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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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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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Quick Facts The HP 3Com Deal
Quick Facts The HP 3Com Deal Quick Facts: The HP 3Com DealStalwart technology leader HP has completed its acquisition of 3Com. Combined, these companies have 110 years in the technology business and offer resellers a huge portfolio of compute, networking and security technologies to go after Cisco’s Unified Computing initiative, among other markets. Here are…
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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…
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IBM Channels Data Analysis, Sun Partners
IBM is announcing integrated Smart Analytics Systems for x86 and mainframe environments, the pureScale Application System, and up to $500 million in financing to Sun partners to resell IBM systems. Built to handle higher volumes of transactions and data analysis, the model 5600 (x) and 9600 (z) will join the 7600 (p), introduced last summer…
