17th December 2006 Archive

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Storage vendors warm 8-Gbit/s marketing engine

Speed vs. cost in 2007

Storage vendors plan a bull run with 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel gear in 2007, hoping to satisfy some customers' demands for higher bandwidth. QLogic and Emulex appear to have set two of the more aggressive 8-Gbit/s switch strategies with both vendors committing to at least end of 2007 shipments. Such a timetable would put the …

Storage 17 Dec 2006, 07:15
Using Ajax with Prototype

Tutorial: More Ajax with less code

In the Introduction to Developing Web Applications with Ajax article we discussed the procedure used to create an Ajax application. As a developer, you probably noticed that the client JSP included a lot of JavaScript. Prototype is a JavaScript library for developing dynamic web applications, which aims to replace much of the …

Developer 17 Dec 2006, 08:02
Virtual Iron offers Windows by the slice

Free taste, pay for the whole pie

Virtual Iron has popped out a new release of its server virtualization software, adding support for Microsoft's Windows operating system. Version 3.1 of the company's eponymous software shoots right at VMware's rival packages by allowing customers to manage both Windows and Linux. And it does so at the right price – free. …

Servers 17 Dec 2006, 09:10
HP wrestles IBM for top spot

Claiming victory before the polls have closed

HP has claimed it will be the world's largest IT company by the end of this year, surpassing IBM on revenue. The switch in positions depends on IBM - HP's financial year ended on October 31, and it announced revenues of $91.7bn. IBM's financial year doesn't finish until the end of December; analysts suggest it could report …

Financial News 17 Dec 2006, 10:02