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HP ProCurve Sends Message to C-Level Execs
Hewlett Packard’s ProCurve Networking unit on Jan. 30 attempted to move out of the networking trenches and into the IT executive ranks when it outlined its Adaptive Networking vision. The launch is intended to describe for IT executives and chief financial officers the business benefits of ProCurve Networking’s strategic direction in helping to ensure the…
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F5 Networks’ Big-IP Grows Up with the Market
F5 Networks on January 29 marked a maturing in the fast growing market for Application Delivery Controllers when it launched a new high-end hardware platform and new release of its Big-IP software. As customers scale the size of their ADC deployments and add more functions to the devices as well as bandwidth-intensive applications to the…
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Hybrid Hype Running into a Hard(ware) Reality?
Last summer, industry and customer conferences were abuzz with presentations about new flash memory caching technologies that would improve the user experience of Windows Vista, especially for mobile desktops. And storage vendors climbed on board with preannouncements of “hybrid” flash-enabled drives to support the plan. However, with Vista now in general release, the timing for…
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Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office
Microsoft is trying to incentivize its largest indirect hardware partners and system builders to preinstall Office 2007 on their systems, before these are sold to resellers, by offering them a referral payment when end users activate the license on those machines. Qualified Microsoft partners were invited to participate in the Referral Payment Pilot Program for…
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Demo Products Aim to Empower Individuals
PALM DESERT, Calif.—The Demo conference kicked off today with products ranging from inkless printing technology to a thin-client computing solution that delivers a rich desktop experience. The theme: the empowered individual. “The theme of empowerment is about the power of individuals to select and use products, the power to move markets, the power of new…
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Linux Hackers Offer to Create Device Drivers for Free
Ask Linux users what they find most annoying about Linux, and many will complain about device drivers. While the vast majority of PC components and peripherals work with Linux, some don’t work at all, and others are marginal. A leading Linux kernel developer has come up with a solution. In a recent blog and e-mail…
