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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  HP launches virtualization armada

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 3:24am CST

  Server, storage, desktops, research, ho!

  Hewlett-Packard is launching a fleet of virtualization products today, including four new thin-client PCs, a StorageWorks virtualization blade, an enterprise storage package, updates to HP-UX, and plenty of service offerings.…

HP Server News & Podcasts

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  HP Discusses SPECpower

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 2:03am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  Listen in to learn how HP manages the relationship between power and performance at the server level
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  HP Discusses Power and Cooling Fixes

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 2:01am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  Listen in to a few quick, low cost fixes that will make a big impact to the amount of power you consume and to your bottom line.
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  HP’s ProLiant BL495c G5 Server Blade

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:39am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  With the ability to eliminate performance bottlenecks of a virtual machine host, the HP ProLiant BL495c G5 Server Blade is The world’s first virtualization blade.

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Delivers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces today it is making its courseware and technical skill-building tools accessible free of charge to university faculty.

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  Made in IBM Labs: IBM Moves Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Into 3-D

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research announced a new project, dubbed "Sametime 3-D," demonstrating the integration of Lotus Sametime with several virtual environments. The project showcases the business value virtual environments can bring to the future of C

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  IBM pitches 'network security' blade server

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 7:43am CST

  Slimline P2P throttler

  IBM is rolling out a blade server made to support deep packet inspection tools, so that service providers and other operations can better shield themselves against viruses, denial of service attacks, and, yes, throttle peer-to-peer bandwidth.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Accelerates Information on Demand by Helping Clients Create an Information Agenda

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced open software tools, industry-specific data models and blueprints, and consulting services to help clients use information as a strategic asset across their businesses.

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  IBM Introduces First Blade Server to Reduce Security Threats, Optimize Network Traffic

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  ITU Telecom Asia -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an intelligent blade server designed to help reduce security threats -- such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and viruses -- while helping server providers better manage network traffic for optimal performance.

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  Procter and Gamble Selects IBM Internet Security Systems to Help Amplify Its Threat Protection, Simplify Its Security Operations and Save on Administrative Costs

  Posted: August 29th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) has selected products and services from IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division to expand its global cyber-security initiative.

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  RHB Banking Group Upgrades Infrastructure With IBM System z10

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  RHB Banking Group today announced its new department, Central Technology Unit, will enhance its product development and delivery to customers with IBM (NYSE: IBM) System z10 mainframe as the foundation of its new enterprise data center.

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  IBM and Cefic Develop State-of-the-Art Solution for Chemical Industry

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Cefic, representing the European Chemical Industry, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) developed a state-of-the-art solution which will facilitate and ease the exchange of information between companies with the goal of submitting registration dossiers required by the REACH Regulation.

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  IBM ITSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Providing Free “IBM Redbooks®”

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today is reaffirming a continued investment in producing the popular IBM Redbooks series, as part of its recognition of the 40th anniversary of the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO).

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  IBM Breaks Performance Records Through Systems Innovation

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Engineers and researchers at the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California have demonstrated groundbreaking performance results that outperform the world's fastest disk storage solution by over 250(1) percent.

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Network World on Servers

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  Dell profit falls as revenue grows

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:00am CST by Stephen Lawson

  Dell posted a decline in profit for its fiscal second quarter even as its revenue grew, while economic doldrums held down its results in some parts of the world.

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  Report: IBM Continues as Number One Server Vendor Worldwide in Second Quarter 2008

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IDC reported today that IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share with a 33.2 percent revenue share in the second quarter of 2008 -- surpassing HP with a 5.8 percent gap. IBM also topped the industry with a 27 percent revenue growth in overall servers from first quarter 2008.

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  IBM and United States Tennis Association Go Green at the 2008 US Open

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM), the official technology partner of the US Open, and the United States Tennis Association have teamed to offer exciting ways to help more fans than ever experience the action of the 2008 US Open. With a new array of personalized features including customized content and mobile alerts, the USOpen.org site will help fans get closer to the action of the US Open in ways not before possible.

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  Chordiant and IBM Help Global Brands DAK and ING Strengthen Customer Relationships

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRD), the leading provider of Customer Experience (Cx™) software and services, and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced an extended partnership to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solutions to help global brands with high-volumes of customer interactions better meet consumer needs and improve customer relationships.

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Network World on Servers

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  Netflix: Hardware flaw caused shipping mess

  Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  A hardware component caused the problem that seriously disrupted Netflix's ability to mail out DVDs for several days this month.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  MetaRAM now pumping 288GB of memory into Intel boxes

  Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 3:21am CST

  Triple stuffed

  Super-charging memory shop MetaRAM has started talking up its beefy DDR3 modules.…

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  Dell thrives in up server market

  Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 2:46am CST

  Ugly economy fails to tarnish iron in Q2

  The server biz is still booming thanks to customers buying up x86 boxes. The current worldwide economic agitation doesn't seem to have affected with major vendors with all of the big names shipping more metal in the second quarter of 2008 than the same period last year, according to the latest bean counting from Gartner.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  University of Melbourne Student "Masters the Mainframe"

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that University of Melbourne Student Dharvinder Bassi has been named Australia's Master of the Mainframe student contest winner after out-performing more than 450 other students across Australia. In addition to becoming Australia's Mainframe student contest winner, Bassi now joins the growing list of approximately 50,000 worldwide students with mainframe computing training. This burgeoning group of future mainframe experts is a direct result of the ongoing resurgence of the mainframe, which continues to serve as a centralized, secure powerful transaction

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  IBM Widens Its Lead in Worldwide Server Revenue Share, Maintains Top Position With Growth in Power Systems and System z Sales

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Gartner has reported that IBM (NYSE: IBM) held its number one position as the leading vendor in worldwide server revenue, widening its lead over the competition in the second quarter of 2008. According to Gartner data, IBM captured 31.2 percent of all server revenue worldwide [1].

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Network World on Servers

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  Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00am CST by James Niccolai

  Dell posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems out of third place, Gartner said Thursday.

  

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Amazon gives marching orders to cloudy storage

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 4:21am CST

  Nomadic volumes

  Amazon.com continues to offer deeper penetration into its cloud. The company this week unfurled a storage service for hard-core users that will let you keep data and file systems in separate piles.…

  

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM and LENTA Hypermarket Chain Sign Three-Year IT Services Contract

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM and Russian retail chain, LENTA, have signed a three-year information technology (IT) services contract estimated at approximately US$1 million. The contract signed in May 2008, will provide IBM support and recovery services for LENTA's entire IT infrastructure.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  What’s going on in your data centre?

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 5:56pm CST

  Babycham alert

  Mini-Survey With data centres in a state of flux, we thought it would be a great time to get away from vendor hype and find out what's really going on. Have you virtualised everything you can? Have you consolidated to a fraction of your former self? Or are you somewhere between sorting out the rats' nest legacy and planning a coherent future?…

Network World on Servers

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  Intel confirms OQO to use Atom in handheld PC

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 8:00am CST by Agam Shah

  Intel on Wednesday confirmed that its Atom chips will be used in an upcoming handheld computer from OQO, a significant design win for the chip maker.
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  More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 8:00am CST by Sumner Lemon

  Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company's existing quad-core chips.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Intel stuffs Nehalem chips with joy

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 4:05am CST

  They're turberrific

  IDF Intel has tick-tocked itself into a frenzy about its upcoming line of multi-core fancies now being discussed under the "Nehalem" code-name.…

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  Google App Engine comes under Hyperic scrutiny

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 11:58pm CST

  Silver lining meets cloud

  With cloud services losing their 24x7 luster, Hyperic is today expected to step up with its second service probing for potential weaknesses.…

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  Microsoft slaps another $100m on Novell interop pile

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 8:40pm CST

  Save all your kisses for me

  Microsoft plans to cough up $100m in additional subs to software rival Novell with the payment being made no later than 1 November, the odd couple confirmed today.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  Health Net Selects IBM for IT Infrastructure Services Agreement

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that on August 19, 2008 it entered into a five-year information technology (IT) infrastructure services agreement, in excess of $300 million, with Health Net, Inc. As part of the agreement, IBM will manage Health Net's entire IT infrastructure for substantial cost savings and increased data center reliability.

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  Web Merchant Enlists Power Players to Fight Credit Card Fraud

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Adorama, a midsize company and a leading online retailer of photography and video gear, is combating credit card fraud with help from IBM, Curbstone Corporation, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and CardinalCommerce Corporation.

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  IBM Commits $300 Million to Expand Business Continuity and Resiliency Services

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is investing US$300 million to construct 13 Business Resilience service delivery centers in 10 countries in 2008, increasing its ability to address surging demand from businesses and governments from around the world seeking to keep their operations safe from disruption. The massive infrastructure expansion is the largest of its kind and will permit IBM clients to access services that support business continuity for the first time from a cloud computing environment.

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Network World on Servers

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  U.K. outfit woos SMEs with servers direct

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  It's a far cry from Amazon, but an emerging Yorkshire-based company claims to be breaking new ground in online SME sales.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Microsoft dashes hopes for 'major' Windows server upgrade

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 1:10am CST

  2008 sticking around

  Microsoft has re-committed itself to an interim release of its Windows server operating system, countering reports it had planned to go straight to a major release instead.…

  
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  Sun double teams Xeon chip

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 12:37am CST

  Makes grunty boxes

  IDF No server vendor worth its hot swappable fans will let an Intel Developer Forum go by without announcing some new kit. So here's Sun Microsystems doing its part for the epic Intel ecosystem with a pair of new servers.…

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  Microsoft slackens VM licensing rules

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 11:11pm CST

  Give 'em enough rope...

  Microsoft will relax its virtual machine licensing policy to make it easier for businesses to move a VM freely about physical servers.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Receives High Marks in Everything Channel’s 2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that it has received high marks in the 2008 Annual Report Card (ARC) from Everything Channel's VARBusiness. Now in its 23rd year, the VARBusiness ARC Awards recognize outstanding partner programs and superb vendor service in 18 major product categories. The ARC awards were held at an awards ceremony held on August 18 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Dell cloud computing™ denied

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 9:21pm CST

  Why does it always rain on me

  Dell has lost its bid to trademark the widely-used term “cloud computing”.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  New IBM Software Eases Data Integration and Master Data Management Challenges

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Today at the TDWI World Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their enterprises to improve business performance.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  AMD hits Intel with Shanghai surprise

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 6:50pm CST

  Game, chipset and match

  AMD plans to dish up a server platform based on a new chipset in the first half of 2009 - meanwhile, its 45 nanometre Shanghai processor will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.…

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  Dollar surge helps software vendors soak customers

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:02pm CST

  Citrix, VMware jack up non-US price lists

  Analysis US software vendors are jacking up their price lists in Europe, and are blaming the weak dollar for the hike.…

  

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM and Vantage Deluxe World Travel Make It Easier for Travelers to Book Vacations

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that Vantage Deluxe World Travel, the leader in travel to active, mature American travelers, has increased sales and improved business operations since turning to IBM to run its Web site and online booking system. Since switching to IBM WebSphere Commerce software, Vantage Travel has reduced order-taking time by 80 percent and increased revenue for the company. The new Web site also has special features to make it easier for consumers to navigate and make reservations.

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  IBM Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for E-Commerce Magic Quadrant

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant in its new Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce(1) report.

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Network World on Servers

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  IT managers choose SSDs over hard disks

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives) and they help reduce the electric bill.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Microsoft may lift VM licensing restrictions next week

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 6:55am CST

  Don't tie me up with those ties, Ty

  It may have finally dawned on Microsoft that its current software licensing restrictions kill one of the major benefits of virtualization — the ability to move a virtual machine freely about physical servers.…

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  Microsoft running on at least 220,000 servers

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 3:12am CST

  Screengrabs air metallic laundry

  Exactly how many servers does Microsoft own? Well, we still don't for sure, but it looks as if Redmond is running at least 148,357 boxes.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  University of Toronto to Acquire Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer from IBM

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM today announced an agreement to build Canada’s most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer.

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  Cognos Positioned as a Leader in Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms Report

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Cognos, an IBM company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized Cognos as a market leader in BI reporting and analysis platforms, according to the July 2008 report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008. Forrester cited Cognos as a leader based on the company’s strategy, market presence, and current offering of Cognos 8 BI v8.3.

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  New Research From IBM & the Human Capital Institute Demonstrates ROI of Talent Management

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  A study by IBM and the Human Capital Institute (HCI) shows that while 84 percent of organizations know that workforce effectiveness is important to achieving business results, only 42 percent of those surveyed say managers devote sufficient time to people management.

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  Columbus State University Celebrates Educating Over 1,000 Students on Mainframe Skills

  Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  At the annual SHARE conference and education symposium today, Columbus State University, TSYS and IBM (NYSE: IBM) celebrated a 20-year milestone as a result of their partnership to meet the needs of the technology workforce of the future. Columbus State University has now educated and trained more than 1,000 students in mainframe and large enterprise skills specifically for careers at TSYS, a leading provider of electronic payments solutions. Columbus State University and TSYS, along with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, collaborated to create innovative, diverse

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  VMware admits 'time bomb' rolled past quality control

  Posted: August 13th, 2008, 6:50pm CST

  Glum CEO says 'we're sorry'

  VMware’s CEO has blamed a chunk of leftover pre-release code for a bug that yesterday prevented virtual servers around the world from powering up when the clock hit 12 August.…

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  China's The9 earns epic loot from The World of Warcraft

  Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:31am CST

  Practically gold farming in real life

  The owner of six of China's fastest privately-owned computers continues to rake in cash thanks to more than a little help from orcs and elves.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  Winn-Dixie Uses IBM System z to Deliver Better Service, Value and Performance

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., one of the nation's largest food retailers, has consolidated its IT infrastructure to a System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) mainframe to drive more efficiency from current business-critical processes and data such as store operations, finance, human resources and Web content.

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Dell Power Solutions

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  Making the News

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 7:00pm CST

  Dell Precision™ mobile workstations and Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers help a media company maintain its competitiveness in the evolving news business, reducing the time needed to publish breaking stories by 50 percent.
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  Box Office Gold

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 7:00pm CST

  Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosures helped Soho VFX deliver a Hollywood blockbuster on deadline—more than doubling the company’s processing capacity while helping reduce power consumption by 20 percent.
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  High-Performance Supply Chain

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 7:00pm CST

  Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosures connected to a Dell/EMC CX3-20 storage area network helped supply chain provider YCH Group reduce data center floor space by 70 percent and power consumption by up to 45 percent compared with the previous solution.
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  Building One of the World’s Largest Windows-Based HPC Clusters

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 7:00pm CST

  When the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Holland Computing Center teamed up with Dell to build a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, the result was a flexible dual-boot system of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with dual-core AMD Opteron™ processors—and one of the world’s largest and most powerful Microsoft® Windows® OS–based clusters.