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AMD, Intel Roll Out Next-Gen Chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. this week are rolling out enhancements to some of its processors, and OEMs are following with systems that take advantage of the upgrades. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., on Monday is rolling out the next generation of its 64-bit Opteron processors. The Model 852 is designed for four-way systems…
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McAfee Updates Anti-Spyware Enterprise
McAfee announced on Monday its latest enterprise anti-spyware product designed to combat unwanted programs, including spyware, adware, dialers, keyloggers and remote-control code. While previous versions of the solution offered real-time scanning to locate and remove spyware, McAfee Anti-Spyware Enterprise can now block malicious programs before they ever reach the desktop and network. “Preventing something from…
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HP, Fujitsu Blade Servers to Run Linux
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. are looking to expand the Linux offerings in their blade server lines as well as some of their most powerful systems. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week in Boston, HP is expanding the reach of its Linux Reference Architecture in several areas, including into its BladeSystem…
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Microsoft Preps a Unified ID Management Suite
Microsoft is working to integrate its various identity-management wares into a unified platform, upon which it will encourage third-party developers to build, according to partner sources. It’s not clear whether Microsoft will use this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco to take the wraps off the new ID-management suite. Regardless, the company is moving full…
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Microsoft Plots Fixes to IE Browser
Microsoft Corp. recently held a secret Webcast with some of its closest partners to discuss ways in which the company might improve its Internet Explorer browser and customer confidence in the platform. Sources said Microsoft officials discussed potential “fixes” to IE as the company is losing market share to other browsers, such as the open-source…
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Accelerating Storage Mirroring
NetEx plans to build an indirect channel this year based on the proposition that resellers will want to boost their customers’ IP-based storage networks. The Minneapolis-based StorageTek spinoff has been a direct seller for the most part, especially when it came to the company’s legacy products inherited a half-dozen years ago. NetEx’s HyperPowered IP, which…
