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Is AMD now ready to impact the enterprise space? Part three Hammer in the house [Part 1: Serious about servers ] [Part 2: Would you switch to AMD?]By Mario Rodrigues: Friday 25 October 2002, 09:39 IT IS PRETTY clear (see part two) that AMD has fully demonstrated the exacting requirements that the business world demands. Market perception of AMD's supposed inferior platform quality has taken all this time to erode. HP's decision to offer AMD supported (Compaq branded) desktop and notebook business class PCs should be all the assurance that one would need that AMD is now ready to aggressively...

Is AMD now ready to impact the enterprise space? Part two Would you switch to AMD? [To read Part One click here] By Mario Rodrigues: Wednesday 23 October 2002, 17:59 IN MARCH 2001, Web hosting company Rackspace managed over 3,000 servers. Patrick Condon, one of the company's founders, estimated at the time that 80% of their servers used AMD processors. "We use a lot of 1 GHz AMD Athlon processors. We found they are incredibly reliable," he said. "In fact, we have well over 1500 AMD-based servers that have been up and running 24 hours a day for over two...

The Department of Defense is preparing to implement the most sweeping restrictions yet on foreign information technology (IT) workers. This planned policy—which will cover one-third of civilian federal employees—will ban non-U.S. citizens from a wide range of computer projects. The Departments of Justice and Treasury have instituted similar restrictions on non-citizens working in certain areas. Those steps were taken prior to last September’s attacks. The DOD policy—slated for adoption within 60 to 90 days—extends restrictions on foreign nationals handling secret information to “sensitive but unclassified positions,” which include the growing number of contract workers who process paychecks, write software,...

The Department of Defense is preparing to implement the most sweeping restrictions yet on foreign information technology (IT) workers. This planned policy—which will cover one-third of civilian federal employees—will ban non-U.S. citizens from a wide range of computer projects. The Departments of Justice and Treasury have instituted similar restrictions on non-citizens working in certain areas. Those steps were taken prior to last September’s attacks. The DOD policy—slated for adoption within 60 to 90 days—extends restrictions on foreign nationals handling secret information to “sensitive but unclassified positions,” which include the growing number of contract workers who process paychecks, write software,...