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20th October 2008 Archive

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  • Symantec gives 3PAR helping hand

    Giant pushes fat-to-thin process

    It turns out 3PAR needed a bit of help to get its fat-to-thin process working properly. The latest T-class InServ storage array has clever hardware that turns an incoming fat volume into a thin one. This means that if you migrate a storage volume from some other array that does not have thin provisioning - a fat volume - then …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 09:10

  • French police probe Sarkozy bank fraud

    Zut alors!

    French police are on the hunt for fraudsters who siphoned off money from the personal bank account of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The French head of state has filed a criminal complaint about unauthorised withdrawls from his account. News of the theft, which reportedly took place last month and involved modest amounts of …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2008, 09:44

  • The IBM DS5000: Best in a field of one

    IBM array comes top in IBM commissioned tests

    IBM's DS5300 storage array is in a class of one when serving virtual machines in a pair of VMware servers. Terrific results look great, especially when no one else has run the test, so you are absolutely guaranteed to be the winner. That's what IBM has done by commissioning ESG to run a new test for its DS5300 array serving a …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 09:46

  • Toshiba eyes co-owned SanDisk Japanese Flash factories

    Get your mitts off, Samsung

    Toshiba wants to buy SanDisk's share of the two firms' jointly owned Japanese manufacturing facilities, it has been claimed. The finger has been pointed at Samsung's attempt to acquire SanDisk, Japanese-language newspaper Nikkei reports, with Toshiba apparently unwilling to let its rival acquire a stake in the Flash memory …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 09:48

  • Goodbye to physical Fibre Channel

    Analysis FC is being killed by SAS and FCoE

    Here's a thought: Fibre Channel has begun its death march, with physical fabrics under notice from FCoE, and FC-interface hard drives under notice from SAS. You might not agree, but here's the argument in favour: Internal array Fibre Channel Currently Fibre Channel (FC) has four main incarnations, hardware and software inside …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 10:37

  • Holy f**k, Microsoft covers up ‘undesired’ words

    Patents new audio censoring software

    Microsoft has gained patent rights to a technology for censoring speech. An automatic censoring filter, available in real-time mode or a batch mode, processes an input audio data stream containing speech and then alters “undesired words or phrases” to make them “unintelligible or inaudible”. The software giant was awarded …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2008, 11:08

  • SanDisk's NAND flash white knight

    Toshiba deal could help keep Samsung at bay

    SanDisk is gaining $1bn from a Toshiba manufacturing capacity purchase deal to help prod unwanted bidder Samsung into raising its bid price. At least, that's one interpretation of a pretty darn opaque deal. The NAND flash market is over-supplied and prices have fallen, suppliers have made lots of losses, and Samsung has seized …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 17:26

  • AMD co-founder Ed Turney dies

    Obituary Death of a chip salesman

    Ed Turney, a co-founder of AMD responsible for building the company's first sales team, died Wednesday in Cupertino California. He was 79. The cause was brain cancer, his brother George said in a statement. Born March 26, 1929, Turney joined the US Navy at the age of 18 after graduating high school. He was trained as an …

    PC Builder 20 Oct 2008, 18:27

  • SEC taps Scalent for disaster recovery

    Economic recovery another matter

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - in charge of regulating the stock and options exchanges and enforcing the securities laws of the land - is worried about recovering from more than one kind of disaster. While the economic disaster looms large in our minds these days, the SEC's techies have also been worried about …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2008, 18:38

  • Intel slices (few) chip prices

    Waiting for Nehalem

    Intel cut prices on desktop and server chips over the weekend. The desktop price cuts come as Intel gets ready to ship the first of its next-generation 'Nehalem' processors, which will sport a new microarchitecture and offer significant performance enhancements thanks to a new chip interconnection scheme that replaces the now- …

    PC Builder 20 Oct 2008, 19:14

  • Apple and Psystar enter out-of-court counseling

    Judge lowers cone of silence on Mac clone scrap

    Before Apple and Psystar take their fight over Mac clones to court, the two must first attempt to work out their legal scrape with private mediation. The companies have agreed to participate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) under court orders, according to filings turned up by The Mac Observer. The two have been …

    PC Builder 20 Oct 2008, 21:13

  • Circuit City mulls mass layoffs, store closures

    Call it urban decay

    Circuit City may lay off thousands of workers and shut down at least 150 stores to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources as saying the second-largest US consumer electronics retailer is considering the culling as a way to get through the holiday season. …

    IT Channel 20 Oct 2008, 22:43

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