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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…
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EMC, HP, IBM and NetApp Incorporate ATTO Workstation Storage
Industry giants such as EMC and HP have jumped aboard storage OEM ATTO Technology’s newest release that ATTO says is the first Fibre Channel connectivity solution that enables workstations in heterogeneous operating environments to connect directly to enterprise-class storage systems. The release comes at a time when IT organizations in target industries, such as media…
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IBM Targets Oracle-Sun Resellers with ‘Smart Analytics’ Servers
IBM on April 7 launched a major push to win over new system integration partners, especially integrators specializing in Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems hardware with the introduction of two new server models including an x86 Unix System and a System z mainframe scale system. To sweeten its pitch, IBM is planning to spend up…