NEWS

[April 26, 2010] AMD Unveils Five Professional Graphics Cards
The ISV-certified workstation solutions span high, medium, and low market segments with ATI Eyefinity technology supporting multiple independent displays.

[April 7, 2010] AMD Targets Workstation Graphics Market
AMD aims for a market that's as performance-obsessed as the gamers: high-performance professional graphics.

[March 24, 2010] HP Updates Workstation Line With Mobile, Compact, 12-Core Models
A 17-inch, billion-color laptop display and a small-form-factor Xeon system are HP's newest offerings for CAD, medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, and other demanding applications.

FEATURES

[July 8, 2010] Workstation Review: HP Z200 Small Form Factor
Sometimes fast things come in small packages: HP's newest workstation is only one-third the size of the usual minitower chassis, but makes room for quad-core Xeon power and ATI FirePro graphics to crunch through demanding applications.

[April 29, 2010] Notebook Review: HP EliteBook 8440w
If you want to take workstation-class CAD or imaging applications on the road, you need one of two things: a U-Haul, or HP's surprising 14-inch laptop PC, which combines Core i7 power and Quadro FX graphics in an under-six-pound package.

[May 23, 2005] CAD Models for the Masses: Universal 3D
Professionals use 3D workstations to create formidably rich renderings and detailed data files -- so rich, in fact, that they can't be viewed on the boss's or sales staff's everyday PCs. Intel, Adobe, and other members of an industry association are changing that with a compact, scalable, flexible file format now built into Adobe Acrobat 7.0.

BEST PRACTICES

[March 25, 2004] Aaron Reid: 3D Design Entrepreneur
By using a mix of portable and desktop workstation technology and a host of the latest animation software, Antigravity, a one-man design firm launched by Aaron Reid, is able to perform 3D design and animation work that rivals that of big firms.

[November 25, 2003] Crosspoint at a Crossroads
Crosspoint, a post-production firm based in Lakewood, Colorado, had to expand its editing and finishing capabilities to keep up with client demands in a fast-changing field. Its team of editors and animators, who deliver services to firms like Coors Brewing Company and McDonald's, need to serve up video spots faster than a batch of Super-sized fries, and that requires the right hardware--for the right price. Driven by the need for speed, Crosspoint chose to upgrade to Avid DS Nitris and HP xw8000 workstations.

[October 20, 2003] Tech Tools for Art Students
The Art Institutes picked HP workstations for their media, animation and digital content creation programs nationwide because of their performance, but also because they can take a beating.

DAILY NEWS

[June 4, 2010]  Apple Drops to Third in PC Reliability Report
Electronista: Apple has fallen to the third position in Rescuecom's latest computer reliability report, after maintaining the highest overall score in 2009.

[June 4, 2010]  Gateway Gets Snazzy: Glowing Touchpads on EC39C & ID49C08u Laptop PCs
Engadget: Gateway's newest 13.3-inch EC339C and 14-inch ID49C08u notebook PCs sport glowing blue touchpads.

[June 4, 2010]  Intel Delays USB 3.0 Chipset Until 2012
The Register: Intel is holding up USB 3.0 adoption by delaying its motherboard chipset until 2012.

[June 4, 2010]  Dell Considered Buyout
CNET: At a financial conference, Michael Dell says he had considered taking his computer hardware company private--but doesn't explain why.

[June 4, 2010]  Hitachi LG Develops Blu-ray Drive With Built-in SSD
PC World: Hitachi LG Data Storage Korea present first-of-its-kind product at Computex, a Blu-ray Disc optical drive that combines a solid-state drive.

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MARKET RESEARCH & WHITEPAPERS

[May 29, 2010]  Optimize Health Care IT Investment
Whitepaper introduces five key elements for the successful roll-out of clinical information systems.

[May 28, 2010]  White Paper Compares IBM PowerVM and x86 VMware
A comparison of the costs of using either IBM's PowerVM or x86 VMware products for enterprise server virtualization.

[May 27, 2010]  The ROI of Backup Redesign Using Deduplication
Whitepaper based on interviews IDC conducted with nine enterprise companies currently using EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems.

[May 26, 2010]  Conduction Cooling Techniques for Rugged Computers
Conduction cooling for modular embedded computers have been used for many years in applications where air cooling is not appropriate, according to this whitepaper. Standardization efforts in that domain have early helped to maintain interoperability of COTS products.

[May 25, 2010]  IBRIX Fusion: Scalable Storage for Unstructured Data
StorageIO group whitepaper covers how to enable scalable storage performance, availability, and capacity for unstructured data and Web 2.0 applications.

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