Year: 2011

  • Dell Enhances PowerEdge Server Portfolio With AMD Opteron 6200 Processors

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    Technology giant Dell introduced enhancements to its PowerEdge server portfolio with AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron 6200 Series processors for better energy efficiency and performance for enterprise applications, Web, private cloud and virtualization. The company offers the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors in its PowerEdge R715 and R815 rack servers, the PowerEdge M915 blade server and… Read more

  • Microsoft Giving Online Option in Windows 8 Upgrade Process

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    Microsoft will offer Windows 8 upgrade as an online purchase and install, a fairly radical change from the company’s traditional model of boxed software and discs. “Buying boxed software is quickly becoming the exception rather than the rule,” Christa St. Pierre, a member of the Windows Setup and Deployment team, wrote in a Nov. 21… Read more

  • Small Businesses Have Trouble Finding Qualified Employees

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    A study examining impediments to growth in the small-business sector reveals that 72 percent of small-business owners would like to expand by adding employees within the next five years, but various impediments are currently standing in their way. According to Growth and External Factors, a report prepared by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)… Read more

  • Most Common Password of 2011: 12345

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    The 25 most popular passwords in 2011 include such gems as "password" and "123456," according to an analysis of various lists and databases dumped online by hackers this year. Internet users were selecting common names, numeric sequences and keyboard layouts as their passwords online, according to the 2011 Worst Passwords of the Year list released… Read more

  • Apple iPad Tablet Rivals Picking Up Sales

    Nathan Eddy

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    Tablet sales in the United States, excluding units of Apple’s market-leading iPad device, soared to more than 1.2 million units sold from January through October and brought in $415 million in revenue at retail, according to market research company The NPD Group’s monthly Connected Handhelds Report. Total tablet industry sales, for both hardware and accessories,… Read more

  • Redundant Power Systems Within Reach for Small-Scale Data Centers

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    When I visited the data center for 1&1 Internet, a huge hosting and cloud services provider located in Lenexa, Kan., I was struck by the size of the emergency generating system. The Caterpillar diesels that power the generators are the size of locomotive engines. The four generator sets power the 40,000 servers in an N+1… Read more