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All the World's a stage: Layer 8’s Top 10 of 2007

Layer 8 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:52:24 -0500

At Layer 8 we get to write about all manner of tech and not-so-tech topics. Take our Top 10 stories of the year: We have articles on everything from a look at unmanned military aircraft to open source math software and a look at cursing in the workplace. Take a gander at our Top stories of the year here. Enjoy!

IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes

Layer 8 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:17:13 -0400

Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process.

The 4,000 servers that IBM will replace by making this change will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services.

This change will affect IBM's data centers in Poughkeepsie, New York, Southbury, Conn., Boulder, Col, Portsmouth, UK, Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia.

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Why we're moving back to the glass-house model

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:52:22 -0400

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A dangerous assertion on mainframe data security

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:19:01 -0400

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