SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 8, 2008 – Intel Corporation continues to expand its 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing chip portfolio with the launch of its first four halogen-free Intel® Xeon® processors, signaling another step in Intel’s march toward minimizing the environmental footprint of its products. The chips reach new heights in performance and energy efficiency.

Much of the energy efficiency these new processors provide comes from Intel’s advanced 45nm manufacturing capability and its reinvented transistors that use a Hafnium-based high-k metal gate formula. In addition, all previously launched versions of the Intel Xeon …

CHICAGO, IL, July 23, 2008 — Panopta today announced the availability of five additional monitoring locations for their flagship server monitoring and outage management platform. The new locations,Newark, New Jersey, in close proximity to the New York City metropolitan area, Milan and Amsterdam in Europe, and Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia. With the additions, Panopta customers can monitor their servers from fifteen locations around the world.
“The new locations give our customers the ability to monitor their servers from even closer geographic proximity, as well as get a better sense …

The DNS server at IP address 202.188.0.132 is susceptible to a DNS cache poisoning attack. The server is not changing its source port, query id, or both, between queries. This means it is easier than average for an attacker to spoof responses to DNS queries from this server, causing the server to serve a potentially malicious DNS record in response to any query.
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If you are not in control of your own DNS server, contact your DNS provider but …

RENTON, Wash., July 2, 2008 – Parallels today announced it is collaborating with HP to offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers who want to virtualize business-critical Windows and Linux workloads. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers has been validated to run on HP Integrity servers, including the largest 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers, addressing the needs of customers who require Windows and Linux-based Itanium virtualization.
“Container virtualization is increasingly popular for virtualizing high performance, production workloads. This makes our technology a perfect fit with HP Integrity servers,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO …

Like Thousands of SMBs, VMware is Helping Campbell Clinic Save Big on Server-Related Expenses
PALO ALTO, Calif. — July 2, 2008 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics (Campbell Clinic), one of the country’s leading centers of orthopaedic teaching and practice, has deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 to virtualize its mission-critical applications and create a flexible, easily administered virtual infrastructure. VMware offers enterprise-class functionality in deployment sizes that fit the needs of small and midsize businesses …

Traditional Open-Xchange Offering Now Packs Same User Interface and Architecture as Popular Hosted Edition
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 1, 2008 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a preview to the new version of Open-Xchange Server Edition, which facilitates effective teamwork and enables document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.

Open-Xchange offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks and document sharing to provide companies with all the tools needed to facilitate communication and efficient teamwork. Customers can improve communication and teamwork with simple, intuitive tools and intelligent features, such as …

Memory Optimization Effective Tool to Improve Business Computing, Future-Proof Systems
Microsoft Tech·Ed, Orlando, FL and Fountain Valley, CA — June 9, 2008 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today highlighted the availability of its 8GB server memory DIMMs and 4GB notebook SO-DIMMs at the opening of the IT Professional segment of Microsoft’s Tech·Ed 2008, June 9-13, 2008. Memory serves as a powerful tool to help IT professionals optimize systems in the quest to improve computing efficiency while containing operating costs.
“Building system-specific memory is Kingston’s legacy …

The next generation of Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, enables devices to easily connect to Windows Vista-based PCs and take advantage of new features in Windows Server 2008.
ORLANDO, Fla. — June 4, 2008 — Today at the Tech•Ed North America 2008 Developers conference and through a global webcast event, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Community Technology Preview (CTP). In addition, the company stated the product will be available to customers in the fourth quarter of 2008. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is …

RENTON, Wash. and DUBLIN, Ireland, June 04, 2008 – Parallels virtualization and automation software is powering new virtual private server (VPS) offerings from Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, a leading provider of web hosting solutions in Ireland. Blacknight, a Parallels Gold Partner, is offering four VPS service plans for the Linux and Windows platforms. Each level – Starter, Basic, Standard and Enterprise – is managed through Parallels System Automation and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and are currently available at http://www.blacknightvps.com/
The new Blacknight VPS offerings are provisioned and managed through Parallels Virtuozzo Containers …

“A” record(address record) - returns a 32-bit IPv4 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host.
“MX” record(mail exchange record) - maps a domain name to a list of mail exchange servers for that domain.
“CNAME” record(canonical name record) - is an alias of one name to another, the DNS lookup will continue by retrying the lookup with the new name. This is useful when running multiple services (like an FTP and a webserver) from a single IP address. Each service can then have its own …