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Exclusive: Oil giant buys Linux supercomputer
News Western GeCo, the UK-based oil industry services giant recently formed from the merger of Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical, is to adopt a Linux-based supercomputer cluster for operations like ocean floor surveys...
[July 4, 2001, 17:13]
Overture expands paid-search umbrella
News Overture has launched its operations in Australia offering paid-placement search services, headed up by an ex-AltaVista heavyweight. Yury Glikin, international marketing manager, Flairview Travel, told ZDNet Australia that every time Overture...
[February 5, 2004, 9:05]
Salesforce.com's application marketplace 'will expand CRM'
News Addressing an audience that included customers and partners, John Freeland, president of Salesforce.com's worldwide operations, said: "Windows started out as the killer application and became a platform — that is our vision [for AppExchange].
[February 21, 2006, 13:45]
WebSphere to embrace standards
News It promises to streamline business processes and provide a better view of ongoing operations. Code-named Pyxis, the next edition of WebSphere will add support for the latest Web services communications protocols and build on the machine-to-machine...
[February 1, 2005, 13:30]
Planning for distributed environment disaster recovery
News Firstly, while tape is a form of DR that can be used for branch operations, keep in mind that there will be a steep learning curve if you're depending on nontechnical branch staff to use the tape backup.
[June 27, 2005, 13:20]
Satellite tech tracks Cornwall's binmen
News The operations manager at Caradon District Council, Richard Isbell, said the technology has been easy to implement and use, and other council departments are now looking to use it. The location and movements of the vehicles are then displayed using...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
Another exec departs BEA
News Chuang has reorganised BEA's sales and support operations, placing Tom Ashburn in charge of a newly formed worldwide sales, marketing and support group. Chuang has also brought on Wai Wong, formerly the general manager of Computer Associates...
[August 24, 2004, 16:40]
Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5
News David Sehr, a tech lead for Native Client, showed off the web workers standard, which lets web pages assign different tasks to independent processing threads, effectively letting a browser perform background operations without impeding on the user...
[May 29, 2009, 16:29]
Nvidia: GeForce FX cooler than ever
News As for the raw power to render all this complexity at 60 frames per second, the chip will run at 500MHz and churn out 200 billion operations per second, or gigaflops. The cooling system is a crucial innovation, said Nvidia senior product manager...
[November 19, 2002, 10:24]
Unisys draws up a new server plan
News But mainframes, the powerful servers still at the heart of many companies' computing operations, aren't as lucrative a business as they once were. CMP systems already sold by Unisys, Compaq and Dell running Windows 2000, but now Unisys has begun...
[April 24, 2001, 11:14]
Salesforce attacks SAP over delayed SaaS rollout
News Heinrich is also responsible for SAP's human resources and internal IT operations, as well as SAP Labs. According to Alan Tong, IDC's Asia-Pacific senior manager of enterprise-application research, SaaS is still a new delivery format for software...
[May 21, 2008, 9:46]
Unisys banks on Windows success
News For example, eight processors might be assigned to an essential database application while three groups of four processors each might run three separate operations for an HR department. The Unisys guys certainly are ahead of the crowd," said Jim...
[April 7, 2003, 10:26]
HP announces Itanium progress
News One feature Intel built into Itanium is special circuitry to accelerate encryption operations that otherwise take place in much slower software. Across the board you are looking at about 50 percent improvements in performance," said John Miller...
[April 17, 2003, 11:03]
Risking it all on Salesforce.com?
News When I was being recruited to come to Salesforce.com, I met with Jim Steele [Salesforce.com president of worldwide operations] on Christmas Eve morning in a little dive coffee shop near where the two of us live and while we were there talking...
[November 4, 2004, 12:18]
Sun looks to N1 for storage solution
News Oracle chief executive) Larry Ellison dialled in the Linux question," quipped Zander, referring to Ellison's remark in January that the company will move its core business operations from Unix systems to cheaper Intel systems running Linux.
[February 7, 2002, 12:35]
Is there a supercomputer in your future?
News NEC claims that a 32-processor TX7 yields a performance of 100 GigaFLOPs (one GigaFLOP is a billion floating point operations per second). This is what Jorg Stadler, the division's European marketing manager, refers to as being "like an F1 racing...
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
Groups merge to create Linux Foundation
News It has expanded into various other technical domains, but in 2006 scaled back operations. If you're a Linux product manager at company XYZ, there are only so many hours in the day. Zemlin hopes the group's collective influence will be a better...
[January 22, 2007, 8:17]
Red Hat releases delayed Enterprise Linux beta
News Xen] is not stable yet, it's not ready for the enterprise," Red Hat's vice president of international operations, Alex Pinchev, told ZDNet Australia at the time. Within Server, there are three options: Cluster, with fail-over clustering and Web...
[September 11, 2006, 16:50]
Microsoft admits to Vista flaw
News Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft’s Security Response Center, revealed last Friday that Vista is vulnerable to a flaw that allows a malicious hacker to escalate user privileges within several versions of Windows.
[December 27, 2006, 13:17]
Microsoft software to manage itself?
News Operations are more of an afterthought when it comes to things like application design," he said. Under DSI, "The systems and applications working together in concert would be able to allocate and reallocate resources based on mode, demand and...
[March 14, 2003, 16:41]
