Some updates on the release date of Windows Server 2008 on the official blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/08/29/windows-server-2008-timing-update.aspx
22 August, 2007- TOKYO--Toshiba Corp., a leading innovator in memory card solutions, today reinforced its line up of SD High Capacity (SDHC) cards with three new cards, including the worlds first 32-gigabyte (GB) memory card in this high density. Alongside the 32GB SDHC card, Toshiba also announced a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. All the new cards meet the Class 4 specification in the SD Speed Class, ensuring they deliver the high level performance and functionality essential for advanced mobile phones and other personal digital products. The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide from October, and the 32GB SDHC card and 8GB microSDHC card will be launched worldwide in January next year. The market for high density memory cards is growing fast, driven by increasing demand for personal digital equipment able to handle motion pictures and high resolution images. Demand for high density microSDHC cards is expected to emerge in the mobile phone market, as on-board cameras advance multi-megapixel capacities, and demand for music and motion pictures are expanding as well. Toshiba will continue to expand and upgrade its SDHC and SD Memory Card series to meet the growing demand for high speed, high density products. The expanded new card series will be featured at the IFA 2007, in Berlin, Germany from August 31 to September 5. Key Features1.SDHC Memory Card (High Speed Type) (1) Realizes maximum write speed of 6MB per sec.(2) "Class 4" SD Speed Class, guaranteeing sustained data write at 4MB/s. (3) Integrates highly secure CPRM copyright technology. 2. microSDHC Memory Card (1) Realizes large 8GB capacity in a microSDHC Card. It can store 139 hours of music at a bit rate of 128kbps.(2) "Class 4" SD Speed Class, guaranteeing sustained data write at 4MB/s. (3) Integrates highly secure CPRM copyright technology.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 23, 2007 - HP extended its lead in the worldwide blade server market in both total blade server units shipped and factory revenue, according to second calendar quarter 2007 server market figures released today by industry analyst firm IDC.(¹) HP significantly increased its lead as the No. 1 blade server vendor in the period with 47.2 percent total factory revenue share, a year-over-year factory revenue growth rate of 71.9 percent. As businesses require more powerful and scalable computing solutions for traditional applications and new workloads such as Web 2.0, high-performance computing and gaming, HP saw increased demand for its HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture and ProLiant family of servers in the second quarter of 2007. HP maintained its commanding lead as the No. 1 x86 server vendor, with 34.8 percent unit market share, growing at 18.2 percent year over year in a market that grew unit shipments 7.8 percent. As the worldwide server market accelerated overall, HP held its No. 1 position in unit shipments for the 21st straight quarter, increasing its server units by 17.4 percent year over year in the second quarter and growing unit shipments the fastest of the top five vendors in the worldwide server market. With impressive growth across its ProLiant, Integrity and BladeSystem families, HP captured 33.7 percent total unit shipment share, shipping more than one out of every three servers in the world; it also grew server factory revenue faster than the market. "HP's continued market leadership demonstrates we are successfully investing in areas critical for our customers' success," said Scott Stallard, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP. "HP's innovation across our server and BladeSystem portfolios is driving customer preference that competitors cannot match and makes us a key technology partner for today's environments and those to come." Highlights from IDC's worldwide report include: Leading
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 8/15/2007 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock, which includes the assumption of approximately $107 million in unvested stock options. This acquisition moves Citrix into adjacent server and desktop virtualization markets, expected by Citrix to grow to nearly $5 billion over the next four years. The combination of Citrix and XenSource brings together significant customer, technical, channel and go-to-market synergies. This will allow Citrix to extend its leadership in the broader Application Delivery Infrastructure market by adding key enabling technologies that make the end-to-end computing environment far more flexible, dynamic and responsive to business change. The acquisition will also strengthen each company's strong partnership with Microsoft and commitment to the Windows platform. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007 subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions. Leveraging the Power of XenXenSource is the leading provider of enterprise-class virtual infrastructure solutions built on the open source Xen® hypervisor. Originally created by the founders of XenSource at University of Cambridge, the Xen virtualization "engine" is now developed collaboratively by an active open source community of senior engineers at many of the industry's most innovative infrastructure companies, including leading hardware vendors like Intel, IBM, HP and AMD. This open collaborative approach significantly accelerates the innovation of the Xen engine, leading to continual state-of-the-art improvements in performance, scalability and cross-platform support. The next-generation Xen architecture is widely acknowledged for its industry-leading
London, UK, 24 July 2007 – GFI Software, a leading developer of network security, content security and messaging software, has today launched a white paper to explain what PDF spam is and how spammers are using this popular file format to reach people's mailboxes. Research shows that between 65% and 88% of emails received is considered to be spam. Spam continues to be a headache for administrators and end-users because spammers are constantly trying to stay one step ahead of anti-spam software vendors. Although spammers registered considerable success with image spam, the anti-spam software industry had quickly come out with new counter-measures to stop image spam. As with every cat-and-mouse game, spammers had to respond and in June 2007, they came up with a new technique that is not only ingenious but even more problematic than image spam. Instead of embedding the image within the email itself, they 'repackaged' it within an attachment using one of the most common file formats in use today – a PDF file. This move is clever because email users 'expect' spam to be an image or text within the body of the email and not an attachment. Also, since most businesses today transfer documents using the PDF format, email users will have to check each PDF document otherwise they risk losing important documentation. To address the PDF spam threat, administrators need to deploy as many anti-spam techniques as possible, including Bayesian filtering and PDF filtering, while at the same time maintaining a very low level of false positives. To download a copy of the white paper, please visit http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/pdf-and-image-spam.pdf . For information on GFI's anti-spam and anti-phishing solution, GFI MailEssentials, visit http://www.gfi.com/mes/ . About GFI MailEssentialsGFI MailEssentials offers anti-spam for Exchange server and other email servers and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software on each desktop. GFI MailEssentials offers a fast set-up