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Intel Shoots For RISC Strongholds with Xeon 7500
NEW YORK—The way Shannon Poulin sees it, about 95 percent of the servers shipped every year are x86 systems powered by chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The other 5 percent, however, make up about 40 percent of worldwide server revenue. “That’s a small number of units for a large part of the revenue,”…
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Don’t Drop Your Apple iPad
Apple’s iPad may be adept at displaying multimedia content and e-texts, but it’ll have a harder time dealing with gravity and sudden blows, according to Rapid Repair, which regularly publishes an online teardown of the electronic devices it repairs. “The weight, size, and novel ways of using these devices will put them at risk for…
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Turbo Core Energy Efficiency Feature Coming in AMD Phenom II
Intel earlier this year brought its Turbo Boost technology to its Core i7 desktop processors. The technology powers down idle cores in a processor and moving some of that power over to active cores, essentially overclocking them and improving the performance of the chip. Now rival Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly ready to add a…
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MSPs Get Hosted Network Management Option
Apparent Networks has updated its PathView Cloud hosted network performance management service to make it easier for managed service providers (MSPs) to monitor their customers’ network performance while also generating service revenue. The new version of PathView Cloud contains several enhancements and new features, with the most important ones providing more revenue generation capabilities to…
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Technology Contract Gigs Driving IT Jobs Recovery
A new report shows that even as unemployment held the line at 9.7 percent in March, online contract work is booming, with some pockets of IT showing a 29 percent year-over-year increase in available gigs. Compiled by the online talent marketplace company Elance, the Elance Online Talent Report examined the contract bookings for the first…
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EMC Storage Data Deduplication Technology Goes Enterprise
Having shelled out $2.1 billion last year to win its bidding war with NetApp to acquire Data Domain to solidify its hold on the small but growing data deduplication market, EMC is looking to raise the bar with two new solutions. The storage giant has doubled the capacity of its data dedupe workhorse, the Data…