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25th June 2009 Archive

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  • Adaptec adds NAND cache to RAID cards

    Look mum, no battery back-up

    Adaptec has done away with the need for battery back-up of its RAID controller cards by changing to a NAND flash cache and capacitor set up. The 5 Series RAID cards have cache memory which stores data before it leaves the card. Any power failure will cause this data to be lost. The general fix for this is battery back-up which …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 07:02

  • HP whips out blades for future

    Comment Post-modular array plots afoot

    HP's next-generation arrays will be based on a scale-out, virtualised storage architecture using bladed storage processors and a separate storage management software layer - oh, and industry-standard drives and components. This is the message being put out by HP's new StorageWorks EMEA VP, Garry Veale, fresh from leaving Copan …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 09:02

  • Renta-cloud storage service launches itself at UK SMBs

    ThinkGrid offers hand

    Can't afford to buy a car? Then hire one as needed. That's the ThinkGrid cloud storage pitch in a nutshell. It's offering it to small and medium businesses (SMBs) that can't afford their own disaster recovery storage. The idea is to ship encrypted files over the network to ThinkGrid's MezeoCloud storage platform and use this …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 09:06

  • Steria wins passport processing deal

    Hops on the ID conveyor belt

    Steria is to take on a number of business processing services for the Identity and Passport Service (IPS). It has won a contract with CSC to provide business process outsourcing services for passport applications, including the data verification and validation processes. Steria said this will complement the technology …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 09:40

  • DSGi trims losses amidst plunging economy

    Strong volume growth at computing biz in second half

    DSGi management claimed to have steadied the ship as it unveiled full year figures that showed a reduced pre-tax loss on almost static sales this morning. The electronics giant, which owns the PC World chain, has had a torrid year which has seen it offload unwanted businesses across Europe, undertake a massive overhaul of its …

    IT Channel 25 Jun 09:42

  • TechNet Virtual Conference goes on-demand

    Show and tell

    Microsoft’s TechNet Virtual conference is now available on-demand. You can catch the proceedings at your own leisure here. Held on June 19, TechNet Virtual brought together Microsoft experts and the IT community. The Register was the official media sponsor. The conference ran in two separate “auditoriums” and was designed to …

    Software & Security 25 Jun 10:02

  • WD tera-fies home storage buyers

    WE II goes large

    WD is busily upgrading MyBook editions - hot on the heels of the 4TB Studio Edition II comes the World Edition II with doubled capacity of 4TB, courtesy of two 2TB drives, and sharing the SE II enclosure. The WE II is for shared file storage and networked computer backup in the home. Its small business equivalent being the …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 10:11

  • Microsoft unveils Windows 7 free upgrades and discounts

    Prices that dare you to wait

    Microsoft is going into promotional overdrive with Windows 7, four months ahead of the operating system's official launch date. Set to kick in as they are announced today, two offers give you "free" upgrades along with limited-time discounts - if you sign up to get Windows ahead of the October 22 launch. The stick to …

    Software & Security 25 Jun 13:02

  • FCoE: Divergence vs convergence

    Comment Splitter!

    FCoE seems to be a harbinger of network divergence rather than convergence. After discussion with QLogic and hearing about 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel and InfiniBand as well as FCoE, ideas about an all-Ethernet world seem as unreal as the concept of a flat earth. This train of thought started when talking with Scott Genereux, …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 13:53

  • IDC revises server-sale forecasts down for EMEA

    Even longer weekend at grandma's

    If the server market in 2000 was a trip to the Elysian Fields, 2008 was like a break at Butlins, and 2009 will be remembered as a trip to grandma's for a painful weekend. That weekend will be longer and more difficult in EMEA, apparently. As El Reg reported last week, IDC put out a forecast of future server sales - or the lack …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 18:22

  • Louisiana judge holds Dell in contempt

    Dell making a 'mockery' of system in New Orleans brouhaha

    A Louisiana judge found Dell in contempt of court Thursday after berating the eponymous computer vendor for making a "mockery" of the system though haphazard retrieval of evidence for a lawsuit that alleges corruption in the city of New Orleans' crime-camera program. The Associated Press reports that Judge Rosemary Ledet …

    PC Builder 25 Jun 21:36

  • HPC cluster maker sets x64 chips a-fighting

    Xeons and Opterons duke it out

    Impatient to see benchmark results comparing the performance of Intel's quad-core Xeon 5500 processors to Advanced Micro Devices' six-core Opteron 2400s on supercomputing workloads - and perfectly happy to sell either kind of box to its customers - cluster maker Advanced Clustering Technologies has put the High Performance …

    Enterprise 25 Jun 22:16

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