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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…
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Users Delay SP2 Rollouts
Many enterprise IT managers are delaying for months any rollout of Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited and often-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, saying it is breaking too many of their applications. As a result of the customer push back, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., last week delayed the automatic delivery of SP2 through Windows Update/Automatic Update until…
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Software Integrates Cisco VOIP with Microsoft CRM
Cisco on Monday announced the release of the Cisco CRM Communications Connector for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM. This new software program, which is available at no cost to qualified Cisco Systems Inc. channel partners, integrates Cisco IP Communications—Cisco’s suite of VOIP (voice over IP) technologies—with Microsoft CRM. Its target audience is SMBs (small and midsized…
