Please note: the following is personal commentary and is not representative of my employers or anyone elses opinions. Being in the IT services industry for over two decades, I’ve seen a noticeable decline in margin from small consulting to large government contracts. This once lucrative high margin business is struggling There are several contributors, some [...]
deltacloud is an interesting attempt to give systems administrators some flexibility in their choice of cloud systems.. We all know choice is good and competition is better, so this tool is extremely useful, it allows abstraction of the provisioning layer, very similar to the way SOA allows abstraction of Application interfaces I’m going to be [...]
Business week reports on an interesting proposition by Intel that could save data center owners millions in cooling costs This is a wonderful idea, Intel’s high end 130 watt CPUs have a TDP close to 100F already and current server based systems can support intake temperatures in the high 80s or above.. The days of [...]
I need to preface this entry with the statement that i work for HP Enterprise services, none of these comments are made in a representative capacity and have not been authorized or approved by HP. All views are my own and based on public information only With HP’s announcement that it is going to move [...]
Oracle has been extremely good at maximizing revenue from its corporate customers, who spend millions every year to use the current releases of Oracle RDBMS and SOA products. It’s a commonly held belief that Ellison prices his products at one dollar less than the cost of moving to a competitors product, therefore maximizing revenue.. It’s [...]
AMD, intel’s only real desktop CPU competition is on a steady decline. Unable to spend the massive amounts on R&D that intel can do so easily, it has fallen further and further behind. It won’t be too long before it returns to the bit player it used to be in the 90s, selling cheap “also [...]
While browsing reddit in the small hours, I found something that I’ve been waiting for for a while now.. A simple free CUDA based brute force hash calculator. After reading the article here, I downloaded the commandline tool and fired it up.. My two GPUs can process 2 billion hashes a second, which equates to [...]
Before we go any further, I’d like to point out that I’m not privy to any confidential information relating to the topic of this post and that everything here is based on public press releases and commentary. As I’ve discussed in previous blog entries, Oracle’s co-CEO has it in for his old employer, he’s now [...]
The return of inflation?
the BBC just reported on the UK’s current rate of inflation. I don’t believe the US numbers will be significantly different in reality, although I suspect that the US numbers are more heavily manipulated so as to give the Fed more room to maneuver . With a rise in inflation, we’re going to see a [...]