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At the University of British Columbia (UBC), the wireless network spans 100 hectares with multiple campuses -- and it continues to grow to support more than 55,000 students, professors and staff for learning and research.

Like most major universities, UBC relies on technology to help it deliver educational services to its students and keep its faculty on the cutting edge of research and development. When UBC needed a solution that would scale with its growth and allow mobile workspaces anywhere on campus, it turned to Cisco.

Cisco is making its move in the mobile work space world. Last week, at the Interop show in Las Vegas, the networking giant announced a new initiative called Collaboration in Motion, that draws from a number of its product lines to facilitate collaboration in the mobile work space. Products and services tied to the initiative include Cisco WebEx, Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco Unified Wireless Network, and Cisco Advanced Services.

Cisco is making its move in the mobile-workspace world. Last week, at the Interop show in Las Vegas, the networking giant announced a new initiative called Collaboration in Motion, that draws from a number of its product lines to facilitate collaboration in the mobile workspace. Products and services tied to the initiative include Cisco WebEx, Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco Unified Wireless Network, and Cisco Advanced Services.

Seagate and AMD have joined forces to develop what they call the next generation of high-speed data transfer -- and they are showing off their innovation this week at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans.

The companies offered the first public demonstration of their Serial ATA 6GB/second storage interface. With burst speeds of up to six gigabits a second, the innovation targets bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications such as gaming, streaming video, and graphics multimedia.

Advanced Micro Devices has rolled out five new quad-core Opteron HE processors designed to meet the industry's rising demand for low-power data-center technology. Additionally, the chipmaker has just launched two new quad-core Opteron SE processors targeting data centers with performance-intensive workloads.

In the current economic environment, data-center managers are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs without having to compromise on the latest features or performance, noted Patrick Patla, general manager of AMD's server and workstation business.