A Forrester study from October 2010 identifies and outlines the state of the art in BI best practices. – Recent advancements in software capabilities, technologies and deployments
are shifting business intelligence paradigms and are changing the way companies
do business, according to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by
geographic BI software developer Alteryx. Industries such as retail, re…
The Japanese car maker Suzuki is offering with immediate effect on the European markets an all-wheel drive version of its top-of-the-range Kizashi model and the Suzuki Swift. From the exterior the all-wheel drive version only differs from the front-wheel drive in having a 4×4 badge. The front and rear axle are linked to each other [...]
Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ medical leave, analysts are bullish on Apple’s Q1 financial results. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster sees iPhone and iPad as keys to a great quarter. – Strong December sales for the iPad and iPhone
could push Apple’s earnings above Wall Street’s current expectations of $5.40
earnings per share on sales of $24.43 billion, according to research firm Piper
Jaffray.
quot;iPhone and iPad remain somewhat of a wildcard,
albeit positive, and we belie…
With the 2011 Super Bowl coming in just a few weeks to the Dallas Cowboys stadium, the teams gleaming new arena of the future will be on display for all the world to see. Deep in the bowels of the stadium lies the heart of the Cowboys operations IT environment& the Dallas Cowboys Stadium data center. The data center is 100 percent Hewlett-Packard equipment for its server and storage technology. However, the facility also uses Cisco Systems networking equipment. The data center drives nearly all the operations of the stadium, including the scoreboards, the timing clocks, the retractable roof, the point-of-sale terminals, the lighting, the ticket sales, and much, much more. The Dallas Cowboys  team of 13 IT staffers installed and operate  the IT infrastructure in the new stadium, which includes a data center with 127 HP blade servers and a 100 terabyte SAN (storage area network) using HPs StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array systems. The team built a high-speed communications network with Cisco equipment that includes WiFi, IP phones and an IP television system that will broadcast content to 3,100 flat-screen Sony televisions throughout the stadium, showing live game footage, advertising and menus at the concession stands. The team also installed more than 300 IP security cameras to safeguard the facility. The data center supports not only the teams operations but team owner Jerry Jones 35-plus other companies in more than 90 locations. – …
The stated purpose of quantitative easing was to drive down interest rates on U.S. treasury bonds.But as U.S. News and World Reported noted last month:By now, you’ve probably heard that the Fed is purchasing $600 billion in treasuries in hopes that it…
Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly found Google Android powered-smartphones drove sales this holiday season. – Wirefly, an Internet authorized retailer of cell phones and cell phone
plans, released its annual list of its top 10 best-selling cell phones during
the 2010 holiday shopping season and offered up its predictions for cell phone
trends that will shape the mobile and wireless industry in 2011.
Sm…
“Looking ahead to 2011, we expect growth to be strongest in 1H and we expect growth drivers to rotate to services from manufacturing relative to 2010. Moreover, the economy overall should cool and we look for 5% growth in 2011.”
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 29, 2010 – Intel Corporation announced today the Intel® Solid-State Drive (Intel® SSD) 310 Series, an ultra-small solid-state drive (SSD) that delivers Intel® X25-class award-winning SSD performance, but in one-eighth the size. Measuring 51mm-by-30mm and only 5mm thick, the Intel SSD 310 is a fast, ultra-compact SSD that brings flexibility, ruggedness and scalability to innovative form factors and devices. It can enable highly responsive dual-drive notebooks, innovative single-drive tablets and low-power, rugged embedded industrial or military applications. When paired with a high-capacity hard disk drive (HDD) in a dual-drive system, the Intel SSD 310 can improve overall PC system performance by up to 60 percent.1
Lenovo Chooses Intel® 310 SSD Series for Next-Generation ThinkPads
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Ultra-small Intel® SSD 310 Series — The new Intel SSD 310 Series delivers Intel X25-class performance, but in 1/8th the size. The ultra-compact SSD enables accelerated performance in dual-drive notebooks, innovative single-drive tablets or low-power, rugged embedded industrial or military applications
Intel® SSD 310 Series –The new Intel SSD 310 measures only 51mm-by-30mm and only 5mm thick and weighs about the same (10 grams) as two U.S. nickels.
Intel® SSD 310 Series is ultra-small, compact — Measuring 51mm-by-30mm and only 5mm thick, the Intel SSD 310 is a fast, ultra-compact SSD that brings flexibility, ruggedness and scalability to innovative form factors and devices. It weighs just 10 grams and ships in an m-SATA form factor in 40-gigabyte (GB) and 80GB capacities.
The Very Thin Intel® SSD 310 Series — This is a side view of the ultra-small compact Intel SSD 310. Only 5mm thick, the Intel SSD 310 supports SATA signals over a PCI Express (PCIe) mini-connector for on-board, compact storage in single-drive netbooks, tablets or handheld devices.
Intel® SSD 310 Series faster and more rugged than an HDD — A solid-state drive uses no moving parts, and thus is more durable and reliable than a mechanical HDD, while using less power and providing better system responsiveness. Compared to an HDD, the Intel SSD 310 is smaller and provides up to 60 percent faster system responsiveness than a 5400RPM HDD.1
1 Based on Intel research and benchmarking utilizing PCMark Vantage on a Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 and 5400RPM HDD.
ARMOR* rugged tablet PC — With its rugged design, the Intel SSD 310 Series has been chosen by DRS Technologies for a new ARMOR* communications tablet PC to be unveiled at Storage Visions in Las Vegas. The ARMOR mobile and field unit tablet PC is certified by DRS to work in extreme temperatures and withstand shock, vibration and drops, delivering up to nine hours of operating time.
This week, Apple for the first time approved a BitTorrent based application with the name of IS Drive. The price tag of the App is kept to be $4.99 and it basically allows the users to check and manage downloads in their ImageShack drive Account.
Apple’s iPad is helping drive consumer holiday spending on computer hardware, according to a new note from research firm comScore. – Apples iPad is helping drive consumers holiday spending on
computer hardware, according to a new note from research firm comScore.
That news comes as relatively unsurprising, given the iPads
robust sales throughout the majority of 2010. However, the overall growth in
hardware spending bodes wel…
Apple’s iPad, along with other tablets from HP and Dell, are helping drive corporate tablet use, according to a new ChangeWave Research survey. – Corporate purchasing of the Apple iPad and other tablet PCs
will rise in 2011, according to new survey data by ChangeWave Research.
Based on responses from 1,641 business IT buyers, ChangeWave
suggests that some 7 percent of corporations now provide their employees with
tablet PCs, a 1 percent …
The growing cloud ecosystem will continue to spawn a new class of products and services, a Datapipe report predicts. – Datapipe, a provider managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud
computing, issued a report outlining three cloud computing trends for 2011. The
company sees major trends for the coming year including the increased adoption
to cloud computing by large enterprise organizations, increased …
iSuppli reports a late-year boost during the holiday season as companies and consumers dig into their pocketbooks to buy more storage. – Hard disk drive manufacturers, despite constant pressure from the growing
solid-state sector, are expected to compile some sales numbers this quarter
that will bring smiles at the end of 2010.
Industry analyst iSuppli reported Dec. 15 that the industry is seeing a
late-year boost during the ho…
YouTube and other video sharing sites provide endless hours of wholesome, time-wasting entertainment. But what if you want to watch movies without the browser?
The Ethernet switch market in the third quarter hit records for port shipments and revenue, thanks to 10GbE demand and products from HP, Juniper, Cisco and F5, according to DellOro Group. – DellOro Group analysts in February predicted the
Ethernet switching space would continue to expand in 2010, fueled in large
part by the growing demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology both as a
connectivity technology for servers and as an aggregation tool in data centers.
Numbers
from the th…
The Department of Transportation is considering cell phone software that would prevent the devices from working in moving vehicles, as “distracted driving” laws have proven ineffective. – U.S. Department of Transportation officials are considering software solutions that would prevent cell phones from working in moving vehicles, Secretary of Transportation Raymond LaHood said at a talk this month, according to Discovery News.
The comment followed the launch of the departments “Fa…
Even a hard drive with hundreds of gigabytes of information can be backed up on a single disk and used to completely restore the hard drive or a new hard drive in case of a crash or complete meltdown.
Microsoft announced that Drive Extender will no longer be part of Small Business Server Essentials "Aurora," Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials "Breckenridge" and Windows Home Server "Vail." – Microsoft has decided to remove its Drive Extender storage technology from
the upcoming versions of Small Business Server Essentials, Windows Storage
Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Home Server.
The decision was announced Nov. 23 on the Windows
Home Server blog by Michael Leworthy, a Micr…
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