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Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vProProcessor Technology 2007-09-05 Intel

Remotely manage both wired and wireless PCs from the same IT console to increase security and simplify system management A new generation of notebook and desktop PCs provides proactive security, enhanced maintenance, and improved remote management. Notebook PCs with Intel Centrino Pro processor technology and desktop PCs with Intel vPro processor technology deliver down-the-wire security and manageability capabilities even if hardware (such as a hard drive) has failed, the operating system is unresponsive, software agents are disabled, a desktop PC's power is off, or a notebook's management agents have been disabled. Desktop PCs also include support for virtual appliances that allows IT managers to isolate and protect critical security and management applications in a tamper-resistant environment. In addition, the new generation of notebook and desktop systems delivers significantly improved performance for compute-intensive tasks all in a power-efficient package that is Microsoft Windows Vista* ready.

Intel Technology Moment podcast: Mobility 0000-00-00 Intel

Learn more about Intel Centrino Pro technology with Mike Agerbo of "Get Connected TV" and how this technology will help you to stay connected and productive.

Tags: Processors, Business Management, Semiconductor Tech. - Manufacturing, Laptops

SAS 9.1.3 SP4 on IBM System p 570 POWER6 Processor-Based Server 2007-09-01 IBM

IBM System p 570 is powered by the 64-bit, 4.7 GHz, IBM POWER6 processors. The POWER6 processor is the next generation of the IBM POWER5 family of microprocessors. The IBM System p 570 server with IBM AIX Version 5.3 operating system demonstrated impressive performance, scalability and reliability when running the SAS 9 (classic SAS) application in a test environment performed by IBM and SAS.

Tags: Processors, UNIX

MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts 2007-09-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

HP Integrity servers provide superior reliability and availability. Nevertheless, even the best of computers can occasionally experience hardware problems that lead to unplanned downtime. Some of these problems are caused by transient events such as an alpha particle strike on memory, cache, or a processor data structure. Intel Itanium-based servers support an advanced architecture that allows the system to contain, correct, and signal machine check errors. Many of these errors are corrected by the platform without operating system intervention. When the platform cannot correct an error, it will be handed off to the operating system. To further enhance the superior reliability of HP Integrity servers, the HP-UX MCA Error Recovery feature adds the ability to recover from some of these Machine Check Aborts (MCAs).

Tags: HP-UX

Dell's IT Infrastructure Services, Desktops, and Notebooks Allow Global Consumer Packaged Goods Marketer Unilever to Support Staff Efficiency and Productivity With Business-Critical IT Services 2007-09-01 Dell

Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns 400 consumer brands spanning a wide range of home, personal care, and food products. The outdated client technology and non-standard services inhibited flexibility, limited scalability, and created overhead; the company wanted to completely refresh its IT infrastructure while reducing deployment and maintenance costs. Dell Managed Services helped Unilever roll out nearly 10,000 pre-imaged Dell OptiPlex desktops and Dell Latitude notebook computers with Intel processors running Microsoft Windows XP across over 100 locations; Dell Managed Client Services offered centralized support services to the distributed Unilever workforce.

Tags: Windows XP, Laptops

Harnessing Machine Learning to Improve the Success Rate of Stimuli Generation 0000-00-00 IBM

The initial state of a design under verification has a major impact on the ability of stimuli generators to successfully generate the requested stimuli. For complexity reasons, most stimuli generators use sequential solutions without planning ahead. Therefore, in many cases they fail to produce a consistent stimulus due to an inadequate selection of the initial state. This paper proposes a new method, based on machine learning techniques, to improve generation success by learning the relationship between the initial state vector and generation success. The paper applies the proposed method in two different settings, with the objective of improving generation success and coverage in processor and system level generation. In both settings, the proposed method significantly reduced generation failures and enabled faster coverage.

Tags: Learning Management Systems,

Digital Cinema Server Ushers in Next Generation of Movie Technology Worldwide 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Market adoption of digital cinema technology has been slow, especially for movie theaters, which have very stringent requirements for security and reliability. Qube Cinema needed to solve those problems as it developed its next-generation digital cinema server. The company considered using Linux as the operating system, but ultimately rejected open source software because it lacked key functionality, including a robust streaming media architecture and broad catalogue of device drivers. By choosing Microsoft Windows XP Embedded, Qube Cinema was able to select just the required operating system components, resulting in a secure and reliable operating system. Qube Cinema was also able to leverage key Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft DirectShow and the .NET Framework.

Tags: Windows XP, .NET

Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot 0000-00-00 Microsoft

CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. When CoroWare executives saw the market potential for affordable mobile robots based on standardized components, they needed to move fast to get a working prototype to an industry trade show. The company chose Microsoft Windows XP Embedded over Linux to build the prototype, cutting development time by 60 percent or more over Linux-based development while offering customers a standardized, cost-effective, and highly extensible mobile robotics platform that can be customized for an array of businesses.

Tags: Application Development, Windows XP

Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment of Entertainment Devices on U.K. Trains 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Volo, based in the U.K., planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment that ensured cost-effective development and compliance with regulations on carriage modifications. It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. After analysing the market, including a Linux solution, the company chose a processor running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded created by Microsoft Gold Windows Embedded Partner, DSP Design in the U.K. As a result, Volo built and deployed the device that met industry standards in only six months. The company gained a stable software environment that ensures low-cost application development and developer tools that are widely known.

Tags: Windows XP, Linux Server OS

Spanish Retailer Signs Co-Marketing Plan After Deploying New Point-of-Sale Solution 0000-00-00 Microsoft

El Corte Ingles (ECI) is a leading retailer in Spain with ?12 billion (U.S.$14.5 billion) of annual revenue and more than 72,000 employees. ECI executives wanted to improve the company's Avenew Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and market it to other retailers. Working with Microsoft, Accenture, and its own subsidiary firm, Informatica El Corte Ingles (IECISA), ECI first decided to look for a replacement for its IBM proprietary operating system. After a proof of concept, ECI decided to standardize on the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system and Web services. ECI has delivered the new architecture to a specialty fashion store where staff are now better supported, enabling them to provide excellent service for shoppers.

Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP

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Title	Date Added	Company
Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vProProcessor Technology	2007-09-05	Intel
Remotely manage both wired and wireless PCs from the same IT console to increase security and simplify system management A new generation of notebook and desktop PCs provides proactive security, enhanced maintenance, and improved remote management. Notebook PCs with Intel Centrino Pro processor technology and desktop PCs with Intel vPro processor technology deliver down-the-wire security and manageability capabilities even if hardware (such as a hard drive) has failed, the operating system is unresponsive, software agents are disabled, a desktop PC's power is off, or a notebook's management agents have been disabled. Desktop PCs also include support for virtual appliances that allows IT managers to isolate and protect critical security and management applications in a tamper-resistant environment. In addition, the new generation of notebook and desktop systems delivers significantly improved performance for compute-intensive tasks all in a power-efficient package that is Microsoft Windows Vista* ready.
Intel Technology Moment podcast: Mobility	0000-00-00	Intel
Learn more about Intel Centrino Pro technology with Mike Agerbo of "Get Connected TV" and how this technology will help you to stay connected and productive. Tags: Processors, Business Management, Semiconductor Tech. - Manufacturing, Laptops
SAS 9.1.3 SP4 on IBM System p 570 POWER6 Processor-Based Server	2007-09-01	IBM
IBM System p 570 is powered by the 64-bit, 4.7 GHz, IBM POWER6 processors. The POWER6 processor is the next generation of the IBM POWER5 family of microprocessors. The IBM System p 570 server with IBM AIX Version 5.3 operating system demonstrated impressive performance, scalability and reliability when running the SAS 9 (classic SAS) application in a test environment performed by IBM and SAS. Tags: Processors, UNIX
MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts	2007-09-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
HP Integrity servers provide superior reliability and availability. Nevertheless, even the best of computers can occasionally experience hardware problems that lead to unplanned downtime. Some of these problems are caused by transient events such as an alpha particle strike on memory, cache, or a processor data structure. Intel Itanium-based servers support an advanced architecture that allows the system to contain, correct, and signal machine check errors. Many of these errors are corrected by the platform without operating system intervention. When the platform cannot correct an error, it will be handed off to the operating system. To further enhance the superior reliability of HP Integrity servers, the HP-UX MCA Error Recovery feature adds the ability to recover from some of these Machine Check Aborts (MCAs). Tags: HP-UX
Dell's IT Infrastructure Services, Desktops, and Notebooks Allow Global Consumer Packaged Goods Marketer Unilever to Support Staff Efficiency and Productivity With Business-Critical IT Services	2007-09-01	Dell
Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns 400 consumer brands spanning a wide range of home, personal care, and food products. The outdated client technology and non-standard services inhibited flexibility, limited scalability, and created overhead; the company wanted to completely refresh its IT infrastructure while reducing deployment and maintenance costs. Dell Managed Services helped Unilever roll out nearly 10,000 pre-imaged Dell OptiPlex desktops and Dell Latitude notebook computers with Intel processors running Microsoft Windows XP across over 100 locations; Dell Managed Client Services offered centralized support services to the distributed Unilever workforce. Tags: Windows XP, Laptops
Harnessing Machine Learning to Improve the Success Rate of Stimuli Generation	0000-00-00	IBM
The initial state of a design under verification has a major impact on the ability of stimuli generators to successfully generate the requested stimuli. For complexity reasons, most stimuli generators use sequential solutions without planning ahead. Therefore, in many cases they fail to produce a consistent stimulus due to an inadequate selection of the initial state. This paper proposes a new method, based on machine learning techniques, to improve generation success by learning the relationship between the initial state vector and generation success. The paper applies the proposed method in two different settings, with the objective of improving generation success and coverage in processor and system level generation. In both settings, the proposed method significantly reduced generation failures and enabled faster coverage. Tags: Learning Management Systems,
Digital Cinema Server Ushers in Next Generation of Movie Technology Worldwide	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Market adoption of digital cinema technology has been slow, especially for movie theaters, which have very stringent requirements for security and reliability. Qube Cinema needed to solve those problems as it developed its next-generation digital cinema server. The company considered using Linux as the operating system, but ultimately rejected open source software because it lacked key functionality, including a robust streaming media architecture and broad catalogue of device drivers. By choosing Microsoft Windows XP Embedded, Qube Cinema was able to select just the required operating system components, resulting in a secure and reliable operating system. Qube Cinema was also able to leverage key Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft DirectShow and the .NET Framework. Tags: Windows XP, .NET
Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot	0000-00-00	Microsoft
CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. When CoroWare executives saw the market potential for affordable mobile robots based on standardized components, they needed to move fast to get a working prototype to an industry trade show. The company chose Microsoft Windows XP Embedded over Linux to build the prototype, cutting development time by 60 percent or more over Linux-based development while offering customers a standardized, cost-effective, and highly extensible mobile robotics platform that can be customized for an array of businesses. Tags: Application Development, Windows XP
Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment of Entertainment Devices on U.K. Trains	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Volo, based in the U.K., planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment that ensured cost-effective development and compliance with regulations on carriage modifications. It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. After analysing the market, including a Linux solution, the company chose a processor running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded created by Microsoft Gold Windows Embedded Partner, DSP Design in the U.K. As a result, Volo built and deployed the device that met industry standards in only six months. The company gained a stable software environment that ensures low-cost application development and developer tools that are widely known. Tags: Windows XP, Linux Server OS
Spanish Retailer Signs Co-Marketing Plan After Deploying New Point-of-Sale Solution	0000-00-00	Microsoft
El Corte Ingles (ECI) is a leading retailer in Spain with ?12 billion (U.S.$14.5 billion) of annual revenue and more than 72,000 employees. ECI executives wanted to improve the company's Avenew Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and market it to other retailers. Working with Microsoft, Accenture, and its own subsidiary firm, Informatica El Corte Ingles (IECISA), ECI first decided to look for a replacement for its IBM proprietary operating system. After a proof of concept, ECI decided to standardize on the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system and Web services. ECI has delivered the new architecture to a specialty fashion store where staff are now better supported, enabling them to provide excellent service for shoppers. Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP