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Dell and Brocade forge closer alliance
News The two vendors are committed to partner on developing technologies to help improve datacentre efficiencies, including a "dynamic infrastructure and optimisation solution" and a set of tools to better manage application delivery and deployment...
[September 3, 2009, 16:40]
IBM buys database security start-up Guardium
News IBM said it would integrate Guardium's products into its Information Management Software portfolio and will sell them through the newly created Business Analytics and Optimisation Consulting organisation, staffed by 4,000 consultants.
[December 1, 2009, 15:18]
Apple refreshes Mac OSX
News It also puts Mac OS X through a "system optimisation" procedure that can greatly improve performance. Apple Computer has issued an update to its Mac OS X operating system just three weeks after the software's debut.
[April 17, 2001, 8:08]
Nuggets: Creative combination from Macromedia
News There are new features for designing Web graphics, including live preview and optimisation of rollover effects within the workspace. Its new Studio package combines Dreamweaver 3 Web authoring software and the Fireworks 3 Web graphics package.
[December 9, 1999, 6:30]
McAfee patents software-as-a-service
News Called "Method and system for securing, managing or optimising a personal computer", it is based on the technology McAfee uses to update virus-checking software and perform other PC-optimisation tasks.
[August 8, 2001, 15:35]
Google SPDY protocol could boost web speeds
News We want to continue building on the web's tradition of experimentation and optimisation to further support the evolution of websites and browsers. As part of its continual push to speed up the web, Google is taking a look at one of the most basic...
[November 13, 2009, 7:39]
Google rolls out Gears for Safari
News The Mac version of Gears offers the same offline capability as its Windows counterpart, giving users limited, offline file access and optimisation on the handful of web applications that support it. Google has made the Safari-friendly version of...
[September 16, 2008, 11:25]
Platform Computing offers HPC facility for HP servers
News HP's SIM will manage infrastructure across HP platforms and will provide physical and virtual environments with control and optimisation capabilities. High-performance computing (HPC) specialist Platform Computing has launched a version of its...
[March 23, 2009, 14:14]
Athlon XP/2200+: rendering performance review
Reviews Pentium 4 optimisation can deliver the Intel processor’s full performance potential. Despite a new version 2.46 of 3D Studio Max that contains optimisations for the Pentium 4, the 2.53GHz Pentium 4 does not render simple 3D objects (Kinetix-logo...
[June 18, 2002, 16:19]
Best Woman in Tech
Blog Arieso provides network optimisation and planning for operators like O2 and Cingular. Congratulations to Shirin Dehghan, CEO of mobile network-optimisers Avieso, for winning the overall prize at BlackBerry's second Women & Technology awards.
[November 3, 2006, 15:02]
RIM explains BlackBerry outage
News Ruling out those causes, the company has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, non-critical system routine that was designed to provide better optimisation of the system's cache.
[April 20, 2007, 9:39]
HP reveals green storage technology
News The company also revealed new security products, as well as updated services, in its drive to promote business-technology optimisation. HP has aimed for the high ground, stressing its "green" credentials with a number of product announcements at...
[June 20, 2007, 10:39]
Adware company loses its links
News WhenU chief executive Avi Nader said the practices in question were the work of an outside search engine optimisation firm based in New York. Yahoo and Google have disabled links to controversial adware maker WhenU after the company was accused of...
[May 14, 2004, 13:00]
OpenSolaris adds more developer goodies
Blog If you're not familiar with DTrace, it's a debugging and optimisation tool that tells you exactly what your application does. The new version of OpenSolaris has quite a few new features, and some of them look interesting for the developer.
[June 2, 2009, 16:26]
Virtual Storage -- is it there yet?
News Management is thus much simplified: scaling and other gross changes to the physical storage configuration can be made without applications being aware, tuning and optimisation can be carried out in one place, and there are -- of course -- promised...
[May 29, 2002, 14:22]
W3C outlines XML speed boosting plan
News This method for representing binary data has been incorporated into a communications protocol called Message Transmission Optimisation Mechanism, or MTOM, which will speed up data transmission over the Internet.
[January 27, 2005, 8:05]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: rendering performance review
Reviews Although the optimisation of a program like Lightwave 7b can bring out the performance potential of the Pentium 4, Corel Bryce 5.01 is an example of how slow the platform can be with current applications.
[May 16, 2002, 16:37]
Motorola sues Aruba over WLAN patents
News Wireless Valley's supposedly infringed patents include "method and systems for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects" (6,625,454) and "system and method for design, tracking, measurement...
[August 28, 2007, 17:46]
Last orders in Montecito
Leader Intel says that Itanium 2 has double the performance for 80 percent of the power: even with the vendor benchmark optimisation field in operation, those are good figures. As technology enthusiasts, we're usually excited by the latest breakthroughs...
[July 19, 2006, 15:30]
IT Priorities: Strategy suffers at the hands of tactics
Talkback This approach reveals unforeseen costs, allows for optimisation of the solution, creates a roadmap for the future and can help demonstrate an estimated ROI. Server consolidation has long been identified as an effective way of reducing IT costs.
[November 28, 2005, 12:26]
