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- News to know: Isolating zero-day exploits; CelebriMiis; Microsoft's virtualization backtrack
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: New MS tool isolates Office 2003 zero-day exploits. Hackers in Seattle for Microsofts Blue Hat, ToorCon.Apple plugs critical holes in Darwin Streaming Server. Cybercrooks add QuickTime, WinZip flaws to arsenal.Red Hat launches open-source Exchange.Larry Dignan: Are Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hats shopping list?Apples Jobs brushes...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), virtualization, CelebriMiis, Intels, zero-day bug, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- A peek at Intel's data center strategy
- Two Intel executives shed some light on Intels data center strategy at the Intel Developers Forum in Beijing. Biggest takeaway: Intel has some old data centers that need replacing. In the IDF gallery left presentation by Intels Martin Menard, director of...
- Tags: General, Datacenter, Intel, Hardware Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- The benchmark war: AMD vs. Intel
- The last few weeks have seen a certain amount of name calling going on between some key AMD executives and people from, or representing, Intel. As I understand it, this all started whan some AMD people got upset because the press was buying...
- Tags: Media bias/incompetence, General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Strike 3 for AMD hypocrisy on benchmarking
- AMD swung hard at Intel for what it deemed as ethics violations, but since then theyve pulled the exact same stunt theyve been criticizing Intel for three times in a row. I called out AMDs hypocrisy on strike one, David Berlind called them out on strike two, and now...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, News, Intel, Hardware, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-core
- As AMD finally celebrates their symbolic victory over last years Intel dual-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processor, Intel and Apple is moving on with quad-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processors. Apple with its exclusive partnership with Intel gets to be the first to launch Intels 3 GHz...
- Tags: Servers, AMD, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Two companies (AMD and Intel). Two chips. One 'saintly' code name.
- Earlier today, I received an e-mail from an Intel spokesperson reminding me that the vPro version of Intels mobile processors are on tap (heres the news from News.coms Tom Krazit). From a branding perspective, its a double whammy for Intel (and customers who might think theres more to a brand...
- Tags: IT Management, Wired &, Wireless, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Intel's flash drive strategy
- "Sure the margins are low - but well make it up on volume!" At first glance it didnt make much sense to me why Intel announced flash drives last week. Going up against Samsung in flash, a company that has been reducing flash cost per bit at about 70% per...
- Tags: strategy, GB Max, Intels, USB flash drive, SLC, USB, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Intel's flash drive strategy
- "Sure the margins are low - but well make it up on volume!" At first glance it didnt make much sense to me why Intel announced flash drives last week. Going up against Samsung in flash, a company that has been reducing flash cost per bit at about 70% per...
- Tags: strategy, GB Max, Intels, USB flash drive, SLC, USB, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Legal risks and ediscovery
- Last week was full of fun headlines - a favourite, from the register: AMDs lawyers go ballistic as Intels e-mails disappear. Heres a bit from Ashley Vances text: As Intel tells it, the company set a firm, clear document retention policy in place once it...
- Tags: Intels, e-mail, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Intel rides the datacenter build out wave
- Intel is more than making up for slower sales of enterprise servers due to consolidation and virtualization by selling processors, such as the Xeon 5100 Woodcrest and 5300 Clovertown series, for large-scale datacenters built by leading Internet portals. "In the last three months we have shipped more product into this...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter, AMD, Intel, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Intel's 80 core CPU that isn't
- Heres a bit from the EETimes report: Intels researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities. Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. Theyre...
- Tags: General, Hardware, Unanswered questions
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ out - Still can't beat Intel's E6700
- Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and its performance is lackluster to say the least. Compared to other...
- Tags: AMD
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Podcast: RSA, the Jobs letter, Intel's vPro and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the goings on at the RSA 2007 Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs "Thoughts on Music" open letter to the world and to the record industry, Intels vPro brand (which minimally includes a Core 2 Duo microprocessor, the Q965 chipset and...
- Tags: Apple, Dan &, David Show, General, Government, Intel, Intels, IT Management, Microsoft, Personal Technology, podcast, Security, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Intel's vPro brand debuts in HP's dc7700 desktop, manages the system even when off
- See our video of the dc7700 in action: To get a better idea of how HPs implementation of Intels Active Management Technology works, David paid a visit to one of Intels chipmaking facilities in Hudson, MA for a personal demo. But youre free to eavesdrop on his visit...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Video, Image Gallery, Intels, Intel vPro
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Reading the Times - about Intel
- As regular readers know, Im both fascinated and frustrated by the extent to which the main stream press misinforms our bosses -the non technical people who ultimately make most of the strategic technology decisions in the organizations we work for. The media reaction to last weeks announcements from...
- Tags: Intel Corp., transistor
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Intel's 'tick tock' shrinking chips
- Intel is ramping up its 45-nanometer generation of chips, which will result in smaller, faster and more energy efficient chips. Tom Krazit covers the announcement: The Penryn chips are the first iteration of the new manufacturing strategy outlined by [Intel CEO Paul] Otellini earlier this year. Intel...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Intel, Intel Corp., chip
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- In search of killer threaded apps
- Wanted: Killer applications that take advantage of Intels hyper-threading technology. The goal: Develop software that best uses multicore chips and take computing to the next level. Must be fluent in geeked-out terms such as parallelism. Contact: James Reinders, director of marketing and business at Intels software developer products...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Intel, James Reinders
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Analyst: Sun prepping to use Intel inside its servers
- Sun Microsystems has had one partner in the low-end server market--Advanced Micro Devices. That appears to be changing, according to a research note from Bank of America Securities analyst Sumit Dhanda. In the report published Friday, Dhanda writes: ...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, AMD, Intel, Sun, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Sumit Dhanda
- Blog posts 2007-01-21
- Will Intel show any price war wounds?
- When AMD issued a profit warning last week due to pricing pressure, Intel watchers could take it two ways:--Intel is kicking the snot out of AMD;--Or theres a price war thatll hurt both parties.Well get more color on whether Intel had any price war wounds when it reports its fourth...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intels
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- MIA at Gartner Symposium: The new guard (aka Guard 2.0)
- Strangely, at a time when the usually conservative Gartner research outfit is talking more about how businesses and organizations shouldnt so quickly rule out bleeding edge technologies, theres one group of people thats noticeably missing from the events agenda: the innovators that are bleeding that edge. For example, I...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Gartners
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
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