Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.
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Strategic sales of more expensive servers indicates the "Band-Aid approach" of recent years is waning, analyst says.
Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention
Gus Robertson, Red Hat's vice president for South Asia-Pacific, wants to displace Unix and not Windows as the main enterprise OS but does the Linux vendor have what it takes?
Big Blue extended its lead in the second quarter of 2003, stealing a sizable slice of the global market for the powerful computers away from Sun Microsystems, a new study shows.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
IBM is taking the long view for Intel-based servers.
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