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Sun Microsystems Inc.s Sun Fire x4100 combines dual-core Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron processing capabilities with a slew of management features that make the server an aggressive player in Suns—and AMDs—efforts to gain more ground in the x86 arena. Click here to read the full review of the Sun Fire x4100. 2 Sun Microsystems Inc.s […]

Few companies know better than Premier Bankcard Inc. that sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Case in point: The credit card issuer has made back—and then some—the roughly $1.9 million it has devoted to a storage area network and business analytics project. With rivals crowding consumers mailboxes with the latest credit card […]

The World Bank, a $20 billion financial arm of the United Nations, employs categorization technology to help it meet its goals of funding education and increasing the standard of living in 184 developing countries. “With 60 years worth of historical and current documents, we have a very complex and rich information environment,” said Denise Bedford, […]

Suppliers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may have balked at having to deploy radio-frequency identification, but at Graniterock, in Watsonville, Calif., customers cant deploy the technology fast enough. Since the construction company deployed RFID at all its locations, customers have benefited from a wealth of information based on the arrivals and departures of trucks through Graniterocks […]

IT managers often wish they could confront hardware vendors about overly optimistic performance claims. At National City Corp., they did just that. Three years ago, National City, one of the nations 10 largest banks, began using testing tools from Spirent Communications Inc. to validate the performance of its switches and routers—then took the switch and […]

Lenovo Group Ltd.s Thinkpad X41 Tablet might be machine enough to persuade skeptical IT managers to take the tablet PC plunge. Click here to read the full review of the Thinkpad X41 Tablet. 2 Lenovo Group Ltd.s Thinkpad X41 Tablet might be machine enough to persuade skeptical IT managers to take the tablet PC plunge. […]

The power of Adobe Systems Inc.s Portable Document Format is its ability to exchange documents regardless of the program with which they were created or the operating system used by either the sender or the receiver. As such, eWEEK Labs has long urged broader use of PDF technology. Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0s price—$449 per […]

ScanSofts PDF Converter Professional 3 impressed us as a capable tool that handily converted documents and files. Like Nitro PDF Desktop, its best for sites that dont need all the power of Acrobat. Click here to read the full review of PDF Converter Professional 3. 2 ScanSofts PDF Converter Professional 3 impressed us as a […]

Organizations that dont need workflow capabilities, but are looking for an application that will let their users create PDFs, will find that Arts PDFs Nitro PDF Desktop does the job. Click here to read the full review of Nitro PDF Desktop. 2 Organizations that dont need workflow capabilities, but are looking for an application that […]

VMware Inc.s upgraded VMware Workstation is packed with new features and performance enhancements that earn it eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice honors. Click here to read the full review of VMware Workstation 5. 2 VMware Inc.s upgraded VMware Workstation is packed with new features and performance enhancements that earn it eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice honors. In […]