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Apple’s iOS has surpassed Linux as the world’s third most-used operating system, according to NetApplications. The OS, which powers all iPod Touches, iPhones, and iPads, currently holds 1.13 percent of the market, while all flavors of Linux account for only .85 percent of the market.

The most-used operating system is still Windows, the various versions of which held steady at a whopping 91.34 percent share. The second-place contender, Apple’s OS X, was slightly down at an even 5.00 percent. Windows 7 itself currently holds 15.87 percent of the market, above Vista’s 14.00 percent but well below the aging XP’s 60.89 percent.

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This news surely comes as somewhat of a blow to Linux, which has held the third-place position for the better part of the past decade. Proponents of the open-source OS have always been quick to proclaim that Linux’s time is coming – Windows Vista was supposed to spur wide-scale adoption of Linux, as was the netbook revolution – but this data confirms that it is still largely a niche OS.

Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, powers all of its extremely popular iDevices, and lately appears to have taken priority even over OS X. Apple’s recent keynotes have focused mostly on iOS 4 and 4.1 while OS X 10.7 remains unmentioned, despite evidence of its development.

This site is called Windows 7 News, so it stands to reason that we’d be more concerned with Windows 7?s marketshare than with any other OS or Windows version. Indeed, Windows 7 made headlines last month when it surpassed Windows Vista’s marketshare just ten months after its release to the public. However, it’s important to keep an eye on all competitors, big and small – though iOS doesn’t currently seem to be gaining marketshare at the expense of Windows, it’s entirely possible that tablets could begin to supplant notebooks and netbooks as the mobile computing device of choice.

Sources: Conceivably Tech, SoftPedia

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Can Data Centers exist without switches? That is what Microsoft researchers are exploring to find out. With CamCube, Microsoft Research is looking exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datacenter container.

CamCube

The operation instead is to use “low-level link orientated API” (application programming interface) that allows services to implement their own protocols. Some of the ideas involved are a virtual-machine distribution service, a caching service, an aggregation service, and more.

Camcube- Current- Status

The CamCube project explores the design of a shipping container sized data center with the goal of building an easier platform on which to build these applications. CamCube replaces the traditional switch-based network with a 3D torus topology, (Topologically, a torus is a closed surface defined as the product of two circles: S¹ × S¹) with each server directly connected to six other servers.

Current data centers, as well as proposals for future ones, use a single routing protocol to route packets between arbitrary servers. CamCube also has a base of multi-hop routing service, where it uses a link-state routing protocol that routes packets on shortest paths and exploits, where possible.

Torus_cycles

The ultimate goal of CamCube is to increase networking performance in increasingly large datacenters that Microsoft, its partners and its customers are building. By changing the internal workings of the communication link between servers using the torus topology and a directly connected interface, bypassing the switch, faster performance can be expected.

Whether this technology ever comes to fruition only Microsoft knows. But it is interesting that with all of the changes that are taking place at the software level for Microsoft, they are engaging in product design which affects hardware operations directly. Datacenters are expected to get larger and larger since so many software elements are now computerized.

Source: Zdnet

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