Infrastructure

My buddy, a network administrator, insists on leaving his PC on day and night. He says that the system's RAM, CPU, and hard drive can be harmed by turning the system on and off. I agree that treating the computer like a microwave and flipping the switch a dozen times a day could cause problems. But turning it on in the morning and off at night? Not a big deal. Either way, it's still a controversy. But I'll tell you what I do: I turn it off at night.

Deploying a single customer relationship management (CRM) system has enabled a Canadian health benefits provider to enhance client services, more than triple its sales, and streamline operations.

AOL LLC is hoping to boost its online advertising business in Europe with an offer to buy TradeDoubler AB, a Swedish provider of online marketing and sales services.

Phil Nail's company, a Web hosting firm known as AISO.Net, uses solar panels that generate 12 kilowatts of electricity to power its data centre and main office.

In our testing from the client side, we found that while it's easy to connect to the Exchange 2007 back end in most cases, it's not completely without its problems

One of the new chips, the Core 2 Quad, marks Intel's first attempt to spread the new technology to a wider market than large data centres and research grids

NCR Corp. and its Teradata data warehousing division will separate into two publicly-traded companies in a move designed to better focus their respective business strategies, NCR said Monday

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