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Foundry Seeks a Place Among High-End Service Providers
Foundry Networks Inc. made its biggest play in the high-end service provider space Monday when it launched its new flagship NetIron IMR 640 core router and new edge router. The new core router, along with the new EdgeIron 2404, are aimed at new MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) services, broadband Internet access Virtual Private Network services…
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Resellers Must Reposition in Stagnant Storage Market
A series of recent channel announcements share a common thread: the notion that regulatory compliance helps drive storage demand. Executives at Arrow Electronics Inc. cited compliance as a force in the company’s storage growth. Electronic Data Systems Corp. said it formed an e-mail archiving alliance with EMC Corp. to focus on corporate compliance issues. EMC’s…
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Latest Looks at the 64-Bit Future
Though 64-bit computing has been around for some 14 years or so, until recently it has been accessible only to those operating high-end servers running RISC-based processors such as Sun Microsystem Inc.’s SPARC, IBM’s Power and Hewlett-Packard Co.’s PA-RISC. That is changing, and soon everything—from thin-and-light notebooks to desktops to blade servers—will be running on…
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IBM Offers Pay-as-You-Go Access to Newest Supercomputer
IBM has opened its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one populated by its Blue Gene supercomputer. Armed with more than 2,000 PowerPC processors, the Rochester, Minn., center is designed to give researchers and enterprises access to the supercomputing resources via a VPN (virtual private network), paying only for the compute power they…
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Home Automation Goes from Fad to Market Opportunity
As anyone can attest who’s ever seen rabid sports fans maneuver for possession of the TV clicker on Super Bowl Sunday, entertainment is a serious business. Even more serious is what happens before the clicker is ever in contention, when homeowners have to call in VARs and integrators to apply their IT experience to home…
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Ariba Eyes ‘On Demand’ Procurement Model
Nearly nine months after merging with FreeMarkets, Ariba Inc. is now developing a more integrated procurement lineup, with the ultimate goal of giving users an on demand model for “spend management” software and services. In a presentation at Lehman Brothers’ 2005 Global Software, IT Services and Internet Conference, Ariba Chief Financial Officer Jim Frankola likened…
