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3rd June 2009 Archive

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  • Sun rallies mobile faithful to simplified Java tests

    JavaOne Once more, with feeling

    Sun Microsystems and mobile partners are taking another stab at portability of Java applications as Apple, Google, and Research in Motion threaten to set de-facto standards. Together with France Telecom and Orange, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone, Sun announced the Java Application Terminal Alignment Framework ( …

    Software & Security 3 Jun 00:56

  • Xandros - the Linux company that isn't

    'Users don't care about Linux'

    Xandros has spent the better part of a decade trying to take Linux to the masses and build itself up as a serious contender in the commercial Linux racket. And now, after the advent of Linux-based netbooks and an evolving new class of devices that are being dubbed smartbooks, Xandros is getting another chance at going mainstream …

    Software & Security 3 Jun 01:07

  • BakBone's SMB continuous data protection

    A cure for slipped disks

    BakBone has introduced a new continuous data protection product called NetVault FASTRecover, saying it will eliminate backup windows and recovers Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows File server data in as little as 30 seconds. This is a similar system to NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector (NVRDP), which provided 30-second, …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 03:13

  • Brocade gets HP HBA support

    But can't see any for CNA

    HP has added another brick to Brocade's wall by qualifying its host bus adapters with ProLiant servers, along with MSA and EVA drive arrays. HP will also ship Brocade's Fibre Channel over Ethernet switch. This HP support combines with an earlier IBM qualification to substantially strengthen Brocade's HBA offer. The HBA market …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 07:02

  • Yahoo! snaps up top NetApp PR bod

    The Brown Exclamation

    NetApp's senior director for corporate relations, Eric Brown, is off to sprinkle some special PR magic at Yahoo!. That's according to the WSJ which reports Brown will run Yahoo's corporate PR, reporting to Elisa Steele, chief marketing officer at Yahoo. Steele worked at NetApp from May 2005 to March this year as an SVP for …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 09:53

  • Who's afraid of the SOA police?

    Comment Just do it

    We heard a lot of talk a few months ago about about the death of service oriented architecture (SOA). This was mainly by the kind of pundits who had over-hyped it in the first place. Since then, we have seen various rebuttals to the claims that were made, but a degree of uncertainty about the status and role of SOA persists. So …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 10:02

  • EMC prevails over HP in job switch trial

    Donatelli locked out of storage for a year

    A California court has ruled that David Donatelli can't look after the storage part of his intended tripartite job for one year. Servers and networking are okay though. David Donatelli suddenly left EMC, where he ran its storage array business, in April to join HP and become its EVP for Enterprise Servers, Storage and …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 10:14

  • Second iteration of Windows Server 2008 due in October

    Maintenance droid counterpart to Windows 7

    Microsoft confirmed yesterday it was on track to spin out Windows Server 2008 R2 this autumn. The software giant buried the announcement among the Windows 7 release hoopla on Tuesday, when it said Microsoft’s upcoming operating system would be generally available on 22 October. Additionally, the company said it was aiming to …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 12:11

  • NetApp ups bid for Data Domain

    Equals EMC's $30/share

    NetApp has revised its bid for Data Domain, lifting its offer to $30/share in cash and stock. Yesterday EMC trumped NetApp's original $1.5bn cash and stock bid with its own, unsolicited, $30/share, $1.8bn all-cash bid. NetApp values its bid at $1.9bn, net of Data Domain's cash. The new bid is comprised of $16.45/share in cash …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 12:53

  • Microsoft takes hard line on Win 7 hardware

    Flexes Windows 7 muscles in your face!

    Just one day on from confirming that Windows 7 will arrive on 22 October, Microsoft has begun punting “exclusive” hardware features for its operating system. In order to entice customers to buy computer peripherals produced down at the Redmond ranch, Microsoft is promising its hardware devices will be compatible with the …

    PC Builder 3 Jun 15:02

  • Data Domain bid war: Could NetApp go higher?

    Comment Hanging onto the balloon

    Could NetApp go higher than its $1.9bn Data Domain bid if EMC raises its offer? Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers writes in an investor briefing today: "Our conversations with Dan Warmenhoven, NetApp's CEO, last week would not discount that other potential bidders could surface – though we admittedly did not expect EMC to …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 15:35

  • Tukwila Itanium delay situation still as clear as mud

    Poulson and Kittson allegedly still on track

    Two weeks ago, when Intel once again delayed its quad-core "Tukwila" Itanium processors until early 2010, the company did not give much insight into what the delay was about. It also said nothing about how the continuing delays with Tukwila would affect future Itanium processor rollouts. Like many of you, I have been trying to …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 16:02

  • Moblin Linux boosters go global

    Computex The world versus Google

    Intel continues to push the adoption of the open-source Moblin Version 2 mobile operating system, today using the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan as its bully pulpit. At the mammoth trade show, Intel hosted a Moblin Executive Summit to trumpet "the growing ecosystem momentum behind Moblin and demonstrate the richness of the …

    Software & Security 3 Jun 20:08

  • Cisco punts not-so-unified rack servers

    California boxes ship end of June

    So much for that whole argument that networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems is only interested in selling a closed, proprietary stack of hardware and system software known as "California" and branded the Unified Computing System. Today, with the launch of free-standing rack servers, Cisco moved to annex (in spirit) …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 21:18

  • Data Domain shareholders to judge beauty contest

    EMC cash or NetApp stock?

    EMC has not raised its bid for Data Domain after NetApp's revised $1.9bn offer, saying the EMC all-cash proposal of $30/share is superior to NetApp's part-stock offer. Joe Tucci, EMC's Chairman, President and CEO, said: "EMC's all-cash tender offer remains superior to NetApp's proposed part-stock merger transaction. We are …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 22:10

  • Verizon sends compute cloud over US, Europe

    Mamma CaaS

    Verizon Business, the application hosting and outsourcing arm of the U.S. telecom giant bearing the same first name, today announced its foray into cloud computing, giving us yet another ugly acronym, CaaS, short for computing as a service. The CaaS offering from Verizon takes x64 server from Hewlett-Packard and slaps VMware's …

    Enterprise 3 Jun 22:23

  • Microsoft renames netbooks 'low cost small notebook PCs'

    Rolls off the tongue, donnit?

    Just when we thought the whole "netbook" terminology mess was sorted out properly, the PC industry gives its wheel of marketing whale song another spin. Fresh out of the Computex show in Taipei are two - count 'em, two - fresh new names for small, cheap computers. Folks, toss out your netbooks, ultrathins, subnotebooks, mini- …

    PC Builder 3 Jun 22:29

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