Monthly Archives: May 2008
IBMs Roadrunner Speeds Toward a Petaflop
IBMs Roadrunner Speeds Toward a Petaflop
A Piece of the PuzzleWhen it's complete, Roadrunner will take up 6,000 square feet and weigh more than 500,000...
Power in the People
What is top of mind for today's chief information officer? The CIO has many issues contending for top slot. There is the economy, which...
Google Ads Healthy Enough Not to Be on Google Health
After suggesting that Google would make money on Google Health by placing ads, and after reading my peers' coverage that Google really, really just...
Yahoo Won’t Cage The Monkey By Selling Search
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo is considering selling its search advertising business to Microsoft.Microsoft Watch's Joe Wilcox couldn't have been more...
Citrix Builds Out Its Delivery Center
Citrix Systems is looking to combine its traditional application delivery technology with its recently developed virtualization offerings into a new way to deliver applications...
Virtualization Job Openings Jump 40%
It's hard to read two sentences in a technology magazine these days without bumping into the word "virtualization" or the company name VMware.VMware has...
Startup Brings Data Analytics Platform to MySpace
Three years after its founding, Aster Data Systems has emerged from stealth mode with an Internet-scale, massively parallel processing database and a well-known customer-MySpace....
Hurd: EDS Deal Expands HP’s Enterprise Reach
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd believes that the $13 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems will help build out HP's enterprise services offerings and "accelerate"...
Social Startup Looks to Manage Bright Ideas
Brightidea on May 20 introduced the latest version of its enterprise social network, a software platform that lets businesses create custom portals that connect...
IBM Pushes Federated Identity Management
IBM is pushing interoperability as a solution to enterprise identity management and authentication woes.In Version 6.2 of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, the company...