Saturday, January 27th, 2007
It is true…according to an article on CNET online titled “Inside the Lucasfilm data center”, their datacenter has the total capacity of 11.38 petabits per second. Of course this is theoritical…but impressive none the less. In the story “Kevin Clark, Lucasfilm’s director of IT operations, said, the data center “far exceeds” the computing power of [...]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Beginning in February, Symantec’s will provide Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) as a free add-on to Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007 products. According to this article in InfoWorldThis zero-day protection tool will look at the behavior of programs running on the computer in order to decide whether they are [...]
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Although its an Alpha release MYSQL’s new storage engine called Falcon will provide a very good alternative for large Web 2.0 applications running on web farms. The article in InfoWorld points out that “the storage engine is geared for high-performance environments while still supporting transactional and logging requirements, according to MySQL.”
