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Principled Technologies Shows Deploying a Microsoft Windows 10 Image to AMD Processor-Based Business Class Systems Doesn’t Disrupt Existing Processes
Principled Technologies (PT) found it took the same number of steps and about the same amount of time to deploy Windows 10 images for AMD and Intel processor-based systems. - May 08, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Publishes Report Showing How Chromebooks Powered by the Intel Celeron Processor N3350 Can Affect Classroom Experiences
Through hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) learned that the new Dell Chromebook 5190 with Intel Celeron processor N3350 was not only faster than a Dell Chromebook 11 with Intel Celeron processor N3060 in benchmark tests, it was more responsive on popular apps that kids use throughout their K-12 careers. - May 04, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Database Performance Using Intel VROC to a Broadcom MegaRAID 9460-16i Adapter with Multiple Drive Types
In hands-on testing, PT found that a server with Intel SSD P4510 Series drives using Intel VROC delivered up to 7.3 percent better performance on an IO-intensive workload vs. one using a Broadcom MegaRAID 9460-16i adapter, and that upgrading drives from SATA SSDs to PCIe NVMe SSDs nearly quadrupled performance. - May 01, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Debuts a New Website and Identity Video That Show How to Win in the Attention Economy
Principled Technologies (PT) partners with its clients to create compelling fact-based marketing and learning collateral that meets their audiences’ needs. This week, PT unveiled a redesigned website and a new identity video highlighting how clients can win in the attention economy. - April 30, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
A Google Pixelbook Powered by an Intel Core i5 Processor Could Save Time for Small Businesses, Principled Technologies Study Finds
In Principled Technologies hands-on tests, an Intel Core i5 processor-powered Google Pixelbook saved time on everyday office tasks compared to two other Intel processor-powered Chromebooks. - April 25, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Durham North Carolina, Martial Artist, and Author Jessie Bowen Inducted Into Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame
Durham, North Carolina, on April 7, 2018, Jessie Bowen was honored at the Kung Fu & Karate Expo 12 & Masters of Martial Arts Awards Ceremony at the Golden Nugget Resort in Atlantic City New Jersey for his contributions to the martial arts. The Kung Fu & Karate Expo 12 is the annual... - April 20, 2018 - Jessie Bowen
The Preserve at Legacy Lakes Grand Opening Celebration
McKee Homes has announced the grand opening of a new section of Legacy Lakes in Aberdeen, NC named The Preserve at Legacy Lakes. The official grand opening celebration will take place over three days from May 4-6, 2018. The grand opening events will take place at three of the newly built homes in... - April 18, 2018 - McKee Homes
Mascot Books Has Announced the Debut Children's Book from Local Raleigh Author, Kristin Lacy-Locklear Greene
Mascot Books announces the release of "The Ogurt Shop" by Kristin LL Greene. - April 18, 2018 - Kristin Greene, Author The Ogurt Shop
Acquire Supports Dress for Success Organization and Attends Fashion Show
Since returning to the Raleigh market last year, Acquire has gained a reputation for being involved in the surrounding community. Most recently, they attended the first annual Unveil Fashion Show & Benefit sponsored by Gilded Bridal and Vidrio in support of Dress for Success. The fashion show... - April 12, 2018 - Acquire
Walter Finnigan, John Maxwell Team Speaker Trainer Coach of LEAF Advising Interviewed for Master Leadership Podcast
LEAF Advising is excited to be on the following leadership podcast www.masterleadership.org/podcast. This podcast has just been released and is available to listeners. The masterleadership.org/podcast focuses on leadership and is geared toward leaders in all realms. Walter Finnigan of LEAF... - April 04, 2018 - LEAF Advising
Horizon Health Fund Goes Live at Health First
New Patient Financing Option to be Offered to Health First Patients - April 03, 2018 - Horizon Health Fund
New Product - ApexSQL Job 2018 Released
ApexSQL Job 2018, a powerful database administration tool used for SQL Server Agent job management on multiple servers, has been released. - March 30, 2018 - ApexSQL software
Dell Client Command Suite Can Save Administrative Time for Desktop Fleets, Principled Technologies Finds
Principled Technologies investigated how using Dell Client Command Suite to interface with Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) can affect the total time and effort required for administrators to manage a pool of desktop devices. - March 29, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
PT Explores the Scalability of a Software-Defined Storage Solution Using Container-Native Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and HGST Ultrastar Storage
For a new proof-of-concept study, Principled Technologies (PT) set up Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Container-Native Storage and performed a series of hands-on scalability tests. They determined that depending on the types of workloads companies run in this environment, both the new Ultrastar SS200 solid-state drive and the HGST Ultrastar He10 hard drive can be effective storage choices. - March 20, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Acquire Sets Up Shop in Midtown Plaza in North Hills
Acquire has returned to the Raleigh, NC Market and is on the verge of completing the construction at their new office, on the 12th floor of the brand new building in North Hills. - March 13, 2018 - Acquire
Charles & Colvard Collaborates with Leading Points to Launch Exclusive Program for Military Customers
Military Exclusive pricing for our Heroes and their Families. - March 08, 2018 - Leading Points Corporation
John Maxwell and His Team Deliver Strategic Leadership Development Tools for Costa Rican Transformation at Request of Costa Rican President
John C. Maxwell and his team of certified international coaches, volunteers and leaders, including Walter Finnigan local certified coach and founder of LEAF Advising, are converging on San Jose, Costa Rica at the invitation of President Luis Guillermo Solis. This special delegation will conduct a... - March 08, 2018 - LEAF Advising
The John Maxwell Team Global Youth Initiative to Serve Youth Across the Globe. International Event Held in North Carolina.
Half a million young people will be served this coming October through The John Maxwell Team Global Youth Initiative. The series of events is being held world wide April 1, 2018 through April 30, 2018. - March 08, 2018 - LEAF Advising
Smart Water Technology Innovator Supports Fix a Leak Week
March 19 Begins EPA-WaterSense Awareness Week to Prevent Water Waste - March 07, 2018 - FloLogic
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release WebXPRT 3, a Free Online Performance Evaluation Tool for Web-Enabled Devices
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release WebXPRT 3, a performance evaluation tool that shows how well web-connected devices handle everyday browser tasks. - February 27, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Measures the Time Required for the Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 to Complete Common Tasks Compared to Traditional Conferencing Platforms
In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that the Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 enabled testers to complete common meeting tasks like creating meetings in up to 89% less time compared to two traditional conferencing platforms, Citrix GoToMeeting and Cisco WebEx. Annually, the time saved on creating meetings could be worth up to $193 per employee, helping companies improve their productivity while employees focus on strategic tasks that improve the bottom line. - February 16, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
The Select Group Wins Inavero’s 2018 Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award
Diamond Award winners have won the Best of Staffing Award for at least 5 years in a row, consistently earning industry-leading satisfaction scores from their clients. - February 16, 2018 - The Select Group
Principled Technologies Releases Report Showing the Time Savings for IT When Organizations Choose to Use ProDeploy for Enterprise from Dell EMC
In a hands-on comparison, a Dell EMC-certified engineer installed and configured a new Dell EMC solution faster and more efficiently than an in-house administrator. - February 13, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Alive Again Ministries Offers Treatment for Addiction for Girls with Life Controlling Issues
Alive Again Ministry is a Christian organization that operates a beautiful home serving 12 girls at any one-time, teaching them life skills, spiritual healing, and biblical love. The program engages the girls with a healthy diet, exercise and counseling for a period of one year. - February 08, 2018 - Alive Again Ministries
Principled Technologies Releases a Video Showing How and Why NCSU Students Created a User-Friendly Interface for a New AI Performance Evaluation Tool
Four computer science majors at North Carolina State University (NC State) worked with the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community during their senior project and created an intuitive AIXPRT user interface. - February 07, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Publishes Report Comparing Three-Year Total Cost of Ownership of an On-Premises Dell EMC PowerEdge FX2 Solution to Amazon Web Services
In hands-on testing and analysis, PT found that an on-premises Dell EMC PowerEdge FX2 solution powered by Intel processed big data workloads faster than an AWS solution and could cost less over three years. - February 06, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Compares Management of an On-Premises Dell EMC Private Cloud Solution to Management of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Cloud
In hands-on testing, PT found that completing several management tasks on a Dell EMC PowerEdge FX2 private cloud solution required similar time but an average of 34 percent fewer steps compared to an AWS public cloud. Staying on-premises with a Dell EMC private cloud also allows datacenter administrators to use familiar VMware software and retain control of security implementation. - February 06, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Server Migration with Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials to a Manual Approach
In hands-on testing, PT found that using Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials profile mobility to migrate stateless 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers could save hands-on administrator time. - February 02, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Martial Artist Achieves National Success
Jessie Bowen for the 2nd year received International Honors from Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors on Saturday, January 26, 2018, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Action Martial Arts Magazine and Hall of Honors is the largest Hall of Fame in the world with over 1500 people in attendance. - February 02, 2018 - Jessie Bowen
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Responsiveness of a Dell OptiPlex 7050 Micro with and Without Intel Optane Memory
In hands-on testing, PT found that the Dell OptiPlex 7050 Micro upgraded with Intel Optane memory had faster restart, application launch, and file copy times compared to the same system without Intel Optane memory. - February 01, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
An Intel Pentium N4200 Processor-Powered Chromebook Could Save Time on Creative Tasks, Principled Technologies Study Finds
In hands-on tests, an Intel Pentium N4200 processor-powered Chromebook saved time rendering and exporting video, merging audio tracks, and more compared to a MediaTek M8173C processor-powered Chromebook. - February 01, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
New Product - ApexSQL VM Monitor 2018 Released
ApexSQL VM Monitor 2018 - an agentless virtualization monitoring tool that supports monitoring of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi hypervisors - has been released. - January 23, 2018 - ApexSQL software
Autumn & Avery Places 3rd in the 2017 Best New Clothing Store by Cary Magazine
Autumn & Avery Clothing Boutique is the premier clothing and accessories boutique located at Parkside Town Commons in Cary, North Carolina. The company also recently launched an online store, www.autumnandavery.com. The company, which opened in September 2017, has just received its first award... - January 16, 2018 - Autumn & Avery
Principled Technologies Publishes Report Explaining How Choosing Newer Intel Xeon Processors for an IBM Cloud and VMware Cloud Foundation Solution Can Help Ecommerce Data
In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that choosing Intel Xeon processors E5-2650 v4 for VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud can help businesses process more transactional database orders per minute than a similar solution powered by Intel Xeon processors E5-2650 v3. - January 12, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Triangle Real Estate Group Grows Presence in North Carolina with New Affiliation with ERA Real Estate
Triangle Real Estate Group, an established and locally owned real estate firm, announces today their new affiliation with the international and tech-savvy franchise, ERA Real Estate. The firm, which has another office in Durham, will now do business as ERA Triangle Real Estate Group. - January 11, 2018 - ERA Triangle Real Estate Group
EasyVote Solutions Named GovTech 100 Company for 2018
Provider of election management software recognized as top technology company, helping to improve the public sector. - January 09, 2018 - EasyVote Solutions Inc
PT Proves That Many Classroom Tasks Take Less Time with a Chromebook Powered by an Intel Core i3 Processor Than with a Chromebook with an Arm Rockchip Processor
Preparing a print preview with an Intel Core i3-6100U processor-powered Chromebook enabled Principled Technologies to save over a minute compared to a Chromebook powered by an Arm Rockchip processor. - January 02, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Jodi Bakst, Broker Owner of Real Estate Experts, Earns Designation in Global Real Estate Network
Jodi Bakst, Broker Owner of Real Estate Experts located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has earned the Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation, placing her among 3,500 elite real estate professionals in over 45 countries. The designation was awarded to her by the National... - December 28, 2017 - Real Estate Experts
Principled Technologies Finds That Chromebooks Powered by Intel Celeron N3450 Processors Can Save Time Doing Media-Focused Classroom Tasks
Media-focused tasks such as encoding a video took less time to complete on an Intel Celeron N3450 processor-powered Chromebook than on a MediaTek processor-based Chromebook. - December 21, 2017 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Publishes Report Showing How Upgrading to HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 Compute Modules Can Help Companies Save on OpEx
In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that new HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 Compute Modules could do more database work than older HPE BladeSystems, allowing companies to save on software support and licensing costs. - December 15, 2017 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Conducts Proof-of-Concept Study of AMD EPYC Processor-Powered Servers Running Apache Spark for Big Data Analysis
In hands-on testing, PT used Apache Spark with AMD EPYC processor-powered servers to demonstrate the solution’s data analysis performance. - November 30, 2017 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Proof-of-Concept Study Measured VM Density on a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Solution Powered by the AMD EPYC 7601 Processor
In hands-on testing, a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct cluster featuring the AMD EPYC 7601 processor supported 192 VMs in 6U. Each VM processed the same amount of IOPS as the Microsoft Azure P15 Premium Managed Disk while keeping average host CPU utilization low. - November 29, 2017 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
New Major Release - ApexSQL Log 2018
ApexSQL Log 2018, an auditing and recovery tool for SQL Server databases that reads database transaction logs and audits, reverts, or replays data and object changes affecting the database - has been released. - November 29, 2017 - ApexSQL software
Heather Glen Grand Opening and Open House by McKee Homes
McKee Homes has announced the grand opening of their new model home in Heather Glen located in Raleigh, NC off Jordan Road near Ten-Ten Road, just minutes from Lake Benson in Garner. The grand opening event will take place at the newly built model home in Heather Glen at 1000 Sky Wave Trail,... - November 28, 2017 - McKee Homes
Less Than One Month Before ACA Deadline: What do North Carolinians Need to Know?
North Carolinians only have one month to enroll or re-enroll in quality, affordable health coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. The fifth open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ends December 15. During this open enrollment period, uninsured North Carolinians are able to select plans that fit their needs and budgets on the Marketplace. - November 17, 2017 - NC Get Covered
Palmer’s Preserve at Mid South Club Grand Opening
McKee Homes just announced the grand opening of their new Palmer’s Preserve community at Mid South Club in Southern Pines, NC. Mid South Club is a gated community with 24-hour security and the amenities of a world-class golf resort. The newly remodeled Clubhouse has everything you could want, including a pro shop, card room and dining room with bar. The grand opening event will take place at the newly built model home in Palmer’s Preserve at 104 Plantation Drive, Southern Pines, NC. - November 17, 2017 - McKee Homes
New Product - ApexSQL Enforce 2018 Released
ApexSQL Enforce 2018, a best practices enforcement tool for SQL Server database objects and scripts, has been released. - November 16, 2017 - ApexSQL software
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Database Workload Performance of the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN to Two Competitors
In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution running a VMware vSAN environment delivered more database operations per minute (OPM) and shorter response times than comparable Cisco UCS and HPE Synergy solutions. - November 12, 2017 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
NCAA-Licensed Commemorative UNC Basketball Backboard Now on Sale
College Championship Slam (CCS), a partnership headquartered in Arizona, where the NCAA basketball championship was held earlier this year, has released a limited-edition UNC-branded basketball backboard, hoop and ball to commemorate UNC's victory. This first-ever backboard licensed by the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) is available online at www.collegechampionshipslam.com, and will be distributed locally through a Charlotte-based distribution center. - November 11, 2017 - Denise Meridith
Baebies Announces Completion of $10 Million Series B Financing
Innovative Newborn Screening and Pediatric Testing Company Ships 2 Millionth Test - October 31, 2017 - Baebies, Inc.