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English to Japanese: How to Choose a Server for Your Small Business General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: Computers (general)
Source text - English How to Choose a Server for Your Small Business
Small Business Buying Guides
By Michael Brown, PCWorld
Mar 22, 2012 10:00 am
So, your business has grown large enough that you need your first server. Congratulations! Acquiring a server is a big decision, so some trepidation is understandable. This guide will explain the basic principles of the technology, help you decide which class of server will best fit your needs, and give you some ballpark pricing, so you don’t overspend or acquire a product that’s insufficient for your needs.
I’ll also explore the chief alternative to running your own server--relying on the cloud--and provide a primer on one of today’s hottest server trends: virtualization. You’ll find this guide useful even if you ultimately decide to hire an IT consultant to analyze your requirements and make a purchase recommendation.
Server Basics
Although a small server might look no different from a high-end desktop PC, the machines are designed for very different tasks. A desktop computer is designed for one person who needs a user-friendly operating system to run desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, an email client, and a Web browser. A server runs a specialized operating system designed to support many users. It’s engineered to run multiuser applications such as email, messaging, and print servers; shared calendar programs; databases; and enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software.
A server also makes it easy for your employees to share data and collaborate, since it operates as a central repository for all of your documents, images, contacts, and other important files. It can host a company intranet, for sharing information with your employees quickly and economically. Set up a virtual private network, and you and your employees can access the data on the server remotely from anywhere you have Internet access. On top of that, a server can automatically back up your desktop and laptop systems, so you’ll never lose critical data if one machine fails or is lost or stolen. Servers are designed to be reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant, with redundant storage options. If you expect your business to expand, choose a server that’s scalable and can grow with you.
If you operate a small to medium-size business, the question isn’t "Do I need a server?" but "Which type of server do I need?" Before we get into that, however, let's address the number-one alternative to operating and maintaining an on-site server: relying on the cloud.
The Cloud Alternative
Why not put everything in the cloud? Services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Hosting offer a number of benefits. For starters, they don't involve a significant capital outlay, and you won’t need an IT staff to manage the server. You won’t need to worry about the equipment or software becoming outdated or obsolete, either. In the days when businesses relied on big-iron mainframes, this strategy was called "time sharing." And the cloud is burdened with many of the same limitations as that model was.
The stability and reliability of whichever service provider you choose is your first and most important concern. If that firm goes belly-up or experiences a disaster, your business could quickly grind to a halt. What’s worse is that you could temporarily or permanently lose access to all your data. If you lose your connection to the Internet, you’ll be cut off from your applications and data, and your employees won’t be able to share files. You could lose the ability to manage your business until your Internet connection is restored. And if your business uses large files, and your broadband connection is too slow, your operation’s productivity will suffer.
Storing your data on equipment outside your immediate control also brings up privacy and security concerns. And although you’re not paying for an IT staff, ongoing maintenance, and investments in new capital equipment directly, you’re still incurring a share of those costs indirectly--they’re reflected in the fees you’re paying the service provider. The cloud is no cure-all.
Choose the Right Server for Your Needs
The big names in the server market are Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, and Oracle. Choosing the right server depends in large measure on the applications you intend to run on it. If all you need is file sharing, automated client backup, and light-duty remote access for PCs (typically ten or fewer), consider a NAS or even a Windows Home Server machine; HP, Netgear, QNAP, Seagate, and Synology are the major players in this arena. If your business has more than ten employees using computers, if you need to operate an email or print server, manage a complex database, or run sophisticated server-based applications (such as ERP or CRM), if you have very large storage requirements, or if you require large-scale virtualization capabilities, you’ll want a more robust option such as a tower, rack, or blade server.
A Virtual-Machine Primer
Before I go into a detailed explanation of each of those server types, here’s a quick primer on virtualization for anyone who might be unfamiliar with the concept. Small to medium-size businesses have been behind the curve when it comes to adopting virtualization to date, but the technology can deliver significant benefits to companies of nearly any size because it allows the enterprise to make more efficient use of IT resources.
Virtualization enables one server to behave as several servers, each with its own operating system and unique set of applications. A virtual machine consists solely of software, yet it has all the components of a physical machine: It has a motherboard, a CPU, a hard disk, a network controller, and so on. The operating system and other applications run on a virtual machine just as they would on a physical machine--they see no difference between the two environments.
In virtualization, a program known as a hypervisor places an abstraction layer between the operating systems and the hardware. The hypervisor can operate multiple virtual machines with the same operating system or different OSs on the same physical server. Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware are among the top virtual-machine developers.
How does virtualization make more efficient use of your IT resources? Servers are designed to accommodate peak--versus average--loads, so they’re underutilized most of the time. In fact, the typical server utilizes only between 5 and 15 percent of its overall resources. Running several virtual machines on one physical server uses those resources more efficiently, boosting utilization to between 60 and 80 percent. Instead of operating one physical server for email, one for database management, one for your intranet, and yet another for CRM, you can run all of those applications on several virtual machines running on the same physical hardware.
Virtualization eliminates the need for additional physical servers, and the tech-support overhead, power, cooling, backup, physical space, and other requirements that go along with them. What’s more, you can deploy a new virtual server in a few minutes.
Now let's examine the various server options on today’s market, starting with the most basic.
Translation - Japanese スモールビジネスユーザーのためのサーバー購入方法
購入ガイド(スモールビジネス用)
English to Japanese: Holland's fantastic cities General field: Other Detailed field: Tourism & Travel
Source text - English Holland's fantastic cities
Holland offers you a fantastic city break experience. Whether you travel to Amsterdam or explore one of Holland's other captivating cities - Holland offers you great destinations! Do you like the arts, shopping, wining & dining, vibrant nightlife or relaxation? Find out which Dutch city suits you best and go!
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Come and explore the beautiful “Other Holland” and visit the cities of Arnhem, Nijmegen or Apeldoorn. The cities are located in the east of Holland and are surrounded by beautiful nature. Here you will find magnificent areas of natural beauty, extraordinary museums, historic towns and attractive shops.
Founded by the Romans, Nijmegen is the oldest city in Holland and is set high above the river Waal in the midst of dense woodlands and hills. In this bustling city you will find treasured historic buildings and parks. Arnhem, the award winning city centre and fashion capital of Holland, is perfect for shopping, with its modern shopping centres and specialist shops. Apeldoorn is famous for its royal palace - the former summer residence of the Dutch Royal Family and nowadays a National Museum - and also for its national park. A great way to explore the surrounding areas such as the Achterhoek, Veluwe and Rivierenland is by foot or bike.
Top 5 Things to see/do:
1. Dutch Open Air Museum
2. Palace Het Loo
3. National Park The Hoge Veluwe with Kröller-Müller Museum
4. Museum Het Valkhof
5. Scandic Sanadome
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Old canals, perfectly high culture and wonderful nature await you in the city of Den Bosch, in the south of Holland. Being less than 50 miles from Amsterdam and an easy train ride away, make it easy to combine the two! Much of the original medieval structure of Den Bosch is still intact today. Visit the St. Jan's Cathedral, which is the pride of the city. Take a boat trip underneath the city or a cycle tour along the fortifications. Besides this authentic atmosphere, Den Bosch is also famous for its vibrant events like; Burgundian's-Hertogenbosch, November Music & Bosch Winter Paradise. Visit one of little bistro's along the Korte Putstraat in Den Bosch or discover some trendy bars in the secret little streets know by the locals. Come and visit Holland's most hospitable city.
Top 5 Things to see/do:
1. St. Jan’s Cathedral
2. Binnendieze
3. The Uilenburg & Market
4. Fortifications
5. Jheronimus Bosch Art Centre
Eindhoven
Eindhoven is unmistakably the most adventurous city in the south of Holland. As the country's fifth-largest city, it offers everything you need to make life enjoyable! A bustling city centre with a huge variety of shops, numerous bars, pubs and restaurants, welcoming terraces, a lively nightlife, an overflowing events calendar and art & culture of the highest quality! The cultural nightlife in Eindhoven is booming! Stages such as the Effenaar, Dynamo, Pop-Ei, Parktheater and Plaza Futura are internationally renowned. The Van Abbemuseum hosts contemporary art and brings world-class exhibitions to Eindhoven. In short, Eindhoven is an inspiring city.
Top 5 Things to see/do:
1. Van Abbemuseum
2. The Evolution
3. Historic Open Air Museum
4. Philips first Incandescent Lamp Factory of 1891
5. PSV Eindhoven Football Stadium
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Located on the Northern coast of the Netherlands, Groningen is the lively provincial capital with its well attended markets and shops and its great variety of pubs and restaurants. Due to the enormous amount of students (55.000 out of a population of 190.000 inhabitants), Groningen is known as the "youngest" city in Holland. This explains why Groningen has a highly attractive nightlife scene. The city is also the cultural heart of Northern Netherlands with its museums, theatres and numerous festivals. See the traces of its rich past in addition to new high-profile and architectural buildings, like the famous Groningen Museum by the architect Mendini.
Rich in culture, history and architecture, young, open and hospitable, right on top of everything. Groningen will grab you immediately.
Top 5 Things to see/do:
1. The Martini Tower
2. Streets Hoge der A and Lage der A
3. Groninger Museum
4. Folkingestraat
5. The Prinsentuin
English to Japanese: NASA's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) General field: Science Detailed field: Science (general)
Source text - English SAM
The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite takes up more than half the science payload on board the Mars Science Laboratory rover and features chemical equipment found in many scientific laboratories on Earth. Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Sample Analysis at Mars will search for compounds of the element carbon, including methane, that are associated with life and explore ways in which they are generated and destroyed in the martian ecosphere.
Actually a suite of three instruments, including a mass spectrometer, gas chromatograph, and tunable laser spectrometer, Sample Analysis at Mars will also look for and measure the abundances of other light elements, such as hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, associated with life.
The mass spectrometer will separate elements and compounds by mass for identification and measurement. The gas chromatograph will heat soil and rock samples until they vaporize, and will then separate the resulting gases into various components for analysis. The laser spectrometer will measure the abundance of various isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in atmospheric gases such as methane, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. These measurements will be accurate to within 10 parts per thousand.
Because these compounds are essential to life as we know it, their relative abundances will be an essential piece of information for evaluating whether Mars could have supported life in the past or present.
Visit MSL for Scientists for technical information about SAM
English to Japanese: Bentley Announces Be Connected General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: IT (Information Technology)
Source text - English Bentley Announces Be Connected:
An Online Seminar Series Covering Breadth of Topics to Help Infrastructure Professionals Stay Abreast of Best Practices and Technology
Registration Now Open for Series That Runs June Through November
EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that registration is now open at www.Bentley.com/BeConnected for its innovative Be Connected online seminar series. Be Connected gives architects, engineers, builders, geospatial professionals, and owner-operators a chance to learn about applying information modeling from some of the world’s leading infrastructure practitioners – free of charge, in both live and OnDemand formats. The series, which takes the place of this year’s Be Conference, begins June 23.
“With over 150 best practices and product seminars, the Be Connected online seminar series is the best way for both practitioners and business leaders in infrastructure to keep up with the latest trends in practice and technology, without the time and expense required when traveling to a conference,” said Bentley’s chief marketing officer, Ed Mueller. “This is ‘professional conference-quality’ content, brought to your desktop at no charge.
Translation - Japanese 「ビー・コネクテッド」セミナー開催へ ベントレー・システムズ
English to Japanese: Storage fundamentals General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: Computers: Hardware
Source text - English Storage fundamentals
Most new computers today come with a high-capacity hard disk drive for storing the operating system, application programs and data files, a diskette drive for sharing data files with others via lower-capacity diskettes, a CD-ROM drive for installing or using software and games, and a hard disk cartridge drive for backup. Before we describe how these and similar devices work, let us cover some storage fundamentals, including those elements that are common to all secondary storage devices and types of files.
The data you are working on is stored in RAM (primary storage) in an electrical state during processing. Because RAM is an electrical state, data in RAM disappears when you turn off the power to your computer. Therefore, before you turn your microcomputer off, you must save your work onto a storage device that stores data permanently (until it is erased) - such as a diskette or a hard disk - rather than electrically. When saved to a storage device, your data will remain intact even when the computer is turned off.
The computer's operating system determines where and how data and programs are stored on the secondary storage devices.
Diskette Storage
A diskette, or floppy disk, is a removable, round, flat piece of mylar plastic that, like tape, stores data and programs as magnetized spots. A square plastic case protects the mylar disk from being touched. Diskettes are often called "floppy" because the mylar disk is flexible, not rigid.
The most common size of diskette is 3.5 inches in diameter. Larger and smaller sizes of diskettes also exist, although they are not standard on most microcomputers. Usually, one diskette drive (floppy drive) is built into the microcomputer's system cabinet.
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