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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) launched a new graphics chip on Thursday modified to crunch huge amounts of data, with potential customers in financial, engineering and scientific industries. The new product, called FireStream, gives AMD an answer to a similar initiative launched by rival Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O: Quote, […]

Hardly a day passes where Linux isn’t mentioned in IT circles and by techno-geeks everywhere. But why should you care? In this article, we’ll explain why moving to Linux is a smart move for your business and your bottom line. Reason 1: Productivity Lets start with how the overall speed and general stability that Linux […]

UPDATED: Microsoft is slashing its licensing fees in Europe and handing over interoperability information on server protocols to open source developers as part of its latest agreement to comply with the EU’s 2004 antitrust ruling. The changes appear to be substantial and could impact the strategic direction of the world’s largest software company. They are […]

The September 2007 Netcraft survey showed continued growth and major shuffling among the Top 5 players. The research firm received responses from 135,166,473 sites, an increase of more than 9.5 million from the July survey, which yielded 125,626,329 responses. The number of sites measured surpassed the 100 million mark set in November 2006 and set […]

A new report issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada last week cited Winners Merchant International and its parent company, TJX, for failure to satisfy personal information protection standards during a break-in that compromised 45 million payment cards.   Although other factors contributed to the breach, investigators placed much of the blame […]

by the staff of EnterpriseITPlanet Lenovo follows up on its promise to revive its IBM-rooted presence in the desktop market with a desktop that sports an all-new look and a tiny physical profile, the ThinkCentre A61e. But, does it stack up? We’re going to take a look at what this new design has to offer. […]

The newest episode of “Greg the Architect”: Any IT professional who’s had to manage complex services will see the humor in this video. “Greg the Architect – Off the Grid” This video was produced by SOA Now Journal, a publication of TIBCO Software. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Huawei’s AI Update: Things Are Moving Faster Than […]

Cisco Systems on Wednesday said its VFrame Data Center, the software/hardware platform unveiled in July, is now integrated with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 software. The announcement, which coincided with CEO John Chambers’ keynote address at the VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco, represents Cisco’s (Quote) latest and most comprehensive effort to cash in on the virtualization […]

By Victor Chang With e-mail rapidly becoming the principal business record of employee activity, e-mail systems need to provide massive scalability, high performance, and cost-effective ways to retain, search, and manage data. Yet today, in their efforts to deliver acceptable performance at an acceptable cost, most corporations require IT to severely limit the size of […]

This chapter is excerpted from the Second Edition of The Official Ubuntu Book, authored by Benjamin Mako Hill and Jono Bacon, with Ivan Krstic, David Murphy, Jonathan Jesse, Peter Savage and Corey Burger, published by Prentice Hall Professional, © Copyright 2007 Canonical, Ltd. All rights reserved. The Official Ubuntu Book With Ubuntu installed and ready […]