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Kurzweil: Humans will be more machine than biological by the 2030s
According to a CNN article, inventor, author and futurist Dr. Raymond Kurzweil, calculates that "humans will become more non-biological than biological" by the 2030s. Are you ready to join the Borg? Resistance if futile! by Bill Detwiler
Tags: Human, CNN, Prediction, Nanotechnology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Bill Detwiler
Blog posts 2008-07-15
Microsoft touts green initiatives in data center strategy
At CeBIT, Microsoft shined a light on its data center strategies that can bring advantages of energy efficiency and cost savings to companies. Steve Ballmer was seen quoting several statistics on the energy consumption pattern of the IT industry. An excerpt from ComputerWorld: "If you look...
Tags: Strategy, Renewable Energy, Data Center, Investment, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-03-05
Virtual Iron secures another $20 million financing
Virtual Iron Software, one of the main competitors to VMware in the enterprise server virtualization field, has secured $20 million in new venture equity financing. The funding "will be used to accelerate product development and expand global sales, marketing and distribution efforts." According to its press release:...
Tags: Financing, VMware Inc., Virtual Iron, Virtualization, Financial Accounting, Product Development, Investment, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Storage, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-01-28
Trend Micro releases its first data leak prevention product
LeakProof 3.0 is Trend Micro's first product in one of the largest growing segments of enterprise security, data leak prevention. An excerpt from TechWorld: With most data leaks occurring due to internal staff, a number of remedies have appeared, including installing spyware on the PCs to...
Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Data Leak Prevention, LeakProof 3.0, Monitors & Displays, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Hardware, Components, Investment, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-04
Pic: One gigabyte over 20 years
One the left, a one gigabyte IBM hard drive circa 1987. On the right, a one gigabyte SD card circa the last sale at Best Buy, before they got all the latest Micro-SD stuff in stock. Twenty years equals about twenty pounds from the looks of things. Found...
Tags: Memory, Investment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Finance, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-09-26
Sun acquires Lustre File System
Sun Microsystems has inked an agreement to acquire the open-source Lustre File System from software provide Cluster File Systems, among other assets. The Lustre File System, used for large-scale cluster computing, is used to power clusters with tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. ...
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-09-14
Acer is acquiring Gateway to become the third largest PC vendor
Plans are afoot for Acer to acquire Gateway in a $710 million deal that is poised to make Acer the world's third largest PC vendor. J.T. Wang, Acer's chairman, speaking at a news conference in Taipei declares that, "This is the biggest acquisition in Acer's 30 year...
Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Hui, Desktops, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Hardware, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-08-27
Citrix to acquire XenSource in deal worth $500 million
XenSource, whose founders helped develop the open-source Xen hypervisor, will be acquired by Citrix Systems in a $500 million deal. The acquisition announcement, just yesterday, comes hot on the heel of VMware's IPO of 33 million shares. (TechRepublic Blogs: VMware comes of age in IPO) The...
Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, IPO, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Research & Development, Hardware, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Services, Storage, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-08-15
Tech investments: Should you go for low cost or capability for growth?
When your business is small, you have a choice to make: should you go with lower cost alternatives designed for and possibly limited to small business use, or should you invest more money in software and/or hardware that can support growing far beyond your current needs? When your business...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Firewalls, Servers, Deb Shinder, Network security, Operating systems, ThatÂ, firewall, server, network, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Investment, Enterprise, Security, Software, Networking, Hardware
Technical articles 2006-06-16
Accenture Case Study: London Stock Exchange-Data Warehouse
Roughly 40 percent of the London Stock Exchange's revenues are generated by sales of real-time information about stock prices and movements. The Exchange and Accenture teamed to create a corporate data warehouse on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, enabling the Exchange to broaden the range of the information it provides and...
Tags: Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, E-business/E-Commerce, Investment, Servers, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Data Management, Internet, Finance, Hardware
Case studies
IBM Case Study: Wachovia
The challenge for Wachovia was to create an infrastructure that can support significant increases in trading volume. Secondly it wanted to reduce the time to results of risk reports in fixed income and capital markets. Wachovia implemented IBM eServer xSeries servers, Linux, and Business Partner DataSynapse GridServer. The P&L Risk...
Tags: Wachovia Corp., IBM Corp., Research & Development, Linux, Utility Computing, Investment, Financial Services, Servers, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Hardware
Case studies
PeopleSoft Case Study: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
After its acquisition by Lindt & Sprungli, California-based Ghirardelli Chocolate needed to upgrade its legacy systems and standardize on an ERP system that would unify and streamline core business processes and better integrate the company with its Swiss parent. Ghirardelli Chocolate standardized on a full suite of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Financial...
Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Hardware Upgrade, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Product Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Sales, Investment, Marketing
Case studies
Increasing the ROI of Your SAP Investment
If you want to find out how you can increase ROI for your SAP R/3 investment with enterprise content management ECM, this webcast is for you. The webcast will reveal how Pratt & Whitney benefits significantly from its Documentum and SAP R/3 integration.
Tags: Webcast, Investment, ROI, SAP R/3, SAP AG, EMC Corp., Roi/Tco, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Hardware
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Oracle Case Study: Ghirardelli Chocolate
After its acquisition by Lindt & Sprungli, San Leandro, California based Ghirardelli Chocolate needed to upgrade its legacy systems and standardize on an ERP system that would unify and streamline core business processes and better integrate the company with its Swiss parent. Ghirardelli Chocolate standardized on a full suite of...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Hardware Upgrade, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Product Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Investment, Marketing
Case studies
CGE Consolidates Its IT Leadership With HP Superdome Servers
Change is a constant at CGE. The acquisition of the electric company Rio Maipo, positioned CGE as the most important business group within Chile's electric industry with more than one and a half million users connected to its grid. The acquisition of the most powerful commercial computing system in the...
Tags: Business Operations, CGE, Corporate Law, Finance, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Superdome, Information Technology, Investment, Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Servers, Strategy, Utility Computing
Case studies
HP Case Study: EADS
EADS is Europe's largest aeronautical company and the second largest in the world. It was formed in July 2000 through the merger of Germany's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, France's Aerospatiale Matra and Spain's CASA, and specialises in civil and military aviation, defence systems and services. In order to optimise purchasing terms...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., EADS, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Servers, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Hardware
Case studies
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: An Introduction
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager software for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers provides a central point of control for managing all the resources in a Virtual Server Environment. It is a powerful way to connect IT resources to real business needs. HP Capacity Advisor enables one to view historical...
Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Advisor, HP Capacity Advisor, Servers, Investment, Hardware, Finance
White papers 2006-05-01
Innovative Indonesian ISP Turns to LightPointe for High-Bandwidth Optical Wireless Connectivity
PT.IP Teknologi Komunikasi's (IPTK's) fast-paced growth has required the acquisition of additional office space for a new state-of-the-art data center. While the new facility is only 1 kilometer from the Indonesian Internet Exchange IIX, there is a busy six-lane highway and another six lanes of road between the two sites....
Tags: LightPointe, Wireless, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
Case studies
Oracle Performance Tools: Reduce Your IT Infrastructure Investment
When facing high wait times, dropped sessions, and application lock-ups, the typical company response is to invest in expanded server hardware capacity and additional Oracle licenses, plus the accompanying installation and project management costs. DBAs utilizing Ignite for Oracle from Confio have demonstrated the ability to cut Oracle wait times...
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Investment, Tool, Confio Software, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Hardware
White papers 2006-08-01
Financial Services Company Relies on MTI for Cost-Effective, High Performance, Tiered Storage Solution
A Specialized Applications Service Provider SASP for the financial services industry turned to MTI to implement a high performance, highly redundant storage solution that could be leveraged to replicate data between the company's primary and remote data centers located 45 miles apart. The solution had to support their mission critical...
Tags: Financial, MTI Technology, Financial Service, High-performance, Tiered Storage, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Financial Planning, Investment, Hardware, Data Management, Finance
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IT Help Desk Survival Guide, Third Edition
TechRepublic's IT Help Desk Survival Guide, Third Edition provides tools and recommendations to help you better manage help desk services, improve end-user support, troubleshoot frustrating hardware issues, identify quick fixes to vexing Windows problems, and help users make the most of Microsoft Office 2003.
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500 Things Every Technology Professional Needs to Know
Did you know Microsoft's RegClean does not work with XP but you can use shareware to clean your registry? Did you know most wireless access points don't have encryption enabled by default? Did you know there are 500 tidbits of information contained in TechRepublic's 500 Things Every Technology Professional Needs to Know that will help you become a successful IT professional.
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