SIMI VALLEY, CA (BRAIN) —Currie Technologies has appointed David Cabanban as the new Midwest territory manager for the IZIP Road Show. Currie has five territory managers throughout the country, each with a Nissan NV high-top van for ...
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RedPrairie is merging with fellow supply-chain software vendor JDA in a deal worth roughly $1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday, just days after reports surfaced that JDA had put itself up for sale. The deal is expected to close ...
With all the computer-generated (CG) imagery that DreamWorks Imagination Studios produces, you'd think their data center infrastructure would be cloud-enabled, virtualized and fat with solid-state storage. You'd be mostly wrong. About 15% ...
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The Serial ATA International Organization(SATA-IO)Thursday announced that the ratification process has started for SATA Express,which standardizes PCI Express(PCIe)as an interface for client storage. The specification is now under review ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server design with the new Proliant SL4500 server, which mixes processing, networking and storage units to optimize performance of applications like OpenStack and ...
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NetApp today unveiled upgraded FAS3220 and FAS3250 Fabric-Attached Storage arrays, improving their performance by up to 80% and more than doubling the storage capacity. The upgraded midrange FAS storage systems run v8.1.2 of NetApp's ...
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Macworld - With build-to-order options, the new Mac mini makes a giant leap in performance. The $799 standard configuration Mac mini comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5400-rpm 1TB hard drive. We customized ...
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A year ago,we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it.Not only was the hardware clunky and slow,but Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS was far more basic and limited in what it could do that we ...
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Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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IDG News Service - Java caching software provider Terracotta and database provider Tokutek have each released new offerings designed to entice organizations to try new ways of storing data, from running in-memory databases to using solid ...
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Infoworld - When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company that gave us PC-centric ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...
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IDG News Service - As expected, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Sunday unveiled a souped-up version of its Exadata database machine that will allow customers to run all of their databases in-memory, providing what Ellison termed blazing ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet with Windows 8, and said the device can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The HP ElitePad 900 ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...