Monday, October 12, 2009
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.
The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us.
About three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer.
There’s a discussion taking place in the PC industry that is equal parts encouraging and sad.
Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook.
It’s pretty amusing to watch Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems come to grips with what amounts to a Data Center Death Match. Last week, HP declined to comment for my story on Cisco’s upcoming virtualization server, which will thrust Cisco into the server market for the first time.
All the speculation about Dell’s upcoming Adamo computer appears somewhat comical once you learn that the company’s confirmation of the product has been sitting in plain sight. Last week, I spotted what looked like a blog post from luxury magazine UptownLife, discussing a future laptop from Dell possibly thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air.
Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic-enough banner, “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.”
For years, Western governments have used supercomputers to model weapons of nuclear war. Now a company in China uses the powerful machines to tend the fantasy realms of World of Warcraft.
Mendel Rosenblum’s exit this week from VMware marks the end of an era–both for the company and virtualization software as a whole.
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