+ IT Jungle--The Linux Beacon +

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Last Update: Sat Jan 10 05:37:59 2009

+ The Linux Beacon--Why Blade Servers Still Don't Cut It, and How They Might + Sometimes, a good idea just doesn't take off. OK, this is information technology, not philosophy, so let me rephrase that more [...] however begrudgingly adopted by IT vendors can overcome that inertia. Such is the case with the wonderful idea of blade servers.

+ The Linux Beacon--Intel Keeps Both Arms Swinging with Xeons, Jabs with Itanium + Since waking up after being asleep for enough years to let Advanced Micro Devices have the driver's seat in the X64 chip market, in [...] jab-right hook' would be a more accurate description, since Intel is in position to keep pounding on a substantially weakened AMD.

+ The Linux Beacon--Microsoft Ponies Up Another $100 Million for Novell Linux + Microsoft's Windows Server customers have not yet burned through all of the $240 million in certificates that allow them to get [...] want to acquire extended service contracts for SLES, and that is why Microsoft has coughed up another $100 million check for Novell.

+ The Linux Beacon--Mad Dog 21/21: Newtonian Economics + Isaac Newton's contributions to science and mathematics were monumental. They elevated English technology to a state of great [...] beg for analysis as well as praise, and Newton's laws might offer just the metaphorical basis required to examine Big Blue's blooming.

+ The Linux Beacon--Two More Xeon-Based Galaxy Servers from Sun + Server maker and X64 wannabee Sun Microsystems used the occasion of Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco last week as the [...] servers until late 2008 or early 2009. The two new Galaxy boxes use existing dual-core Xeon 5200 and quad-core Xeon 5400 processors.

+ The Linux Beacon--SMBs Are Sensibly More Concerned with Biz than Tech + This bit of news will come as no surprise to any IT Jungle readers who have run their own businesses or who work for small companies [...] spending among larger companies, are more worried about the state of the economy than all the latest gadgetry or hot buzzword ideas.

+ The Linux Beacon--Overseas and Notebook Sales Offset Printer Declines for HP in Q3 + While the U.S. dollar may be strengthening a bit in recent weeks, overseas currencies where IT sales are growing very rapidly were and [...] economy. HP posted sales of $28.2 billion in the quarter, up 10.2 percent, and net earnings of just over $2 billion, up 14 percent.

+ The Linux Beacon--Sabre and Travelocity Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux + The word standard gets tossed around the IT industry a lot, particularly since the early 1980s when open standards Unix was all the [...] thought about. So when a company says it is standardizing on one product or another, you have to ask carefully what this means.

+ The Linux Beacon--IBM Offers HPC Bundles for SUSE Linux + While Linux has certainly taken off in the high-performance supercomputing labs of academic institutions, commercial enterprises, and [...] That said, this is a cost and both Red Hat and Novell and their server partners want to get more installations among HPC shops.

+ The Linux Beacon--Real Time Forensics from Log Data? ArcSight Says It's Got It + With the onslaught of identity theft and the increase in instances of corporate data loss these days, forensics is becoming a word [...] on the fly' to its Security Information Event Management (SEIM) system, ArcSight claims users can now do both without compromise.