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I have heard lots of people complaining about not being able to listen to their favorite music while away from their computer since my first encounter with such a device. This would happen while they are at work, visiting an uncle, an aunt, or even a friend who has different tastes in music. As much as I know t... |
2 September 2008
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Server virtualization is an uprising phenomenon for European companies. Surveying enterprise IDC conducted two studies, in 2007 and in the first quarter of 2008, regarding the spread of virtualization, along with the intentions of further use of the technology. On a large sample of big companies and small organizatio... |
9 July 2008
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According to the research and advisory firm Gartner, IBM has managed to take the lead in the server market. IBM's success marks the company's victory against competitor HP, which earlier this year was reported to have claimed the leadership precisely in the same segment of the market. These recent rankings ... |
7 July 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Along with the unexpectedly fast release of OS X 10.5.4, Apple also issued the maintenance and security update for Server users of the OS. The update includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for some areas."The latest release of Apple's UNIX server operating system makes it easy for sma... |
1 July 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Microsoft has never been that shy about trashing open source operating systems in order to boost its own proprietary platforms, and the latest perspective over the two products is merely a new chapter in the Windows vs. Linux saga. A Microsoft authored comparison involving Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Red Hat Ent... |
20 June 2008
12:09 GMT |
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As we mentioned before, Intel's next generation mobile processor, the Atom, is expected to ship sometime after September 2008. This is a serious issue as system integrators like Asus, MSI and others rely on Intel to provide them with the computing power demanded by their most recently released notebooks. To cap ... |
10 June 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Along with the release of any major OS update, Apple rolls out the Server version too. Not surprisingly, Apple has also set up the Mac OS X Server website for Snow Leopard, which offers some insight on the new features it brings from its ice-cold dome to the rock-solid OpenCL foundation. Some highlights below:Cal Ser... |
10 June 2008
07:03 GMT |
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In part III of our freeware saga, we'll take a ride straight into the Internet world and take a look at some of your free software alternatives. In part I, we've talked a bit about this subject, when reviewing our choices regarding browsers and antispyware programs. Now it's time to dig a little deeper... |
4 June 2008
17:11 GMT |
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Intel, the leading manufacturer of microprocessors, has just unveiled details about its upcoming products. Codenamed Dunningtons, the new microprocessors will be released by the end of this year and they are expected to go with a bang. Intel's 6-cored processors, which are expected somewhere in Q3 of this year, ... |
21 May 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Intel, the leading manufacturer of processors, plans to ship a quad-core version of its server-oriented Itanium processors. The new processors, which are code-named Tukwila, are expected to become available to vendors later this year, with the first servers built using this chip to arrive in early 2009.The new Tukwil... |
20 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just announced the availability of new server systems equipped with Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Barcelona chips. The AMD-based servers are the result of a long collaboration between the two manufacturers and aim at giving a cost-effective alternative to the Intel-po... |
14 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Eurocom has announced a less usual notebook offering called the D901C PHANTOM-X. The so-called notebook has nothing in common with the Eee PC and the likes; on the contrary, it is a fully-fledged mobile server solution that weighs in at 5.44kg but packs all the horsepower it takes to run a data center. According to i... |
13 May 2008
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The official website of Peter Gabriel went offline a few days ago due to what seems to be a theft of his servers hosted by a UK ISP. According to a notification published on the page, the servers were stolen on Sunday night, so webmasters were forced to keep it offline until the entire content could be restored.After... |
7 May 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Managing a corporate network can be an extremely tedious task, especially when things go bad because of a novice computer user. However, fixing errors got a little more fun with the advent of a new diagnosis and troubleshooting tool based on the popular Quake Arena game.The software has been developed by a group of r... |
24 April 2008
08:56 GMT |
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IBM has pulled out of its sleeve a new series of Web 2.0-ready servers in the iDataPlex family. The new computers are especially tailored to suit the demands of Web 2.0 sites, and can face the heavy traffic usually associated with popular social networking sites. According to the company, the iDataPlex architecture c... |
24 April 2008
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F-Secure is a company which has rolled out numerous security applications targeting most operating systems out there, but most focused on Windows. Today, the company has just rolled out a new beta, namely Home Server Security Beta 1.00 build 166, a special software solution which is supposed to bring more security to... |
22 April 2008
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Micron has started shipping units of its energy-efficient Aspen series of DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules. According to the company, memory draws up to 15 percent of the total energy absorbed by modern servers, and the figures are expected to increase as more and more memory is required for server normal operation.The n... |
16 April 2008
11:24 GMT |
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Intel has just posted its revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. Intel managed to achieve higher than expected revenue, but less profit, which should be taken as a sign that the company is starting to spend a little more. As compared to AMD, Intel is still doing fine, and it has even managed to snatch a bigger... |
16 April 2008
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Intel has announced that it will sell the enterprise and storage units that comprise its Optical Platform Division and Connects Cables to its old technology partner Emcore. The strategy marks Intel's exit from the communications business, in order "to focus its investments on core communications and embedded mar... |
11 April 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have jointly announced the availability of a new family of SPARC servers that are alleged to be able to process 128 simultaneous threads. More than that, the two companies announced important improvements in energy-consumption and space efficiency.The newly-introduced offering is comprise... |
11 April 2008
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Following the embarkation on a new course focused on interoperability, Microsoft has made available in excess of 44,000 pages of protocol documentation related to its high-volume products from the Windows client to the Office System and the server platforms. In the latest push designed to fuel open connections in acc... |
9 April 2008
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Supercomputer specialist IBM has unveiled its latest supercomputer creation, touted to be five times more powerful and 60 percent more energy-efficient than its predecessors. The company's achievement is quite impressive, since the supercomputing world is usually getting its performance boosts from pumping up mo... |
8 April 2008
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Chip manufacturer VIA has just introduced a new thin motherboard dedicated at the small business server applications, such as network-attached storage devices. Thin server systems are becoming more and more popular thanks to their low-energy consumption and high reliability.The VIA NAS 7800 motherboard sports up to e... |
31 March 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Those of you who have had the opportunity of seeing a fully-fledged server up and running will surely have a shocking surprise, as Plat'Home, a Japanese PC vendor has just introduced its OpenBlockSTM, a pocketable server running on Linux. The device can be "hosted" directly into the palm of your hand, rather tha... |
31 March 2008
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The Australian computers and intelligent devices are expected to be seriously affected by a semi-Y2K issue, that will put out of sync the internal clocks on computers, smart-phones and corporate servers. The synchronization troubles are caused by the new daylight saving time regulations imposed across the south-easte... |
28 March 2008
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Sun has just confirmed that it has shipped batches of its SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers pre-installed with disk images that pose security vulnerabilities. According to the security report published by the server vendor, the worst-case scenario would allow a remote attacker to hijack the machine and gain co... |
28 March 2008
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Norway-based Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) company has opened its new server cluster in Trondheim. The computing cluster was built using 1800 PowerEdge 1955 servers in Dell's blade offering, and can deliver the same amount of computing power as 20,000 high-end personal computers. It carries a total memory o... |
21 March 2008
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District Attorney Ray Sumrow has been charged with forgery after having built a gaming computer he presented as a backup server. Initially planned as a work computer, the district attorney used office funds in order to build a rig for personal use.According to FBI computer senior forensic examiner Rod Gregg, more tha... |
14 March 2008
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Chip manufacturer Intel is rumored to gear up for the premature introduction of its Nehalem-based processors. World's first x86 processor manufacturer has to rush things up mainly because Advanced Micro Devices makes significant leaps on the dual-processor market with the advent of the B3-stepped Opterons.Intel&... |
13 March 2008
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One of the most important things that make today's server systems so powerful is the simple, yet vital concept of virtualization that allows them to run at the very same time several operating systems and a host of different applications, minimizing idle times this way and dramatically increasing productivity, w... |
29 February 2008
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers and VMware jointly announced the market availability of its newest server offering in the Primergy family, that comes with factory installed VMware ESX 3i virtualization software. Virtualization is possible since the server is first started up.The new partnership between Fujitsu-Siemens and ... |
26 February 2008
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In the SMB (small and medium-sized businesses) sector the IT factor is increasingly important, as companies need a reliable and resourceful IT department. Furthermore, the demand for higher data storage and faster connection speeds is forcing companies worldwide to take in consideration a serious budget raise for the... |
21 February 2008
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Researchers from Google and Georgia Tech have discovered a mind troubling loophole in the domain name system that is the Mecca of all phishing scammers. There's no way to detect such a scam unless you know what you're looking for, and know it well. It's a piece of code that propagates just the way othe... |
14 February 2008
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems introduced an UltraSparc T2 rack-mount server pitched at telecommunications companies: the Sun Netra T5220. The server has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, and comes with the Solaris 10 operating system. The Sparc T2 processor is built on the Niagara arc... |
14 February 2008
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Electricity was never cheap, yet the restrictions and regulations imposed as environmental measures make it much more expensive. Green computers cut the energy requirements, but there is more to be done in order to keep the electricity bill at a minimum.Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems estimates increased custome... |
14 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimati... |
8 February 2008
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The first surprising thing about Buffalo's LinkStation Pro Duo is the fact that, when you take it out of the box, it seems really small in comparison to the performance you expect it to reach. But all you have to do is to plug it in, connect it to your router and install its software and you'll see that it ... |
7 February 2008
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Without question, TYAN is one of the most important sever-manufacturing companies and, while its revenues or market share are not as impressive as those sported by Dell or other big-name providers, it is nonetheless a worldwide recognized brand. Right now, it looks like TYAN plans for some expansion, as the company h... |
31 January 2008
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Sun Microsystems announced that its Project Blackbox has already started shipping. This time, they meant it, since the blackbox is in fact a mobile datacenter, built inside a big container, similar to those that usually ship smuggled merchandise and Chinese illegal immigrants. The datacenter is delivered at the buyer... |
30 January 2008
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Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of four more ProLiant servers to target the small and mid-sized businesses. According to company officials, these new additions to the ProLiant family will bring more compact systems at more affordable prices. The HP ProLiant DL185 G5 is a double-processor machine that t... |
15 January 2008
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HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ... |
10 January 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Virtualization has become a trend when talking about storage and server business. Just like one of Murphy's laws says, the less people know about technology, the more they try to get hold of it. Virtualization is on everybody's lips, no matter if they don't have a clue about what it does.In general ter... |
18 December 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Chelsio have just unveiled their T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, expected to enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single IBM BladeCenter platform. The device has recently been approved for use with IBM BladeCenter enterprise servers. The new expansion card, code-named S320EM-BCH, is a ... |
15 December 2007
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Taking care of the environment has become the year's trend. We have energy-aware devices to shut down in order to preserve power, and more recently, we have entire datacenters fueled by Zero Carbon-Dioxide energy back in Iceland.US is not one of the countries to be proud of when it comes to energy savings. A rec... |
12 December 2007
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Everything you need to know about Setting up RCon functionality, Initializing Punkbuster, tweaking the Standard Server Settings, Starting The Server and ultimately instructions on how to adjust the gameplay settings for your own style, can be found below:DEDICATED SERVER SETUP INSTRUCTIONS:Crysis InstallationThe firs... |
30 November 2007
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Security researcher David Litchfield from UK conducted a new study to find out how many database servers available out there in the wild are protected against hackers and web attacks. The results are shocking: almost 500,000 servers with no protection based on both SQL and Oracle technologies. Due to the vulnerabilit... |
14 November 2007
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Microsoft started the week in force with a big piece of news that was expected for some while: the release date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Well it's not exactly the date but more of an "it'll be out there when we're good and ready" type of time period specified, like the Redmond... |
11 November 2007
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Sun Microsystems just announced the launch of three server systems which are coming equipped with its latest central processing unit, the T2, previously known under its codename Niagara 2. The three new servers, the rack-mountable T5120 and T5220 as well as the T6320 blade module, are powered by a single Sun Microsys... |
10 October 2007
06:12 GMT |
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As desktop and mobile computer systems are very popular and widely available nowadays, it is not uncommon to meet several of them in certain households and for those users that are thinking about building a network in order to link all those systems, NORCO designed and manufactured the DS-520 home server and network ... |
8 October 2007
09:48 GMT |
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Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, just announced the immediate availability of two brand new products that are compatible with the latest Advanced Micro Devices generation of central processing units that are intended to be used in a server-working environment. The new AMD server processing units, the Ba... |
4 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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