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Cisco Launches Giant Router

With 322 Terabit/s throughput, Cisco's CSR-3 can download every movie ever made in four minutes. Just what the big operators need as we all turn to video

Intel Investigating Fake Chip Claims

Intel is looking into reports of about 300 fake Core i7-920 processors being received by Newegg in a batch of 2,000 chips the online retailer had received

IBM Boffins Claim Major Chip Advance

Researchers at IBM are claiming a breakthrough in chip design, after enabling chips to communicate via pulses of light rather than copper wire

Virgin Media Readies 100Mbps Broadband

All of Virgin Media's existing 3.8 million cable broadband users will be able to experience connections of up to 100 megabits per second from next year

VDI Vies To Host Client Workloads

New technology enables once-powerful desktop systems to be repurposed to host virtual desktop systems running modern operating systems

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IBM Adds Deduplication To Mainframes

For the first time ever IBM is adding a deduplication appliance to its System z mainframe server that can compress up to 25TB of tape application data down to just 1TB