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Big Blue and Dell reap server growth while others fall
News The "other" category, made up of second-tier manufacturers, also did well, experiencing year-over-year revenue growth of 25.3 percent for the overall market and 71.9 percent for the Linux market -- faster than the market as a whole.
[May 25, 2004, 9:20]
IBM warms to AMD Opteron servers
News IBM was the first of the four top-tier server makers to sell Opteron servers, but its models were geared only for the technical-computing niche. IBM's warmer attitude puts more pressure on Dell, the lone top-tier server maker selling only Intel...
[May 2, 2006, 11:50]
Picking the right storage vendor
News This first tier of providers works hard to produce innovative, quality technology solutions to a variety of everyday IT problems. These second tier service providers monitor your system in real time, respond to problems before they develop, and are...
[October 19, 2004, 12:05]
Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs
News It's not first-tier, but it's pushing the envelope getting into the first tier. At the end of May, the number two PC maker will begin selling some consumer-focused laptop and desktop models with Ubuntu's new "Feisty Fawn" version of Linux installed...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
HP debuts 'blade' servers
News Top-tier competitors are eager to make their way into the market. Top-tier server makers relish these challenges as a way to separate them from "white-box" manufacturers that bolt together standard parts without needing much expertise.
[December 4, 2001, 11:50]
Dell sets sights on PC-maker crown in Asia
News The ambitious moves that Dell made in China earlier this year, such as expanding beyond tier-one and tier-two cities, are starting to pay off, Felice told ZDNet Asia. The PC maker is confident of reaching its goal, based on its first-quarter...
[June 2, 2008, 11:14]
Yahoo! does it again...
News The mid-tier and bottom-tier companies are going to be challenged to earn the right to serve major clients going forward. First Call consensus expected Yahoo to earn 8 cents a share in the quarter, though most "whisper" numbers circulating Wall...
[April 8, 1999, 9:21]
Symbian signs on Samsung as it surges to No. 1 spot
News Symbian OS phones are mid-tier and upper-tier phones, and in a replacement market such as in Europe people are looking to trade up to more sophisticated products," said Peter Bancroft, Symbian's vice president of communications.
[October 21, 2002, 15:57]
One Year Ago: Intel create 266MHz mobile chips
News Both companies acknowledge they will have to answer to Slot 1 sometime in the future, but they maintain that second-tier and some first-tier PC makers will not want to transition entire product lines to Slot 1 in the short term.
[July 24, 1998, 6:00]
AOL in subscription-music trial
News An $8.95 (£5.70) tier will provide access to unlimited downloads and unlimited streams. Later in the year, the service will add a middle tier with five burns per month and the ability to pay by the burn.
[February 26, 2003, 15:51]
Member Review It's a first-tier distro of Linux.Support ends for Windows XP SP1
Talkback Even when we were paying high prices for per incident support for back office products, we usually came up with answers before first or second tier support personnel at MS did - waste of time AND money.
[October 11, 2006, 16:11]
Building an N-Tier Application in .NET
White Papers Since classes were first introduced in Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, many programmers have attempted to come up with the definitive method of creating n-tier applications. There are many types of n-tier applications that programmers have developed...
[January 6, 2005, 2:00]
RoboLogic Lite
Downloads It contains the tutorial and the first three levels of tier 1. Robo Logic is a neat logic game. You have to "program" a robot's movements by dragging commands to the memory of the bot. Your goal is to activate all the marked boxes.This is the...
[January 5, 2009, 9:14]
Best Practices for Configuring Oracle Content Database Middle Tiers for Scalability and High Availability
White Papers The following sections will guide the reader through the process of setting up the middle tiers which includes installing the first Oracle Content DB middle tier, configuring subsequent Oracle Content DB middle tiers with the load balancer, and...
[December 18, 2006, 0:00]
Best Practices for Configuring Oracle Content Database Middle Tiers for Scalability and High Availability
White Papers The following sections will guide the reader through the process of setting up the middle tiers which includes installing the first Oracle Content DB middle tier, configuring subsequent Oracle Content DB middle tiers with the load balancer, and...
[December 18, 2006, 0:00]
Unsupervised Learning Techniques for an Intrusion Detection System
White Papers This paper introduces a two-tier architecture to over-come this problem: the first tier is an unsupervised clustering algorithm which reduces the network packets payload to a tractable size. With the continuous evolution of the types of attacks...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
POSEIDON: A 2-Tier Anomaly-Based Network Intrusion Detection System
White Papers POSEIDON is payload-based, and has two-tier architecture the first stage consists of a Self-Organizing Map, while the second one is a modified PAYL system. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) were introduced by Anderson and formalized later by Denning.
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
White Papers In this paper, we will first review data center tier levels, then comment briefly on what is and is not critical to tier level attainment, and conclude with some pragmatic advice about facility assessment.
[October 6, 2009, 9:40]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building an Application with Flex
White Papers Flex delivers standards-based, familiar programming methodology and workflow along with a powerful class library for creating the presentation tier of rich client applications, resulting in a more effective end user experience.
[November 23, 2004, 23:00]
