This extract from BIT continues the tour of a 2002/3 Wintel data center by looking at the resumes of those working there. by Paul Murphy

Christopher Payne, Microsoft's former search chief, has sold his Seattle-based startup Positronic to eBay. Positronic was involved in machine-learning and data-mining. by Mary Jo Foley

Medicine is both science and art, say doctors. But for how long will it stay that way in a world where data rules? by Dana Blankenhorn

The move to strengthen open source and VistA is well-timed, given the new Administration's promise to increase health IT spending. Whether it can beat a city filled with lobbyists is anyone's guess. by Dana Blankenhorn

Just wanted to pop in a quick update/observation from a reader regarding my "Some like it hot" post the other day. He wanted to clarify my reference to the Arrhenius equation, which I used after the Sun exec I interviewed for the story used it to illustrate what we were...

Recently, I had a chance to exchange messages with Brent Rich, Intermedia's Director of Technical Operations. His organization has deployed a managed virtualized environment based upon Egenera's Pan Manager and a Dell hardware platform. Since I posted on the announcement of the Dell/Egenera relationship (see Egenera: New pals for PAN...

We recognize that it's not just going to be a PC on every desktop. It's going to be a broadband Internet connection in every coat pocket, regardless of where you are. That fundamentally changes things. We're still catching up to that shift. by Dana Gardner

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"The biggest bang for your dollar is in analysis and decision support based on existing data," by Dana Blankenhorn

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Not so long ago you couldn't run a reasonable size ERP on a single machine at a reasonable cost - but with today's gear you can. So why haven't we all gone back to that nice simple big machine model? I think we are - I think that's what cloud...

It is conventional wisdom that computer innards don't like excessive heat, which is why most data centers are conservatively cooled with powerful air-conditioners to a temperature range of between 68 degrees and 81 degrees Fahrenheit. This theory has even got its very own law explaining it, called the Arrhenius Equation....

I've often written on the topic of how the different layers of virtualization technology could be used to build a datacenter that makes better use of energy. So, I found it interesting when Dell's analyst relations folks sent me a copy of a paper authored by John Pflueger, Ph. D....

The core problem we've solved is the ability for our engine to redistribute the data and the computation on the fly, as these queries and analysis are being performed. ... The combination of the software-switch interconnect, which Greenplum built into the Greenplum product, and the underlying use of commodity parallel...

Customers will point to FileMaker's friendly new interface in Version 10. However, some significant improvements in the database's programming support may drive sites to upgrade, according to several FileMaker consultants. by David Morgenstern

If the business runs as smoothly as the software this gives open source a new card to play in the battle to manage large data centers and clouds. If Linux wins the top end of the market, it's hard to see where Microsoft goes from there. by Dana Blankenhorn

I visited a Kusnetzky Group client, Racemi, several weeks ago. We had a fantastic discussion of disaster recovery and all of the different approaches organizations may choose to deploy to achieve the level of availability needed for their workloads. Racemi, for those who don't know the company, offers the DynaCenter...

There's nothing like fresh-fallen snow to clear your mind. But if you can't relate to cold and white winter imagery, think about the most azure seascape you've ever gazed across or the greenest mountainside meadow in which you've daydreamed. That's my way of saying I've pretty much had it with...

Britain is moving forward with plans for a huge database tracking phone calls and emails and may even outsource it to private companies. by Richard Koman

Alex Vasilevsky, CTO of Virtual Computer, posted a tweet proclaiming that a milestone in the development of NxTop the other day (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. for more information). Since I've known Alex for quite a number of years, I just had to know what he was doing....