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There Is No Oracle Linux
Repeat after me: “There is no Oracle Linux.” I don’t care how many times you hear stock analysts say that Oracle is about to launch its own Linux. It’s just not going to happen. The latest example of wishful thinking comes from Jefferies & Co. analyst Katherine Egbert, who wrote on October 13, “Our independent…
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Avnet Employees Shake with Hawaiian Quake
One-hundred fifty Avnet Technology Solutions staffers were in Honolulu Oct. 15 the distributor’s annual employee recognition event when a 6.7-magnitude quake shook the island chain. No one was injured, but the 150, including ATS President Fred Cuen, remained trapped at their hotel on the island without electricity and with minimal communication as late as Oct.…
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Compellent Technologies Adds Thin Replication in Storage Center 3.5
With its latest major storage center update, Compellent Technologies has turned to thin replication for bandwidth management and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Traditionally, thin replication has allowed a user to replicate only the written portion of storage volumes. Similar to thin provisioning, it tends to lower bandwidth costs through better optimization. Because of the thin…
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Let the Browser Wars Begin—Again
Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism by year’s end. In short, the browser wars are about to begin again. Depending on whose numbers you believe, Firefox has been continuing to erode IE’s lead. According to Janco…
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Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
It’s dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software’s Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a “dirty box,” a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the…
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Axiom System Extends to Entry-Level, Enterprise Markets
Network storage systems provider Pillar Data Systems is expanding beyond its midmarket roots with systems that target both small businesses and larger enterprises. New enhancements and configurations options in its Axiom Storage line will give entry-level customers a full data services suite and larger customers a more high-availability infrastructure. At the small-to-medium end of the…
