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The Faces of Wi-Fi
They are companies as different as their leaders. At Aruba Wireless Networks, the watchwords have been sales and channel. Under the direction of CEO Don LeBeau, a former Cisco Systems Inc. sales vice president with a penchant for catchphrases and seal-the-deal handshakes, Aruba has used its market savvy to capture large customers such as Amazon.com…
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Dell Unveils Compact Blade Servers
Three years after introducing its first blade server, Dell Inc. on Monday rolled out the next generation of the dense form factor, promising greater density and price/performance than what competitors are offering. The Round Rock, Texas, company unveiled the PowerEdge 1855, which combines a small footprint with the latest technologies and management capabilities, according to…
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Solaris 10: Sun Struts Its Stuff, Details New Opportunities
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Sun executives took attendees for a trip down memory lane Monday as they unveiled the company’s upcoming Solaris 10 operating system. Speaking at Sun’s quarterly Network Computing event here at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Sun’s CEO and chairman Scott McNealy said Solaris 10 would be available in the first quarter of 2005.…
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Vintela: Microsoft’s Secret Unix/Linux Weapon?
Microsoft made a minority investment Monday in Unix/Linux management vendor Vintela. Neither Microsoft nor Lindon, Utah-based Vintela would comment on the size of the investment. But sources said the amount was less than $10 million. Vintela has acted as a key participant in Microsoft’s Unix/Linux interoperability strategy. Nonetheless, Vintela is an unlikely Microsoft partner. Vintela…
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Sun Adds Application Switching to Its Bag of Tricks
Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving into the application switch market with its announcement Monday of the Sun Secure Application Switch N2000 Series. The N2000 application switch family is based on technology acquired from Nauticus Networks in January 2004. It is designed to improve system availability, performance and security for distributed network applications. Like all application…
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HP’s Compaq X PC Uses New Pentium 4
Hewlett-Packard has announced the next iteration in its Compaq X gaming PC line, which uses the new 3.8-GHz Pentium 4 570. The launch of Intel’s new chip was expected, the last entrant in Intel’s single-core processor line. Analysts called the chip “a glimmer” of what the original Prescott could have been. Intel’s new chip costs…
