1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage X- Pack 6.3
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- One of just 43 LHD Vantage X-Packs built in total, 1986-1989
- Most powerful European specification and manual gearbox
- Elegant and rare colour scheme
- Low mileage and known history
- Full factory 6.3 litre/ 6 speed conversion with related upgrades
Website: www.kidston.com | Filesize: 614kb
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BMW Financial Services VB6-to-C# Migration Case Study
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In the past, Visual Basic (VB) upgrades were fairly painless and inexpensive because Microsoft made new versions of VB backward compatible, but things are different this time. An upgrade to .NET brings with it a radical shift in terms of architecture, design, deployment, features, and tools. The upgrade will be even more challenging if you decide to move from the forgiving VB compiler to the rigorous C# compiler. Confronted with declining vendor and community support and major migration challenges, BMW Financial Services in Dublin, Ohio set out to define a strategy that would allow us to adopt C# in an efficient and deliberate manner. Our objectives were to minimize disruption and costs and leverage the momentum of the platform change to move our capabilities forward. This article presents our strategy and some of the experiences we are encountering along the way.
Website: www.greatmigrations.com | Filesize: 86kb
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Xen Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization
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Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise. This results from an urgent need to focus on reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing infrastructure. In spite of – or indeed because of – the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. In addition to the capital expenditures to purchase them, each server in the data center costs an enterprise about an additional $10,000 per year to run, with costs including provisioning, maintenance, administration, power, real-estate, and hardware and software licenses.
Website: xen.org | Filesize: 1182kb
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Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization
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Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the interest of datacenter managers who are facing difficult power and cooling problems, the need to add more IT capacity to react to market changes, or a lack of significant capital resources. The server virtualization marketplace has been evolving rapidly over the past few years, and IDC has seen customer attitudes and stances toward virtualization mature rapidly as well. Virtualization is changing the landscape of the x86 IT world as we know it. Virtualization has made every vendor up and down the software and hardware stacks consider the impact on the architectural design of its product and the go-to-market model it uses. This changing marketplace has manifested itself with new requirements for virtualization products.
Website: www.ciol.com | Filesize: 195kb
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Understanding Full Virtualization, Paravirtualization, and Hardware Assist
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In 1998, VMware figured out how to virtualize the x86 platform, once thought to be impossible, and created the market for x86 virtualization. The solution was a combination of binary translation and direct execution on the processor that allowed multiple guest OSes to run in full isolation on the same computer with readily affordable virtualization overhead. The savings that tens of thousands of companies have generated from the deployment of this technology is further driving the rapid adoption of virtualized computing from the desktop to the data center. As new vendors enter the space and attempt to differentiate their products, many are creating confusion with their marketing claims and terminology. For example, while hardware assist is a valuable technique that will mature and expand the envelope of workloads that can be virtualized, paravirtualization is not an entirely new technology that offers an “order of magnitude” greater performance.
Website: www.vmware.com | Filesize: 1431kb
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Enterprise Mashup A closer look at Mashup and its Enterprise adoption!
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Mashup – Simplified definition
• A web Mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service
• Content used in Mashup is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or so called API
• Web Mashup = API [1] + API [2] + API [N]
Website: www.indicthreads.com | Filesize: 2362kb
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Mathematics 2.0 Mashups + Mashup Mashup
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”Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform” (Tim O’Reilly)
- The web as a platform
- Users owning the data
- Encourage participation
- Rich, interactive, user-friendly interfaces (e.g. AJAX)
- The end of the software-adoption cycle (perpetual beta)
Website: download.microsoft.com | Filesize: 4615kb
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