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Shrink yourself to the size of an ant and think of a classic server as a mini data centre. Banks upon banks of memory, multiple disks, many CPU cores and even network interfaces. The OS manages all of the many processes and threads, sharing the resources amongst them and when they demand more resource it makes it available to them – on demand and ...
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I should have mentioned it earlier, but the Microsoft offerings are based around Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005. I wonder why this is not Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008? Were Microsoft unwilling? Did it take a long time to certify the Amazon Machine Images and the 2008 editions are on the way?
James Simmonds mentioned to me ...
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I received my Amazon Web Services developer's news shot last week. It followed up on recent announcements that their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering was moving from Beta into General Availability. With that announcement came a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.95% within a region and failing to do so would make customers eligible for ...
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Looking at some of the latest Smart/PDA phones they have pretty reasonable processors, fairly significant amounts of memory, WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, VGA screens, audio, video, voice, camera etc.
Do I really need my laptop anymore?
Most development work on most of our projects are performed using Virtual Machines running on VMWare or Hyper-V ...
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It’s been said too many times...’we can save money with virtualisation this year’ It’s true you can, but let’s not kid ourselves into thinking it’s the answer to ALL our prayers.
The cost saving buzz word for 2008 is ‘Cloud Computing’ clearly a very different concept and not (in all cases) comparable to servers running your organisations business ...
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