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15th January 2007 Archive

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  • SMBs offered virtually cheap disaster recovery

    DataCore repackages storage for invisible data replication

    DataCore has introduced two sub-£5000 disaster recovery and business continuity software packages for small and mid-sized businesses. They're based on the company's existing storage virtualisation software, and let you mirror data between two sets of storage via an IP network, even over long distances. "The reason people like …

    Enterprise 15 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • Intel's Flash cache module wins PCIe thumbs-up

    Stage set for Robson's Centrino debut

    Intel's 'Robson' Flash cache module for Windows Vista notebooks has won the approval of the PCI SIG, the organisation behind the PCI Express interconnect standard, it has emerged. PCI SIG approval usually comes as a product enters the last stretch before its release, in this case the anticipated Q2 debut of 'Santa Rosa', the …

    PC Builder 15 Jan 2007, 11:36

  • HP bundles business desktop with free country

    Remarkable Computacenter deal

    Those readers who are on the lookout for a new business desktop should get themselves down to Computacenter where HP is making the most remarkable offer we've ever seen: Yup, you don't get a monitor with your Business Desktop dc5100, but they throw in Italy for nothing. A word of warning, though: buyers are advised to check …

    IT Channel 15 Jan 2007, 12:51

  • FBI warns of assassin spam scam twist

    Probe fairytale targets gullible

    The FBI is warning of a new twist in the saga of scam emails that suggest a "hitman" is on the trail of the recipients. The original scam promised prospective marks that the killer would cancel the contract providing the recipient paid large sums of loot, typically $80,000. Unknown scammers (probably the same group, but that' …

    Software & Security 15 Jan 2007, 12:53

  • Mac gets first RAID storage server

    iPhone? Pah!

    A small Minneapolis firm showed off what it claims is the first enterprise level RAID storage for Mac OS X systems at MacWorld last week. Amid the iPhone hyperbole, Storage Elements demonstrated its unified iSCSI/fibre channel Mythos storage server. CEO Brad Wenzel said: "We've been working in the field a long time and we've …

    Enterprise 15 Jan 2007, 13:38

  • Open source is good for the economy: report

    Worth €2bn a year

    Europe's lawmakers should "correct" policies that "implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC). The EC commissioned Netherlands based UNU-MERIT to investigate the "economic impact of "FLOSS"* in Europe". The researchers found open …

    Software & Security 15 Jan 2007, 15:36

  • MI5 security alert finally runs on secure server

    Rush job patched up

    MI5's terror status mailing list has been made a little more secure even though the service has still not been moved onto a fully secure UK government-run infrastructure. The service, launched by MI5 last Tuesday, is designed to allow subscribers to receive email notification of changing national security threat levels by email …

    Software & Security 15 Jan 2007, 15:45

  • Could invisibility beat encryption?

    Canadians add cloaking device to Windows files

    PCMesh has unveiled software which it claims can hide any Windows file or directory, not only from other users - or thieves - of the same PC, but even from the operating system or a virus. "Data that's protected by PCMesh Hide Files and Folders is not visible, so it can't be attacked," the company claimed. "In fact, the …

    Software & Security 15 Jan 2007, 15:49

  • Fact, fiction or bioterror drill? How to cook up a ricin scare

    Take one reservoir, two tons ricin mash, stir vigorously

    We Yanks love to be scared. The more scared we can be, the better. The Effect of Bioterrorism Messages on Anxiety Levels, a recent article in a peer-reviewed health quarterly, put a point to it. Those covering the science of terror beat in the United States have known for a bit that the mainstream media's uncritical transmission …

    Software & Security 15 Jan 2007, 17:48

  • PCI Express 2.0 released

    Twice the bandwidth

    The PCI SIG, overseer of the PCI Express add-in card standard, has finalised version 2.0 of the base specification. The new released doubles the signalling rate from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps. The upshot: a x16 connector can transfer data at up to around 16GBps. PCIe 2.0 remains compatible with PCIe 1.1, until now, the latest version …

    PC Builder 15 Jan 2007, 17:53