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ALSO CALLED:
Hardware Devices,
Physical Devices,
Machines
DEFINITION: In information technology, hardware is the physical aspect of computers, telecommunications, and other devices. The term arose as a way to distinguish the "box" and the electronic circuitry and components of a computer from the program you put in it to make it do things. The program came to be known as the software.Hardware implies permanence and invariability. Software or programming can easily
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Hardware White Papers
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Green IT: Beyond the Data Center -- How IT Can Contribute to the Environmental Agenda Across and Beyond the Business
sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009
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TOTALLY Open™ Disaster Recovery
sponsored by FalconStor Software
WHITE PAPER:
With bandwidth-saving technologies, efficient storage, instant recovery, and fast failover, FalconStor Software offers TOTALLY Open Data Protection that is complete - and saves you time and money.
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009
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Windows 2008 Server as a Workstation
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
Server 2008 is a solid workstation product that makes for a nice demo machine and coincidentally gives you a platform (on the 64-bit version) for running Hyper-V.
Posted: 23 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
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Virtualization Overview
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008
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HARDWARE DEFINITION (continued): … be varied. You can put an entirely new program in the hardware and make it create an entirely new experience for the user. You can, however, change the modular configurations that most computers come with by adding new adapters or cards that extend the computer's capabilities.Like software, hardware is a collective term. Hardware includes not only the computer proper but also the cables, connectors, power supply units, and peripheral devices such as the keyboard, mouse, audio speakers, and printers.Hardware is sometimes used as a term collectively describing the physical aspects of telephony … Hardware definition sponsored by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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