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	Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap Oracle has developed a hardware roadmap that it hopes can pull Sparc away from its Sun Microsystems legacy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Rackspace Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud This paper details the significant benefits that Cloud Computing brings and provides guidance to IT decision makers to help their decision making process. This is especially important given the plethora of vendors in the marketplace today. Read Now! In this Issue SPEC tool to improve server-efficiency ratings Intel ships a new generation of Atom chips Juniper takes on Cisco, HP in 'simple' networking IBM to lead $4.4 billion chip investment in New York Jonny Evans: Apple iPad plus Amazon Fire kill tablet market Big News from BoxWorks '11 IT Blogwatch: Amazon Kindle Fire tablet review roundup IT Blogwatch: Oracle's shows super-fast, IBM-killing SPARC T4 Barbara Krasnoff: Samsung announces a smaller Galaxy Tab and two non-smartphones How to Sync Your PC, Smartphone, and Tablet Apple's latest Mini gets a 'serious' speed boost Apple's Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT WHITE PAPER: AMD Building a Virtualized Data Center CIOs are wrestling with new business demands and they are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn how an AMD technology-based virtual strategy can help. Learn More! SPEC tool to improve server-efficiency ratings SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has developed a tool-kit to help more accurately measure the energy efficiency of servers. Read More Intel ships a new generation of Atom chips Intel on Monday started shipping new low-power Atom chips built on the platform code-named Cedar Trail, with numerous improvements to boost graphics and application performance over their predecessor. Read More Juniper takes on Cisco, HP in 'simple' networking Juniper this week unveiled a portfolio of switching, wireless and security products designed to enable enterprises to easily deploy them and then ensure management and security of all connected mobile devices. Read More IBM to lead $4.4 billion chip investment in New York Five chip makers, including Intel, IBM, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have committed investment of US$4.4 billion in research and development in the state of New York over the next five years, to develop new 450-millimeter chip wafer technology, the state's governor Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPad plus Amazon Fire kill tablet market Amazon's Kindle Fire is bad, bad news, but not for Apple -- Fire is going to incinerate the low-end tablet market, and will force many struggling players out the game.   Read More Big News from BoxWorks '11 Today is the inaugural Box.net conference for customers and developers--BoxWorks. Box.net CEO and co-founder used the event to announce a slew of new features and updates, as well as a few key partnerships. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Cloud-based Email Archiving: A practical guide Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud-based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. We suggest a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-base storage, secure access and high availability. Read now IT Blogwatch: Amazon Kindle Fire tablet review roundup As expected, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has launched its Kindle Fire tablet. Time for a roundup of reviews and reactions, IT Blogwatch-style, as bloggers ponder the $199 Android tablet that hides Android. Read More IT Blogwatch: Oracle's shows super-fast, IBM-killing SPARC T4 Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has unveiled its T4 processor, as well as its 9,600-thread SuperCluster behemoth. In the run-up to next week's Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd are proudly showing off their new stuff. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the feeds 'n' speeds. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Samsung announces a smaller Galaxy Tab and two non-smartphones Samsung's announcement of its Galaxy Tab 8.9 and two new Galaxy Players may have been overshadowed by rumors of Amazon's upcoming tablet, but they're still nothing to sneeze at. Read More How to Sync Your PC, Smartphone, and Tablet A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a BlackBerry, too--but only if they were real big shots. Read More Apple's latest Mini gets a 'serious' speed boost A month with the updated Mac Mini was enough to convince columnist Michael deAgonia that Apple's entry-level computer impresses in both the office and the living room. Read More Apple's Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current line of Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year, an Intel spokesman said. Read More Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, especially those that can support a variety of third-party open source firmware projects. One variant, DD-WRT has become a common out-of-the-box option for many routers, but also exists in stand-alone implementations that can be placed on routers that support it. Hundreds of routers can run DD-WRT firmware, including nearly 100 Linksys models alone. Read More
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