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April 30, 2009  1:10 PM

IBM paying Sun users to abandon SPARC following rejection



Posted by: Bridget Botelho

Maybe Sun Microsystems shouldn't have said no to IBM's acquisition offer, because it appears Big Blue doesn't like rejection. IBM doubled the dollar amount for its Power Rewards migration services specifically for Sun customers that switch from Sun SPARC, UltraSPARC or SPARC64 processor-based...

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April 17, 2009  2:24 PM

Boston Marathon website prepares for traffic surge



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Blade servers, Boston Athletic Association, Boston Marathon, c-class blade servers, F5 Networks, Hewlett Packard, Virtualization

About a million people will visit the Boston Marathon website on Monday to check out the 113th annual race, so the IT pros supporting the website have been hard at work these past few weeks making sure the site doesn't crash that day. The

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April 2, 2009  2:40 PM

Google’s server recipe no longer secret



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
12-volt power supply, AMD, data center design, Google, Google server, Intel, shipping container, x86 server

Looks like Google has finally spilled the beans on its server design, which the company has kept secret for years. According to a report, Google let everyone see its design at a conference this week. The system was a 3.5...

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