Compaq's links to the Wintel alliance may still be strong, but the company took a new direction on Monday when it released its GS Series of servers based on Alpha processor technology inherited from Digital.
The plans, which apply to the next-generation "Madison" and "Montecito" models in Intel's Itanium chip line, illustrate that HP is able to expand on the basic processors that Intel offers, decreasing its reliance on the chipmaker.
The Sun Fire Link, in comparison, uses connections directly to the "backplane" of the Sun Fire system, the high-speed wiring that connects the systems processors together. But since the mid-1990s more and more have been built out of clusters of...
The new four-processor systems use Intel's new Xeon MP processors, code-named Gallatin, and will be available to order in the US on 11 March with a starting price of $8,999. The company also announced a new BL20p Xeon processors based on the...
The new products are also expected to offer higher amounts of cache memory and to reflect a switch from RAID-1 technology to a newer RAID-5 approach, which lets data be stored 'redundantly' - or in more than one place for backup purposes - but...
Having spent many years and a great deal of cash protecting the perimeter and tightening security at the email gateway, companies must again ensure they are focussed on the actions of their staff - traditionally thought to be the one of the...
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