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What Does ‘New’ Mean? One Netbook’s Tale
At the risk of being profane, I’ve got a story to tell. My 11-year-old daughter has been begging to get a netbook – even saving her own money, gasp – to accompany her as she enters sixth grade in just another week. It’s been a summer-long quest. In a fit of spontaneous generosity last week,…
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Power IT Down Project Provides Lesson for VARs Selling Green
Green computing is good for the planet, but that message alone will not convince end customers that they need to buy into green technologies and services. No, the most compelling argument is purely business-driven: Will this virtualization solution cut down on the number of servers I need and reduce my power consumption and utility costs?…
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Cisco, IBM, HP Data Center Battle Heats Up
The economy is fraying everybody’s nerves, but the tone among IT industry market leaders has gotten slightly nuts of late — especially among the hardware giants. Ever since Cisco Systems announced it was getting into the mainstream server business in June, an almost-maniacal round of corporate one-upmanship has been unleashed that is truly pitting old…
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Doing More with Less – The Storage Edition
With IT budgets cut to the bone during this recession, every expense is under scrutiny, and if companies can do without or delay a purchase for a while, well then they are going to wait. Maybe that’s why several vendors have come up with ways to extend the life of existing infrastructure at a lower…
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White Monitors Are White Hot in Health Care
If you’re a surgeon in an operating suite, the last thing you want is your digital display having a black case. Blood and other biohazards are simply hard to see on a black case. On a white case display, however, blood and guts are easy to spot. The challenge for hospitals, physician offices and dental…
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What’s Behind Intel’s SSD Price Cuts?
Intel slashed prices of its solid state drives today by up to 60 percent, just a year after it first introduced such drives. Inventory glut? Hardly. Intel’s price cut is an example of Moore’s Law at work, and Moore’s Law is as much about the economics of manufacturing as it is about technological advances. Because…