Tech Crowd Struts Its Stuff ...
Computerworld -
... at the Demo 2006 conference with an eye to the near future. You didn't have to wander far in the tightly packed pavilion on the grounds of the sprawling Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix last week to get a glimpse of the gadgets, software and services that were being rolled out for IT's sharp-eyed perusal. And there was a little something for everybody.
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Don't deploy a wireless LAN ...
... with lowest-common- denominator technology. That's when lower-speed 802.11b devices drag down performance for end users with 802.11g hardware, says David Confalonieri, vice president of corporate marketing at Extricom Inc. in New York. The Wi-Fi standard's backward-compatibility requirement devolves an entire WLAN to 802.11b speeds
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Extricom's 24-port switch prevents 802.11g slowdowns. |
Database failures are so . . .
. . . yesterday, thanks to virtualization. Alan McMillan, CEO of Toronto-based Avokia Inc., had words of hope for Demo attendees worried about Web application reliability: "True continuous availability of databases is possible by virtualizing the data layer." Avokia protects online transactions by running its apLive software on an application server. The software grabs the reads and writes before they hit the database, caches them and then immediately sends the data to fail-over systems that can be located more than 1,000 miles away. McMillan claims that no data is ever lost, even if there is a hard crash of your primary database server. He also estimates that by using apLive, you can reduce the number of servers needed for applications by more than half. Avokia's tool works with DB2, Informix, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases. It's written in Java, but Avokia will add a .Net version in June. Pricing is $225,000 per application for up to 32 CPUs.
Help your help desk to help hapless ...
... end users. You can start by considering giving help desk staffers the Support Appliance from NetworkStreaming Inc.
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NetworkStreaming's appliance queues up PC problems for help desk staffers. |
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