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Power, Performance at the Core of Future Intel Chips
SAN FRANCISCO—Attention to power consumption has formed the core of a new generation of Intel chips coming out later this year. Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief financial officer, kicked off the company’s spring Developer Forum here March 7 by taking the wraps off some of the features behind the chip maker’s Core Microarchitecture. Core Microarchitecture, otherwise…
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Data Centers Give Intel Static over Electric Bills
Jeffrey Skolnick, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, used to just worry about harnessing enough computing power to chase down cancer genes. Today, he’s worried about his electric bill, too. Skolnick, director of the Institute’s Center for the Study of Systems Biology, in Atlanta, said concerns about server power consumption and heat weighed heavily on…
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The Vista Vortex
The provisioning of new clients and the ongoing management of passwords may not seem like the most pressing issue of the day in 2006, but it’s likely to become a major opportunity for solution providers starting as early as this spring. That’s because as the forthcoming Vista upgrade of Microsoft Windows becomes a more tangible…
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MSP Automation Saves, While Customization Costs
When Bill Clinton ran successfully for President in 1992, he won largely on the strength of the campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” As legend has it, this statement was posted in the war room of his campaign headquarters. All service providers should have a similar mantra if they want to be successful and sell…
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Poll: IT Security Training Not a Priority
Nothing short of a fundamental change in thinking can effectively address the persistent issue of IT security, according to the chief operating officer of IT trade association CompTIA. Decision-makers must approach the protection of their companies’ data and networks in strategic terms, which is not the case currently, COO Brian McCarthy told The Channel Insider…
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How Disruptive Will Office 2007 Adoption Be?
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers. Heading the…
