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ScaleMP Unveils Foundation Virtual Server Aggregation Solution
ScaleMP officials announced May 25 that vSMP Foundation 3.0, which is aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, will support Intel’s Xeon 7500 series “Nehalem EX” processors and Xeon 5600 series “Westmere EP” chips. Doing so means that vSMP Foundation enables the creation of virtual SMP systems that have two to 128 physical nodes. ScaleMP…
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Don’t Expect Juniper to Invoke Rivals at Confab
The last week of April was busy for the channel. Cisco Systems was holding its annual partner conference in San Francisco. Simultaneously, Hewlett-Packard was in Las Vegas with its loyal followers. And each was talking up a storm about how they were going to take the fight to their rival, and that started a buzz…
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Juniper Unveils ‘The New Network’
On the back lawn of the Arizona Biltmore, Juniper Networks erected a string of letters that signifies the theme for the company and the Americas Partner Conference: “The New Network.” CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to open the conference by asserting the networking and security company’s commitment to re-create the networking paradigm…
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IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce from ATT
NEW YORK/BOSTON, May 24 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to buy Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc (T.N) for about $1.4 billion in cash, extending the technology behemoth’s portfolio of business software. The move comes amid a flurry of software acquisitions by International Business Machines Corp, Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP AG (DE:SAPG), as they look…
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CCIE Certification in Demand as IT Job Market Heats Up
If you’ve been waiting for an economic recovery to start your IT job search, now’s the time to pull the trigger. Joe Iovinelli, CEO of IT recruitment company SmartSource, tells Channel Insider that demand for senior-level systems engineers and networking engineers has tripled in the last four months. What’s more, candidates are getting multiple offers,…
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Best Free Remote Networking Monitoring Tools
Best Free Remote Networking Monitoring Tools SpiceworksDesigned for network administrators working for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com) is an adware-based business model, which has kept it available as a free tool since its October 2006 release. The tool is updated regularly, with the most recent 4.7 version release hitting the virtual streets on…
