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The candy-colored Pogoplug media sharing device allows users to access media files from other computers or even the Apple iPhone.
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When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to where it was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule as the lack of an FAA filing system left pilots submitting flight plans manually.
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The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it's replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM's iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
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IBM unveiled a number of new software products to make it easier for businesses to manage their mainframe environments and develop applications for the platform. In addition, CA announced that its Endevor Software Change Manager is integrated with IBM’s Rational mainframe developer platform.
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Dell’s Medical Clinical Computing solution is designed to make it easier for hospital personnel to gain access to the information and applications they need. The client virtualization offering keeps the information and data stored in the data center, and lets physicians and other health care professionals access them through such devices as laptops, handhelds and thin clients. Dell is leveraging its acquisition of Perot in developing this offering.
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Three men were charged by federal indictment Nov. 19 in connection with attacking Comcast.net and redirecting traffic to sites under their control. The group altered Comcast's DNS records and is estimated to have cost the company more than $128,000.
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Spiceworks and Intel help budget-conscious businesses go green with a downloadable Power Manager plug-in that regulates computer power consumption.
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From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk computer. Now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
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An ombudsman with the European Union says the European Commission erred in its investigation of Intel by failing to take minutes of a 2006 meeting with a Dell executive. The EC in May fined Intel $1.45 billion for anticompetitive practices, but Intel is appealing the ruling. Intel executives have characterized the EC as conducting a biased investigation.
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Intel and three French research institutes are planning to invest several million euros to create a supercomputing facility to explore the outer limits of high-performance computing. The Exascale Computing Research Center will tackle issues related to weather forecasting and health care.
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A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down its flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about 4 hours all over the United States, the FAA says. The routing problem also shut down the system's second node in Hampton, Ga.
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The 802.11n standard's performance and compatibility with older gear make it a no-brainer upgrade.
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Industry-standard technology, GPUs and energy efficiency were among the key themes running throughout the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Ore. At the show, which wraps up Nov. 20, a number of vendors, including Cray, Dell, HP and SGI, showed off new and enhanced high-end systems, many of which are designed to enable businesses and HPC (high-performance computing) environments to ramp up performance and density while driving down operational, capital and power costs. In addition, Intel unveiled that it will offer a "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor optimized for supercomputing, while the chip maker boasted that 402 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by its processors. Rival AMD took the No. 1 spot, with the Opteron-powered "Jaguar" computer from Cray knocking off IBM's "RoadRunner" at the top of the list. Here are a few of the new systems OEMs showed off at the show.
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The No. 4 ranking handset maker will eliminate another 1,600 jobs and close its headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
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Netgear offers cost-conscious businesses expanded work force mobility with the ProSafe Wireless-N Dual-Band Access Point, available for $429.
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eWEEK Labs' exclusive hands-on tests show that Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System) combines high-end hardware with integrated management software to create a data center computing platform capable of hosting high-value applications, despite some Version 1.0 flaws.
Windows 7 DirectAccess is being billed by Microsoft as the "great extender"--a next-generation access technology designed to connect remote clients in the age of the vanishing network perimeter. One of the primary deliverables borne of Microsoft’s “better together” development strategy--which leverages the simultaneous release of the new Windows 7 client OS and the new Windows 2008 Server R2 server OS--DirectAccess worked well in eWEEK Labs' tests. However, system and security requirements may make DirectAccess just a pipe dream for many organizations right now.
The Panda MOP SAAS server and workstation anti-malware solution allows systems to be managed and protected from a central location, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the company network. This saves on the upfront cost of buying and installing a central management server and the ongoing cost of maintaining that server. Panda MOP also leverages true cloud-based functionality for analysis of suspicious files. In tests, malware detection worked well, at least when it came to viruses and Trojans.
Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac edition makes it simple to convert a physical PC--including applications and data--to a Windows virtual machine running on a Mac. Parallels further eases the transition by including several hours of helpful instructional demonstrations that show step-by-step how to perform tasks in the Mac world.
Tzolkin's DNS-based site failover and geographic load balancing services are easy to implement, relatively inexpensive and non-disruptive.
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