Running in the background, too many third-party apps overuse system resources, memory, and network to the point where almost any machine with multitasking capability ends up running slowly and killing battery life.

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While technologies such as Solidcore (just acquired by McAfee) can be installed to make a Windows machine impervious to attack via essentially randomizing memory and system call registries and other randomizing in the network can add to the investment at attacker must make to be successful, there is one area that is ripe for exploration.

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Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).

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