Recent Articles
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Anti-malware Vendors Stare Down Microsoft Threat
Microsoft disappointed investors and other market watchers the week of March 20 when it announced that its next-generation Vista operating system would be delayed until 2007, but one group of companies—those that produce security applications used to defend desktop computers and the networks they run on—may have breathed a temporary sigh of relief. Vista will…
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MSPs Gamble with the Law
Robert Scott says he continues to be surprised by the number of MSPs that rely on contracts written by an office manager eight years ago to keep their house in order. “Either attorneys don’t have much to add to the process, or people are taking shortcuts that will expose them to risks,” said Scott, a…
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AMD Goes Vertical
AMD is leveraging vertical solutions and partners to make its microprocessors more relevant and valuable to a broader range of enterprise customers. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker is cultivating a vertical approach, identifying industry-specific solutions and commercial system channel partners with specific business process expertise as part of a strategy to demonstrate value to enterprise…
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Intel Takes New Tack to Cut Power Consumption
With energy efficiency creeping up enterprises’ evaluation criteria list, Intel knew it couldn’t afford to allow its future chips to use more power. The Santa Clara, Calif., company went back to the drawing board to create a new chip architecture—a replacement for the circuitry that underpins its entire x86 product line—that would both increase performance…
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Group Helps VARs, Integrators Grow
After 12 years of being the go-to computer guy in his family’s Southern California chemical business (not to mention, serving as its general manager), Jim Locke decided it was time to branch out on his own. In 2000, he started JW Locke & Associates, an IT consulting business catering to small and midsize companies in…
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Queens College Gets the Royal Treatment with CA Unicenter
Like many commuter schools, Queens College teemed with thousands of students who needed to securely and remotely access courseware housed on the New York college’s network. But the school’s labor-intensive method of loading software onto lab computers resulted in neither latency nor high availability, according to Naveed Husain, assistant vice president for IT and CIO…
