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| | Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:25:25 EDT | | | Dell's FlexAddress tool virtualizes switching for PowerEdge M-series blade servers much like HP Virtual Connect does, but at lower cost and without requiring new management tools.
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| | Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:34:33 EDT | | | The University of Houston, an Itanium Solutions award winner, chose Itanium-based systems for its research on the effects of global warming.
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| | Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:44:24 EDT | | | What mainframe administrators really need is a discussion of mainframe vulnerabilities. Problem areas include user authentication, system dataset access, disgruntled employees, denial of service attacks, and consoles and monitors that open the system to security breaches. Author Robert Crawford shares his observations about mainframe vulnerabilities, and encourages readers to write in and share their own experiences.
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| | Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:17:35 EDT | | | It's not always straightforward to get the answer to the burning question: How much memory is in this Unix machine? David Douthitt points readers to the answers for Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux, OpenVMS, and FreeBSD environments.
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| | Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:31:55 EDT | | | Above-the-operating-system infrastructure software products are now making their way onto the IBM z10. TCO/ROI studies indicate they can bring significant benefits to z/OS shops. The mainstay vendors are upping the ante with increased support packages that make these products more useful. From Web-enabling database interfaces, management and governance, to application modernization, the vendors are doing what they can to meet today's needs of z10 users.
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| | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:02:29 EDT | | | Solaris 10 systems need tuning and optimization in order to give the best performance given a certain system configuration and workload. The methods mentioned here are applicable to earlier Solaris versions and some other UNIX-based operating systems. Sun includes a number of utilities that can be used to monitor and change system settings to get optimum results from your installation.
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| | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:03:31 EDT | | | CICS has an I/O buffering technique that is well-suited for small referential datasets, known as CICS managed data tables. Learn which datsets work best, and how to implement CMDTs on your system.
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| | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:32:39 EDT | | | Hoping to allay IT managers' fears about cloud computing, Hyperic has released the CloudStatus service, which provides data on the performance and availability of Amazon's cloud.
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| | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:47:13 EDT | | | Despite initial wariness after Sun's acquisition of MySQL, the University of Waterloo now commends the new Sun Solaris 10 OS update for improved integration with PostgreSQL.
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| | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:03:03 EDT | | | The new green data center at hosting company RackForce will use hydropower for primary power and natural gas to help run backup generators.
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