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Welcome to LQ Consulting

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Welcome to LQ Consulting

At LQ Consulting, our goal is to help you realize your Open Source strategy. We have the experience and dedication needed to ensure your Open Source stack is efficient, stable and productive. Our philosophy is that your IT infrastructure shouldn’t be a burden, it should be a differentiator. We participate in many Open Source projects and are dedicated to supporting Open Source, while realizing that current business needs sometimes necessitate the use of proprietary applications.

We offer a variety of services and have the ability to implement, configure, support and optimize a wide assortment of Open Source technologies. Contact sales for more information on working with LQ Consulting. If you are a current client, visit our support center.

Click here if you’ve registered a domain with LQ Consulting and would like to manage it.

via Welcome to LQ Consulting | LQ Consulting.

Information explosion: how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation

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On the other hand, the asymmetrical nature of most broadband solutions available to consumers in the US and Europe and a stagnation in their speed encourages only consumption at the “lower” levels of that stack. Companies that need both the ability to transmit and receive data over distance can usually afford to pay for symmetrical high-speed network links, while consumers (at least in the US) typically can pick from two choices for Internet access—DSL or cable. Both access methods typically provide plenty of download bandwidth for Netflixing and iTunesing and YouTubeing, but comparatively tiny upload bandwidth for sending data (most DSL and cable Internet plans have upload speeds that are less than 25 percent of the download speeds).

This asymmetry of access leads us to a strange place, where most folks have the ability to store and create more amazing things than ever before, while at the same time they lack the ability to quickly and easily share any of those things with each other.

via Information explosion: how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation.

SPARC T4 looks to be good enough to stave off defections to x86, Linux

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For those who are still members of the Sparc/Solaris installed base—those who haven’t headed for x86 or Itanium already—the T4 is potentially good news. It provides a way to preserve investments in existing Solaris skills and software while getting a significant performance boost over the year-old T3. The T4 will likely stop some defections, buy Oracle time as it prepares its next generation of processor, and reduce the company’s dependence on reselling Fujitsu SPARC 64 systems to run its own database.

via SPARC T4 looks to be good enough to stave off defections to x86, Linux.

PC market downshifting, says Gartner

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The big news in Gartner’s report is that Dell passed Acer to take over the second place position in the global PC market behind perennial leader Hewlett-Packard.

It’s the first time Dell has held the second-place spot in Gartner’s rankings since the fourth quarter of 2008. Gartner credits Dell’s investment in enterprise PC feature upgrades for its improvement.

via PC market downshifting, says Gartner – Computerworld.

The Five Levels of ISP Evil

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This is a serious allegation, but it’s the tip of the iceberg. I’m not sure if everyone understands the levels of sneakiness that service providers can engage in. So, while I’m no expert (as we are an ISP who doesn’t do these things), but as a broad overview, here is my quick guide to the five levels of ISP evil, and the various “opportunities to monetize customers” that we’ve passed on:

via Sonic.net CEO Blog » Blog Archive » The Five Levels of ISP Evil.