19th June 2009 Archive

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Microsoft: 18-month Windows 7 downgrade rights

Not for all!

If you get a PC running Windows 7 but can't divorce yourself from Windows XP, Microsoft will give you 18 months to downgrade - not six. That's the line from Microsoft, which said that downgrade rights will be available from the date Windows 7 ships - October 22, 2009 - to April 1, 2011. Downgrades cover just two editions of …

Software & Security 19 Jun 01:22
SGI plays numbers game with 6120 storage box

Inexplicably named, self-contained storage appliance

SGI - the company that is the result of Rackable's mercy acquisition of Silicon Graphics International - is announcing a new storage product at next week's International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg. The box is the InfiniteStorage 6120, described as being "high-performance with best-in-class density and maximum …

Enterprise 19 Jun 09:44
Emulex cloud storage gateway revealed

Updated Through an unlikely EMC conduit

An EMC technical consultant blogger - Dave Graham - has revealed details of an Emulex SAN fabric cloud gateway concept. The ES3 conceptual device is a SAN fabric-resident entity that represents itself as virtual SAS or Fibre Channel disks to accessing host servers, and is just another volume I/O target in the SAN. However, …

Enterprise 19 Jun 10:23
NPfIT failed nine Gateway Reviews

You mean it actually passed some?

Nearly one third of the National Programme for IT's Gateway Reviews until 2007 produced a red status demand for immediate remedial action. Of 31 reviews produced by the Treasury's Office of Government Commerce and released under the Freedom of Information Act on 18 June 2009, nine had a red status, meaning "To achieve success …

Enterprise 19 Jun 12:51
Oracle kills Virtual Iron-ware

Exclusive 'Shafts' partners, customers

Little more than a month after acquiring Virtual Iron for an undisclosed fee, Oracle is effectively killing the company's virtualization product. In a letter to Virtual Iron's sales partners, Oracle says it "will suspend development of existing Virtual Iron products and will suspend delivery of orders to new customers." And in …

Enterprise 19 Jun 20:27
Oracle tried to sell Sun hardware biz

Exclusive 'Unrealistic' price

Oracle's top brass has tried to convince Sun Microsystems' staff that they love hardware. And Sun has described its impending acquisition as "redefining the industry" by collapsing servers, storage, and networking around its open source softwae. But we've already seen proof that Oracle's conversion to hardware isn't born of …

Enterprise 19 Jun 20:52