Tag: x86

ICT Strategies For Our Economic Downturn

18 March 2009 No Comments by Computer Merchants

With the outlook getting worse week after week, we have to start thinking about areas of our ICT infrastructure where there may be wastage, and how we can generate greater efficiencies to help the business produce savings. Here are a few quick tips suggested by Par Botes, CTO, EMC Asia Pacific and Japan. Eliminate the [...]

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Computer Merchants Staff Milestones April 2008

2 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Congratulations to Bruce who celebrated 10 years with Computer Merchants in February Bruce started with the company in 1998 to develop the open systems market. Our open systems team now consists of 7 sales specialists, focussing on: IBM System p (RS/6000), IBM System x (x86/Intel), IBM mainframe, as well as Sun and HP products. Both Carl [...]

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VMware And Virtualisation

2 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

What Is Virtualisation? Modern computer hardware was originally designed to run on a single operating system and a single application. Virtualisation breaks that bond – making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same server at the same time. This solution increases server utilization (typically from 5-15%, to 60-70%) and [...]

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