PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 23, 2008 - HP today announced two new energy-efficient business desktop PCs, including the industry's first to feature a solid-state hard drive (SSD), which offers improved reliability. Both the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-slim Desktop PC with SSD and the HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC provide the power and flexibility to meet the needs of most any business. In addition, they include a variety of environmental features that allow them to meet the most stringent environmental requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT™) Gold registry. The two PCs add to HP's industry-topping number of Gold-listed products in the EPEAT registry. The registry helps businesses evaluate, compare and select technology products based on their environmental attributes, such as meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's latest ENERGY STAR™ energy-efficiency requirements. While using more power-efficient PCs can help any business save on energy costs and reduce the environmental impact of their technology, the effect across an enterprise environment can be immense. For example, the recent IDC Go Green PC Power Play Study found that the U.S. federal government could save more than $82.4 million in energy costs(1)– the equivalent to conserving more than 1.3 million barrels of oil in just one year(2)– if its more than 10 million existing ENERGY STAR 3.0 PCs were updated to the new 4.0 standard.(3) The research study was underwritten by HP to help quantify the savings opportunities energy-efficient PCs could provide the federal government. "HP's ongoing efforts to design for the environment have spanned decades," said Alan Reed, vice president and general manager, Personal Systems Group, HP. "HP leverages this expertise to continually develop smart ideas for its PC product lines that not only help business customers be more productive, but also reduce operating costs and their effect on the environment." New desktops more efficiently
Microsoft published a number of press releases which outline company's strategy and vision in virtualization. These press releases are available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/strategy.mspx
Powerful combination allows PowerShell users to edit and debug scripts, then distribute these scripts to computers and servers in the network TORONTO, CANADA – January 8, 2008 -- Special Operations Software, www.specopssoft.com, a global leader of Group Policy and Windows PowerShell based Systems Management and Security software, today announced the integration of Quest PowerGUI(TM) from Quest Software with Specops Command(TM) from Special Operations Software. The integration makes it possible to use the powerful and free PowerShell script editor, Quest PowerGUI, directly from Specops Command and thus provide features like IntelliSense (to access descriptions of functions) and debugging capabilities when editing PowerShell scripts. "The incredible synergy created by integrating Specops Command and Quest PowerGUI into a single powerful solution is very exciting," said Dmitry Sotnikov, New Product Research Manager at Quest Software. "Giving users the ability to invoke PowerGUI Script Editor to edit and debug their scripts and then use Specops Command to distribute the script to computers in the network makes perfect sense." "The combined power and ease of use of Specops Command and Quest PowerGUI will forever change the landscape of distributed Windows-based computer management and will make Windows PowerShell the number one solution used everywhere -- not only for administering a small number of servers, but tens of thousands of computers at a time," said Thorbjörn Sjövold, CTO of Special Operations Software. "Also, by simply using the free Quest PowerGUI with the free version of Specops Command, Logon and Startup scripts as we know them today will never be the same." For more information and to download Specops Command, please visit: http://www.specopssoft.com/powershell/
LAS VEGAS-January 6, 2008-Extending its lead in providing solutions to protect business and personal data from loss or theft, Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) today introduced at CES, the Maxtor® BlackArmor™ encrypting storage solution that provides AES government-grade encryption protection against unauthorized access to valuable and private information. The Maxtor BlackArmor solution is a 160GB portable storage device that delivers the confidence and reliability of robust security in a compact consumer-friendly design. Designed for those who have valuable information they wish to keep secure and private, the new Maxtor BlackArmor product is an attractive, portable solution that provides unparalleled security for direct attached storage devices. Using Seagate Secure™ technology, Maxtor's BlackArmor drive is designed to keep data locked up and protected in the event of loss or theft. Seagate Secure technology is a hardware-based encryption, making the encryption transparent to the user and free of complicated installation and use procedures required by software based security. The Maxtor BlackArmor external storage solution uses a government-grade AES encryption certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to deliver the strongest commercially available data security available for external storage. The Maxtor BlackArmor product provides transparent, real-time encryption of all the data on the device, not just selected files; providing performance and ease of use advantages over manual software-based security controls. The BlackArmor product also puts all security keys and cryptographic operations within the device, delivering stronger protection against hacking and tampering than traditional software alternatives. The BlackArmor product's key encryption technology can also securely wipe out the data for simple, cost-effective redeployment or disposal of the product – an important capability for organizations of all sizes. The introduction
World's Highest Capacity 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive to Usher in New Era of Consumer Notebooks, Desktops and Portable Gadgets SAN JOSE, Calif. – Jan. 3, 2008 – On the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, at a time when most of the technology world is asking "what's the next big thing?", Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has answered that question quite literally by introducing the world's highest capacity 2.5-inch mobile hard drive. Setting a new industry benchmark for capacity, the half-terabyte (500GB) Travelstar 5K500 is poised to usher in a new era of "slim" desktops, full-featured notebooks, gaming consoles and other advanced applications for consumers on-the-go. With the Travelstar 5K500, Hitachi GST has effectively eliminated the "capacity compromise" by offering consumers all the storage capacity of a desktop with the portability and convenience of a notebook. Moreover, the new drives are well-suited for use in "slim" desktops, where users are seeking high-capacities in a space-saving, small form factor enclosure. These new sleek PC designs are highly desirable among today's consumers who are often placing computers in multiple rooms throughout the home. The Travelstar 5K500, available in either a 400GB or 500GB model, is the fourth-generation Hitachi mobile drive to use perpendicular magnetic recording technology to deliver breakthrough capacity and reliability. The half-terabyte drives can store up to 500 hours of digital video, 178 feature length movies, 250 games or 125,000 four-minute songs. Travelstar 5K500 drives are available with a 3.0Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface for enhanced system performance. Hitachi will also offer an enhanced-availability (EA) version, called the Travelstar E5K500 -- also available in both 400GB and 500GB capacities -- which is designed for applications requiring 24x7 operation in lower transaction environments, such as blade servers, network routers, point-of-sale terminals and video s