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| CSC signs extension to managed application services agreement with Sun Microsystems |
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Computer Sciences Corporation has signed an extension to a global information technology (IT) applications management services agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. Under the five-year agreement, CSC will continue to provide all applications development and support services for Sun's business applications portfolios - including finance, manufacturing, messaging, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management, data warehousing and other general technology software - in the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific.
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| CoSy compiler for 96-core multi-threaded array processor |
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ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv's compiler development system CoSy has been successfully used by ClearSpeed Technology in the development of a high-performance, parallelizing compiler for its accelerator product line that includes the CSX600, a multi-threaded array coprocessor.
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| Cray appoints Jill Hopper vice president of government programmes |
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Cray Inc. has appointed Jill Hopper to the position of vice president responsible for government programmes. With more than 20 years of government affairs experience at the federal level, Jill Hopper will be responsible for managing Cray's government relations office in Washington, DC, developing and implementing annual legislative strategy and maintaining strong relationships with Executive and Legislative branch officials.
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| Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speed |
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The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor microlasers with silicon wave guides for novel, power-efficient optical connections.
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| Palpable computing: a taste of things to come |
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Virtually everyone stands to benefit from the more pervasive use of computer technology. But while adding microchips to more everyday objects can make lives easier - and even save them - the approach creates some unique problems of its own. "Palpable" rather than "ubiquitous" computing promises a solution.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers extends its FibreTrade offer to include FibreCAT TX systems |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers is extending its special FibreTrade deal. Effective February 1st, the offer is no longer confined to the FibreCAT SX family of RAID storage systems but also includes the FibreCAT TX series of tape storage systems. Customers purchasing a FibreCAT TX08, TX24 or TX48 with LTO technology will receive a credit of at least 200 euro for the systems they replace. This offer is also valid for selected third-party systems. In addition, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will make sure that the decommissioned equipment is either re-used or disposed of in accordance with sound environmental practices. The offer continues until July 31, 2008, in all EU countries, Norway, and Switzerland.
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| Dot Hill announces OEM partnership with SEPATON |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp., a market expert in providing high performance, flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators, has entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Marlborough, Massachusetts-based SEPATON Inc.
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| Dell blades slash data centre power |
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Dell has set a new standard for data centre energy efficiency and flexibility with the PowerEdge M-Series blade solution. The PowerEdge M-Series was designed from the ground up using Dell Energy Smart technologies, resulting in 30 industry patents, to help customers simplify information technology and better address mounting environmental challenges in their data centres. The new M1000e blade enclosure is now available worldwide for ordering with a starting price of $5999, along with blades starting at $1849.
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| Kantana selects IBM Scale-Out File Services to boost its data storage system for animation production |
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Kantana, a pioneer of the animation production industry in Thailand, has selected IBM Scale-out File Services to increase the efficiency of its storage system. Kantana foresees that not only computer graphic programmes are needed for animation work, but also that information technology (IT) systems play an important role in data storage and processing, in order to expand the abilities of its animation team to create works with the same quality as international productions.
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| New IBM software helps clients automate data centres and realize benefits of cloud computing |
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IBM has introduced new software for data centre automation that will help clients benefit from cloud computing, a revolutionary approach that will allow corporate data centres to act with Internet-scale efficiency and operate with fewer resources. The new version of IBM's Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) helps clients reduce manual steps to better automate the changing demands for IT resources - a key element of IBM's version of cloud computing, called Blue Cloud. The technologies developed as part of this initiative enable clients to build large-scale, distributed, globally accessible data centres.
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| China's largest shared memory supercomputer installed at National Satellite Meterological Center |
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To ensure the successful launch of China's new polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, the China National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC) turned to high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solutions from SGI. NSMC recently deployed China's largest shared-memory computer - and the fourth most powerful computer in the country - to support the launch programme for the FENGYUN-3. The SGI Altix system is powered by 1280 Intel Itanium 2 processor cores and 4TB of shared memory. NSMC integrated the supercomputer with a 26TB SGI InfiniteStorage solution and the SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS.
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| DOE allocates NERSC supercomputing resources to research combustion, climate change, energy and accelerators |
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The U.S. Department of Energy is allocating about 10.4 million CPU hours on supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of a programme to accelerate scientific discoveries in multiple disciplines, including climate, physics, combustion and material science. The one-year allocations will go to 11 projects by researchers in universities, national labs and industry. Last year, the DOE allotted nearly 9 million CPU hours at NERSC to seven projects.
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| Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Microsoft create joint Research Centre in Barcelona for Parallel Computing |
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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC) - and Microsoft Corp have created the BSC-Microsoft Research Centre, which will focus on the way microprocessors and software for the mobile and desktop market segments will be designed and interact over the next 10 years and beyond.
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| Parallel Storage - A remedy for HPC Data Management |
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The advent of more powerful compute systems has increased the capacity to generate data at a fantastic rate. To solve associated issues of data management, a combination of Grid technology and other storage components are currently being deployed. Many solutions have been designed to address these Petabyte-scale data management problems, including new software, NAS/NFS products and parallel storage solutions from IBM, Panasas and others. This involves handling and storing very large data sets accessed simultaneously by thousands of compute clients. (Chris Lazou)
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| ECMWF signs contract for new computing facility |
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At its 68th session on 10-11 December 2007, the ECMWF Council authorised the Director to enter into a service contract with IBM United Kingdom Ltd. to replace the High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) at the Centre from 2009 onwards. The contract between ECMWF and IBM UK Ltd was signed on 20 December 2007.
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| UK National HPC Service based on Cray supercomputing technology |
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Cray and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have unveiled the new Cray XT4 supercomputer that will greatly assist the UK's researchers and enable scientific advancements and breakthroughs in a range of fields and disciplines. Established to provide next-generation high performance computing (HPC) service for the United Kingdom's academic community, the unveiling of the Cray supercomputer officially launches the first phase of the UK's High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) project.
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| ICCS 2008 to extend deadline for paper submission |
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The Eighth International Conference on Computational Science will be held 23-25 June 2008 in Krakow, Poland. The deadline for paper submission has been extended to January 10, 2008.
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| Hitachi wins US$78.8 million supercomputer contract for University of Tokyo |
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Hitachi has won a contract to supply a supercomputer to the University of Tokyo. The contract, which entails leasing a powerful supercomputer to the university's Information Technology Center for six years, is estimated to be worth nearly 9 billion yen (US$78.8 million).
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| Improving processor performance for safer and economical cars and planes |
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Making cars and planes more energy-efficient, economical and safe is the aim of the EU-funded MERASA - 'Multi-core execution of hard real-time applications supporting analysability' - project. To achieve this, researchers from six countries have set out to develop embedded processors that use multi-core technology.
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| Open MPI Project partners with Coverity to accelerate advanced computing research |
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Coverity Inc., specialized in improving software quality and security automatically, has signed a partnership with the Open Message Passing Interface (MPI) project, an advanced computing research and development group. Under the new partnership, Coverity will help improve the security and quality of Open MPI code via its open source Scan site. The Scan site is an outgrowth of Coverity's contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to improve the security and quality of open source software.
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| Maplesoft broadens language support for its flagship product |
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Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, has made available its flagship product, Maple, in additional languages. The newly supported languages are Chinese, Korean, and Greek, adding to the current support for Japanese and English. In its eleventh edition, Maple is a widely popular tool used by engineers, researchers, teachers, and students around the world. The new language support makes the tool available to a wider group of users.
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| SGI extends storage offerings with Panasas Parallel Storage solutions for cluster environments |
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SGI is extending its data management offerings with storage solutions from Panasas Inc., an expert in parallel clustered storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. SGI will offer the Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters to customers deploying Linux clusters, including award-winning SGI Altix ICE and Altix XE cluster solutions. Panasas ActiveStor products augment the SGI InfiniteStorage line of storage products and data management solutions for HPC, data-intensive enterprise and media environments.
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| The supercomputer Magerit to participate in an international project to simulate the universe |
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Led by Professor Gustavo Yepes from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, a group of astrophysicists from several countries are recreating the formation of the observable universe on Magerit, the supercomputer installed by Madrid's Centre of Supercomputing and Visualization (CesViMa) at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing.
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| Moscow State University buys Russia's first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer |
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Moscow State University (MSU) and IBM have announced details of an agreement to install a Blue Gene/P supercomputer at the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. The new supercomputer, the first installation of the world famous Blue Gene computer in Russia, will be used for fundamental research in nanotechnology, new materials and life sciences.
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| Colfax International announces a new line of cost-effective InfiniBand-based cluster solutions for mainstream applications |
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Colfax International, a global supplier of fully-customizable, high-performance workstations, servers, clusters, and storage solutions, has made available cost-effective InfiniBand products packaged for mainstream usage. The package can be purchased separately or integrated with system offerings from Colfax. The package consists of 10Gb/s InfiniBand adapters, cables and switches and is priced to bring supercomputer performance to mainstream applications such as multi player gaming, automotive, oil and gas, education, engineering and more.
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| Illinois advanced computing Institute funds first three projects |
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Three diverse efforts will be the inaugural projects of the new Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Institute transfers advances from the computer science and engineering research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to the larger scientific, engineering, and arts, humanities and social science communities in order to speed progress across all of these frontiers.
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| CSC wins $113 million NASA task order to provide supercomputing support services |
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Computer Sciences Corporation has won a task order, awarded under the General Services Administration Millennia contract, to provide supercomputing support services to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Awarded under the General Services Administration Millennia contract, the estimated value of the five-year task order is $113 million.
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| Total View partner with Lifeboat for European distibution of debuggers |
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TotalView Technologies has partnered with international specialty software distributor Lifeboat Distribution to resell its advanced TotalView and MemoryScape debuggers in selected countries in the European, Asian and Latin American markets. Additionally, Lifeboat will offer TotalView Technologies maintenance, training and documentation in these markets.
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| Energy Insights predicts climate change issues to drive increased tech investment in 2008 |
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Scientists from the Walker Institute at the University of Reading will be studying the problem of climate change in more detail than ever before using the new UK academic supercomputer (HECToR) which was launched in Edinburgh by the Chancellor, Alistair Darling.
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| Panasas storage system first to be certified "Intel Cluster Ready" |
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Panasas Inc.'s ActiveStor Storage Clusters are the first parallel storage solution to be certified as part of the Intel Cluster Ready programme. The Intel Cluster Ready programme is designed to make it easier for users to acquire and deploy clusters built with Intel components.
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| C-DAC releases five new products at Elitex 2008 |
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The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in India has released five new products at the Electronics and Information Technology Exposition (ELITEX) 2008 organized by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi during January 17-18, 2008. The five products, namely Cyber Investigation and Analysis Tools for Network Forensics, KYN - Know Your Network, Anuman - Real Time Weather System, Black Box and BOSS Server Version, were released by Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology at the inaugural session of ELITEX 2008.
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| Dot Hill Systems joins the Green Grid and SNIA's Green Storage Initiative |
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Dot Hill is now a member of the Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.
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| All-new PRIMERGY server range debuts at CeBIT |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' all-new line-up of PRIMERGY servers, making its debut at this year's CeBIT. The refreshed PRIMERGY range of Industry Standard Servers for the DynamicDataCenter boasts new quad-core processors across the range that deliver huge performance, even from entry-level units.
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| Repsol YPF'S 'Kaleidoscope' Seismic Imaging Project named a 2008 Technology Winner by 'IEEE Spectrum' |
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Repsol YPF, a globally integrated energy company based in Spain, was recently honoured as a 2008 technology "winner" by the editors ofIEEE Spectrum, the trade publication of IEEE, the world's largest organisation of technology and business leaders, for Repsol YPF's Kaleidoscope Project. The Kaleidoscope Project - a partnership of top geophysicists, computer scientists and organisations from around the world - has developed advanced computerized techniques that usher in the next generation of seismic imaging technology used for oil and gas exploration. The new technology reveals oil and gas deposits buried deep in the earth efficiently and cost-effectively that had been invisible to traditional imaging techniques.
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| Japan's University of Tsukuba selects Appro Xtreme-X supercomputers for next generation high performance computing |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, has been awarded a contract for a 95TF Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer for the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, to be located in the centre of Tsukuba Science City. The region is well known for its large concentration of advanced research institutions in various areas of science and technology. The Tsukuba award is a major breakthrough for Appro's supercomputers into the Japanese HPC market.
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| CSC wins $613 million US Defense Information Systems Agency contract for information systems network support |
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Computer Sciences Corporation has been awarded the Defense Information System Network (DISN) Network Management Support Services-Global (DNMSS-G/R) Recompete Network Engineering contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
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| Dot Hill expands relationship with HP and updates financial guidance for the fourth quarter of 2007 |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. has amended its agreement with HP. Under the amended agreement, Dot Hill will provide private-label RAID storage arrays to HP. The amendment expands the original agreement that covered RAID storage arrays for the HP StorageWorks 9000 Virtual Library System, which was introduced in November 2007. The amendment extends the original agreement from one year to five years. Dot Hill believes that the amendment materially increases the scope and potential of its relationship with HP.
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| Distinguished industry veteran Irene Qualters to head software strategy at SGI |
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SGI has named Irene Qualters the company's new senior vice president of software.
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| Strong PRIMERGY and FibreCAT performances outstrip market growth |
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An industry-leading growth in storage revenues in Q3 2007, 100 percent year-on-year growth by the FibreCAT SX family of storage solutions - plus an increase in x86 industry standard server market share for PRIMERGY servers from Fujitsu Siemens Computers are among the highlights of the latest market share figures from research company IDC.
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| FORCE10 Networks expands C-Series family of resilient switches to bring data centre reliability to the enterprise network |
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Force10 Networks has introduced the C150 resilient switch and a high density 8-port line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card to provide enterprises with the level of reliability traditionally found in high performance data centres. As an expansion of the C-Series family of switches, the C150 delivers the reliability, network control and scalability that enterprises require to support existing business critical applications today as well as emerging applications in the future.
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| Perot Systems and Oracle complete benchmark study |
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Perot Systems Corporation and Oracle have completed a collaborative effort to benchmark Perot Systems' core administrative system for health care payers. The study, undertaken at Oracle Enterprise Technology Center (ETC) Labs in Atlanta, demonstrates the scalability and performance of Perot Systems' health care payer technology on Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters.
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| Support project to play an important role in advancing European e-Infrastructures policies - European Commission funded e-IRGSP2 project to support the work of e-IRG |
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The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2) aims to provide means and resources for the progression of the work performed by the inter-governmental e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) that coordinates on a high European level the introduction of a grid based infrastructure for e-Science. The e-IRGSP2 project started on 1st January 2008 and continues until the end of December 2010.
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| Bank Negara Indonesia capitalizes on SOA to strengthen market position |
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Bank Negara Indonesia, one of Indonesia's largest financial institutions, has boosted efficiency and productivity with a service oriented architecture (SOA) powered by IBM Software helping it to more quickly meet the demands of its increasingly tech-savvy customers and strengthen its market position in Indonesia's banking industry.
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| Oracle to acquire BEA Systems |
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Oracle Corporation and BEA Systems have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA's cash on hand of $1.3 billion.
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| Virtual Iron Software achieves IBM advanced partner status |
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Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization software, has achieved advanced partner status within IBM's PartnerWorld programme. The membership advancement reflects Virtual Iron's continued sales, marketing and product development contributions to IBM and the optimization of Virtual Iron's solutions for IBM's computing platforms including the certification of its software as IBM Server Proven, IBM System Storage Proven, and most recently, IBM Ready for Grid and IBM Ready for DB2.
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| SETI@home ramps up to analyse more data in search of extraterrestrial intelligence |
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The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data. Since SETI@home launched eight years ago, the project based at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory has signed up more than 5 million interested volunteers and boasts the largest community of dedicated users of any Internet computing project: 170,000 devotees on 320,000 computers.
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| DataSynapse launches latest release of its FabricServer software to enable real-time infrastructure |
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DataSynapse Inc. has launched its FabricServer 2.5 software, an enabling platform for achieving real-time infrastructure. The latest version of DataSynapse's enterprise application virtualization platform is the only commercially available software that configures, activates and scales applications based on business demands and policies. With the new version of FabricServer, DataSynapse customers can create real-time infrastructure environments that dynamically allocate computing resources to enterprise applications - lowering existing operational costs and reducing data centre growth by increasing resource utilization.
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| NYSGrid and OSG partner to expand Grid capabilities and collaborations |
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NYSGrid, a consortium of institutions collaborating to create a blueprint for New York's 21 st century cyberinfrastructure, has signed a partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Open Science Grid (OSG), a consortium developing international Grid capabilities for scientists.
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| Immersive Education Initiative announces Education Grid and Platform Ecosystem at Boston Summit |
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During the 2008 Boston Digital Media Summit the Immersive Education Initiative introduced the Education Grid and corresponding Platform Ecosystem. Based upon open source technologies and open standards, the Education Grid and Platform Ecosystem will provide educators with a comprehensive end-to-end infrastructure for a new generation of virtual world learning environments, interactive learning games, and simulations. The first three platforms in the ecosystem were introduced at the Summit: Second Life, Sun Microsystems Laboratory's Project Wonderland, and Croquet. These platforms will be enhanced to utilize the server-side Education Grid that will deliver a rich library of learning objects, digital media assets, learning games and services from which a wide variety of Immersive Education experiences can be assembled.
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| Moab Workload Manager 5.2 released by Cluster Resources Inc. |
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Cluster Resources Inc.'s Moab Workload Manager 5.2 is now available, bringing enhancements in efficiency and flexibility to all levels of HPC. Moab Workload Manager is a policy-based job scheduler and event engine that enables utilitybased computing for clusters. Moab Workload Manager combines intelligent scheduling of resources with advanced reservations to process jobs on the right resources at the right time.
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| New FlexFrame for Oracle unlocks server consolidation for SMBs |
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The second-generation of FlexFrame for Oracle, introduced by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a European IT company, adds extra functionality in line with demands from customers using the dynamic IT infrastructure platform as a highly scalable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based database and application server solution.
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| French engineering services provider, SEGULA, selects Altair HyperWorks |
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SEGULA, a French engineering services company, has selected Altair HyperWorks as a major simulation platform for key aerospace and automotive projects. SEGULA will utilize HyperWorks to support consulting engagements at customer sites and within their offices in France and Italy. In addition, SEGULA plans to extend the use of HyperWorks more broadly throughout their global operations. SEGULA uses the entire HyperWorks suite including its solver solutions, modeling and visualization tools and structural optimization technologies.
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| IBM and university researchers to develop research tools to improve cancer patient outcomes |
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IBM; The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), which is a Center of Excellence of the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ); and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, have launched a collaborative research effort to develop diagnostic tools which can improve the accuracy of predicting patients' responses to treatment and related clinical outcomes. Through the use of advanced computer and imaging technologies that facilitate comparisons of cancerous tissues, cell and radiology studies, researchers and physicians expect to determine more accurate cancer prognoses, more personalized therapy planning and, subsequently, the discovery and development of new cancer drugs.
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| EGEE Grids for Kids gives next-generation IT an early start |
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Recently, the third in a growing series of Grids for Kids days was held at CERN involving children aged ten to twelve in games, tours and interactive presentations that introduced Grid computing as a tool for researchers in everything from high energy physics to climate studies and genomics.
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| Proposed new city of Istanbul could be refuge in case of severe earthquake |
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Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second, satellite city would provide immediate refuge to inhabitants of the old city in the event of a catastrophic earthquake and soften such an event's effects on the nation's economy. The animation of the future Turkish city was created in two months by using the TeraGrid, a US National Science Foundation-funded research computing Grid. Purdue is one of 11 research institutions that comprise TeraGrid, which is the world's largest open science computing Grid. The animation was rendered using the TeraGrid Distributed Rendering Environment, or TeraDRE, developed by research scientists in Information Technology at Purdue.
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| Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa reports strong customer momentum for second quarter, fiscal year 2008 |
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Oracle has reported strong customer momentum within the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region during the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 - ended 30 November 2007. Many organisations in the region have adopted or expanded implementations of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Applications, including the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Hyperion and JD Edwards.
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| 3Tera partners with GlobalLogic to satisfy growing demand for utility computing solutions |
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3Tera has chosen GlobalLogic as a software development partner. GlobalLogic will work with 3Tera to add new virtual appliances to the AppLogic catalogue allowing Web 2.0 and SaaS business customers to roll out and easily scale new on-line services. A dedicated team of GlobalLogic's software engineers working out of Ukraine will become a virtual extension of 3Tera's integration team.
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| Accenture launches Innovation Centre for Oracle in Europe to bring clients closer to latest Oracle technology and application integration solutions |
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Accenture has opened an Innovation Centre at Oracle's U.K. headquarters in Reading to accelerate the development, delivery and commercialization of business solutions based on Oracle technology.
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| Demandware's On Demand eCommerce Platform to help HP merchandise and market entertainment content |
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Demandware's On Demand eCommerce Platform will be used by HP to merchandise and market digital entertainment content available to both consumers and businesses. Demandware will facilitate ecommerce transactions to help HP's Digital Content Services business capitalize on the growing demand for high-quality movies, TV shows, games and music.
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| HP helps health care providers improve patient care and regulatory compliance with Medical Archiving Solution |
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HP has introduced a specialized archiving platform to help global health care providers, hospitals and imaging clinics of all sizes meet rapidly expanding retention requirements for medical images. With the HP Medical Archive solution (MAS) 3.0, health care providers can strengthen their focus on improving patient care while also adhering to strict compliance regulations by ensuring that medical image data is securely indexed, preserved and accessible.
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| Hays Medical Center accelerates application integration and more efficiently captures patient data with Oracle Fusion Middleware |
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Hays Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit hospital, is using Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to connect disparate information systems within its IT infrastructure. With Oracle Fusion Middleware, Hays is creating a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to help reduce development costs and IT management complexity while supplying up-to-date patient information to health care providers.
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| IBM acquires XIV |
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IBM has acquired XIV, a privately held storage technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. XIV, its technologies and employees, will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
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| HP delivers new governance services and software to drive SOA adoption and business agility |
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HP has introduced a comprehensive set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance software and services to help companies accelerate SOA adoption and drive increased business value while reducing potential risks, such as service disruption to the business.
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| ValueCentric uses Oracle Database and Oracle Unbreakable Linux to power software as a service offering for the pharmaceutical industry |
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ValueCentric LLC, a data management and performance analytics company providing on-demand services to the pharmaceutical industry, is using Oracle Database running on Oracle Enterprise Linux, backed by the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support programme, to support the company's software as a service (SaaS) offering. The company migrated to Oracle Database from MySQL to improve the performance, availability, scalability, and security of its flagship data analysis product, ValueTrak.
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| ColdWatt partners with Isilon to enable next generation green data centre |
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ColdWatt's 650W power conversion platform has been adopted by Isilon Systems for use in its new X-Series IQ clustered storage systems, aimed at the next generation virtualized data centre. ColdWatt's digitally controlled power supplies deliver an industry-leading combination of power density and high efficiency, providing an ideal solution for Isilon to help its customers achieve their green IT goals without sacrificing performance.
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| Luxury UK department store House of Fraser launches on Demandware |
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UK-based House of Fraser has launched a new eCommerce site on the Demandware platform to expand the reach of its 300-plus on-line luxury designer brands. House of Fraser has ambitious goals for continued growth, fueled by the web. The company aims to grow GBP 100 million through the eCommerce channel by 2009. Recently, during a multi-channel holiday promotion week, the House of Fraser site exceeded order expectations, handling end-user traffic ten-fold above the holiday season averages.
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| Universite de Montreal researchers simulate world's largest heart model using SGI technology |
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In the quest to discover how the mechanisms of disease work, researchers at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) have run the largest mathematical simulation of a heart ever assembled - a 2 billion element model - on a high-performance computing system from SGI. The new UdM model is up to 1000 times more detailed than previous models, enabling new scientific discoveries that would never be possible via observation alone.
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| Supercomputer could throw light on dark energy |
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Cosmologists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could help solve one of astronomy's greatest mysteries. The results tell researchers how to measure dark energy - a force that counteracts gravity and could decide the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
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| Prestigious European grants for top researchers Scarano and Vandersypen at TU Delft for development of quantum computer |
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Dr. Fulvio Scarano and prof.dr.ir. Lieven Vandersypen of the Technical University (TU) in Delft will each be granted a so-called ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Their proposals, together with some 300 others, have been selected from more than 9000 submissions. The ERC Starting Grant is offered for five years to researchers who lead an independant team or programme and who have the potential to develop themselves to researchers at world level.
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| Galaxy may hold hundreds of rogue black holes |
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If the latest simulation of what happens when black holes merge is correct, there could be hundreds of rogue black holes, each weighing several thousand times the mass of the sun, roaming around the Milky Way galaxy.
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| $30 million gift goes to project by Pitt and 22 partner institutions to construct a giant telescope for observing and recording deep space |
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The University of Pittsburgh and 22 partner institutions made a major advance this month in a nearly 14-year project to develop the world's most powerful survey telescope and provide an unprecedented view of deep space. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project received $10 million and $20 million donations from, respectively, computer mogul and Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, established by Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi. The donations will enable the construction of the telescope's three large mirrors, which will take five years to manufacture.
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| Could the Universe be tied up with cosmic string? |
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A team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe. Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little points, but tiny vibrating bits of string Cosmic strings are predicted to have extraordinary amounts of mass - perhaps as much as the mass of the Sun - packed into each metre of a tube whose width is less a billion billionth of the size of an atom.
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| Twelve million investment to boost operational research |
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A GBP 12 million initiative brings together four British universities - Cardiff, Lancaster, Nottingham and Southampton - to develop world-leading work in the field of Operational Research (OR). The LANCS initiative, supported with a Science and Innovation Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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| KAUST announces research partnership with Technische Universitaet Munchen |
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Technische Universitaet Munchen (TUM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on cutting-edge research.
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| Discovery cuts cost of next generation optical fibers |
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Scientists have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies. The procedure, described in the journal Optics Express, cuts the production time of hollow-core optical fibres from around a week to a single day, reducing the overall cost of fabrication.
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| Sprinkle magic on the broadband market |
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In 2005, European research project Gandalf - building on the work of Obanet - delivered a breakthrough technique to radically boost fixed-line and wireless data rates in the goal of providing 'broadband for all' in Europe. Now, a new spin-off company, called DAS Photonics, has been created to sprinkle a bit of that magic on the market.
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| Optical fibre: secure in all the chaos |
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Secure messages hidden in chaotic waveforms, transmitted at up to 10 gigabits per second, is the vision behind a group of dedicated European researchers. Now they are prototyping the equipment that could make the vision a reality.
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| Force10 Networks delivers scalability to increase service delivery options for one of Korea's leading content delivery networks |
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GS Neotek has increased the reliability and capacity of its content delivery network with Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers. The Force10 TeraScale E-Series provides the reliable 10 Gigabit Ethernet foundation GS Neotek requires to efficiently scale its network while delivering new home shopping and on-line gaming services.
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| FalconStor and Voltaire turbo-charge Xasax's ultra-low latency financial network with iSCSI over InfiniBand |
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FalconStor Software Inc., a market expert in disk-based data protection solutions, has its technology been chosen to enable Xasax Corporation to offer ultra-low latency financial market data to active trader and financial services organisations. The FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), powered by the FalconStor IPStor platform, provides storage virtualization and provisioning services, via industry standard iSCSI protocol, over a 20 GB/s InfiniBand storage area network, supplied by Voltaire.
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| eHarmony expands Force10 Networks deployment with C-Series resilient switch to support business critical operations |
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eHarmony has deployed Force10 Networks' C300 resilient switch to support business critical operations without impacting the performance of its on-line relationship service. With the C300, eHarmony extends an earlier deployment of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series that powers its 24x7 applications, including its signature relationship service.
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| Gigabit speed in all rooms without cable clutter |
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In January, the European research project OMEGA set out to develop a global standard for ultra broadband home networks. The new standard will enable transmission speeds of one gigabit per second without the need to install any new wires in the home. The demand for such gigabit home networks is driven by the emerging future Internet services running over new high-speed optical access networks and the rapidly growing number of communicating devices in the home.
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| Rutgers wireless networking lab awarded Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation |
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A research team at the Rutgers University Wireless Information Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) has received the fourth annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the I/UCRC Association, a voluntary, independent organisation of past and present members of the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) programme. The award, named for the founder of the I/UCRC programme, recognizes Rutgers for establishing a unique facility for testing new mobile computing and communications technologies. The facility, known as the ORBIT Open Access Radio Grid Testbed, features a 400-node programmable radio transceiver emulation laboratory and an outdoor field trial system of short- and long-range radios on the university's New Brunswick Campus.
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| SoftLayer deploys 40G to the rack |
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SoftLayer's newly launched Seattle datacentre has been designed for maximum network performance, featuring 40-Gigabit connectivity to each server rack. The location's initial 50-cabinet install of two thousand servers utilizes more than six hundred 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports from Cisco.
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| Force10 Networks introduces unified operating system across product portfolio to lower total cost of owning and operating networks |
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Force10 Networks' modular operating system FTOS is now available across its Reliable Networking portfolio of switch/routers, bringing consistency, stability and flexibility to the enterprise network. With support for a common interface across the TeraScale E-Series, C-Series and S-Series, Force10 is enabling customers to reduce their total cost of ownership by simplifying management, reducing unplanned downtime and optimizing application availability.
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| Cisco pushes firewall and VPN performance to new heights with new adaptive security appliances |
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To address enterprises' insatiable appetite for high performance and scalable network security, Cisco has made available the Cisco ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, the company's highest-performing security appliance offering. The new Cisco ASA 5580 is a super-high-performance security platform equally well suited for deployment as a highly scalable firewall with up to 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput, as well as a 10,000 user remote-access concentrator for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP Security (IPsec)-based virtual private networks (VPN).
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