Tag: IT

  • Top IT Players Tout Their Tech at Vortex

    Top IT Players Tout Their Tech at Vortex

    Jim Louderback

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    SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Open-source game over, Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday at the annual Vortex conference here. There are a thousand distros, but Red Hat has taken the dominant IT position. Schwartz claimed that nine out of 10 companies running Linux are using Red Hat in their data centers. He said the promise of… Read more

  • Play it Again, Sam

    Wayne Rash

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    It wasn’t exactly a huge integration project. In fact, it was tiny, but not as tiny as its budget. I had to upgrade the computing environment in an office so that it would handle a lot bigger workload. In this case, the job was to replace PCs with something much better to handle changing requirements,… Read more

  • Pay-Per-Use Computing: Will It Fly?

    Pay-Per-Use Computing: Will It Fly?

    David Chernicoff

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    Back, somewhere before the dawn of time, when I first got involved with computers, computing resources were incredibly expensive. On the big iron machines that I first encountered, the cost of use was so high that users were allotted and billed for CPU seconds. And the cost per second could be quite significant. Of course,… Read more

  • Build It: A Home Linux Server

    Dave Salvator

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    Many of the machines we show you how to build here at ExtremeTech are of the “burn, baby burn” variety. But often those systems are Ferraris when all you need is a Ford. A good example of this is a home server whose main duties are to serve up files and a print queue 24/7… Read more

  • IT Labor Boomerangs Back Home

    IT Labor Boomerangs Back Home

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    For all its promise of cost savings, enterprises disillusioned and dissatisfied with offshoring IT labor are starting to bring that work home. Language barriers, time zone differences and even unscheduled overtime are just some of the issues causing some U.S.-based enterprises increased frustration and pushing them to not just reconsider their offshoring policies but scrap… Read more

  • Cuts to Longhorn Don’t Faze IT Managers

    Cuts to Longhorn Don’t Faze IT Managers

    Matthew Hicks

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    Microsoft’s sweeping changes to its next major Windows release are drawing little surprise from enterprise IT departments, many of whom were not counting on the most revolutionary changes promised in Longhorn. Late last week, Microsoft announced that it was dropping a centerpiece of Longhorn called WinFS (Windows File System) in order to meet its schedule… Read more