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zdnet.com » hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 14, 2008
If you're reading zdnet blogs you're almost certainly not a typical corporate PC user and thus you won't naturally share that person's perceptions of IT things. To see just how something like virtualization appears to …
Also tagged: blogging, hardware, internet, virtualization, blog, pc, cpu, desktops, paul murphy, cpu utilization, data processing management
zdnet.com » hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 11, 2008
The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who …
Also tagged: hardware, virtualization, software, storage, servers, operating systems, unix, operating system, utility computing, paul murphy, storage management, resource allocation, cloud computing, sun solaris
zdnet.com » software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 29, 2008
As far as I'm concerned, when an organization buys an IBM mainframe to run Linux somebody should be fired - but not the DP guy who bought it: his boss: the non technical guy who approved it without carefully reviewing …
Also tagged: hardware, software, linux, servers, operating systems, semiconductors, processors, paul murphy, components, sun microsystems inc, mainframes, ibm corp, intel x86, x86 server
zdnet.com » web technology News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 7, 2008
When Canada's Do Not Call registery came on-line last week it was an instant success - well, it took a bit more than two years to issue the outsourcing contract for it, nine months to get it working on Linux, and …
Also tagged: internet, web, site, marketing, linux, phone, web technology, web site, public relations, paul murphy, telemarketing, error message, bell canada, corporate communications, marketing research, do not call, telecom and utilities, advertising and promotion, channel management, web site development
zdnet.com » hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 29, 2008
The most important thing to know about the appliance computing culture is that it's not interested in computers or computing - these things are seen purely as means to an end: a business end. by Paul Murphy
Also tagged: hardware, application, productivity, servers, computer, paul murphy, mainframes
zdnet.com » software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 13, 2008
A review of job openings at major American employers shows that there is no "Unix salary premium" but there is a 15% or so skills premium reflecting the typical Unix sysadmin's ability to fill other roles - like those …
Also tagged: hardware, microsoft windows, software, linux, servers, operating systems, unix, wintel, payscale, paul murphy, salary, system administrator, sun solaris, outliers
zdnet.com » software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 1, 2008
An introduction to the "human resources" component of the typical data processing center we've been exploring. by Paul Murphy
Also tagged: financial, hardware, software, storage, project manager, servers, data management, databases, enterprise software, experience, paul murphy, data center, data centers, mainframes, ibm mainframe, ibm corp, ibm db2, ibm ims, ibm cics, business experience
zdnet.com » data management News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jun 27, 2008
CICS and IMS, IBM's two of IBM's three original software products are still going strong - and so is the culture that adopted them in 1969. by Paul Murphy
Also tagged: hardware, software, memory, storage, servers, finance, data management, databases, card, enterprise software, gl, disk, paul murphy, data centers, payroll, mainframes, ibm mainframe, ibm corp, operational accounting, payroll solutions, ibm ims, ibm cics
zdnet.com » hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jun 13, 2008
The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy
Also tagged: hardware, software, memory, job, mainframe, cpu, environment, operating systems, unix, computer, flash memory, operating system, machine, program, paul murphy, cobol, apl, ibm mainframe, instruction set, ibm corp, jcl, system 360
zdnet.com » hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 31, 2008
This is the 3rd excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: T Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots part One Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of …
Also tagged: hardware, servers, card, paul murphy, mainframes, ibm mainframe, ibm corp