Monthly Archives: May 2007
IBM Powers Up Performance with Power6 Processor
IBM finally took the wraps off its much anticipated Power6 microprocessor, which company executives said will double the clock speed of its current Power5...
EMC Starting to Realize Fruits of Its Acquisitions
ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage giant EMC announced that the latest version of EMC Avamar would support VMWare virtual machines, extending deduplication to a major virtual storage...
Ruckus Moves into SMB Networks
Ruckus Wireless, the Sunnyvale, Calif., maker of municipal wireless and IPTV equipment is moving into the small and midsize business market.
The company is announcing...
Salesforce Announces On-Demand SOA Feature
At its first developer conference May 21 centered on Apex, Salesforce.coms yet-to-be-released on-demand programming language, the company announced a new platform capability that will...
Microsoft, TCG, Juniper Tie the NAC Knot
A lot of vendors selling a lot of components that have to agree on how to measure a lot of things have to come...
Mellanox Delves into 10G Ethernet
Mellanox Technologies, best known as a provider of high-speed InfiniBand interconnect technology, is delving into Ethernet for the first time.
At the Interop conference in...
Avaya Adds Low Cost VOIP Phones
Avaya at Interop on May 21 will target two types of voice over IP buyers with a new IP PBX system designed for enterprises...
HP Switches Key to CERNs LHC Project
CERNs own network upgrade in support of the Large Hadron Collider project involved more than just connecting the 8,000 PC processors it is using...
Computing Grid Helps Get to the Heart of Matter
In November, when physicists at CERN in Switzerland begin their grand experiment using the worlds largest particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC—computer scientists...
Are These Dells Ubuntu PCs?
Dell reportedly will release its new Ubuntu-powered computers on May 24. In his blog, LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia writes that a Dell staffer told...