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Building a Super Tiny Home Server
I have a dark confession: I haven’t embraced the Mini-ITX revolution. There, I’ve said it. I feel better now. Up to now we’ve been lukewarm on VIA’s tiny motherboards. The concept is very cool—a standard, ultra-compact board. But the performance of the processors for it has been unimpressive, and that goes even more so for…
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IBM Brings NAS Gateway 500 to Entry Level
IBM introduced a new, entry-level configuration of its IBM TotalStorage NAS (network-attached storage) Gateway 500 on Tuesday to give customers running an NAS environment a less costly option to satisfy less-demanding performance requirements. Available by the end of this week, the slimmed-down configuration features a single microprocessor based on Power4+ and is priced at $31,850—about…
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Winternals Offers SP2 Safety Belt
Worried about installing SP2 on your clients’ XP systems and having a crashing application? Winternals, a provider of Microsoft systems availability and performance solutions, has an SP2 seat belt for you: the Winternals Recovery Manager. Winternals Software LP’s Winternals Recovery Manager is a well-regarded, scalable, network-enabled systems recovery program. It enables administrators to quickly roll…
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32-Way Opteron Systems Could Ship Next Year
STANFORD, Calif.—An interconnect chipset permitting server vendors to design up to 32-way Opteron systems will be available later this year, executives from Newisys Inc. said Monday night. Newisys, started as an Austin, Texas, startup in July 2000, was acquired by contract manufacturing giant Sanmina/SCI in July 2003. In 2003, before the Sanmina/SCI acquisition, Newisys executives…
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Siebel, EDS Ink BPO Deal
Siebel Systems Inc. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. this week will announced a partnership to help companies avoid many of the costs and complexities of managing customer relationship management systems in enterprises. The companies will announce EDS’ plans to add Siebel’s software to its BPO (business process outsourcing) services. The pact calls for EDS employees…
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IT Admins Not ‘Trusting’ SP2 Security
More than two years after company officials claimed Microsoft Corp. would emphasize security over features in all products, the whopping update to the company’s Windows XP operating system is being hit for introducing new vulnerabilities. IT administrators and security experts who have had a chance to install, work with and investigate the changes Windows XP…
