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Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?
Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.
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Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?
As storage systems grow larger and larger, protecting their data for long-term storage is becoming ever more challenging.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization
Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.
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Software Development with Code Maps
Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
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Simplicity Betrayed
Emulating a video system shows how even a simple interface can be more complex—and capable—than it appears.
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Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
Elastic computing has great potential, but many security challenges remain.
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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.
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A View of Cloud Computing
Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.
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CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense
The battle is bigger than most of us realize.
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Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward
Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan discuss the origin and evolution of the Google File System.
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Software Model Checking Takes Off
A translator framework enables the use of model checking in complex avionics systems and other industrial settings.
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
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Power-Efficient Software
Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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