Sun heeft plannen bekend gemaakt om Infiniband toe te passen voor server-systemen, zo meldt de EE Times. Laat in 2003 kunnen de eerste blades en database-servers die binnen de N1 strategie vallen worden gekoppeld middels Infiniband. Standaard 10Gbit (4x) links en door Sun zelf ontwikkelde 30Gbit (12x, 3,5GB/s) links zullen worden gebruikt om verschillende systemen naadloos aan elkaar te koppelen. Goed nieuws voor de standaard, aangezien Intel en IBM hun plannen op dit gebied al hebben gematigd voor het goed en wel werd ingezet. Inifiband biedt een lagere latency dan ethernet en kan bovendien gebruikt worden om geheugen te delen. Er is wel een standaard in ontwikkeling om dat laatste ook via ethernet te kunnen, maar die kan nog wel twee jaar op zich laten wachten en wordt bovendien een stuk complexer dan Infiniband:
At Sun Network, the company publicly unveiled its N1 initiative, an multiyear effort to let users manage data centers without needing to know the particulars of the underlying systems. IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. have promoted similar concepts under initiatives called autonomic computing and the utility data center, respectively. "N1 will let us create the computer built out of the network. Servers, switches and storage devices will become like components in a data center system," said MacKay.
Sun's goal is to use N1 to increase server utilization from an average of 15 percent today to 80 percent in the future, while increasing the number of servers an individual administrator could monitor from about 30 today to more than 500. The pieces of the N1 software will arrive in stages over the next three years, MacKay said.
At Sun Network, the company publicly unveiled its N1 initiative, an multiyear effort to let users manage data centers without needing to know the particulars of the underlying systems. IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. have promoted similar concepts under initiatives called autonomic computing and the utility data center, respectively. "N1 will let us create the computer built out of the network. Servers, switches and storage devices will become like components in a data center system," said MacKay.
In deze nieuwe strategie, die gestart zal gaan worden met een Compaq Presario voor $339, probeert HP zoveel mogelijk dezelfde onderdelen in beide series te plaatsen, iets wat de productiekosten natuurlijk ten goede komt. Hierdoor probeert HP ook iets van haar verloren marktaandeel, wat het bedrijf zelf toeschrijft aan haar luwte op de retailmarkt voor de fusie, terug te winnen.
The Commerce Department said it will closely monitor ICANN over the coming year to ensure that it becomes more accountable to Internet users and does not overstep its authority, and require it to submit quarterly reports detailing its progress. ICANN must also come up with a plan to improve the security of the domain-name system by the end of the year.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is an emerging public-key cryptosystem endorsed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for U.S. government use and standardized in IEEE 1363, ANSI X9.62 and ANSI X9.63.
The specification uses a chip that can be embedded in a plastic card or an electronic device like a mobile phone. The card or mobile phone can then be held in front of a terminal and a wireless interface transits the payment information.
"We believe our investment in UPC will give us unprecedented access to the best ideas Europe has to offer," said Maria Marced, Intel vice president, sales and marketing Group, and general manager, Europe, Middle East, Africa operations. However, Intel did not disclose how much the company is investing in ILB over what period of time. The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya is one of the largest technical universities in Spain with approximately 30,000 undergraduates.
CNet, according to a source, approached Yahoo about a possible partnership for the new Download.com, but was apparently rebuffed. The theory behind the Yahoo partnership was to put Download.com in more direct competition with Digital River, an e-commerce services provider which, among other solutions, enables software vendors to hock their wares via direct download.An overhaul of Download.com should bring cheers from Wall St. and jeers from the software community.
De VECAI, de belangenvereniging van kabelexploitanten, vindt dat de Consumentenbond te vroeg is met haar harde woorden. De kabelexploitanten zijn namelijk nog in