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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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stinkymountain writes:
Writer John Brandon spent two days at Microsoft Research Labs in Redmond and got an inside look at some pretty interesting projects under development, including a robotic receptionist, a new type of touch screen for people with fat fingers, and an electronic table that allows multiple people to collaborate in real time.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120108-10-microsoft-research-projects.html?page=1
Brandon also talks about some of these research projects on this NPR podcast:
> http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/
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stinkymountain writes:
Writer James Gaskin offers an interesting take on AI research...
``If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment.
On the other hand, every time you search the Web, get a movie recommendation from NetFlix, or speak to a telephone voice recognition system, tools developed chasing the great promise of intelligent machines do the work.''
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2008/062308-artificial-intelligence.html?nwwpkg=slideshows
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stinkymountain writes:
Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Server 2008 delivers advancements in speed, security and management, but its virtualization and network-access control features come up short, according to Tom Henderson of Extreme Labs. Henderson tested gold code of WS08, which will be released officially on Wednesday. http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/022108-windows-2008-server-test.html
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stinkymountain writes:
Five years after 9/11, you'd think all of the nation's first responders would be on a state-of-the-art wireless network that would enable police, fire and other emergency personnel to talk to each other in case of a disaster. But they're not. This Network World investigative story describes why so little progress has been made.
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2006/090406-s ept11-first-responders.html.
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stinkymountain writes:
Is New Orleans bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina with the most advanced telecom system in the country? According to Network World, carriers have invested billions to rebuild the wired and wireless networks in the city, and businesses are taking advantage of new, advanced telecom services.
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2006/081406-k atrina-rewiring-neworleans.html.
