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Volume 4, Number 30 -- August 8, 2007
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AMD Gooses Dual-Core Opteron Speeds, Cuts Prices
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices this week made good on its promise to increase the clock speed on its dual-core Opteron Rev F processors for servers and workstations, which it said it would do back in April when it last increased clock speeds on the parts. The company also slashed prices on its first-generation Rev E chips (which had one core per chip) and second-generation Rev F Opteron processors in an effort to make life a little more difficult for rival Intel. READ MORE >

IIS Gains More Web Server Market Share, Says Netcraft
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you are the dominant supplier of server operating systems in the world, as Microsoft has become in the past decade, you can bide your time on the Web server front, taking small bites of market share from open source and other alternatives, counting on the weight of OS market share and tight integration of the Web server with the OS to propel your own Web server to new heights. READ MORE >


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NEC Brings Linux, Windows Clustering Software to North America
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While NEC is not exactly a name-brand supplier of servers and systems software in the North American IT market, the company is a dominant supplier of servers and systems software in its home Japanese market and in other countries in the Asia/Pacific region. Having invested in creating its own clustering software for Windows servers more than a decade ago and moved support over to Linux in recent years, NEC wants to sell that software to customers on this side of the Pacific Ocean. READ MORE >


Unisys First Up with TPC-E Benchmark Test
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

After several years of development, the Transaction Processing Council, an industry consortium that creates and audits commercial transaction processing and data warehousing benchmarks, in March rolled out its long-awaited TPC-E benchmark test. TPC-E was designed to fix many of the criticisms of the popular TPC-C test, which has been used since 1992 to gauge the relative performance of servers on online transaction processing workloads. READ MORE >



 

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EPA Says American Data Centers Can Cut Power Use Dramatically . . . Varonis Prevents Unauthorized Access to Unstructured Data . . . 'What Gets Measured Gets Managed' Applied to ERP . . . Avocent Debuts Entry Remote Management Appliance for SMBs . . . SPEC Introduces MPI Supercomputer Benchmark . . . Intel Launches Ethernet Chips Tuned for Multicore Processors . . .


 

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Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
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The Four Hundred
System i Announcement Wrap Up

IBM Upgrades System i Storage with SAS Drives

Mainframe Vendor BluePhoenix Ready to Purchase ASNA

As I See It: Policeware

The Linux Beacon
AMD Gooses Dual-Core Opteron Speeds, Cuts Prices

IBM Takes Its Own Server Consolidation Medicine

NEC Brings Linux, Windows Clustering Software to North America

As I See It: Policeware

Four Hundred Stuff
IBM Prepares to Launch DB2 Web Query for System i

IBM Details MySQL on System i Offering

CCSS Adds Predictive Capability to System Monitoring Tool

VAI Automates Service Calls, Tightens Inventory Control

Big Iron
IBM Takes Its Own Server Consolidation Medicine

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
Use WDSc to Develop XSL Transformations

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

Admin Alert: Getting Around System i Default Passwords, Part 2

System i PTF Guide
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June 30, 2007: Volume 9, Number 26

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The Unix Guardian
Q&A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy

Sun Exceeds Margin Goals in Q4 on Flat Sales

The IT Job Market Is More Competitive, Says Gartner

IBM Shows Off Web 2.0 Stuff with Lotus Quickr

Four Hundred Monitor
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMD Gooses Dual-Core Opteron Speeds, Cuts Prices

IIS Gains More Web Server Market Share, Says Netcraft

NEC Brings Linux, Windows Clustering Software to North America

Unisys First Up with TPC-E Benchmark Test

But Wait, There's More:


EPA Says American Data Centers Can Cut Power Use Dramatically . . . Varonis Prevents Unauthorized Access to Unstructured Data . . . 'What Gets Measured Gets Managed' Applied to ERP . . . Avocent Debuts Entry Remote Management Appliance for SMBs . . . SPEC Introduces MPI Supercomputer Benchmark . . . Intel Launches Ethernet Chips Tuned for Multicore Processors . . .


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