Utility computing is closely related to two other concepts that make it easier to treat computing gear as one gigantic pool of computing power: automation that lets computers manage themselves, and virtualisation that shields software from the...
I had to learn practices such as sharing IP addresses, sending pings, configuring subnet masks and mapping network drives. This required even more dabbling in bizarre and completely unintuitive processes, like configuring gateways and DNS servers...
Editor's choice
silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.♦ Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal This is a good combination of some breaking news and an on-the-spot interview
♦ CIO Essentials: Nerdy...
There is regularly mention of storing a music collection on a computer disk. The only certain way to do that would be to back them all up - and that takes us back to exactly where we started, with a collection of disks.
A collection of dials and gauges providing an at-a-glance analysis of business performance can be a crucial way to keep everyone in the business informed. Gavin Whatrup, group IT director at Creston, a collection of PR, advertising and direct...
IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard are hard at work, increasing the automation of their gear so that a collection of servers, storage and networking gear will automatically reconfigure themselves to adjust to changing work loads or...