Friday, December 03, 2010

Why Oracle's Sun Servers Are Sinking (And Why That's A Good Thing)

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Friday, December 3, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS:

TOP STORY
- Wolfe's Den: Why Oracle's Sun Servers Are Sinking (And Why That's A Good Thing)
ALSO SEE
- Google Plans Stronger Copyright Protections

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- RFI Responses: The New Data Center Network

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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Ellipse Specification Using Vectors

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG
- RAID: I'm Not Dead Yet

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Wolfe's Den: Why Oracle's Sun Servers Are Sinking (And Why That's A Good Thing)
Gartner reports scary Q3 sales news for the server business Oracle took control of when it acquired Sun Microsystems, but Larry Ellison's focus on optimized systems such as Exadata is the reason Oracle needn't worry.
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- Google Plans Stronger Copyright Protections
Rightsholders can expect Google to be more responsive to their concerns in the months ahead.
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- Global CIO Top 10 Stories: Oracle Buys Sun For Systems Push
More than a simple linear takeover, Oracle-Sun has accelerated some widespread transformations in the IT business—can Larry Ellison take full advantage?
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- Lost Laptops Cost Billions
An Intel-sponsored study finds that organizations fail to grasp the risk of lost laptops.
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- Global CIO: IBM Details Raids On Customers From HP And Oracle
IBM gives customers names and says its "Migration Factory" wins over HP and Oracle/Sun have averaged almost $1 million in revenue.
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- Google Chrome Puts Flash In Security Sandbox
By mitigating Flash's liabilities, Google stands to gain from Flash's benefits.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- RFI Responses: The New Data Center Network
Today's networks are under increasing pressure to support faster speeds and more virtual machines, and to carry both data and storage traffic. A network upgrade is an ideal time to evaluate the vendor you have in place. It's an opportunity to see whether your vendor's products are a fit with your business requirements or whether another vendor makes more sense.
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- Inside the Google Cloud
Is security an integral component of Google's cloud computing system from design through development? Find out today.

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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Ellipse Specification Using Vectors
The program Robert presents here demonstrates a method for rendering ellipses that's suited to the specific task of aligning ellipses to arbitrary curve segments using trigonometric splines.
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- Langa Letter: XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option
<B>Fred Langa</B> shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation without losing data and without having to reinstall user software or reformat or otherwise destructively alter the setup.
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FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG
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- RAID: I'm Not Dead Yet
By Howard Marks
The other day a message showed up in my inbox with the subject, "Is RAID Dead?". While I understand, and agree, that expectations and advances in technology have passed simple RAID 5 by, I'm getting tired of the "XYZ Technology is Dead" meme. At various times we've been told tape, the PC, and e-mail were all dead. If calling RAID dead is an overstatement, what is the state of RAID?
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- Mellanox and QLogic Play Duopoly
By Frank Berry
On Monday, Mellanox said it will buy Voltaire for $8.75 per share, or about $218 million. Excluding Voltaire's cash, Mellanox is getting the company for about $176 million. The $200 million per year InfiniBand networking market is now a duopoly comprising Mellanox and QLogic, the two suppliers that design their own adapter and switch chips.
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- The Level 3/Comcast Fight Is About Money, Not Net Neutrality
By Mike Fratto, Editor
Level 3 is positioning its peering dispute with Comcast as a net neutrality issue, when in fact it's a business conflict. By claiming that a clash over money is actually a defense of users being able to access Internet resources, Level 3 may hurt the net neutrality effort because it confuses the issue. As a supporter of net neutrality, I think this is the wrong approach by Level 3.
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