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AEGON Keeps On Growing: And The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series Provides Capacity To Spare
White Papers Close to 90 percent of AEGON USA, companies' existing business is in life insurance, pensions, savings and investment products. AEGON USA's primary challenge is to keep up with projected growth. They've already been through several data center...
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
TCP Nice: A Mechanism For Background Transfers
White Papers The Internet experiments suggest that there is a significant amount of spare capacity on a wide variety of Internet links. Nice provides a mechanism to improve application performance by harnessing this capacity in a non-interfering manner.
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
More Power From The People...
Blog VMWare working on power management system on top of VI that spots spare capacity and shuts down or clams down servers to save power. [Live from VMWorld in Los Angeles] Also, says VMWare, letting virtual desktops run at employees homes saves power...
[November 7, 2006, 16:13]
On The Role Of Helpers In Peer-to-Peer File Download Systems: Design, Analysis And Simulation
White Papers This motivates the approach in which it utilize idle users' spare upload capacity to significantly improve the download speed beyond what can be achieved in a conventional BitTorrent network. This asymmetry in bandwidth results in the overall...
[May 25, 2007, 0:00]
Dynamic Inter-SLA Resource Sharing In Path-Oriented Differentiated Services Networks
White Papers In the bandwidth borrowing scheme proposed here, the dedicated bandwidth for underloaded SLAs is determined and adaptively adjusted at network boundaries according to the actual traffic load and QoS policies; the available spare capacity is then...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
HP Delivers Linfox A Truckload Of Performance And Reliability With A Server And Storage Solution
White Papers The solution delivered a threefold performance increase with double the transaction load, with capacity to spare and peace of mind robustness. Linfox was established in 1956 and is the industry leader in the provision of warehousing, transportation...
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
Optimising The IT Environment With Grid Computing
White Papers Grid computing pools the computing power of servers, including spare capacity and idle CPUs, to improve application performance and ensure a better return on your IT assets. The solution, for many, has been to simply acquire new, seemingly low cost...
[September 6, 2005, 0:00]
ScharffWeisberg Sets The Stage For Cost-Effective Last-Mile Connectivity With LightPointe's Optical Wireless Networking Solutions
White Papers After researching trade publication articles on optical wireless, the company purchased the LightPointe FlightLite-G with 1.25Gbps of full-duplex capacity. With only weeks to spare before the move, the company first determined that it needed to...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Each battery has around half the capacity of the best standard AA rechargeable, meaning you'll have to charge it twice as often. At 13 quid for two, you're paying four times the price per milliamp hour as you get from buying top-capacity standard...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
HP Refreshes Server Lines
News It has 10 input-output slots to the DL580's seven, can accommodate 48GB of memory, and has more hard drive capacity. It doesn't employ hot-plug RAID memory but instead offers a less expensive alternative called online spare memory.
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers
News For example, the computing capacity of a large American bank may be largely unused overnight. In return, the bank might be given access to extra capacity during its peak hours. There's something very appealing about using all these spare (CPU...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Oftel Plans Changes To Unmetered Net Access
News Oftel is also suggesting changes to the way that BT provides extra Friaco capacity, which could help ISPs who are seeking additional connections in local exchanges where there is no spare capacity. Currently they must pay in advance, which some in...
[January 28, 2002, 10:45]
Adobe Takes To GridIron
News The hardware is used to its fullest capacity, instead of idling much of the time. Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
Mobile Phones Going Underground
News When that's done, we will have spare capacity and are looking into different options," says a London Underground spokeswoman. London's antiquated Underground rail service is getting a high-tech makeover that could give mobile phone users...
[October 17, 2000, 10:34]
BT To Sell Cisco Storage Technology
News A spokesman for BT said: "The idea is that you can make best use of storage resources using spare capacity from other users. BT is to offer Cisco virtual storage solutions that highlight unused hard disk space on enterprise networks.
[October 11, 2004, 18:00]
Mandriva Linux Gets Flashy
Blog I'll post a full review soon, but the main advantages over a similar Live CD distro are that there's a spare 1GB of capacity on the USB stick for downloading additional software and storing your own data, and that any CD drive on a host system...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
MP3 Hits The Road - UK Startup To Launch In-car System
News Empeg hopes to avoid the wrath of the music industry which is still moaning about Diamond's Rio: the empeg-car's software has been designed to prevent copying onto other media and the company states clearly on its home page that the unit is "a...
[January 28, 1999, 13:35]
A Year Ago: MP3 Hits The Road
News Empeg hopes to avoid the wrath of the music industry which is still moaning about Diamond's Rio: the empeg-car's software has been designed to prevent copying onto other media and the company states clearly on its home page that the unit is "a...
[January 28, 2000, 6:01]
Apple Eases Closer To Clusters
News Grid software extends to a broader pool of computers, often including a wide variety of computing systems, such as desktop machines, that often have spare processing capacity. Though Apple doesn't fancy itself a high-performance computing giant...
[January 8, 2004, 8:15]
Games On DVD - 99 Will Be A Good Christmas
News The [games] industry has not worked out how to use the spare capacity yet. By Christmas high-street retailers' shelves should be bulging with DVD-blessed PCs ready to take on the new games and film titles promised for the fledgling format.
[May 17, 1999, 10:50]
