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16th September 2008 Archive

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  • Tandberg's RDX blockbuster

    Major success on its hands

    Tandberg Data looks to have a major success in waiting on its hands with the ProStor RDX QuikStor product - 90,000 drive docks have been sold in less than two years. ProStor's RDX is a removable cartridge containing a 2.5-inch notebook hard drive, up to 500GB in capacity, in a ruggedised case. It is slotted into an internal or …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 07:28

  • IBM shrinks virtual desktop storage

    Joins 3PAR and LeftHand Networks

    IBM is adding a space-efficient virtual desktop image storage capability to its thin client Virtual Infrastructure Access (VIA) services today, as part of its addition of VMware virtual desktops to existing support for Windows, Unix, and Linux, and mainframe application access. VIA, announced in February this year, is a …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 10:15

  • Riverbed claims it will de-dupe primary storage

    Dam that data flood

    "Hey you storage vendors, listen up. We're gonna tell you how to deduplicate primary data." That's the message given out at Riverbed's Vision Day for financial analysts on Monday. The startling premise of Riverbed's in-development Atlas appliances is that you can strip out up to 90 per cent of the data stored in data centres …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 10:32

  • VMware sets off another storage bomb

    We'll do storage management in ESX please

    VMware asserted its prime place at the front of the storage management line yesterday when it announced vStorage API set along with its virtual data centre operating system (VDC-OS). It is banking on these announcements at the opening of its VMworld conference yesterday putting it to the fore in becoming the location for …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 11:12

  • Lenovo slips into jam-packed SMB server market

    Uses Big Blue tech to rival Big Blue

    Chinese computer maker Lenovo is bigging up its newfound love for all things server-shaped with today’s announcement about its new ThinkServer product line. The company inked a licensing agreement with IBM at the start of this year to make and sell a range of x86 servers. At the time Lenovo was clearly making a play for the …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 12:56

  • Dell falls hard on 'soft' sales

    That's gotta hurt

    Dell shares fell 8.3 per cent in early Wall Street trading today after the firm warned investors that it would see a “further softening” in computer sales this quarter. The vendor said in a short – though not sweet – statement that following on from its sobering Q2 fiscal results last month that Dell “is seeing further …

    PC Builder 16 Sep 2008, 14:25

  • Ingram slashes profit outlook on soft market

    Business went on holiday and never came back

    Ingram Micro cast its own little shadow of financial doom today when it slashed its profit forecast after the market softness it had seen in July and August had persisted into September. The IT distributor had said back in July that it hoped to make sales of between $8.5bn and $8.8bn and net income of $52m to $61m in the third …

    IT Channel 16 Sep 2008, 16:00

  • Unisys to craft its own X64 server virtualization

    Why not? Everybody's doing it

    Unisys says it will create its own brand of server virtualization on the Xeon Monster server it launched this week with partner NEC as well as supporting hypervisors from Microsoft and VMware. The mainframe and X64 server maker expects to deliver this virtualization in early 2009. The Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R server …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 16:31

  • Cray, Intel, and Microsoft birth baby supercomputer

    Gigaflops for mom and pop shops

    Supercomputer maker Cray today announced a new desk-side, low-end, bladed office supercomputer in conjunction with chip partner Intel and software partner Microsoft. The new CX1 supercomputer is the first product to come to market after Cray tapped Intel as its future strategic chip supplier, dissing long-time chip partner …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 18:25

  • Cisco gives virtual servers virtual networking

    Plays nice with VMware

    Cisco has announced a virtual Ethernet switch running as a virtual machine (VM) under ESX that enables VMs to move from server to server and take their Ethernet connections with them. It is just one in a raft of Cisco announcements focusing on virtual and consolidated data centres under its Data Centre 3.0 umbrella. Cisco's VN …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 19:12

  • Mario and Eee PC Girl bust Best Buy profits

    Not a bad way to drop the bottom line...

    Best Buy's bottom line dipped lower than it anticipated for the second quarter, due to expansion and more folks purchasing less profitable wares such as notebook computers and video game consoles. But the slump was somewhat smoothed by strong sales from its lucrative mobile phone biz. America's top electronics retailer …

    IT Channel 16 Sep 2008, 19:15

  • NEC, Appro ink supercomputing pact

    High performance among friends

    Sometimes, when you want to take down a big kill, it takes more than one wolf to do the job. And so it is with specialists in the supercomputing market who are trying to make a stand against the incumbent and much richer general purpose server makers who have the lion's share of sales in the HPC space. One such specialist, …

    Enterprise 16 Sep 2008, 20:36

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