Acronyms, once primarily abbreviated expressions for Depression-era government programs, have devolved into a parallel pop language that is rapidly turning web-based communications into a modern Tower of Babel. How many times over the past year have you run a Google search on an acronym you weren’t certain you had identified correctly, if at all? Come [...]

Intel Corporation signaled that it intends to take direct aim at the heart of the data center market with the latest release of its workhorse Xeon processor, the 5600 series. The processor giant says a single Xeon 5600 processor-based server can replace up to 15 single-core servers. Intel also says the new series can improve [...]