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Wanted: Wi-Fi Channels
Perhaps the organizers of the Wireless World Summit in London were a bit overambitious but they did, honestly, try to attract the people who mattered. So who do you think was missing? It wasn’t the mobile operators. They were there: T-Mobile, Hutchison “3,” mmO2, and BT Mobile, for example—and we’re talking CEO-level delegates. Nor were…
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HP, Brocade Integrate SAN Switching, Blade Architecture
IT managers concerned about deploying blade technology into heterogeneous environments may have an easier time of it with the recent announcement that Brocade’s SAN (storage area network) switching capabilities will be integrated into the Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem architecture. The integrated offering embeds a 4 Gbit-per-second Brocade Fibre Channel fabric switch into the HP BladeSystem, which itself…
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Sun Readies New Solaris Push, Snipes at Linux
Sun Microsystems Inc. officials on Tuesday offered new details on its open-source strategy. The company said publicly what most industry players understood for a long time: Sun’s top priority is supporting its Solaris operating system rather than Linux. At a briefing in San Francisco ahead of this month’s launch of Solaris 10, John Fanelli, the…
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Is IBM the Grid King in Financial Services?
Oracle Database 10g be damned—IBM has been doing grid for longer than Oracle, better than Oracle and for cheaper than Oracle, its database executives want us to know. New features in the recently released DB2 Universal Database 8.2 deliver “a very simple way to set up a high-availability failover environment with a much more cost-effective…
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A Tale of Two Consultants
DiamondCluster International and Sapient appear to be on the same upward trajectory, as the consulting firms take different paths to new highs on the financial improvement track. The companies talked business fundamentals last week during quarterly earnings calls. Both companies’ results seem to point toward an improved environment. DiamondCluster‘s North American net revenue was up…
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Sun Ready to Open Solaris
Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting closer to making its Open Solaris project, along with the final pieces of Solaris 10, a reality. At its quarterly SunNetwork Conference, to be held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 15, Sun will unveil Open Solaris and give final pricing and other details for…
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