http://www.cnet.com/8300-13556_1-61.html The Pervasive Datacenter en-us This blog takes a deep (and often skeptical) look at trends big and small in the world of enterprise computing Copyright 1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Tue, 13 May 2008 12:14:00 GMT HP, EDS, and the ghost of Carly http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9942682-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter One of the curses, I suppose, of knowing one's high-tech history is that way too many news items cause me to go, "Here we go again!"

The proximate tidbit this time is, of course, the news that Hewlett-Packard is acquiring services giant EDS for $13.9 billion. ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9942682-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Tue, 13 May 2008 12:14:00 GMT Gordon Haff Do we need to protect open source from the cloud? http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9939131-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter I'm out at JavaOne in San Francisco this week and one discussion I've heard popping up with some regularity is, "Do we need to do something to protect open source in a cloud computing world?" I've written about aspects of this topic at length previously. However, given ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9939131-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:00 GMT Gordon Haff Ma.gnolia as a del.icio.us alternative http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9926579-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Don't get me started on weird period-ized names.

As I've written about previously, social bookmarking hasn't advanced a whole lot. Frankly, I don't care a whole lot about the

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]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9926579-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:53:00 GMT Gordon Haff Ubuntu's Hardy Heron is here http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9925358-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter With its scheduled April 24 release of Ubuntu 8.04, which also goes by the alliterative moniker "Hardy Heron," Canonical will ship its second "long term support" (LTS) version. But the first, really, since the company and distribution became widely popular.

There's always been a ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9925358-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:00 GMT Gordon Haff Reviewing the results of a ScanCafe order http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9920072-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter I've been on a bit of a de-cluttering jag over the past year or so. Too much paper, too much "stuff" around the house. So I've been slowly dumping the junk and selling or donating the rest.

ScanCafe Bangalore office

(Credit: ScanCafe)

This includes photographs. I ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9920072-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT Gordon Haff Apple cloning: Worth it? http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9918622-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter It doesn't take much to put Apple in the news, and this afternoon's excuse is that a Miami-based company called PsyStar is selling a Mac clone.

Its Web site was down earlier--ostensibly because of the overwhelming reaction to its product. As Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports:

Before its ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9918622-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:43:00 GMT Gordon Haff Sun's Vic Falls: Two is better than one http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9915459-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Niagara 2 (formally the UltraSparc T2) was a big step forward for Sun Microsystems' chip multithreading (CMT) efforts. It's not that there was anything really wrong with its Niagara 1 predecessor, but 90-nanometer process technology imposed some fairly severe restrictions on what could be crammed into each of the ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9915459-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:16:00 GMT Gordon Haff The new hosting provider? http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9915075-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter One of the problems with putting things into categories is that as technologies and the environment change over time, those which were once separate and distinct can become much less so. But, because we've grown so accustomed to thinking of them as independent entities, we can miss that shift....

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9915075-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:21:00 GMT Gordon Haff 3Dconnexion's new 3D controller for notebooks http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9913902-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter As I've written about previously, we're starting to move beyond the familiar keyboard  and mouse/touchpad, and two-handed game controller as ways of interacting with our computer systems. In the gaming world, the motion-sensing Nintendo Wii remote is the most obvious innovation. Elsewhere, multi-touch screens, either on ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9913902-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:55:00 GMT Gordon Haff IBM: i + p = Power http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9910273-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Over the past year or so, IBM has been revamping its Systems and Technology Group (STG) organization in a major way.

We see those changes reflected in a major way with IBM's Power systems announcement Wednesday at its COMMON User Group Conference in Nashville.

Two aspects of the STG ...

]]> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9910273-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=ThePervasiveDatacenter Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:14:00 GMT Gordon Haff