Justgiving, which hosts Stephen's online fundraising page, said its engineers had to "work quickly" to boost server capacity after a sharp increase in visitors to the site.
Virtualization, which McKinsey says can boost server utilization to 18% from 10%, lets you treat one machine like many, by carving the servers into many virtual engines, so that software can maximize power from one machine and add scalability.
As James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services observed recently at a Google-hosted data-center-efficiency summit, there is no Moore's Law for power — while servers become progressively more powerful (and cheaper to deploy) and software boosts server productivity, the cost of energy (as well as water, needed for cooling) stays constant or rises.
After frantically boosting server capacity, the site attracted 85,000 players and, at least in the early part of the season, tallied 7 million page views a week.
Earlier this week, the U.S. firm revealed plans to expand its datacenter in Singapore as part of an ongoing initiative to boost its server capacity in Asia.
The same is true of IPTV: there is probably not much money to be made in set-top boxes, but it could help to boost sales of server software.Follow thatIt must be galling for Microsoft that no new market it enters could possibly be as lucrative as the operating-system business a business that has, after all, been declared an illegal monopoly in both American and European courts.
To provide this latest update, the OPM also gave its Web site a server boost, after it had been crashing each of the last three days due to surges in traffic.
VMware's software creates virtual computers inside a server, boosting the efficiency of data centers and driving down the cost of servers.
He insists that it will boost demand for servers in high-value applications such as transaction processing and databases, where centralisation is indispensable.The corollary to Mr Joy's quest for simplicity is that, as technology becomes ever more accessible to ever more people, those people become ever more reliant on it.
Virtualization has been proved to boost utilization of individual servers, particularly those powered by multicore processors.
Simply put, network appliances are task-specific computer servers that boost computer processing by separating software applications, such as inventory management, from data storage or printing.
