Archive for May 28th, 2009
At the University of British Columbia (UBC), the wireless network spans 100 hectares with multiple campuses — and it continues to grow to support more than 55,000 students, professors and staff for learning and research.Like most major universities, UBC relies on technology to help it deliver educational services to its students and keep its faculty on the cutting edge of research and development. When UBC needed a solution that would scale with its growth and allow mobile workspaces anywhere on campus, it turned to Cisco.
“Cisco’s new technologies allow for a faster connection and increased density for lecture theatres that hold hundreds of students, allowing them to simultaneously use throughput-intensive course materials such as streaming media,” said Marilyn Hay, manager of the University of British Columbia’s Network Management Centre.
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May 28th, 2009
A Russian investment group on Tuesday paid $200 million for 1.96 percent of Facebook, valuing the social-networking giant at $10 billion. Digital Sky Technologies, which also has stakes in Eastern European and Russian Internet businesses, acquired preferred stock.DST also plans to offer to purchase at least $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing stockholders. DST executives will not take a seat on Facebook’s board or hold special observer rights.
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May 28th, 2009
Nehalem-EX. That’s the code name of the new Intel Xeon processor that Intel previewed this week.The chips will go into production later this year and target server 
consolidation, virtualized applications, enterprise applications, and technical computing environments.
Intel is betting heavily on its chipset, calling it the heart of the next generation of intelligent and expandable high-end Intel server platforms. Those platforms promise technical advancements to boost enterprise computing.
“The capabilities of Nehalem-EX, especially in highly virtualized environments, offer a clear jump on performance over previous generations of Xeon,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. “What they are talking about with EX is a two-and-a-half times jump in performance over EP. That’s pretty impressive.”
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May 28th, 2009
