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New Blade Servers Pack Power of Their Own
New hardware on the way from Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Intel Corp. will show that blade servers need not be compact versions of their traditional server tower cousins. Blade servers, which two years ago could be found primarily in one- and two-processor configurations, are growing in variety and giving users more options within the smaller…
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ICANN Board Approves Controversial Domain Name Service
While a controversial back-ordering service for Web addresses moved another step closer to becoming a reality over the weekend, pending lawsuits leave its future murky. The board of directors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Saturday approved the back-ordering service, called the wait listing service (WLS), during their Rome meeting. The…
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Meeting the Market Bulls
Channel executives are talking and Wall Street likes what it hears. Indeed, executives from integrators, consulting firms and data management companies have spoken at several investor conferences over the past three weeks. Much of the chatter has drawn positive attention from financial advisors. MPS Group Inc., for one, apparently made a good impression during a…
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Sun Taking Open-Source Counsel?
Sun Microsystems Inc. appears to be seriously considering industry advocates’ proposals that it should offer an open-source implementation of Java. In addition to an impending meeting with IBM—which called on Sun to think about open-sourcing Java—Sun has been in contact with open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond on the very same issue, according to Raymond. Raymond…
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Duo to Tighten Up Handheld Security
As the number of networked wireless devices continues to rise in the enterprise, the challenge of securing them continues to grow as well. For most IT managers, two basic options exist: Install a VPN or employ 802.1x authentication. Two companies are offering updates to both concepts with new wares that make it easier to secure…
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Dell Partners with VMWare for Server Virtualization
Dell Inc. is partnering with VMware Inc. to bring server virtualization capabilities to its four-way PowerEdge 6650 systems. In an announcement Monday, officials with the Round Rock, Texas, company said integrating VMware’s ESX Server technology into its 6650 systems brings virtualization into Dell’s scale-out data center strategy. Pete Morowski, Dell’s vice president of software development,…
