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  • ScaleMP Unveils Foundation Virtual Server Aggregation Solution

    ScaleMP officials announced May 25 that vSMP Foundation 3.0, which is aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, will support Intel’s Xeon 7500 series “Nehalem EX” processors and Xeon 5600 series “Westmere EP” chips. Doing so means that vSMP Foundation enables the creation of virtual SMP systems that have two to 128 physical nodes. ScaleMP…

  • Seagate Laptop Hard Drive Called Fastest Ever

    Seagate pulled no punches on May 24, introducing a spinning-disk/solid-state hybrid drive that it boldly described as the “world’s fastest drive for laptops.” The Momentus XT, which can hold up to 500GB of capacity in a 7200-rpm package, will become available for the first time as an upgrade in Asus laptops. The OEM pricing is…

  • AdSense Revenue Share Revealed by Google Preempts Apple iAd

    Google pays 51 percent of revenue to publishers that use its AdSense for search product. The information about how the shared revenue is split comes as Apple prepares to launch its iAd platform with a 60-40 split in favor of developers, and as regulators are increasingly hounding Google to be more transparent. READ MORE >>

  • Don’t Expect Juniper to Invoke Rivals at Confab

    The last week of April was busy for the channel. Cisco Systems was holding its annual partner conference in San Francisco. Simultaneously, Hewlett-Packard was in Las Vegas with its loyal followers. And each was talking up a storm about how they were going to take the fight to their rival, and that started a buzz…

  • Juniper Unveils ‘The New Network’

    On the back lawn of the Arizona Biltmore, Juniper Networks erected a string of letters that signifies the theme for the company and the Americas Partner Conference: “The New Network.” CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to open the conference by asserting the networking and security company’s commitment to re-create the networking paradigm…

  • Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow’s Data Centers

    Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow’s Data Centers As IT organizations move infrastructure to the cloud and data centers suck up more power, the search is on for affordable sources of renewable energy. And with a giant BP oil spill spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, the pressure may be on as never…

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