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Sun to Heat Up Carrier Market with New Servers
Within the increasingly standards-based realm of telecommunications networks, makers of carrier-grade servers are touting both protocols and positioning as they expand their product lines. This week, Sun Microsystems Inc. will unveil plans for a line of carrier-grade servers compliant with the new ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) specification. The ATCA standard allows carriers to buy…
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IT Labor Boomerangs Back Home
For all its promise of cost savings, enterprises disillusioned and dissatisfied with offshoring IT labor are starting to bring that work home. Language barriers, time zone differences and even unscheduled overtime are just some of the issues causing some U.S.-based enterprises increased frustration and pushing them to not just reconsider their offshoring policies but scrap…
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Suppliers, Competitors Balk at Wal-Mart’s RFID Lead
Many companies have queued up quickly behind retail giant’s Wal-Mart’s RFID mandate. But others now look much less willing to toe the line. Certainly the impact of RFID will be large, industry watchers predict, however, the technology will hardly hit all at once, despite the best plans of Wal-Mart. Since Wal-Mart Stores Inc. issued its…
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Florida Town Rises from Hurricane Wreckage with VOIP Triple-Play
Homestead, Fla., made news on Aug. 24, 1992, as the community hardest hit by Hurricane Andrew. Just south of Miami, its residents certainly hope to stay out of the spotlight this week, as Frances hits. Some IP infrastructure players, however, would like to direct our attention precisely there, because this city of 32,000 directed a…
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HP Launches Suit Alleging Gray-Market Sales
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Thursday that it has filed suit in a Tennessee federal court to recover more than $8.6 million in pricing discounts for computer equipment it says was purchased under false pretenses by Capital City Micro Inc. of Murfreesboro, Tenn., for resale to Hopkinsville, Ky.-based P&E Distributing Co. In this gray-market case, Hewlett-Packard‘s complaint…
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IBM Debuts Low-End Storage Controllers
IBM has launched a pair of low-end storage controllers and is pulling its disk-based storage products underneath its TotalStorage umbrella to offer customers a more scalable and cost-friendly disk-based storage product line. The TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 controllers, released late this week, kick-start IBM’s new Disk System product line. The DS300, an entry-level disk server…
