Liquid Computing to challenge Cisco

Taking on a mega corporation with over 65 000 employees and $8.5 billion in annual sales may seem a daunting challenge, but unified computing shop Liquid Computing has Cisco in its sights, according to The Register.

Virtualised servers with unified server and storage management, plus scalable and reconfigurable infrastructure, all controlled through out-of-band system management tools, were supposed to be all the rage by now. And many of them were supposed to have a Liquid Computing brand slapped on them.

Others were supposed to have the Fabric7 brand on them, but that company went the way of all flesh back in April 2007, after a year and a half of being in the market - and it couldn't even blame the economic meltdown for its demise. But Liquid Computing is still in the game, even though it has been forced to re-jigger its technology and make some other changes to pursue business.

activePDF, a provider of server-based PDF creation, conversion and development tools for Microsoft Windows, has introduced activePDF DocConverter 2009 and Portfolio 2009 to its suite of server-based PDF generation and manipulation tools, reports Earth Times.

According to the company, activePDF DocConverter is able to convert over 280 file formats directly to PDF, and represents a major architectural transformation that has been designed from the ground-up to offer best-in-class performance and scalability.

In support of varying deployment scenarios, DocConverter will initially be available in two editions: DocConverter 2009, and DocConverter 2009 Enterprise; DocConverter 2009 Clustered Edition is planned for release in Q4.

Super Micro Computer, a provider of application-optimised server and workstation solutions, has released its dual Intel Xeon 5500 Series (Nehalem) processor-based 7046GT-TRF SuperWorkstations, states PRNewswire.

The SuperWorkstations are the first to support four NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPUs as well as three additional PCI-e add-on cards for high-bandwidth input / output, says Super Micro.

These new systems also feature redundant Gold Level (93%+ efficiency) 1400-watt power supplies and quiet operation, making them ideal for both enterprise and office supercomputing

applications, according to the company.