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How to run multiple Adobe Air apps Tweetdeck

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Twitter columns can get pretty busy if your tweeting from multiple accounts. I wanted to find the benefits of utilizing 2 display monitors for separate accounts or in some cases the same accounts with unique columns per screen for tweets …

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Logicworks Launches infiniCloud™ 2.0, Expanding Capabilities for Managed Security and Private Cloud Solutions

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

New York, NY – June 7th, 2011 – With thousands of IT professionals, technology enthusiasts, and cloud computing vendors converging on New York City’s Javits Convention Center this week for the annual Cloud Expo, Logicworks will announce a new release …

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Posted in Open Source, Opinion, RDBMS, Software

Open Source, Developers and the Database

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

I will discuss the database layer and at some point in the topic what open source tools are currently in use on some of the biggest media sites today.  I myself have been a systems engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL …

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Posted in Datacenters, Opinion, Software, Virtualization

Cloud Computing mission critical apps

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Sites including Quora, Reddit, Hootsuite and location tracker FourSquare have been affected by outages at Amazon’s cloud computing centers in which they rely on to provide their service.  In a recent status update on Amazon it appears these services are …

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Posted in Datacenters, Hardware, Opinion, Storage, Virtualization

High Performing for Big Data

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

The newly acquired Isilon products from EMC have revved up their ranges by adding new systems offering as much as twice the file throughout for top-end S200 systems.  The new said systems are capable of delivering over 1.4 million NFS …

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Benchmarking the Cloud

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

A positive experience with cloud computing starts with the choice of the best vendor.  There are a variety of options in the industry competing to win your business. GatheringClouds is powered by Logicworks, a hosting and cloud computing company based …

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Netcraft releases February 2011 Web Server Survey

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Are more people using Apache? With 9.6M new hostnames  there is a 1% point increase in the market share this year from a survey of 284,842,077 site responses. Reports from Netcraft sourced here are shown indicating that a significant contribution …

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Posted in Hardware, Open Source, Servers, Software, Storage, Virtualization

Cloud and thin clients, the past is future

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Cloud – repurpose your old machine with Jolicloud 1.1, download. Recycle any computer with a useable lightweight web operating system. For those that are waiting to try out Google chrome OS, this is the product available. While there are no …

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