerns expressed by the U.S. Department of State have further delayed the rollout of Sun Microsystems 's computer grid, a Sun executive confirmed late last month. March 6, 1:53 p.m. PST SGI cuts two execs, about 250 jobs Silicon Graphics (SGI) will lay off about 250 employees, or 12 percent of its work force, in a restructuring aimed at cutting costs amid continuing operating losses. March 3, 12:29 p.m. PST Dueling grid groups agree to merge The Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance have agreed to merge, combining two groups that have sometimes been at odds despite their similar goals to promote grid computing. February 14, 8:33 a.m. PST Cisco posts profit, revenue growth in Q2 Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported gains in both earnings and revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2006, citing growing adoption of converged voice, video and data networks. February 7, 5:06 p.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST HP weighs in further on data center heat issues Hewlett-Packard Co. announced three products Monday designed to help enterprise users deal with power management difficulties. The products, due to ship Feb. 6, include a water-cooled heat exchanger unit which can be attached to the side of a server rack. January 30, 11:01 a.m. PST Wall Street Beat: Earnings bring mixed results Earnings season blew in with a vengeance this week, with disappointing fourth-quarter results from industry bellwethers Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. offset by better-than-expected reports from other vendors. January 19, 4:20 p.m. PST Stratus doubles up on the ftServer 4300 It's true: Two is definitely better than one, at least when you're talking about high availability. For most server manufacturers, that means two or more identical servers in some form of cluster. Outside the clustering code, these servers are singular entities without a direct relationship with one another. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage virtualization and iSCSI don't mix As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the technology is less complex to implement. Because it uses the familiar IP network protocols, it simplifies the IT skill set needed to maintain the SAN. Thus, though it’s not as fast and has a lower maximum capacity than FC systems, iSCSI meets the needs of many small businesses and non-mission-critical enterprise storage applications, such as departmental file sharing and near-line data storage. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST What isn't storage virtualization? Vendors often use the term "virtualization" to describe myriad products, including global name spaces, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), pooled NAS (network-attached storage), thin-provisioning software, virtual file systems, virtual tape libraries, RAID arrays and disk clusters, and virtualized application and file servers (such as EMC's VMWare). But although these technologies all use some sort of virtualization, they don't actually qualify as storage virtualization. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST CES tech news and gossip -- from Google to Stevie Wonder Attending the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is like spending the week with 130,000 former college roommates. It's great on the first day, reliving old times and laughing about mutual acquaintances. But by the weekend, you start remembering all the times they stiffed you for beer, and the time they promised to get you a job at their company but gave it to the pretty girl down the hall. January 11, 11:15 a.m. PST A first look at Windows Compute Cluster Server It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult, nowadays building a Linux-based cluster is generally quite simple. Commercial and open source clustering packages abound with features, open protocols, and streamlined installs. No surprise, then, that Microsoft wants a piece of this potentially lucrative market. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise Merlin Securities, a new prime brokerage providing trading, financing, portfolio analysis, and reporting for multibillion-dollar hedge funds, needed a competitive edge. Its larger rivals, such as Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, had the advantage of expensive mainframes that could consolidate and analyze millions of trades each day and return reports via batch processing the next morning that measured performance on a monthly basis. So Merlin outclassed its competitors by returning trade performance information in near real time with performance measured on a daily basis and performance attribution on multiple levels, including in comparison to other securities in a market sector, numerous benchmarks, and other traders in the firm. What’s more, it did it using an inexpensive compute cluster made up of four dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 technology in the crosshairs What would ahead of the curve be without some journalistically irresponsible predictions to kick off the New Year? It’s all part of my contract with you, the reader, which, if you read the fine print, also absolves me of any accountability. December 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Lucent to take $300 million charge on lawsuit ruling Lucent Technologies Inc. will take a US$300 million charge on its first quarter of 2006 financial statement after a judge ruled against the company in a bankruptcy case on Wednesday. December 22, 8:13 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST Taking steps toward 64-bit processing A growing number of volume systems on the market today are incorporating the new 64-bit architectures from AMD and Intel. When you buy new hardware, you’re part of the 64-bit revolution almost by default. But you still have a choice to make: Should you flip on those extra 32 bits by running 64-bit versions of your operating systems and applications? December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft to double size of European research team Microsoft's investments in computer science research in Europe will increase over the next two years, with an expected doubling of its number of researchers. December 6, 3:58 a.m. PST Microsoft snags Cray's chief scientist The chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray is leaving to take a job at Microsoft. November 28, 4:00 a.m. PST Microsoft: Community computing is on the way Forget personal computing. A new world of "community computing" is knocking on the front door, offering unparalleled communication opportunities and challenges alike. That's how Jonathan Murray, Microsoft's chief technology officer for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, envisions a new technological environment that will soon confront users, suppliers, and governments alike. November 22, 6:21 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Customers get chance to test Windows for clusters Microsoft Tuesday at the Supercomputing 2005 show in Seattle will unveil several milestones in its strategy to becoming a serious competitor in the high-performance computing market. November 15, 4:27 a.m. PST Penguin going portable with clustering Linux hardware and clustering vendor Penguin Computing Inc. unveiled a portable hardware and software Linux-based cluster system called the Portable Penguin on Monday. The company hopes the new desk-side system will appeal to executives looking for a computer that can run high-end data simulations and can also be wheeled elsewhere in their companies thanks to its castors. November 14, 3:38 p.m. PST Linux Networx shows off LS Series Hardware and clustering company Linux Networx Inc. unveiled its LS Series of Linux machines Monday. The Series contains two families, the midrange LS-1 Supersystem and the high-end LS/X supercomputer. November 14, 2:46 p.m. PST IBM holds on to Top500 supercomputer lead IBM retained its lead of the Top500 list of supercomputers with its BlueGene/L System installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore, California. The system topped the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers in the world for the third consecutive time and is likely to remain No. 1 for some time since its size doubled earlier this year. November 14, 4:29 a.m. PST Monster computers now online at Lawrence Livermore Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now home to two of the most powerful computers on the planet: the ASC Purple supercomputer, and the world's most powerful high performance machine, Blue Gene/L. Three years in development, the completed versions of the systems have come online over the past few months and will be dedicated Thursday in a ceremony at the nuclear research facility. October 25, 4:08 a.m. PDT Dirty words, take II My column "IT's Seven Dirty Words" -- a subjective list of terms that shouldn't be repeated in polite IT company -- generated piles of e-mail from readers who were quick to add a few choice words of their own. In the interest of sharing, let me reproduce a few of their suggestions. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Behemoth vs. blade Generally, you can expect a giant to triumph over a platoon of munchkins. Maybe that’s why enterprises continue to favor hulking, eight-way servers over blades. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Seven technology battlegrounds Some people enjoy a good fight; others would prefer to look the other way. One thing is certain, though: If you have a stake in that fight, you’ll watch the outcome closely. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM offers starter pack for grid computing IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday. The company hopes the bundle will act as a starter pack for mid-size and large companies wanting to move into grid computing, according to an IBM executive. August 8, 4:23 a.m. PDT Lenovo leads effort to build 1,000 TFLOPS supercomputer China's Lenovo Group has begun work on a project to build a computer that is nearly 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. July 28, 4:57 a.m. PDT Will Exchange 12 be par for the Redmond course? Why is it that geeks don’t much golf? I seem to be largely alone amongst my geek colleagues in my unexplained need to spend five or six hours a weekend beating the tar out of a little white ball. Nevertheless, golf has its own life lessons, not the least of which is that life simply won’t conform to expectations. One week you’re swinging smoothly and shooting an 87; the next week, it’s 102 and you’re looking to bury your loft wedge in the forehead of a giggling cart buddy. July 7, 5:00 a.m. PDT Getting to the bottom of AMD v. Intel Pardon me if my writing's a little raspy. I learned yesterday that I'm the subparent of a beautiful baby antitrust lawsuit. I've been up all night looking at pictures. Oh, look! He's got my puns! One day old and this guy's already mean as a stepped-on snake, just like me and his dozens of parents. But right now he's my boy; I've got him to myself. Who's my little monopoly buster? Are you gonna bring choice back to commodity computing? Yes, you are. What? Gasp, his first words! "Tre-ble da-ma-ges." I need a moment. Look at the ads in the rest of the magazine for a second. July 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Today's forecast calls for good chance of RAIN So I've got this theory. I believe I've mentioned it here before. The theory holds that Microsoft's stranglehol- …er, um, dominance in the corporate desktop OS market is largely due to Office and its market share. June 30, 5:00 a.m. PDT Level 5 works to dissolve server bottlenecks Level 5 networks this month begins shipping EtherFabric, an Ethernet-based high-performance interconnect aimed at enterprise datacenters and HPC (high performance compute) clusters. EtherFabric promises to improve CPU efficiency, reduce latency, and boost throughput between servers in transaction-oriented or compute-intensive environments while maintaining backward compatibility with existing Ethernet infrastructure. June 20, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM beefs up clustering options Hoping to strengthen its position in the clustering market, IBM on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its eServer Cluster 1350 powered by AMD's dual-core Opteron chip. Company officials contend the offering will give users access to a broader range of higher-end applications. June 15, 9:10 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Laurence Grant When you work for a fast-growing phone company, your customers expect high availability, stability, and performance from your back-end IT systems. During the past couple of years, Laurence Grant has directed a massive upgrade of Talk America’s IT infrastructure, successfully betting on new technologies to support future growth. The company’s old Informix database system couldn’t scale to handle 3 billion call records each year, so Grant talked his superiors into migrating to a grid-based Oracle 10g system instead. Today that grid handles 60TB of data and offers such performance-intensive features as same-day online posting of call records. Through it all, Grant takes pride in being a hands-on type. “I like to roll up my sleeves and get involved,” he says. “To sit down at the keyboard and actually see the technology working firsthand.” April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Comdex canceled again this year MediaLive International is canceling the Las Vegas Comdex trade show for another year because it has not yet been able to rebuild the event, the company said. March 30, 10:52 a.m. PST IBM puts Blue Gene on tap IBM is making its Blue Gene supercomputer, ranked the fastest in the world, available on demand so that high-performance computing customers can get the processing power they need when they need it without having to worry about high upfront costs or management headaches. March 11, 7:49 a.m. PST World's most powerful computer is doubled in size Blue Gene/L, already ranked as the fastest supercomputer on the planet, has been doubled in size, according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. March 10, 4:47 a.m. PST SGI to sell pre-configured Altix 350 clusters Silicon Graphics (SGI) on Monday plans to unveil a new product line designed to make it easier for users with medium-sized computing needs to set up clusters of the Mountain View, California, company's Altix 350 servers. January 26, 3:01 p.m. PST Fiorina shows off HP's '05 wares LAS VEGAS - The "digital revolution" is all about providing users with easy-to-use affordable technologies and products that help them to share their lives with others through media, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said Friday in a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). 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