5 posts and columns on migration

Twitter Brags of Successful Data Center Migration

in Social on March 21, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT

Twitter, after years of fighting the Fail Whale, has recently made major changes under the hood to ensure its messaging service will stay online. Its engineering and operations teams coordinated a massive effort starting last September to migrate Twitter not once, but twice, shifting 20 TB of tweets and live traffic-serving from a first data center to a second testing center to a third “final nesting ground.”

IBM Brings the Cloud to New York City

in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Big Blue will consolidate the data center operations of 14 agencies in the first phase of a plan the city hopes will save $100 million over five years.

Windows 7 Upgrade Made Easy

in The Mossberg Solution on October 13, 2009 at 3:16 pm PT

If you’re considering moving your old PC to Windows 7, a $15 program will do the heavy lifting for you.
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Upgrading from XP to Windows 7

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on July 29, 2009 at 2:54 pm PT

Walt Mossberg answers questions about upgrading a Windows XP computer to Windows 7.

A Problem Has Been Detected With Your Classified Mission. Windows Has been Shut Down to Prevent Damage to Your Computer.

in News on May 25, 2009 at 10:11 am PT

How slow are government agencies at adopting new technologies? So slow that the U.S. Army is planning a major upgrade of its information systems–to Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS. Though Windows 7 is expected at market by the end of the year, the United States military has set that as a deadline for its migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista and from Office 2003 to Office 2007.
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