Category Archives: Blue Shell News

Met Office gets £97m supercomputer

The Following is an excerpt was written by Colin Barker from zdnet , it is interesting that this beast will be running Linux all be it Crays version of it which I think speaks Volumes. Why not call us for a … Continue reading

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Still Worried About switching to Linux ?

Turin’s local authorities have decided to switch to open source and entirely ditch all the Microsoft products, saving alot of money to the local government. The mission of this move is to get rid of proprietary software, make Turin one … Continue reading

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Linux Nears Total Domination of the Top500 Supercomputers

It’s always been fun watching Linux claim a bit more of the Top500 with each successive ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, but with this week’s release of the Top500 list’s 43rd edition, it’s beginning to look like the free and open source … Continue reading

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Blue Shell Sign Support Contract With Guinness Partnership

Blue Shell Limited has today signed a contract with the Guinness Trust Housing Association to Restructure their Solaris environment and migrate the various divisions onto one system with Geo Cluster from Oracle across 2 sites thus offering high availability.

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End of Support for Windows XP

With the withdrawal of support from Microsoft for Windows XP from 8th of April 2014 a lot of companies were left wondering exactly what that meant for them. It basically means that any security or operating bugs in the XP … Continue reading

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Blue Shell Limited Launches

Blue Shell Limited is launched with the aim of changing and improving the way a company operates its IT infrastructure. In this modern day world many companies find the day to day running of their IT systems time consuming, costly … Continue reading

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