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Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly
As retailers and consumer goods manufacturers struggle with achieving the supply-chain nirvana of complete item-level tagging, $60 billion aerospace giant Boeing has gotten item-level RFID to soar, with 2,000 high-memory passive tags in every plane of an upcoming line. Boeing’s item-level RFID efforts are intriguing because of their scope, but also because of the extreme…
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Virtual Iron Unveils Xen-Based Virtualization Platform
It’s time for VMware to have real competition in the x86 virtualization space, claim Virtual Iron officials—and they believe they can fill that role. The Lowell, Mass., company on Oct. 11 is releasing Version 3.0 of its namesake virtualization platform, an offering that is based on the Xen open-source hypervisor, supports Intel’s on-chip virtualization technology…
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Verari Tool Creates More Efficient Data Center
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…
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Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design
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…
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Juniper Preps Metro Ethernet Switch/Router
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…
