Friday, May 29, 2009 7:14 AM/EST
If ever there were two technologies that represented the opposite ends of the IT spectrum, it's the mainframe and the smart phone. That's why it's noteworthy to see Unisys giving customers the ability to manage a mainframe using an...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:25 AM/EST
The great thing about mobile computing is that it significantly boosts mobility. The bad thing about mobility is that it will drive you mad trying to support it. The thing that drives enterprise customers crazy about mobility is the...
Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:13 PM/EST
There's a mainframe crisis brewing that has nothing to do with the viability of the platform and everything to do with the longevity of the people that support it. Despite all the predictions concerning the death of the mainframe,...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:25 AM/EST
With all the interest in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) it might be worth starting to contemplate how these types of deployments might actually work in practice. One thing that stands out most about VDI is that it assumes the...
Friday, April 24, 2009 12:29 PM/EST
One of the newer issues that IT managers frequently find themselves dealing with is the rise of video as a core element of the IT environment. Companies are increasingly incorporating video in their Web sites in the form of...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:47 PM/EST
With the release of what amounts to a new version of the ESX Server in the form of V-Sphere 4, VMware is essentially saying that its virtual machine software can now scale to meet the most demanding requirements. That's...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:30 PM/EST
With all the noise being created over virtualization on Intel Nehalem class processor, you might mistakenly come to the conclusion that the Intel Xeon 5000 series processor in a two-socket server is the best option available for running virtual...
Monday, April 20, 2009 1:44 PM/EST
Other than cementing bragging rights for being the biggest software entity in Northern California, a merger between Oracle and Sun appears to be a lot more about gaining and maintaining control over key software standards than it is necessarily...
Monday, April 20, 2009 11:58 AM/EST
Not too long ago the conventional wisdom towards servers was that they had become commodities. As such, any time any application needed any additional capacity, it was a simple matter of throwing hardware at the problem. This created hug...
Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:15 AM/EST
Given the expense associated with SQL databases, it's only natural that we're seeing steady rise in the number of IT organizations that have take to MySQL from Sun. Database licenses are some of the most expensive items on the...