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WikitipHandhelds gaining laptop-level powerHandheld computers, which have largely been regarded as the playthings of the technical and corporate elite, are gaining the raw computing power to become highly functional devices. As a result, they are starting to merge with portables. On the one side, portables running full desktop operating systems (e.g., the Vaio UX and Asus Eee PC) are shrinking to handheld or near-handheld size. On the other, new low-power processing and nonvolatile memory chips are providing desktop-level computing and storage power to handhelds. These handhelds have the power to compete with desktops in terms of real productivity, while offering the advantage of computing anywhere, anytime, rather than just on a desk. Enterprises need to push the vendors into developing hardware that supports productivity rather than just glitz and encourage knowledge workers to leverage the advantages of the new platforms to improve both their lifestyles and productivity. |
Featured Case Study
Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. |
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Featured How-To Note |
Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center. | |||
