Servers

News.com Blog Here comes the Power6 a server chip from IBM that will expand their capabilities but its a bit late.

BetaNews.Com WINHEC DAY 2 During this morning keynote sessions at WinHEC 2007 Microsoft general manager for Windows Server Bill Laing officially proclaimed Windows Server 2008 34the last 32-bit operating system34 the company will ever release for either servers or clients.

Absoblogginlutely Fixed One of my servers has been failing to backup with the error 0xe00084af The directory or file was not found or could not be accessed. Final error category Job Errors. For additional information refer to link V-79-57344-33967 I spent ages troubleshooting the errors and trying to work out

Between the Lines Dell executives met with the press today in San Francisco to have a discussion about the companys strategic direction but it turned into more of a lecture about how Dell is going to leapfrog HP and IBM in delivering datacenter solutions.Dells CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker director of PowerEdge

Windows still in 32-bit post-vista
Engadget Filed under Desktops Laptops Calm down first-gen Core Duo owners -- the rumors arent true. Microsoft made some waves earlier today when Bill Laing one of the general managers of the Windows Server division was quoted at WinHEC saying that Windows Server 2008 is the last 32-bit operating

And we're back... again
Terry Eaton Entire lives have been shaken up vehicles exchanged storage units rented and filled servers changed state lines crossed etc. More on this later.

Googlelogic
Memex 1.1 I followed a link to an interesting wiki aimed at cancer sufferers and their families and friends. The wiki hosting company has signed up for Google Adsense. Guess what kinds of ads the Google servers place on the page

Whitepaper: forecasting total cost of ownership for initial deployments of server blades (server watch)
For organizations choosing between deploying a large number of servers total cost of ownership analyses by IDC favor blade server systems over rack-optimized server systems for reductions in both capital and operating expenses.

Cleaning up thunder bluff (slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes Colleen Hannon at Gamers With Jobs is mad as hell and shes not going to take it anymore. Unless youre playing Neopets online servers are full of foul-mouthed racist junk-monkeys. The hate-filled miasma they spatter around them has reached the point where many people who could be on those services wont go and those who do brave it wont go without a posse and

Hds puts storage at your service (enterprise storage forum)
Whitepaper Forecasting Total Cost of Ownership for Initial Deployments of Server Blades For organizations choosing between deploying a large number of servers total cost of ownership analyses by IDC favor blade server systems over rack-optimized server systems for reductions in both capital and operating expenses.

Nyse undertakes ibm mainframe migration to unix and linux (addict 3d)
SearchDataCenter The New York Stock Exchange is migrating off a 1600 millions of instructions per second mainframe to IBM System p servers running AIX and x86 Hewlett-Packard Co.

Intuit q3 profit surges 23 percent (e-commerce times)
Intuits third-quarter profit climbed 23 percent and the company cracked 1 billion in quarterly sales for the first time in a solid showing that exceeded Wall Streets estimates. The otherwise thriving period for the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks software was marred by a massive slowdown of the companys servers at the height of tax season.

Current newswire: (linux today)
The New York Stock Exchange NYSE is migrating off a 1600 millions of instructions per second MIPS mainframe to IBM System p servers running AIX and x86 Hewlett-Packard Co. HP servers running Linux with the first part of the move going live today.

Finally, software designed for users (investor's business daily via yahoo! news)
Companies have long used software systems to monitor the performance of hardware such as servers and desktop computers. Now a new class of software shows how well corporate software programs are performing for users.

Actors, servers happy to board dinner train theater (the news-press)
A long-term full-time job in acting is hard to find so the eight actors who work for Seminole Gulf Railway know theyre on the gravy train.

New casino contractor lays off fifth of food servers (san jose mercury news)
To curb 2 million in losses the Garden City Casino laid off one-fifth of its workforce this week and hired an outside company to run the restaurant at San Joses oldest card club lauded by many for its food.

Ibm to debut power6 servers tuesday (cnet)
Blog Here comes the Power6 a server chip from IBM that will expand their capabilities but its a bit late.

Sap optimises its software for suse servers
ZDNet Australia - IT managers running SAP applications on Novells Suse Linux Enterprise Server are being offered a joint maintenance and support package. Announced on Wednesday at SAPs customer conference in Vienna the package -- called Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Estonia hit by 'moscow cyber war'
BBC News - Estonia says the countrys websites have been under heavy attack for the past three weeks blaming Russia for playing a part in the cyber warfare. Many of the attacks come from Russia and are being hosted by Russian state computer servers Tallinn