Sales of servers: IBM and HP dominate

According to figures just released by the institute Gartner, the server market would have risen 16.4% between the fourth quarter 2009 and fourth quarter 2010, reaching 14.68 billion dollars. IBM consolidates its leading position with 35.5% market share, while HP is still second with 30.4%. After Dell (13.1%), Oracle (5.5% market share, down 16.2%) and Fujitsu (3.8%).

In terms of volume, it is HP remains the leader with more than 767,000 units sold during the fourth quarter (+6.9%) against 515,274 units for Dell and "only" 332,254 servers for IBM. We note in passing that Oracle saw its shipments of servers to contract by 40.8%, with only 36,614 servers sold.

Survivor BitFenix Core, comprehensive analysis

Today we present the analysis of this case that combines great looks strong and compact with good cooling, quiet, and spacious interior. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Survivor BitFenix Core Analysis

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Atom N570: two cores, 1.66 GHz

Asus will launch a new version of the Eee PC 1015PN this year and presentation to a processor at CeBIT announcement yet unknown. Although Asus hides the name of the processor on these cards have, it's pretty easy to discover his name: Atom N570. The machine therefore offers a dual core processor at 1.66 GHz, 1.5 GHz cons on the now classic N550, and a NVIDIA video chip, a Next Gen ION.

The processor is not really new, Intel dual-core models at 1.66 and 1.8 GHz in its range, but only for platforms "fixed". In the range 'laptop, the N550 is limited to 1.5 GHz and only models with a single core above this frequency. But segmentation Intel does not interfere with netbook manufacturers and models with an Atom N330 or D525 are ...

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Predator V3 SSD SATA 6 Gbps at AMP

The manufacturer Active Media Products - AMP for short - has just announced the launch of a new model of SSD, the Predator V3. With 6 Gbps SATA interface, this SSD 2.5-inch format uses a Marvell controller Van Gogh (88SS9174) and MLC NAND flash memory, 128 MB and loads of DDR3 memory for buffer. Supporting course the TRIM command, the Predator V3 is available in 64 GB and 128 GB 64 GB model can reach speeds of around 360 MB / s sequential read and 100 MB / s write while that the model rises to 128 GB 410 MB / s sequential read and 200MB / s write.

Western Digital hard drives still believes in the

While a number of manufacturers historical disks have taken the train of SSD running in recent months, it is clear that this is not really the case of Western Digital, at least in regard to the mass market . The manufacturer continues to claim to believe in hard drives, and has even announced it would invest over five years some 500 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 285 million euros to develop new technology dedicated to this type of product.

Flash Player 11 will move to 3D

Flash Player 11 to watch. The next version of Adobe Reader will pass to 3D with a new API called Molehill. Requires 3D acceleration, Flash Player 11 will require a suitable hardware configuration: a Windows PC with a DirectX 9 graphics card, a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or Linux machine with a graphics card that supports OpenGL.

Indeed, Molehill is able to work with either OpenGL or DirectX 9. Molehill is an API that is intended to manage the 3D in Flash, using the GPU of course. Currently, since Flash 10.1, Adobe enables 3D effects on 2D, what the company calls the 2.5D, and the effects are rendered on the CPU, which limits performance.

Movement control: Asus Wavi Xtion: Kinect clone for PC

Sales of Kinect went Christmas shopping in 2010 by. The 3D camera for the Xbox 360 console sales boosted by a whopping 70 percent compared to the same period. A success that even Microsoft had not. Apparently spurred this success in the competition - albeit in a different market segment. By Wavi Xtion Asus wants to make the PC wohnzimmerfit.

The device is to identify how the technology Kinect share movements in three dimensional space. After the presentation of the user navigates by Asus gesture control through its music and movie collection, or surf the web. With the appropriate development tools to quickly follow applications for the new hardware.