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Panasonic Toughens Up New Toughbooks
The latest generation of Panasonic Toughbook notebook and tablet PCs will feature extended battery life, improved security, Intel Centrino processes, integrated Qualcomm wireless and management features previously only found in Dell and Hewlett-Packard machines. The Toughbook 30 laptop and Toughbook 19 tablet also come with a hefty price tag above $3,200. While other PC and…
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Has Fibre Channel over Ethernet’s Time Come?
After years of slow progress, Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology is poised to set off a seismic shift in the data center, storage and networking markets. Traditional data center infrastructure uses an Ethernet-based LAN infrastructure to connect servers to each other and a separate Fibre Channel network to connect servers and storage, says Jieming Zhu,…
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HP Flexes Data Center Muscle with New Switch
Hewlett-Packard ProCurve is extended its adaptive network mantra into the data center with its first-ever line of switching platforms designed for the data center environment. “ProCurve is certainly no stranger to the data center environment – it has been deployed in data centers in the past,” said Matt Zanner, worldwide director of Data Center Networking…
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Heartland Data Breach Underscores Security Necessity
The Jan. 20 announcement by Heartland Payment Systems that a security breach left more than 100 million accounts vulnerable underscores the value of a good security system and the opportunity for solution providers to keep their customers’ data safe. "[Security breaches] can and do happen to everyday companies," says Eric Greenberg, vice president of security…
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Cisco Enters Data Center Server Market
Cisco Systems is planning a big move into the server space, threatening to chip away at the market-leading status enjoyed by Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM in the $50 billion server market, The New York Times reports. Cisco’s first server, expected in the next few months, will cater only to virtualized applications, and will feature sophisticated…
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Is ‘Patch Tuesday’ Dead?
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of the new year is an unusually singular effort; the company is releasing a single patch to correct a remote code vulnerability in all versions of Windows server. When Microsoft created Patch Tuesday in October 2003, it was a mechanism for bringing regularity and predictability to the patch release process. Prior…