26th March 2007 Archive

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Rackable goes after Sun's white trash data center biz

Meet Concentro

Rackable Systems has signed on as a willing participant in the white trash data center movement. CTOs everywhere can slap on their wife beaters, hop in a flatbed truck, and head over to Rackable's Milpitas headquarters to pick up a Concentro. Rackable's new system packs up to 1,200 two-socket servers into a standard 40' x 8' …

Enterprise 26 Mar 2007, 08:39
How green is my vendor?

Not very, in many cases

Environmental issues are becoming a big concern for those involved in managing IT and communications. You can tell this because just about every other supplier is touting their green credentials. Often they have only reduced their power consumption by a fraction of a megawatt, run an electric shuttle bus to their out of town …

IT Channel 26 Mar 2007, 09:50
Relisys has stopped trading, administrator confirms

Went into administration on 21 March

Begbies Traynor released a statement late on Friday confirming that monitor maker Relisys Digital went into administration on 21 March 2007. Simon Thomas of Begbies Traynor, joint administrator alongside David Hudson working on the Relisys case, said: "It has not been possible to continue to trade the business due to its …

PC Builder 26 Mar 2007, 09:57
PC World repair job leaves family seeing blue

'Brand-spanking new' hard-drive contained animal porn

PC World is at the centre of a row after animal porn was found on a hard drive installed during a repair to an 11 year-old's laptop According to a report in the Dundee-based Courier, Kenneth Morris was playing games on his repaired Philips laptop when graphic images of a woman and a dog popped up on the screen. Kenneth's …

IT Channel 26 Mar 2007, 12:39
Mozilla: security researchers have too much power

Time ain't on their side

Mozilla's security chief has stepped into the debate about the disclosure of security bugs by saying that software developers are at the mercy of bug hunters. Mozilla security chief Window Snyder called on security researchers to follow responsible disclosure guidelines, giving vendors a reasonable amount of time to fix bugs …

Software & Security 26 Mar 2007, 12:55
Foundry launches high density WLANs

Forges capacity and security boost

Foundry Networks has launched wireless Lan (WLAN) access points and software to help increase the capacity and security of enterprise wireless networks, and has added a new location management offering. This combination is aimed to help run services such as VoIP and location tracking on a single 802.11 infrastructure. …

PC Builder 26 Mar 2007, 13:01
Ericsson deals blow to unified 4G dream

Comment Pulls out of WiMAX

Ericsson was never going to welcome WiMAX, given its potential cannibalisation of the Swedish giant's strongest market, UMTS/HSPA, but it was mellowing towards the technology last year as it sought to diversify its customer base and be less dependent on cellcos, moving towards multi-network convergence and managed services for …

PC Builder 26 Mar 2007, 13:37
Intel chooses China for new chip plant

Washington chooses howls of protest

Intel has announced plans to build a $2.5bn wafer fabrication plant in China. In what is seen by many as a politically significant shift in strategy towards high-tech exports, the move into the growing Chinese market looks set to ruffle some feathers in Washington. The Financial Times reports that Congress is said to be …

PC Builder 26 Mar 2007, 14:29
Image spam fattens junk mail

Does my bum look big in this?

The bandwidth occupied by spam is increasing as spammers punt products with pictures or graphics instead of just text. Email filtering firm SoftScan said on Monday that the average size of a spam message has increased from 6.62Kb to 11.76Kb (a rise of 77 per cent) since September last year with no sign of a let-up. Although …

Software & Security 26 Mar 2007, 15:19
Nvidia launches nForce 680i LT SLI chipset

Nvidia has rolled out a cut-down version of its nForce 680i SLI top-of-the-line chipset for Intel processors. The new logic's key differentiator from its parent product: Nvidia's reduced the maximum clock speed of SLI-specific memory. The nForce 680i SLI can automatically overclock SLI-certified memory modules to 1,200MHz. …

PC Builder 26 Mar 2007, 15:28
Fayrewood sells shares in ComputerLinks

Expects healthy proceeds

Computer hardware and software distributor Fayrewood plc has today sold its shares in ComputerLinks AG. Fayrewood owned 27.47 per cent of ComputerLinks AG, a European value-added distributor of computer security products. The firm said that the net proceeds from the sale are expected to be €27.4m, having traded at €13.55 …

IT Channel 26 Mar 2007, 15:59
Rival bid forced EMC to 'pay too much' for RSA - CEO

How do you define gouged?

After devouring more than 20 companies since 2003, storage company EMC has a half-billion dollar tummy-ache. At a media briefing in Sydney, EMC CEO Joe Tucci admitted last week to overspending on the company's $2.1bn acquisition of RSA. When pushed on the RSA buy, Tucci said, "Well I probably did (overspend), but what’s the …

Enterprise 26 Mar 2007, 19:09
SANS to certify programmers for security nous

SANS of time

The SANS Institute has assembled a coalition of security vendors to create a secure coding assessment and certification exam for programmers. Several specialist computer security courses has been established on either side of the Atlantic but the SANS scheme has a different aim, helping general programmers to avoid common …

Software & Security 26 Mar 2007, 19:49
NEC and Stratus find fault tolerance with each other

Four-core Xeon box gets hard

NEC and Stratus have made good on their intellectual property marriage, pumping out a new, beefier fault-tolerant server. Starting in June, customers can purchase the NEC Express5800/320Fc and the Stratus ftServer 6200 systems. The two-socket servers will run on Intel's four-core version of Xeon code-named 'Clovertown' and work …

Enterprise 26 Mar 2007, 20:51
Sun's dim grid a developer thang now

Clickle me, Elmo

Three years into its grand supercomputer rental experiment, Sun Microsystems has found that developers, developers, developers have more interest in the program than big spending businesses. Sun indicated as much two weeks ago by announcing so-called “click and run” support for its Network.com service. Customers can select …

Enterprise 26 Mar 2007, 22:58
Vista's long goodbye

Deleting files can take forever

Windows Vista suffers from a bug that causes many machines to stall while deleting, copying and moving files, a flaw that has provoked consternation in online forums. "I've seen this bug in action, and trust me, it's as if you're copying over a 64k link using only 256mb of RAM," one Reg reader complained. "To add to the problem …

Software & Security 26 Mar 2007, 23:57