Posted March 5, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
SimCity, one of the most anticipated releases of the year, launched in the US early this morning but that doesn’t mean everyone that purchased the game got to play it right away. The title, which requires EA’s Origin PC download…
Posted July 25, 2012, 12:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware
ARM Holdings moved a step closer towards increasing competition with leading chipmaker, Intel, after announcing a multi-year agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to produce low-power chips for mobile devices and servers.
Earlier this month, Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture finally made its way to the company's dual- and quad-socket-capable server processors with the new Xeon E5 product family. The launch is very important for Intel's business. Not only because of the growing…
Posted March 27, 2012, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
Less than a month after announcing the deal, AMD has officialy completed its acquisition of SeaMicro, a startup that specializes in building high-density low-power servers. The deal is valued at $334 million, including $293 million in cash, nearly 6.5 million…
AMD has announced the availability of its first sixteen-core server chips, the new Opteron 6200 (codenamed "Interlagos"), as well as a new six and eight-core parts launching under the Opteron 4200 series (codenamed "Valencia"). The company is promising up to…
Posted October 18, 2011, 11:30 AM by Dell SMB | Filed in Industry News
Server virtualization has become an increasingly important strategy for businesses of all sizes. It allows companies to gain more from what they already have, making one server act as multiple servers, or move from 20+ physical servers down to a few.
Server virtualization is currently one of the most significant technology trends in IT. Managing server hardware and software as separate infrastructure components can make it possible to significantly improve data center operating efficiencies.
Posted July 21, 2011, 2:42 PM by Dell SMB | Filed in Industry News
Virtualization has become a key area of development for Small Business and Enterprise computing environments over the last decade. Intel first incorporated dedicated hardware instructions for virtualization on x86 platforms with the Pentium 4 (VT-x) processors and today offers a…
Posted July 20, 2011, 7:15 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
The US government will reportedly undertake various measures to drastically reduce its IT spending, including the closure of 40% of its computer centers by 2015, the NY Times reports. The US federal government has the world's largest IT budget at…
Posted April 5, 2011, 3:56 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Intel has introduced 29 new server processors to its E3 and E7 Xeon families today. The former serves entry-level customers while the latter represents Intel's most powerful server offering, supposedly setting 14 benchmark records and surpassing its Itanium chips.
Based on…
Posted February 9, 2011, 12:59 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft today officially handed off the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to its OEM partners. On February 16, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be…
Posted October 26, 2010, 3:15 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate (RC) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As you can see over at Microsoft.com, the 32-bit installer is 514.7MB in size while the 64-bit installer is 865.4MB.
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