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  • Internet Explorer 9 puts Microsoft back on top, says analyst

    Last fall, Sinofsky said the internal build of IE9 scored 32 out of 100.The Acid3 benchmark checks how closely a browser follows certain standards, particularly specifications for web 2.0 applications, as well as standards related to DOM (Document…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Rendering • Javascript • Browsers • Benchmarks • Architect • Acceleration

  • Intel boosts performance of small network storage

    LG said that in benchmark tests, its N4B2 NAS server equipped with the Atom platform allows up to 20 users to simultaneously stream high definition video at up to 30Mbit/sec within a local network.The Atom-processor platform features six PCI…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Targeted • Processing • Hyperthreading • Electronics • Controller • Atom

  • SAN accelerator appliance coming from FalconStor and Violin

    FalconStor accelerator combines its Network Storage Server (NSS) Gateway, storage management software, and a 4TB Violin 1010 flash memory appliance to create a virtual SAN from which data can be served.FalconStor claims that in benchmark tests, an…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Gateway • Fibre Channel • Cache • Attached • Array • Appliance

  • Devil Mountain 'CTO' revealed to be tech writer's creation

    I resurrected it a few years back in an effort to separate my sometimes controversial editorial contributions to InfoWorld from the hard research content I was developing as part of Devil Mountain Software.What began as a simple email exchange of…
    22 February 2010
    Tags: Talked • Readers • Man • Interview • Infoworld • Exist

  • VMware founder backs network virtualisation startup

    Nicira's founding team comes out of Stanford University, where Greene's husband and VMware co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, is a professor in computer science.Nicira investors also include the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz formed by two…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: Vegas • University • Science • Founder • Deployments • Capital

  • Microsoft Windows 7 steams ahead, XP drops share

    Microsoft's Windows 7 took just three months to reach a penetration benchmark that Vista needed almost a year to make, web measurement firm NetApplications.com said today. Microsoft's Windows 7 took just three months to reach a penetration…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Record • Windows Vista • Percentage • Decline • Benchmark • Operating Systems

Latest Features

  • Apple iPad offers IT department opportunities

    There will be of course many tasks that will always be faster or indeed only possible on a desktop/laptop than the iPad, but as a high speed, highly portable (and highly desirable) media consumption device' the Apple iPad will set the benchmark by…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Tablet • Skill • Presentations • Opportunities • Gadget • Covering

  • Say 'No' to SQL

    Google calls its BigTable, the other role model for many NoSQL adherents, a "distributed storage system for managing structured data.They can blow through enormous amounts of data.Hypertable, an open-source column-based database modelled upon…
    02 July 2009
    Tags: Databases • Mysql • Facebook • San Francisco • Object • Oriented

  • Which operating system is best for SSDs?

    Winslow says benchmark testing on XP and Vista indicated that the less-efficient XP machines show a 10 percent improvement in random input/output operations per second using an SSD instead of a hard drive, while Vista showed a 25 percent…
    12 December 2008
    Tags: Flash Memory • Hard Drive • Mac Os • Boot • Spin • Manufacturer

  • 5 easy ways to commit career suicide

    Even if you had difficulties with someone, you still could say, "Thanks for teaching me how to benchmark an Active Directory environment. BANG! Without warning, the rifle discharged, tearing a hole through the floorboard of the car of a US Army…
    16 May 2008
    Tags: Active Directory • Error • Guest • Car • Trouble • Relationships

  • Smart array may signal storage shift

    But there are many other vendors that publish their own benchmark results, including Fujitsu, HP, IBM, and Sun. Xiotech has also filed SPC-1 (random I/O) and SPC-2 (throughput) benchmark results for review, and it seems that the Emprise line has…
    24 April 2008
    Tags: Inch • Disk Drives • Controllers • Techniques • Seagate • Arrays

  • The WLAN wars are back - with a vengeance

    Large-scale tests are not feasible, and reproducible benchmark results are usually not possible.Moreover, current benchmark applications often don't represent the reality that needs to be modelled before the big installation takes place, although…
    17 April 2008
    Tags: Motorola • Centralised • Decisions • Ap • Wlans • Aps

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  • Check-list for the economic green datacentre

    Quoted power ratings may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but with The Green Grid working on efficiency standards, you will soon be ready to calculate, benchmark and implement best practices. Steve Yellen, vice president of product and…
    19 February 2008
    Tags: Electricity • Datacentres • Cooling • Institute • Confusion • Economic

  • Cutting the costs of VoIP

    In Nemertes' benchmark research, 55 percent of the 120 IT executives who participated said they started their VoIP implementations within the past two years. What companies spend on VoIP depends largely on how large their deployments are, which…
    03 September 2007
    Tags: Stations • Category • Sessions • Deployments • Resolve • Cost Savings

  • Case Study: NASA World Wind uses Isilon IQ for 3D imaging of Earth

    Until there is some kind of benchmark comparison available though, between Google's disk storage infrastructure and Ision's clustered storage we won't know for sure.What we do know is that you can buy Isilon IQ clusters today.
    22 March 2007
    Tags: Seamless • Satellite • Zoom • Delivery • Clustered • Raw

  • Use virtual benchmarking with WLANs

    Wireless is difficult to test - but a virtual benchmark can give you a chance to measure things reliably. This makes benchmarking in an absolute sense quite difficult, as I previously discussed in columns about benchmarking and about dealing with…
    02 January 2007
    Tags: Wire • Interference • Subject • Configured • Craig • Aps

  • Benchmark wireless LANs

    The key parameter we evaluate when running a benchmark isn't throughput or rate alone, but rather the throughput obtained when testing a given combination of client and access point at a given distance.
    26 December 2006
    Tags: Evaluate • Wired • Wlans • Note • Distance • Throughput

  • Case Study: When it comes to IT energy costs, little steps can save a lot

    Any data is better than no data," Froutan said, adding that he suspects he will still have to do is his own testing to supplement any vendor-supplied benchmark results.Server makers now provide energy-use data, but they don't report that…
    27 October 2006
    Tags: Automated • Utilities • Rates • Cent • Workload • Workloads

Reviews

  • Intel Core i7 980X review

    On CineBench, we saw a CPU benchmark of 21296 CB which is about 25 percent higher than the i7-965. The above benchmark of Crysis was seen with a screen resolution of 1024x768 at Ultra High graphics and anti-aliasing disabled.
    19 March 2010

  • HP Compaq 8100 Elite review

    Graphics are integrated, and it runs 32-bit Windows 7 Professional, though a downgrade path is also provided to Windows XP Professional.Our review unit already had the Windows XP downgrade applied so we couldn't test its performance in Futuremark…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Windows Xp • Slots • Slot • Intel Core • Connections • Business Users

  • MSI Wind Top AE2220 review

    Neither the MSI Wind Top AE2220 nor the AE2010 are strong in the gaming department: The former achieved only 9.7 frames per second on PC World's Unreal Tournament 3 gaming benchmark (2560 x 2100 resolution, high quality), and the latter wouldn't…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Wind • Usb Ports • Gaming • Category • Bluray • Allinone

  • Verbatim SSD ExpressCard 64GB review

    Pop it in the slot, and it sits flush so you'd barely know it was there.We alighted upon the 64GB version of the Verbatim SSD ExpressCard, seeing the possibilities of shoehorning the complete and corpulent Windows 7 operating system into a…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Slot • Interfaces • Hd • Flash Memory • Boot • Benchmark

  • G-Technology G-Drive 2TB review

    Comparable to a pocket USB hard drive here, it had read/write speeds of 27.4MB/s and 20MB/s respectively.FireWire 800 has been the fastest hot-swappable data bus until very recently, and the G-Drive proved pretty quick here, averaging a 62.6MB/s…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Metal • Hard Drive • Firewire • Cooling • Chassis • Bus

  • Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z review

    In our WorldBench 6 benchmark suite the PC recorded fast times in all the individual applications. The Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z is an all-in-one desktop PC that's designed to save space yet still provide good performance when running office…
    09 February 2010
    Tags: Slot • Recorded • Metal • Frame • Editing • Ata

White Papers

  • IT Service Management: Metrics that Matter

    This whitepaper provides insights on how companies can improve their performance High performing IT organizations didn't get that way by accident, as revealed in a recent benchmark study by the IT Process Institute (ITPI).
    23 February 2009
    Tags: Develop • Controls • Service Management • Organizations • Benchmark • Improve Performance

  • Overcoming the Challenges of Data Migration

    Use this guide to benchmark your current approach and keep your projects on track. Use this guide to benchmark your current approach and keep your projects on track. Because of the challenges data migration brings, too many organisations are still…
    10 October 2008
    Tags: Projects • Migration • Guide • Leaders • Errors • Benchmark

  • Benchmark Results: Scalability of Alfresco Content Management System on Unisys ES7000

    Unisys provided Alfresco with a Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server, EMC2 CX3-80 storage Subsystem, and related equipment to benchmark the scalability of Alfrescos Content Management System (CMS) on enterprise–class equipment.
    09 January 2008
    Tags: Rate • Documents • Repository • Equipment • Benchmark • Load

  • Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Performance Measurement and Tuning

    The workloads used are chosen to exercise a specific subsystem; any measurements provided should not be construed as a benchmark. This IBM Redbook examines performance measurement and tuning for running Linux as a z/VM guest on IBM eServer zSeries…
    11 October 2007
    Tags: Investment • Kernel • Vm • Guest • Guidance • Tuning

  • Turning Challenges into Opportunities in the Data Center

    Such standards could also promote more competition in energy efficiency between vendors as they seek to post better scores on the benchmark tests. Data centres are an integral part of the engine driving todays economy, but theyre becoming…
    07 September 2007
    Tags: Ratio • Output • Measure • Opportunities • Energy • Metrics

  • The SMB Challenge: Sharpening your competitive edge through smart use of technology

    First and foremost, according to Gartner's 2006 Worldwide IT Benchmark Mid-Year Review, IT must advocate more forcefully for its own needs. SMBs face a challenging competitive environment. Sandwiched between the resource-rich giants of the industry…
    09 July 2007
    Tags: Smb • Gartner • Opportunities • Picture • Growth • Organizations

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