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5th August 2009 Archive

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  • 3PAR picks up share from EMC, HDS and IBM

    Gaining in a small way

    As expected, 3PAR's results were not great in a bare numbers sense, but a comparison with EMC and other enterprise storage array competition implies that 3PAR is gaining market share. The company's virtualised InServ arrays compete for enterprise storage business with EMC Symmetrix, HDS USP, HP EVA and XP, and IBM's DS8000 and …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 08:50

  • Acer boards e-books bandwagon

    'We should participate before market settles down'

    Acer is eying up e-books and TV to keep sales growing. The ambition, heralded yesterday by Acer chairman Stan Shih, shows the Taiwanese PC powerhouse is more comfortable building out a consumer electronics business, than striking out for the enterprise. Noting that the PC "actually is a mature industry", Shih thinks e-books …

    PC Builder 5 Aug 09:36

  • Image spam: the threat returns

    Did it ever go away?

    Off we trot to the Reg Library to select some popular whitepapers for review. This week we mainline on email security, or to be more precise, email insecurity. Image spam: the threat returns We were unaware that using pictures to evade spam detectors had peaked in 2007 and then fell away as security software vendors upped …

    Software & Security 5 Aug 12:28

  • Moab maker Cluster Resources welcomes cloud fluffers

    HPC lessons for the masses

    High-performance computing specialist Cluster Resources is following the money with software and a re-branding that targets cloud fluffers. The company is today expected to announce it's extended its Moab intelligence engine for managing HPC systems to packaged software and systems such as web servers and virtual machines, and …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 12:31

  • NetApp turns onto ONTAP cloud storage

    Comment Three's company

    NetApp's cloud czar, Val Bercovici, has blogged about NetApp's "upcoming NetApp Cloud Launch later this year" which will involve NetApp working with Cisco and VMWare to deliver a virtualised cloud network, server and storage infrastructure. Data ONTAP is NetApp's storage array operating system for its FAS arrays and V-Series …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 12:43

  • Virtualization security – oxymoron or perfect partnership?

    Workshop New environments, new security risks

    So far in this series we've looked at where virtualization is at, and where it's going in terms of both benefits and operational challenges. Like many newly adopted technologies, the law of unintended consequences comes into play – virtualization will undoubtedly be used for a raft of previously unimagined things. Similarly, …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 13:16

  • German finance firm buys Actebis

    Pay distie for me

    Droege Capital GmBH has bought the IT and telecoms distie Actebis. Actebis employs 1,900 people and turns over €3.7bn a year. It operates in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. In the first six months of 2009 it made EBITDA of €23.1m, up five per cent on last year. As well as selling some …

    IT Channel 5 Aug 14:16

  • TMS wins flash bragging crown with 100TB monster

    You're gonna need a bigger rack

    The biggest, baddest flash clustered drive on the market has been launched by Texas Memory Systems, the 100TB RamSan-6200. This monster offers more than 5 million sustained I/Os per second and 60GB/sec of sustained bandwith. Individual read and write I/O performance isn't revealed. These are huge numbers, achieved by a scale- …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 14:45

  • AMD beta seeks CPU-GPU harmony

    Hails 'game-changing' OpenCL

    AMD has released a free update to its ATI Stream SDK that offers OpenCL support for CPUs, taking the power of that parallel-processing technology one step closer to true usability. And if you're worried that the company is stepping off the open-standards reservation by doing so, fear not: AMD has submitted the appropriate …

    PC Builder 5 Aug 18:44

  • Ethernet switch sales pounded by falling economy

    Dot.com déjà vu

    Every part of the IT ecosystem has been slammed by the economic downturn, and the Ethernet switch market is no exception. In fact, makers of Ethernet switches are probably feeling a little bit of déjà vu after the downtown that followed the dot.com bust in 2001. According to a report put out by network box and adapter counter …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 22:38

  • Cisco profits (nearly) cut in half

    'The toughest economic challenge of our lifetime'

    Cisco's fiscal year has ended on a low note. Net income for its fourth quarter totaled $1.1bn, a dive of over 46 per cent from the same quarter last year. But CFO Frank Calderoni prefers to look at the year in total. As he pointed out, the quarter-to-quarter match-up is "a tough comparison, given that Q4 '08 was the highest …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 22:52

  • Microsoft gets personal on Windows 7 "show stopper" bug

    Memory leak smack down

    Microsoft has gotten personal in responding to reports of a "show stopper" bug in Windows 7 capable of delaying the planned roll-out, which starts Thursday. The company has blamed a chip-set controller issue rather than a critical bug in the Windows 7 chkdsk /r tool that could cause a memory leak capable of causing your PC to …

    Software & Security 5 Aug 23:21

  • Can Liquid Computing ride Cisco's California coattails?

    Or will it get et?

    Taking on a megacorp with over 65,000 employees and $8.5bn in annual sales may seem a daunting challenge, but the focused folks at unified-computing shop Liquid Computing have Cisco in their sights. Virtualized servers with unified server and storage management, plus scalable and reconfigurable infrastructure, all controlled …

    Enterprise 5 Aug 23:35

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