Monthly Archives: March 2009
Dell Eyes Acquisitions in Services, Data Center and Storage
Dell won't sit on the sidelines as Cisco Systems gears up its blade server strategy and IBM pursues Sun Microsystems for its data center...
IBM Chief to Partners: Get Smarter
IBM has been making a lot of marketing noise lately about making the planet smarter, ranging from complex undertakings such as making the electric...
Asus, IBM/Lenovo Top Notebook Reliability Ranking
If you are looking for a reliable notebook PC, Asus and IBM/Lenovo may very well be your best choices, not Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell or...
Intel Nehalem’s Hidden Virtualization Risk
Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture-now officially known as the Intel Xeon 5500 series-offers advances in addressable memory, simultaneous multithreading and I/O handling, providing IT managers with...
Intel Chief: IBM is Getting Sun Cheap
According to reports by Reuters, Otellini said Sun has been shopping itself around to prospective buyers for months, offering to sell all or part...
Intel Nehalem Will Give Virtualization a Boost
Server virtualization is getting a boost from the newest Intel microprocessor architecture, known as Nehalem.With an integrated memory controller, an additional memory channel and...
Conficker – The Paris Hilton of Botnets
As I was watching Symantec security expert Stephen Trilling brief "60 Minutes" correspondent Leslie Stahl about Conficker last night, I had to shake my...
The Open Cloud Manifesto Debuts
The much ballyhooed Open Cloud Manifesto, as of March 30, is now officially out and supported primarily by IBM and a host of other...
Neterion Releases Virtualized Ethernet Adapter
Neterion is rolling out the next generation of its I/O virtualization technology.Neterion March 30 unveiled its X3110 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter, designed to...
E-Mail Authentication Primer: First in 3-Part Series on E-Mail Authentication
Editor's Note: In this first installment of her three-part series on e-mail authentication, Knowledge Center contributor Ellen Siegel shares a comprehensive, high-level overview of...