Monthly Archives: October 2007
IBM Reveals p 570 Innards
IBM Reveals p 570 Innards
The IBM Power6 includes two cores, plus controllers, registers, cache and SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support. Note that the processor chip...
HD Video Conferencing for the Rest of Us
To thank Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard for validating the market for high-definition video conference, LifeSize Communications is launching three offerings that make the technology...
HP, XenSource Sign Reseller Agreement
XenSource is signing up with another major OEM that will sell its open-source virtualization technology with a top-tier server line.
The same day that XenSource,...
Broadband Business Woes
If you pay any attention whatsoever to technology issues, than you know that the United States has a serious problem when it comes to...
Death (by Superbug) at Your Fingertips
More than 90,000 cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, were reported in 2005, according to a study released by the Centers for...
Solid-State Notebooks: One-Third of Market by 2012?
Maybe the term "flashtops"—which The Station coined more than a year ago—will finally catch on now. I expect that when these ultra-thin (three-quarter-inch thick),...
Rent-A-Cert = Bait-and-Switch?
At a breakfast roundtable discussion at Forrester's Forum in Nashville in May, CIOs discussed problems they had run into in their vendor relationships. One...
Windows XP SP3: We Ought to Have More of These
Many years ago I complained about Microsofts update policies, specifically about the sheer number of updates that were available only online. What was needed...
Upfront – 8
UpfrontA Case of AmnesiaA man walks into a casino in Las Vegas and sits down at a blackjack table. He shares a look with...
HP Enters Business Service Management Fray
HP on Oct. 22 is ending its long silence on the subject of Business Service Management by launching an integrated portfolio of products based...