Year: 2006

  • Verari Tool Creates More Efficient Data Center

    Verari Tool Creates More Efficient Data Center

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Blade server vendor Verari Systems is rolling out an enhanced version of its Verari Command Center, the latest step by the company to create a suite of hardware and software offerings designed to create flexible and dynamic data centers. VCC 3.0, announced Oct. 10, enables users to gather data—including power status, system temperature and overall… Read more

  • Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design

    Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design

    Daniel Drew Turner

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    SAN JOSE, Calif.—Asserting that power consumption consideration is “not a first-class citizen” in the current state of microprocessor design, Ted Vucurevich, chief technology officer of Cadence Design Systems, said the industry needs a common power format to help optimize power versus performance in future designs. He made his remarks at the Microprocessor Forum here, which… Read more

  • Juniper Preps Metro Ethernet Switch/Router

    Juniper Preps Metro Ethernet Switch/Router

    Paula Musich

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    Juniper Networks on Oct. 18 will seek to silence critics who bemoan the company’s lack of an Ethernet edge aggregation switch for service providers by launching its new X-Series product line. The X-Series switch/router is built to optimize both Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions and provide high-density Ethernet interfaces. The 14-slot X960 chassis can… Read more

  • Microsoft Services Chief Resigns

    Microsoft Services Chief Resigns

    John Hazard

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    Rick Devenuti, Microsoft’s services chief, announced his retirement Oct. 11. Devenuti, senior vice president, Microsoft Enterprise Services & IT since 2003, is stepping down to spend more time with his family and focus on “his next challenge,” Microsoft officials said in a statement. He is 48 years old. No successor has been identified, but one… Read more

  • Technology: Simulated Surgery

    Lisa Delgado

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    There’s one word no one wants to hear in the operating room: “Oops!” It’s a chilling thought, but surgical students have limited opportunities to practice before they enter their field. Traditionally, they hone their skills on cadavers or animals, neither of which fully prepares them for the real-world operating room. Now, a research team at… Read more

  • Ingram Micro to Distribute Bio-Optronics Solutions

    Ingram Micro to Distribute Bio-Optronics Solutions

    Scott Ferguson

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    Ingram Micro, the world’s largest distributor, has signed an agreement to distribute solutions made by Bio-Optronics, a Rochester, N.Y., software company. Specifically, Ingram, based in Santa Ana, Calif., will distribute the company’s Dynamic Hospital Suite solutions, which will help give the distributor and its VARs an expanded set of products to offer in the vertical… Read more