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HP unveils first ProLiant MicroServer

For small businesses:

HP introduced its first HP ProLiant MicroServer designed to enable small companies to confidently grow their businesses while taking advantage of the reliability, performance and security of a server.

The HP ProLiant MicroServer

At the center of HP’s new ‘Just Right IT’ portfolio for micro and small businesses, the HP ProLiant MicroServer delivers affordability, energy and space-saving features.

The ‘Just Right IT’ portfolio makes it easy for micro and small businesses to get exactly the IT capabilities they need at just the right time and just the right price, and includes new server, storage, and PC products.

Designed for companies with less than ten employees, the HP ProLiant MicroServer enables them to share and secure critical business information. Ideal when needing to stay connected - whether in the office or on the road, the server simplifies how users access data differently than on desktop or notebook PCs.

The HP ProLiant MicroServer’s compact, quiet and sleek design is about half the size and 50 percent quieter than most entry-level servers. It also offers lower power consumption for energy-conscious businesses.

HP’s ability to deliver innovations on top of industry standards has driven customer confidence in the HP ProLiant server. This is demonstrated by HP’s No. 1 position in the x86 server market with 39.2 percent factory revenue share, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.

Based on current buying trends and the continued advancement of technology, around 1.7 million small businesses will purchase their first server in the next five years, according to AMI Partners, a global strategy consulting firm. “Small businesses have traditionally relied on interconnected PCs to share files and resources, which may not help them keep pace in today’s competitive environment,” HP Asia Pacific and Japan Vice President and General Manager, Stephen Bovis said.

“Leveraging over 20 years in server leadership and innovation, HP is introducing a no-compromise, compact server designed to fit into office environments with a versatile appearance and quiet operations,” he said.

OpenArc launches Desktop Publishing Diploma

OpenArc School of Business and Technology has launched a Diploma in Desktop Publishing course as a job oriented training aimed at filling the vacancies existing in the graphic designing field of Sri Lanka. Students will be trained to work in both PC and MAC Platforms and will be given a fully comprehensive, practical and hands-on training in using the most modern graphic designing software such as CorelDRAW X5, Adobe Illustrator cs5, Adobe Photoshop cs5, Adobe InDesign cs5.

OpenArc School of Business and Technology Managing Director Vijith Sinhabahu said, “A large amount of vacancies exist in the graphic designing field of Sri Lanka. But, there exists an immense lack of qualified graphic designers to fill these vacancies.

Even though there are people with some basic training in graphic designing, the training they have received is not sufficient for them to join a graphic designing or publishing firm and work independently.

OpenArc School of Business and Technology launched this Desktop Publishing Diploma course considering these factors. What is special in this course is that any student that completes the course successfully can join any organization and work independently.”

Web founder warns of internet disconnect law ‘blight’

Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, warned Tuesday of the ‘blight’ of new laws being introduced across the globe allowing people to be cut off from the Internet.

“There’s been a rash of laws trying to give Governments and internet service providers (ISPs) the right and the duty to disconnect people,” he told a conference on Web Science at the Royal Society in London.

The ‘current blight’ includes a French law that comes into effect this year that threatens to cut people off if they illegally download from the Internet, and a new British law passed in April which could see similar action, he said.

“If a French family can be forcibly disconnected from the Internet by law for a year because one of their children downloaded something that some company asserts that they should not have downloaded, without trial I think that’s a kind of inappropriate punishment,” Berners-Lee said. He added: “I’d like to go on using the Internet. If it gets cut off, or for some reason things go wrong, in some cases, for me, my social life would disintegrate, for other people it may be access to medical information.”

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor said the US Senate was also considering a bill this week that would have the Government create a blacklist of Internet sites that US ISPs would be required to block.

Twenty years after his breakthrough while working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, Berners-Lee said ‘the net has got to a point that is so critical’. Given the importance of the web in everyone’s lives, he urged the Internet experts gathered at the conference to act on the encroachment of the once free-for-all online world. “We have this duty of care,” he said.

AFP