Category Archives: Small Business

“Social Shopping for Servers” has Begun!

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Image of our Stellar Deal Campaign
We hope everyone has thus far had a great start to 2012! To help launch us further into the new year, we are running a special “social servers” campaign through the end of February to help bring everyone together for fantastic savings! The Stellar Deal on our 5017C-MTF 1U Single Xeon E3 “Sandy Bridge” server takes the form of social shopping for servers where a special discount of 20% will be applied if the campaign goal of 50 servers is met. If we reach our campaign goal, everyone gets the deal and benefits! If we don’t meet the goal, you won’t be charged but nobody gets the deal.

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Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to spur innovation

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Photo of sun behind a factoryOn June 24, President Obama announced the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) between the federal government, academia, and businesses to help stimulate the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. We have been following the so-called “Missing Middle” of small- to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) on this blog, and I’d like to describe some of the recent initiatives to engage this high-potential segment of our economy.

Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Obama described that AMP would allocate $500 million of federal money to help make U.S. manufacturing more competitive around the world.

Inspired by a report drafted by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which found that there are market failures in the advanced manufacturing space that need to be overcome by government intervention, AMP will focus on five initiatives:

  1. Manufacturing for national security
  2. Materials science
  3. Robotics
  4. Energy efficiency
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New online products: workstations, towers and multi-CPU servers

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(Links to product page) Image of an ICC 4042G-TRF Tower ServerOver the past couple of weeks, we have been adding new configurable products to our online store. In this post, I will cover the workstations, tower servers, and Intel-based quad-CPU rack servers that are now available for sale online.

The main difference between an ICC workstation and an ICC tower server is the motherboard (the chassis are in many cases identical to one another). The workstation motherboards have built-in basic sound cards but no on-board graphics cards (the opposite is true of the tower boards). The workstation is intended for use as a personal computer in a lab or workplace environment, while the tower is for server applications.

Here are the current workstations now available for sale on the ICC store (all Intel Xeon 5600-series dual-processor):

Likewise, here are the links to the current tower server offerings on the ICC online store: Continue reading →