Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in datacentres and storage facilities has earned another proof point — a computing cluster in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet has ranked number 58 overall for performance among the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world.
Lawyers are warning businesses to be wary of pushing software implementation timelines after the High Court knocked back a claim by Dunedin-based Atlas Specialty Metals against implementation partner KPMG.
In February a group of technology vendors, including BEA Systems, Google, IBM and Oracle, formed the OpenAjax Alliance, with the goal of promoting the popular AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web development technique. Since then, more vendors, such as Sun Microsystems, have joined and the alliance has launched its OpenAjax Hub project to boost interoperability among AJAX libraries.