Q&A about about industry fads and the need for greater patience with Justin Perreault, a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on early and growth stage companies. by Erik Sherman
When it comes to desktop computing in Education, flexibility is key. Availability of computers in classrooms, offices, labs, dorm rooms, and throughout campus is expected. Students, faculty and staff want to be able to access their own data, securely, from all of these locations. This white paper discusses how virtualization...
VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....
"Connect 2008: Virtualize, Optimize" It is not how much you invest, but the strategy behind your investments that optimize your IT infrastructure. Register now to view the on-demand version of this premier online event from Thursday, April 10th and learn how strategies like virtualization can reduce your...
A couple of weeks ago, Forbes wrote that VMware had become the world's fifth highest-valued software company (behind only Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Adobe). Pretty incredible for a technology category ("virtualization") whose basic concept / definition ("abstracting the OS and software from the underlying hardware") ... is far beyond the...
I haven't been posting much lately. Once in a while, I find that I get interested in fooling with all the technology around me and, having done so, have to scramble to fix everything I've broken. Of course, the more I scramble, the more stuff breaks, creating a...
I haven't been posting much lately. Once in a while, I find that I get interested in fooling with all the technology around me and, having done so, have to scramble to fix everything I've broken. Of course, the more I scramble, the more stuff breaks, creating a...
Looks like VMware Fusion Beta is now Open.The "Fusion" codename is used to describe the project that is, basically, putting VMware Workstation type capabilities onto the Mac OS X operating system. From their web site:The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86...
Bangchak Petroleum needed to integrate and modernize its IT environment for improved business efficiencies. Bangchak Petroleum migrated critical SAP for Oil & Gas solution from Sun platform to 1 IBM eServer p5 550 system and 1 TotalStorage DS4000, IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization on AIX 5L V5.3. As a result, Bangchak...
As an important supplier to the automotive industry, Brose must react immediately to changes in its market. To do this it needs a flexible, scalable, high-availability IT infrastructure that integrates all of its business processes and directs the required resources to where they are needed. Brose is expanding its SAP...
For many companies, the daunting amount of time, money, and people required to manage the traditional active/passive server configurations in their data centers has made managing resources and service availability harder, not easier. Industry-standard hardware and virtualization technologies promise to reduce the traditional requirement of one passive server for each...
El Al, the Israeli national airline, runs mainframe environments and around 30 IBM AIX-based platforms for its core business operations. El Al needed to control the proliferation of physical servers; improve ease of management and reduce need for routine administration; and increase flexibility and speed of response to new requirements....
Shell Canada Limited is one of Canada's largest integrated petroleum companies. The company needed to extend the power of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne throughout a nationwide corporation and beyond - quickly, easily and affordably. For years, Shell has taken advantage of the iSeries' partitioning capabilities to simplify infrastructure management and to lower...
At the core of successful virtualization is a data and applications hub, which includes a physical computing center, data management infrastructure, high-end visualization software and virtual team members who collaborate in real-time analyses using Web-based tools. The services deployed in this model include: real-time drilling operations, prospect generation, exploration in...
IBM sponsored research that indicates, over the course of one year, the average mid-to large-size SAN customer with five TeraBytes TB of storage could potentially save more than U.S.$170 000 in improved hardware utilization and more than $80 000 in improved administrator productivity. Additionally, the study showed that customers could...
The focus of this article is on virtualization aspects of manufacturing in a collaborative environment. Important paradigms of virtual manufacturing such as design-centered, production-centered and control-centered virtualization is first discussed in brief. Virtualization of important components of manufacturing such as process planning and design, equipment designs and factory layout and...
Q: Who are "the new geographers" and how are they redefining how we look at and get around in the world? A: Digital maps are booming, two-dimensional computerized representations of the world that are generating scores of new words and phrases, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum...
WORLD MARKETS The Nikkei ended virtually flat, with investors dispirited by credit market worries and renewed jitters over a global economic slowdown. The index inched up 6.2, or 0.05 per cent, to 12,760.8, having fallen nearly 2 per cent the previous day. Plunging oil prices over-night hit...
CDEX Inc. (OTCBB: CEXI) announces its firstsales and deliveries of ID2 Meth ScannersTM for methamphetamine detectionto U.S. clients in the Law Enforcement and Home Inspection Markets, and toU.S. and international distributors. The ID2 Meth ScannerTM is ahand-held, battery operated device that detects trace amounts ofmethamphetamine low nanogram range on...
WiZiQ ( http://www.wiziq.com ) today announcedthat it has expanded its popular onlinelearning platform with the launch of a new premium service which forthe first time gives teachers , tutors and other educators greater control over their virtual classrooms and enables moreeffective...
