SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12, 2007 - Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective, high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel's Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage, rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs, routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications. "Solid state drive technology offers many benefits over traditional hard disk drives including improved performance and reliability," said Randy Wilhelm, vice president and general manager of Intel's NAND Products Group. "The Intel solid state drive technology provides robust performance, while offering Intel's industry leading quality, validation and reliability for a wide variety of embedded applications." The Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is the company's first solution in the Intel Value Solid State Drive family that will offer different industry standard interfaces and densities. The product comes in 1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities. With fast reads of 28 megabytes (MB) per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second, this higher performing solid state drive is a faster storage alternative that speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries. The drives will also be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs. In addition, it will be used in Intel embedded solutions for routers and point of sale terminals. Intel's Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive will be distinguished from other solid state product offerings by its exten
HP today announced the industry's first business PCs configurable to meet the hardware standards of ENERGY STAR® 4.0 - the new, stringent energy-efficiency specification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). HP's new energy-efficient business desktop PCs use less power, which is better for the environment and helps customers reduce energy costs. HP is also the first major PC manufacturer to offer "80 percent efficient" power supplies, a key component of the ENERGY STAR 4.0 regulations that go into effect on July 20, 2007. HP lab tests have found that configuring PCs with the optional 80 percent efficient power supplies along with the other ENERGY STAR 4.0 hardware requirements can reduce total system power consumption as much as 52 percent, translating into an average annual cost savings ranging from $6 to $58 per PC.(1) "As a leader in energy efficiency, PG&E supports new technology designed to reduce the energy needed to operate computers," stated Roland Risser, director, Customer Energy Efficiency, PG&E, the largest investor-owned gas and electric utility in the State of California. "We look forward to working with HP to accelerate the use of computers with 80 percent efficient power supplies and help consumers take advantage of new energy savings opportunities." The HP Compaq dc5700, dc5750 and dc7700 desktop PCs are designed to meet business customers' growing requirements for more efficient power management and cooling. Customers using PCs configured to meet the ENERGY STAR 4.0 requirements can benefit from increased system reliability, reduced system maintenance costs, as well as decreased air conditioning costs -- all due to less heat generation, which can also greatly extend the life of the system. These technologies also make it easier for federal agencies to comply with Executive Order 13123, which requires them to strive to meet ENERGY STAR criteria to increase energy performance and environmental quality. "Our expanding family of
It's been almost half a year since the last release (0.3.0). And all this time work was going on like crazy - sometimes up to 50 commits per day.Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc). It's very hard to sum up the huge Changelog in an outline, but briefly: Freeldr was improved HAL's key areas have been significantly improved (irql-related, bus support, kd-functions) The Kernel experienced a massive rewrite of incompatible parts (and is still in the process of improvement) Run-time library (Rtl) got a lot of improvements and bugfixes Bugs were fixed in kernel-mode drivers and a better USB driver was added Registry-support has been greatly improved thanks to addition of "cmlib", a library shared by the boot loader and the kernel to handle binary registry hives; it even supports binary registry hives created by Windows More fixes in the Win32 subsystem and user-mode DLLs Boot video driver (and a splash screen) was added Read through the changelog, and you will see the amount of changes in this release! However, there are a few things worth mentioning. First of all, please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS (due to stability and compatibility concerns). And second, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware. Also, we aim to continuosly reduce delays between releases, and keep to a regular release schedule in the future. Thanks for the good work - developers, testers and supporters! Aleksey Bragin,ReactOS Project Coordinator What is ReactOS? ReactOS is a free and open-sourced operating system based on the Windows architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant con
Montreal, Canada, March 7th, 2007 - Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, unveils the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition, the latest addition to the Matrox line of Graphics eXpansion Modules (GXM) featuring digital output support for a stretched desktop of up to 3840x1024 (triple 1280 x 1024)1 across three screens. The all-encompassing TripleHead2Go Digital Edition offers a truly digital-to-digital data path by connecting to the dual-link DVI output of a compatible notebook, desktop or workstation to three digital monitors-optimizing the connection between your system, graphics card and panel. "Business professionals and gaming enthusiasts looking for a TripleHead2Go that offers a digital-to-digital experience are going to be as excited as we are about this product," says Caroline Injoyan, Business Development Manager, Matrox Graphics, Inc." The market asked us for a GXM with many configuration possibilities including support for both dual-link digital or analog input, and we delivered with the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition-it is the most versatile external multi-monitor upgrade ever!"The new TripleHead2Go Digital Edition is designed to meet the growing needs of business professionals working in areas of Mechanical CAD, 3D Visualization, and Digital Content Creation & Animation. The Surround Design functionality-ability to work with three screens-provided by this small device enables users to examine multiple views of a design or project and simultaneously view important information that needs to be accessed quickly. These professionals will reap the benefits of multi-display computing on their notebooks or workstations while experiencing an increased level in productivity. In addition, users of the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition can operate in DualHead® mode with a combined resolution of 3840x1200 (dual 1920x1200)1 by connecting their system to the dual-link digital input.TripleHead2Go Digital Edition's support
Overview Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.Note Jetstress is only supported when running with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or newer versions of ESE.DLL. Also, due to this support limitation, Jetstress is only supported on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Advanced Server, Datacenter and newer Windows OS platforms (Windows NT 4.0 and older builds are not supported). Download: Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)