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whitepaper Windows Desktop Search 3.01 Administration Guide2007-09-26 Microsoft
  Windows Desktop Search (WDS) is the search technology that lets users quickly find almost anything on their computers, including e-mail messages, calendar appointments, photos, documents, and more. In WDS 3.x, the search engine is now a system service but it retains the desktop performance features of previous versions of WDS. WDS 3.x has been optimized in its integration into Vista to give a superior experience compared to WDS on older machines. WDS uses simple search syntax to search for information that the user has selected to index. This means that when a user types "email from:john date:yesterday", WDS will list all e-mail messages that the user received yesterday from anyone named John.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Desktop Virtualization and Independent Computing2007-09-25 Kusnetzky Group
  Virtualization has been around for a long time and takes many forms. Each of the forms is designed to move one aspect of an application system from a physical environment into a logical or virtual environment. Virtual environments can be created to provide an ideal environment for a function or application that may be strikingly different from the underlying physical environment. When speaking to IT executives, however, Kusnetzky Group analysts often hear concerns about the experience staff members have with virtual machine-based environments. This, the Kusnetzky Group thinks, is one of the reasons for the limited adoption of this technology on the desktop. The Kusnetzky Group expects each new wave of technology to improve upon that experience.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Virtual PC-Type Thin Client System2007-09-18 NEC
  NEC has developed VirtualPCCenter, a thin client system with a completely new concept that virtualizes integrates entire personal computer environments on servers, and also developed the US100, a dedicated terminal for the system. Features that deserve special mention with regards to the VirtualPCCenter include a diverse range of functions intended to adjust the balance of the load on virtual PCs, as well as to improve operability. Furthermore, the US100 offers an animation playback accelerator capability, considered unsuitable for thin clients, as well as a software phone, featuring a superior sound quality and lower incidence of acoustic delay. This paper introduces features of the VirtualPCCenter and US100.

Tags: Thin Clients, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Lenovo's Latest ThinkCentre Desktop Brings Energy Efficiency to the Mainstream2007-09-14 Technology Business Research
  Energy efficiency is the new metric by which businesses are measuring IT operations. Increasingly, energy efficiency is also becoming a factor by which customers and even government regulators are evaluating businesses. By focusing on energy-efficient computing, Lenovo is helping businesses limit energy consumption and boost efficiency. The company has recently been designing more energy-efficient products, including the newly launched ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor desktop PC. The ThinkCentre A61e uses less than one-half the electricity of a typical small form factor desktop PC.   
whitepaper Scan to PC Desktop Professional Workgroup Edition v9.1: Personalize Your Xerox Network Scanning and Your PDF Workflow2007-09-01 Xerox
  The single greatest challenge today to streamlining document-based processes in the office is the fact that there are three dominant, yet incompatible, document formats - Paper, Microsoft Office and PDF. A significant majority of knowledge and information in the office is still in paper format. Locked in a paper document, knowledge and information is not easily shared across an organization. Microsoft Office provides millions of professionals a rich environment for document creation. However, the editable Microsoft Office file format is not well suited for electronic publishing and online document storage. On the other hand, PDF has emerged as an electronic file sharing standard providing business users with a format that is well suited for the viewing, sharing, printing and archiving of documents.   
whitepaper The HP Blade Workstation Solution - A New Paradigm in Workstation Computing Featuring the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation2007-09-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The HP Blade Workstation Solution represents a new paradigm in workstation computing. Rather than placing the workstation's computing power at the user's desk, the computing power, in the form of blade workstations, is moved to the data center where the workstations can be more easily, securely, and inexpensively managed. Centralizing an organization's workstations in the data center provides many benefits, including. This paper describes the industry-leading HP Blade Workstation Solution and how this solution delivers the above benefits as well as many other important benefits. An overview of the solution is presented first followed by a more detailed description.

Tags: Blades, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper The Entry-Level HP Workstations: Market Segments and Application Areas2007-09-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Engineers, designers and power office users are constantly demanding more from their desktop systems. Increasingly sophisticated applications require more computing performance, larger memory, and a range of professional graphics - all on similar or shrinking budgets. Although ordinary business PCs can sometimes fulfill these users' needs, the demands these applications make on a desktop system often make a workstation a required solution. However, until recently, the per-unit pricing of workstations meant that organizations could only justify deployment to users with higher-end computing requirements. With the recent introduction of two entry-level workstations, HP has made workstation power uniquely affordable to a broader range of users.   
whitepaper The Dummy's Guide to Power Supplies2007-08-27 Puget Custom Computers
  Power supplies - they're probably the most overlooked components in any PC, until they break. A failed power supply is one of the easiest problems to diagnose, but a failing or inadequate one is much more subtle and difficult to catch. This paper is designed to give a better understanding of what power supplies do, how they work and how to select the right one for different types of computer set-ups.   
whitepaper Virtualization From the Datacenter to the Desktop2007-07-11 Microsoft
  Enterprises worldwide are embracing a digital work style to stay competitive in a dynamic and increasingly global business environment. This work style requires that teams collaborate seamlessly across organizations and time zones, while success relies on speed, mobility, and connectivity. These trends place ever-increasing pressure on IT departments to provide rich, connected capabilities across the infrastructure, while protecting both the environment and its confidential data from intrusion and disruption. The explosion of social networks and communication devices, and the exponential growth of information stored, accessed, and shared create an environment where compliance is daunting, security is threatened, and complexity becomes overwhelming.

Tags: Data Center		   
whitepaper Cleaning Up the Linux Desktop Audio Mess2007-06-30 Red Hat
  Desktop audio on Linux is a mess. There are just too many competing, incompatible sound systems around. Most current audio applications have to support every sound system in parallel and thus ship with sound abstraction layers with a more or less large number of back-end plug-ins. JACK clients are incompatible with ALSA clients, which in turn are incompatible with OSS clients, which in turn are incompatible with ESD clients, and so on. "Incompatible" often means "Exclusive;" e.g., if an OSS application gets access to the audio hardware, all ALSA applications cannot access it.

Tags: Linux - Open Source