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Submission + - Windows Server 2003 reaches end of life in July. Are you ready? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @03:07PM

stinkymountain writes: Lots of people refused to believe Microsoft would end support for Windows XP — but they did. Now Microsoft says it will end support for Windows Server 2003 in July. If you're running one of the estimated 10 million instances still out there, it's time to get on the stick.

Submission + - The last days of Unix: Once dominant OS 86ed by x86es (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:10PM

stinkymountain writes: Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline, according to Network World. Jean Bozman, research vice president at IDC Enterprise Server Group, attributes the decline to platform migration issues; competition from Linux and Microsoft; more efficient hardware with more powerful processor cores; and the abundance of Unix-specific apps that can now also run on competitor’s servers.

Submission + - Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out (linuxmint.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @01:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux Mint blog today announced the full release of Linux Mint 15 'Olivia.' Here are the release notes and a list of new features. As before, it's available with either MATE or Cinnamon as a desktop environment. The included version of MATE has been upgrade to 1.6, which saw many old and deprecated packages replaced with newer technologies. Cinnamon has gone to 1.8, which improved the file manager, added support for 'desklets' (essentially desktop widgets), and completed the transition away from Gnome Control Center to Cinamon's own settings panel. Other new features of Linux Mint 15 include improved login screen applications (one of which is an HTML greeter that supports HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL), a tool developed from the ground up to manage software sources in Mint, and a vastly improved driver manager. The project's website sums it up simply: 'Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project.'

Submission + - Internet2 turns 15. Has it delivered? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain on Monday April 11, 2011 @09:43AM

stinkymountain writes: With nearly $100 million in new funding, Internet2, the faster, better Internet reserved for research and education, has embarked on an upgrade that will boost backbone capacity to a staggering 8.8Tbps and expand services to hundreds of thousands of libraries, schools and medical centers. Internet2 was created by 34 university research institutions in 1996, when the commercial and non-commercial branches of the Internet's evolutionary tree split off and went their separate ways. The mission of Internet2 was to provide reliable, dedicated bandwidth to support the ever-growing demands of the research and educational communities, and in doing so, to develop technologies that would advance the state of the 'commodity' Internet. Some say it has failed in that latter category.

Submission + - Coming Soon: Terabit Ethernet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @03:53PM

stinkymountain writes: Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products — server network interface cards, switch uplinks and switches — are expected to hit the market later this year. And standards-compliant products are expected to ship in the second half of next year, not long after the expected June 2010 ratification of the 802.3ba standard. Despite the global economic slowdown, global revenue for 10G fixed Ethernet switches doubled in 2008, according to Infonetics. And there is pent-up demand for 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, says John D'Ambrosia, chair of the 802.3ba task force in the IEEE and a senior research scientist at Force10 Networks. "There are a number of people already who are using link aggregation to try and create pipes of that capacity," he says. "It's not the cleanest way to do things...(but) people already need that capacity." D'Ambrosia says even though 40/100G Ethernet products haven't arrived yet, he's already thinking ahead to Terabit Ethernet standards and products by 2015. "We are going to see a call for a higher speed much sooner than we saw the call for this generation" of 10/40/100G Ethernet, he says. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042009-terabit-ethernet.html?ts0hb&story=ts_spmc

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