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SunFire X4200
TechWorld - List price: 1,650 base; as tested, 5,980 with dual single-core CPUs, 8GB RAM, four 73GB SAS 2.5-inch disks Made by: Sun Microsystems Pros: Built-in energy efficiency; scale from 32-bit to 64-bit; built-in hot swap functionality; develop and

Get a Head Start on Microsoft DirectX'R' 10 with ATI's Newest SDK
Market Wire - MARKHAM, ONTARIO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/19/2006 -- With the introduction of the latest software development kit (SDK), ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ: ATYT ) is giving developers and artists the tools to fully leverage the power of unified

Application acceleration across the WAN
Network World Fusion - Some techniques can be applied to network traffic regardless of whether it's encrypted. As others in the forum have noted, these include QoS and various ways of improving transport protocol behavior. Other techniques depend on some kind of access to

Microsoft minds own business, gets subpoenaed anyway
Ars Technica - Chip maker AMD is slapping subpoenas on several companies in its legal quest to brand Intel as a monopoly, and everybody's favorite legal target, Microsoft, is one of the lucky recipients. From InfoWorld : Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) took

AMD releases final single-core Opteron chip
IT World - Opteron models 256 and 856 are available immediately, and model 156 is due on the market within 30 days, the company said Tuesday. Computer vendors IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Sun Microsystems Inc. immediately announced they would add the

F5 BIG-IP 1500 Load Balance Appliance
Network Computing - Originally published online in a different form. F5 Network's Big-IP 1500 gives small and midsize companies access to big enterprise technology that would otherwise be satisfied by niche players such as Coyote Point Systems. A standalone load