HardwareHybrid Systems on Course to Speed Corporate Apps

IT executives in financial services, pharmaceutical manufacturing and some other industries are likely to evaluate complex -- and expensive -- hybrid hardware that runs specialized chips for performing complex calculations.

HardwareServer Virtualization: From Planning to Deployment

Many choices confront those who would implement server virtualization, from the selection of the virtualization platform itself to the hardware configuration underneath to the workloads running on top, not to mention networking and storage considerations. This session will address all of these preparatory steps, as well as the process and tools for making the move and the factors that lead to P2V success or failure.

HardwareFabrik launches 'eco-friendly' bamboo hard drive

The drive uses bamboo and recycled aluminum for its chassis. Fabrik will offer a Mac version of Turbo USB 2.0 drivers for download from its Web site soon.

HardwareBuild a three-screen workstation for $230 or less

If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money.

HardwareMicrosoft exec now says virtual-management software due in September

The new date is a few months before the last announced ship time for Virtual Machine Manager.

Hardware'World's cheapest laptop' now available

The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop has a 7-in. screen, a 400-MHz processor, 128MB of RAM and 1GB of flash storage -- but you need to buy 100 of them.

HardwareServer Management: The tried and true vendors vs. the new-idea startups

Start-ups selling server management, configuration management, process management are offering tools they say will improve reliability and performance as well as cut costs. But what are the risks and benefits of adopting tools from smaller vendors versus larger enterprises vendors? Should you wait for an interesting technology to get either acquired or officially adopted by the large vendor's partner network? Will a fast move to an emerging technology pay gains equal to the inherent risks?

HardwareGateway dumps its direct PC sales strategy

Acer subsidiary Gateway announced that it will no longer sell computers via its Web site and will instead distribute the hardware through retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Costco.

HardwareNoiseware Noise Reduction

Not all JPEG processing is created equal, but Noiseware can often fix what camera JPEG processing leaves undone....

HardwareWindows Home Server: All Better, Only It’s 7 Months Later

If you recall my past blog post on Windows Home Server, we were discussing a critical file corruption bug in the operating system that Microsoft had finally identified. The Drive Extender technology for handling the WHS storage pool had a particularly nasty and hard to fix race condition that resulted in data corruption in certain situations when the...