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IBM slates NT scalability claims
News Big Blue has issued a statement decrying Microsoft's claims regarding scalability, saying that they do not reflect the real world. The Internet is changing the nature of transactions -- it will render obsolete today's definition of scalability...
[May 19, 1997, 15:14]
One Year Ago: IBM slates NT scalability claims
News The day before Microsoft attempts to wow a London audience with its Scalability Day demonstration of the prowess of Windows NT in enterprise networks, IBM is already sticking the boot in. IBM has issued a statement decrying Microsoft's claims...
[May 19, 1998, 6:02]
Five years ago: IBM slates NT scalability claims
News Big Blue has issued a statement decrying Microsoft's claims regarding scalability, saying that they do not reflect the real world. The Internet is changing the nature of transactions -- it will render obsolete today's definition of scalability...
[May 17, 2002, 7:01]
Support through scalability
News Whether your network consists of two or three desktop systems at the office wired together in a peer-to-peer configuration, two hundred clients connecting to a handful of servers over Ethernet with a wireless DMZ for visiting laptops, or a multi...
[April 5, 2006, 11:50]
Linux 'not suitable for enterprise use'
News Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun...
[March 16, 2005, 15:20]
Sun plots its data-centre domination
News On Thursday, Microsoft and Intel ran a three-page spread in The Wall Street Journal, emphasising the reliability and scalability of Wintel solutions for e-businesses. On Tuesday, Sun is slated to announce two more components of its Net Effect...
[December 4, 2000, 8:27]
Open source application server gets Twisted
News Zope developers have replaced one of their core components in the latest version of the open source application server, bringing potential performance and scalability benefits. Salim Fadhley, an open source developer who builds applications on Zope...
[January 10, 2006, 16:15]
VMware aims to virtualise Windows 7 rollouts
News In an announcement on Monday, the company said it has simplified provisioning and improved scalability in View 4, allowing organisations to manage tens of thousands of virtualised desktops as a single deployment, up from the 500 to 1,000 supported...
[November 9, 2009, 15:36]
Can your business respond in a crisis?
News If you're creating an incident response policy from scratch, you can ensure that scalability is built in by thinking outside the current box and anticipating the state of your network — and new technologies and vulnerabilities that may not even...
[November 3, 2005, 11:50]
Security concerns hamper corporate Wi-Fi
News At a debate at the NetEvents European Press Summit last week, industry figures warned that firms who are reluctant to install a corporate Wi-Fi network because of concerns over security and scalability may find that staff take the matter into...
[October 13, 2003, 16:40]
MS, Sun, Linux vendors sell to power users
News As Microsoft and Sun tout their scalability in particular verticals, they also have been beating the reliability drum, too. The companies are expected to claim ownership of the high-end crown at the Securities Industry Association show -- a...
[June 22, 2000, 9:12]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
News Operating system scalability is important to companies; without it, throwing more processors at a problem will result in diminishing returns. With OS scalability, doubling the number of processors should double the performance.
[January 18, 2005, 14:55]
Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V
News Outlining the benefits of virtualisation, Microsoft's general manager of Windows Server marketing, Bill Hilf, said: "Customers who buy Windows Server 2008 are not only getting the scalability benefits, the high performance, reliability and all the...
[June 26, 2008, 17:23]
Active Directory: Growing with your business
News If you're creating your Active Directory infrastructure from scratch, you have the opportunity to maximise scalability and flexibility. That's why it's important to take the time to learn best design practices and build scalability into your...
[March 13, 2006, 12:00]
Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News For almost two years, many AWS [Amazon Web Services] customers have taken advantage of the simplicity, reliability and seamless scalability that Amazon SimpleDB provides; however, many customers have told us that their applications require a...
[October 28, 2009, 16:14]
Simple Cisco VMS
News Security scalability The enhancements we've made fall under the umbrella of multifaceted scalability," Cisco Product Manager Bob Yee said. When customers usually think about scalability, they usually think just about the number of devices you can...
[October 9, 2002, 9:53]
OpenSolaris comes to the mainframe
News Mainframes are marketed on their reliability and scalability, and in recent years their ability to simultaneously run large numbers of virtualised operating systems has made them the focus of datacentre consolidation efforts.
[November 3, 2008, 16:32]
VMware launches virtualisation benchmarking tool
News Instead, the benchmark measures the scalability of heterogeneous virtualised workloads. The result is that, by using the benchmark, companies should be able to "make appropriate hardware choices, and compare the performance and scalability of...
[July 24, 2007, 13:33]
JBoss gets Nuked
News Clearly this was a scalability mistake, as it means that every Web request goes to the database and does a query. Aside from problems with scalability, the JBoss developers decided they needed a Java solution, and said they could find no existing...
[January 22, 2004, 12:00]
Updated Unisys mainframes connect with iPhones
News Using the ePortal Specialty Engine, mobile workers will be able to access critical business data while still benefiting from the scalability and security of the mainframe, according to Unisys. This is about letting customers benefit from Moore's...
[May 27, 2009, 13:05]
