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New Budget PCs Sport High-End Specs
Both Hewlett-Packard and Dell introduced their new budget-friendly “back-to-school” computer lines Wednesday, with dual-core processing options and foot-tall mini towers with serious noise control. The new HP lineup includes a handful of new HP Pavilion Desktop PCs, Media Center PCs, Compaq Presario PCs and a new 21-inch-wide flat-panel monitor. Retail stores will be carrying certain…
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Dell Adds Fibre Channel Switch to Blade Server
Dell Inc. is adding Fibre Channel connectivity capabilities to its blade servers. The Round Rock, Texas, company is announcing next week that it is offering up to two Fibre Channel switches from McData Corp. in the Dell Modular Server Enclosure, the chassis for the PowerEdge 1855 blade servers. The McData 4314 switches will add to…
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Antec P180—A Cool, Quiet PC Case
When it comes time to build your own PC, you obviously face down a plethora of tough choices. Not the least of which is “What houses all the myriad of hot and noisy components that make up today’s high performance PC?” Choosing a good enclosure is no slim task. You could go for the strictly…
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Managed Security: Big Business, Big Risk
Security has become one of the biggest ongoing business opportunities in the channel, one that becomes even bigger every time the confidential data of some large company is breached from outside. A mid-June breach break-in to the computer network of credit-card processor CardSystems Solutions, for example, set off a week of worry and discussion among…
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Sun Open-Sources More J2EE Tech
Sun will release this week components of its Java Enterprise System technology stack to the open-source community under the Community Development and Distribution License. To be released are Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Enterprise Service Bus implementations, based on the community’s Java Business Integration specification, and its Java Systems Application Server. These moves, which will be announced…
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Four Ways to Make Virtual Teams Work
Virtual teams—divided by distance but connected by electronic means of communication and a need to work in a coordinated way—often break down because of poor communication. That’s not surprising, considering that global teams are often composed of people who don’t share the same first language. Karen Sobel Lojeski, the program director for the business and…
