13th February 2008 Archive

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IBM updates oh-so-much storage gear

Big switch, array, disks, and birthday surprises

IBM's storage hardware lineup is getting a big ol' heap of upgrades. The meaty merchandise menagerie includes an OEM'd Brocade switch, a NetApp array, and upgrades to its archiving system and various disks. We'd like to think today's sweeping product roll-out is a salute to the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the beloved sixteenth …

Enterprise 13 Feb 00:05
Sun's UltraSPARC T2 goes flame-retardant

Netra: Now with 64 threads

Congratulations go out to Sun Microsystems for doing its best to make a new NEBS box seem exciting. Sun will ship you a NEBS server that supports 64 software threads, don't ya know. Telcos will now find the Sun Netra T5220 server. This system run on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processor, which has 8 cores and supports 8 threads per …

Enterprise 13 Feb 00:58
Amazon pooh-poohs (ingenious) New York net tax plan

Affiliates get physical

More than happy to let the people of New York avoid paying vast amounts of internet sales tax, Amazon.com has spoken out against a new net tax plan from Governor Eliot Spitzer. Back in November, The New York Sun leaked word that Spitzer was poised to roll out a clever new policy that would force big name e-tailers like Amazon …

IT Channel 13 Feb 01:08
Cash-burning Montalvo tapes out Silverthorne rival

Is Nvidia the SugarDaddyForMe?

Montalvo, Montalvo, Montalvo. Few chip start-ups without an actual product on the market have received so much attention. Those who know exactly what Montalvo Systems is up to remain sworn to secrecy. Still, some information has leaked out of the company's hidden lair, revealing that Montalvo hopes to release a low-power x86 …

PC Builder 13 Feb 02:17
Ruby runs on Rails with NetBeans

NetBeans and Ruby, part 2 Build a web application in minutes

Having limped along in the wake of Eclipse, Sun Microsystems' NetBeans is getting its second wind. One thing that's helping is a fresh focus on scripting, particularly around Ruby on Rails. In this piece, I shall show how well Ruby on Rails has been integrated into NetBeans using the creation of a very simple application as an …

Software & Security 13 Feb 07:19
Dell goes on EMEA channel deoffensive

Promises pricing harmony

Dell is to offer its nascent EMEA channel a pricing structure that it claims won’t pit partners and its internal sales team against one another. The company’s PartnerDirect programme kicked off Stateside in December last year, and now it's being launched in Europe, the Middle East and Africa too. In a teleconference yesterday …

IT Channel 13 Feb 08:02
Tools vendors stuck on UML and agility

Give us our refactoring moment

People sometimes do a double take when I talk about analysis, design and agility in the same sentence. And if I mention UML and agility, they spin round several times and fall over. At the expense of inviting a flurry of email replies for posing a rhetorical question, I have to ask: why? Aside from the analysis paralysis issue …

Software & Security 13 Feb 11:16
Morse shrugs off market uncertainty

Meets H1 expectations, confident on second half

IT services group Morse said it was unflustered by the turmoil rocking the financial markets as it unveiled its interim results today. The firm, which has recently been shedding its non-services businesses, turned in consolidated revenues of £123.8m for the period ending December 31, compared to £132.2m a year ago. Pre-tax …

IT Channel 13 Feb 11:26
Microsoft dishes out six critical updates

And a further five 'important' patches

Microsoft released eleven patches yesterday, with six of them meriting a critical rating. The critical updates affect the WebDAV Mini-Redirector, Object Linking and Embedding Automation, Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003, and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. They all focus on flaws in the …

Software & Security 13 Feb 11:30
Indian IT sector will employ 2m by end of 2008

Still running like a train

The Indian IT industry is on track to hit revenues of $64bn, up 33 per cent, by the end of this year and to employ some two million people. Figures from Nasscom - the National Association of Software and Service Companies - predict software and services exports will be worth $40bn, while domestic sales raise $23bn in the …

IT Channel 13 Feb 11:33
Murdoch taps HP boss for News Corp boardroom

Ink-stained veterans join hands

HP boss Mark Hurd has joined the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on the recommendation of the Silicon Valley veteran who blew the whistle on the 2006 journo spying scandal at the IT vendor. Hurd will serve on News Corp's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. His appointment was at the suggestion of VC giant Thomas …

IT Channel 13 Feb 11:35
Firefox 3 beta is live

Get 'em while they're hot, unstable and buggy

The Mozilla Corporation has released a beta version of Firefox 3 for download, but is warning it is not ready for "casual users" yet. You can get the browser here. It's available in 30 languages and claims several new features and improvements. The browser has architectural changes which should make page rendering quicker, …

Software & Security 13 Feb 12:07
Nokia parades recycled handset

The phone that's rubbish

A Nokia executive has shown off a concept handset made from recycled cans at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in Barcelona. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com During a keynote speech, the Finnish mobile phone giant's chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, pulled a silver clamshell handset …

Reg Hardware 13 Feb 12:30
HP latches onto Qualcomm's Gobi chipset

Mobile World Congress We don't need no stinking Wi-Fi

HP is to incorporate Qualcomm's Gobi chips into its laptops, supporting both CDMA and GSM 3G technologies and making Wi-Fi connectivity redundant. The Gobi chipset is designed to provide the international traveller with connectivity everywhere (or at least everywhere with 3G, except Japan) and, by reusing as many components as …

PC Builder 13 Feb 14:43
Sun will have data centers after all

Ignore our overzealous blogger

Sun Microsystems has returned to its senses and re-committed to having data centers. Brian Cinque, a Sun internal IT leader, made a name for himself last month by declaring that his company would cut its data centers in half by 2013 and then do away with internal IT systems altogether – like magic – by 2015. Would Sun buy …

Enterprise 13 Feb 19:45